On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 19:08:13 -0000, tony sayer wrote:

In article , John
Rumm scribeth thus
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.

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.

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

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... ;-)






No great fan of m$ but we still have a couple of olde WIN2K machines one
has been up for 8500 odd hrs and as to the main machine WIN 7 and I
really can't fault it at all!...

Plus the odd couple of XP machines no problems there either..

M$ gets blamed for blue screens. 99% of them are due to faulty memory. Always run 3 passes of memtest on a new machine.

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