Re: Are you planning to move to Windows 7?
I have a new machine and have installed Win7 on it and it is working really well. Coming from WinXP I think it's a really great update and one I don't have to pay for until next year. The only niggles I have are that some flash detection seems a bit funky - perhaps because of thee new OS ID, but I'm not sure. Overall a thumbs up and hopefully no going back.
As it happens this coincides with switching from a P4M 2.4Ghz to a dual 2.1 GHz Core 2 Duo - what have I been missing!
Paul
Re: Are you planning to move to Windows 7?
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sledger
I may have to eat my words (thoughts) regarding Creative's past reputations. :o
Seems they already have Windows 7 drivers for many of their sound cards available right now.
http://support.creative.com/kb/showa...aspx?sid=61105
Again, full support for hardware really is the manufacturers responsibility, not MS (unless it's MS hardware of course :D).
The native drivers which are shipped with Windows are generally developed by or with the manufacturer in any case. Manufacturers who don't care to co-operate with MS and gain digital certificates (the rubber stamp of approval) generally aren't interested in legacy hardware support (they have new stuff to push out ;)).
Steve
I've already chewed on mine. Thanks for that link. I don't know why I missed it as I had had a hunt. I think it was the assumption that I wasn't going to find what I wanted. Sound card now working, if I can sort out a scanner and maybe a TV (not vital) I'll be in business.
Back with XP for the moment though.
Derek
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OK, I'm up for it Derek :D
Which scanner do you have??
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[ Derek, tell him it's the EpsoCanonMustek 1401b, he'll be searching the web for hours.. ;-) ]
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sledger
OK, I'm up for it Derek :D
Which scanner do you have??
I have an elderly Mustek scanner as it happens, but this one is a Trust Direct Web Scan 9200 but as the printer has develpoped what might be a terminal problem with the printhead (for some reason more costly to replace than to buy a new printer!!?) I'll probobly go for a printer/scanner option as a replacement if it come to that so don't waste too much time searching on my behalf until I know what I've got to do. I'm asuming that a new scanner/printer combo would be supported.
Having spent a day with Win7 I must admit that whatever else I wouldn't be happy without upgrading (replacing) the entire PC (2 years old Dual Core 2 gig ram etc.) as the difference in performance when moving back to XP is very noticable and I dont know what advantage there is to trying to stay with W7, pretty though it is to look at, I'm not sure what else I'm getting that is a genuine improvement.
Derek
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Derek, if you're unhappy with a DualCore 2GB machine, I really don't know what to say. Win 7 is really responsive on my laptop and I have a similar spec to you. Your graphics card may be the culprit, so it may just be a question of reigning back some of the graphics features of Win 7 (Vista). That said, windows XP is a great OS.
Paul
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Derek, if you're unhappy with a DualCore 2GB machine, I really don't know what to say. Win 7 is really responsive on my laptop and I have a similar spec to you. Your graphics card may be the culprit, so it may just be a question of reigning back some of the graphics features of Win 7 (Vista). That said, windows XP is a great OS.
Paul
It's not that it crawls along, in fact it operates well enough to use perfectly well, unlike our Vista laptop, I just hate that blue circle thing that’s often there when I ask it to do something and once again I wonder how happy I'd feel if I'd forked out a bucket load of cash and found I had in effect bought myself a lower spec. computer.
I'm assuming more ram and a newer CPU, which for me means a new motherboard as well, would get it up to speed but of course that’s more expense and what am I getting that I don't have already albeit in the guise of an old fashioned looking OS.
Given that W7 is in effect free at the moment I am going to persevere and make a decision when its finally released or perhaps when SP1 is released subsequently.
Derek
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I have no plans to move to Windows 7 because I don't see the point.
Re: Are you planning to move to Windows 7?
it does come with some cool wallpapers - [which are are now renamed 'desktop backgrounds'] - GB-wp5 [rock ruins and sea] is best I have seen in a long long time...
far more seriously the list of things that wont work for me - from Nero 6 to Mustek A3 USB scanner [no support after vista, and those drivers wont work] - is long and expensive
and 2014 is 5 years away, long enough perhaps for windows 8... long enough to organise a mac.....
so no plans yet except to see how the wind blows...
Re: Are you planning to move to Windows 7?
To those that have ver 7 installed - on another list someone mentioned that with ver 7 he needed to be connected to the internet permanently or the PC won't run.... Can you confirm that you also do this?
thanks