anyone still on XP?
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XP is still a good stable platform there's no denying that and for something like a Netbook or single core system its still a good choice.
I upgraded to Windows 7 from launch and would never go back, driver support is great, printers work automatically, IPhone is plug and play for transferring pictures etc. I love the feature where you can snap windows to 2 sides of the screen makes copying and then typing things up a lot easier no more resizing windows etc. Everyday tasks seem faster as well, it seems to utilise your RAM more from startup. XP used to take 10 seconds or so for Internet Explorer to load up on first start then 2-3 seconds after that. On W7 it takes 2-3 seconds each time including the first time its opened.
On XP I find it rather counter productive when I use it at work now the most common key combination I use is Alt-tab switching between windows is a pain in the a**. I cant remember the last time I needed to Alt-Tab in W7 things are just better laid out.
I upgraded to Windows 7 from launch and would never go back, driver support is great, printers work automatically, IPhone is plug and play for transferring pictures etc. I love the feature where you can snap windows to 2 sides of the screen makes copying and then typing things up a lot easier no more resizing windows etc. Everyday tasks seem faster as well, it seems to utilise your RAM more from startup. XP used to take 10 seconds or so for Internet Explorer to load up on first start then 2-3 seconds after that. On W7 it takes 2-3 seconds each time including the first time its opened.
On XP I find it rather counter productive when I use it at work now the most common key combination I use is Alt-tab switching between windows is a pain in the a**. I cant remember the last time I needed to Alt-Tab in W7 things are just better laid out.
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Blesss you dirtydog. I bet you were slating Xp when you were still on Win98. A lot of people are like you, they are in denial.
Truth be told, in the near future you will be saying "Win7 is perfect for me, why would i want to get Win 12"
Don't knock it until you've tried it.
Truth be told, in the near future you will be saying "Win7 is perfect for me, why would i want to get Win 12"
Don't knock it until you've tried it.
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dual booting here between xp and win7.
hardly ever use win7 though, xp has always been a lot more snappier. aslong as you don't have 20 odd programmes loading on start up then xp is fairly quick.
apart from drivers i dont really have anything extra loading up and xp works brilliantly, win7 simply isn't as responsive.....yes its miles better than vista but i prefer the snappier feel of xp over the gloss and shine of win7.
hardly ever use win7 though, xp has always been a lot more snappier. aslong as you don't have 20 odd programmes loading on start up then xp is fairly quick.
apart from drivers i dont really have anything extra loading up and xp works brilliantly, win7 simply isn't as responsive.....yes its miles better than vista but i prefer the snappier feel of xp over the gloss and shine of win7.
Of course, I have it on dual boot.
I have tried it, and Vista, extensively thanks.
And I went to Windows 2000 and then XP straight away so wrong again
Things I found 7 to have improved on over XP:
Search and run are combined in the start menu.
Icons on the taskbar instead of text.
Jump lists.
Much better support for S3 suspend (ie it works!)
Automatic downloading of drivers (genuine plug and play)
Cleaner, more modern UI
Easier install process.
Better built-in support for a larger range of hardware.
I'm struggling after that to find things that I personally have benefited from. However I'm probably missing a few from that list. Still wouldn't go back to XP
Search and run are combined in the start menu.
Icons on the taskbar instead of text.
Jump lists.
Much better support for S3 suspend (ie it works!)
Automatic downloading of drivers (genuine plug and play)
Cleaner, more modern UI
Easier install process.
Better built-in support for a larger range of hardware.
I'm struggling after that to find things that I personally have benefited from. However I'm probably missing a few from that list. Still wouldn't go back to XP
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Snap - this really annoys me as well.
Don't get some of the snide comments from some win7 users on this thread. You're on 7 and you like it - good for you. We're on XP and we like it
We're just trying to coax you off a kernel that was optimised for these now comedic specs:
Christ, you even need a floppy drive from the 1980s to install it on RAID!
So the fact later Windows versions demand higher specifications tends to prove that XP is going to run quicker and use less memory, as indeed it does.
Not entirely true... You can slipstream drivers into a Windows XP install. You can get applications that even do this for you. nLite will do all sorts of stuff to a install of windows XP, that you can then burn to a bootable CD /DVD etc...
you can work ways around needing a floppy drive.
Can't remember the last time I used a floppy drive. Heck, can't remember the last time I used IDE.. lol
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Prefetch is not exactly great I have the same opinion as dirtydog in regards to that. I dont want windows second guessing what I want to use and loading arbitrary files from my hard drives. Ill load them when i want to use them.
Ever noticed how a system becomes amazingly slow when you have lots of programs loading on startup? Your prefetching those programs into RAM so that theyre readily available yet because your doing that its causing lots of unnecessary activity from all of them being "available". Same applies to you OS its all lil bits of software being loaded into RAM from your HD. Having lots of stuff loaded in RAM isnt always beneficial. You notice this especially with store bought PC's which come with a ton of bloatware that load up and you will never use. Windows comes with a fair bit of bloat you will never use hence using a windows that has that removed means they wont be loaded or doing anything in the background that is irellevant to what you want to do. I have never had any program issues with anything being missing from windows while using stripped out versions of them and I find it noticably quicker booting up and generally is a lot snappier.
Free ram available is quicker than having windows clear stuff out of ram before being able to load the application you want into it. Games for example the more ram you have free the more of the game can be loaded into ram without first clearing out stuff to make space for it, or having bits of windows loaded ur not using thats just taking space that could be used for your app.
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looks at win98se
http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/Software/Win98SE-vs-WinXP/I've been using win7 64 for a while, quite nice features, still have xp on a couple of others though.