Are you planning to move to Windows 7?

[kinetica]

I have no plans to move to Windows 7 because I don't see the point.

[handrawn]

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...

[ginger44]

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

[pauland]

Well, my machine is generally connected to the internet anyway, but it sounds like nonsense to me.

[handrawn]

you would not believe the trouble I had getting the wireless adaptor in the test machine connected to the router

during that time [couple of days], everything else that was installed seemed to work just fine

[steve.ledger]

it sounds like nonsense to me.

It is nonsense.

Windows 7 found my TP-LINK wireless router during the later part of the setup.
Nothing but the WEP Key was required from me.

[ginger44]

Thanks very much - wondered if perhaps this was the way of things in the future

[handrawn]

Windows 7 found my TP-LINK wireless router during the later part of the setup.
Nothing but the WEP Key was required from me.

my router is WPA2 and this cannot be changed [policy, not hardware limitation of course] - no drivers for the adapter card worked under win 7 [dare say WEP would have been ok] - so ended up changing the card, not easy in the machine in question, which is why it is the 'spare'

[steve.ledger]

The TP-LINK router also employs the WPA2 security protocol.

Your NIC may have been the problem, rather than your router.