Heh, I guess. Though messing about with WickedGL back in the Quake days and Vertex lighting shaders? was fun.
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Heh, I guess. Though messing about with WickedGL back in the Quake days and Vertex lighting shaders? was fun.
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Well that kicked up a bit of a **** storm 
It's basically for a mate whose currently on a low end XP box, I'm building him a new one out of bits and need Win7 so I can talk him through stuff on the phone support wise without the need to thumble about in Win8. He'll need new not an upgrade as he's likely to give the XP box to his kid to bash about on MS Paint for a bit.
It's basically for a mate whose currently on a low end XP box, I'm building him a new one out of bits and need Win7 so I can talk him through stuff on the phone support wise without the need to thumble about in Win8. He'll need new not an upgrade as he's likely to give the XP box to his kid to bash about on MS Paint for a bit.
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Would stuff like control panel, device manager and general support functions be similar enough to talk someone through by phone from memory though?
It's not so much the 'metro' look even though I agree it is a bit touch screen orientated but the back end.
It's not so much the 'metro' look even though I agree it is a bit touch screen orientated but the back end.
The bak end is virtual identical, but with hundreads of improvments.
Plus win8 is great for such people's, with the refresh/restart option built in and the better controls you can set up.
You'll probably find such a person loves metro as they'll be able to buy and install program's on their own. My mum certain likes w8 and does far more than she ever could on w7.
Plus you can do a command line to set the restart image to after you've installed all their software, so in the event they do destroy it somehow, you can talk them through about 3 clicks and they'll have a brand new install with all their software already installed and settings all ready changes.
Plus win8 is great for such people's, with the refresh/restart option built in and the better controls you can set up.
You'll probably find such a person loves metro as they'll be able to buy and install program's on their own. My mum certain likes w8 and does far more than she ever could on w7.
Plus you can do a command line to set the restart image to after you've installed all their software, so in the event they do destroy it somehow, you can talk them through about 3 clicks and they'll have a brand new install with all their software already installed and settings all ready changes.
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