On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:46:52 -0000, John Rumm wrote:

On 09/01/2014 21:24, Uncle Peter wrote:
On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 18:21:04 -0000, Jim Hawkins
wrote:

What do you gain by upgrading from
XP Pro to Win 7 Pro ?
And what do you lose ?

If you're going to change, why not go straight to 8 and have a more up
to date OS with better hardware support (it does UEFI properly for a
start) and nicer more sensible interfaces for file copying etc? The
metro interface is the only thing that's annoying, but you don't have to
use it.

That's mostly true, but there are a few irritating vestiges that I have
yet to find a way to get rid of...

Annoying ones like the slide in panel that now goes with wireless
networking and VPN connection control. It won't stay on screen while you
access other windows - and particularly annoying - will consume a click
anywhere on screen and use it as an indication that it should close. So
if you want to go copy and past a username and password into a VPN
connection for example, you can't in Win 8.

Never used VPN in 8, but I've used wireless in 8 and I have no idea what panel you're talking about. I use the utility that came with the wireless adapter.

Simply delete all the links to the stupid news and weather
apps and use the metro screen like a huge full screen start menu. And
the start button, contrary to popular belief, is still there,

Most peoples concern with the start button, is the lack of launcher menu
that was associated with it. On a multiscreen desktop the start screen
is a very poor and rather jarring replacement.

Define "launcher menu".

(there are fortunately plenty of third party addons like Classic Shell
that restore normal operation as well as making other welcome usability
improvements)

I tried that and as far as I remember it didn't have recent programs or recent documents. That's all I miss from 7 start menu.

it's just
invisible - you can click bottom left as though it was there. And if
you apply the patch to 8.1 it puts it back anyway. Oh and it starts
MUCH faster than 7.

Hardly matters if you never turn it off... ;-)

I used to sleep mine so I had all my programs still there where I left them. Now it has something to do 24/7 I leave it on.

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