Hi,
Whilst I will hang on for as long as is poss wiith Win7 64bit pro and I had to use Classic Shell soon after install as I was well and truly struggling with the familiar interface, spending more time trying to find my way around when I could go to where I wanted in seconds with XP. In fact along with the length of time it took to reinstall all my progs of which I have scores of them, I was out of action unable to work the PC for 3 months, such was the devastation caused by MSoft and the changes they made. I would like to know how those that have gone to win10 are coping, how close to win 7 you have got it and what was required ?
What if any is now better and what is worse.
Often its not just a question of installing an OS but the progs that ran on the previous one require upgrades buying, some are now subscription and that means an open ended ongoing permanent drain on meagre funds, others wont work at all. Nikon dedicated expensive slide scanner I have , where I struggled to find win7 drivers may be rendered useless, and I have no money to buy another one, also they dont make them anymore as there is no call for them, I also have an Alps printer for decals, made for xp, its things like that.
One thing I still havent resolved despite classic shell (have they a fix for this now) is the fact that you start typing the file date range you want to search on in windows explorer and its already searching before knowing what the criteria are ! It finds nothing until 99% of the search is done, how become ? open a folder its found and then go backwards from that move and it starts searching all over again.
One big problem with win 7 after xp was that decent black only text became rainbow colours edges I had text in Microsofty word as taking on different colour fringes depending on font size, yet in XP all text was a black just as in win98 and 95. Being into graphics seeing coloured text in graphics progs was very wrong, it was Msoft they had removed a text controller thing that caused this, what a mess, by dabbling with settings and removing aero I minimised the effect.
what's win10 like do they care about font appearance again ? £1400 screen and Msoft can mess it all up with removal of something that worked just fine prior 7.
At the time I would have rearranged Bill Gates features as it took me a month to try and fix the issue. 3 months out of action in total due to Msoft making changes for changes sake. Why is it that each OS needs fixing by us actual users ? Those that make the OS simply dont do serious graphics computing against the clock.
Cheers
DBenz
Whilst I will hang on for as long as is poss wiith Win7 64bit pro and I had to use Classic Shell soon after install as I was well and truly struggling with the familiar interface, spending more time trying to find my way around when I could go to where I wanted in seconds with XP. In fact along with the length of time it took to reinstall all my progs of which I have scores of them, I was out of action unable to work the PC for 3 months, such was the devastation caused by MSoft and the changes they made. I would like to know how those that have gone to win10 are coping, how close to win 7 you have got it and what was required ?
What if any is now better and what is worse.
Often its not just a question of installing an OS but the progs that ran on the previous one require upgrades buying, some are now subscription and that means an open ended ongoing permanent drain on meagre funds, others wont work at all. Nikon dedicated expensive slide scanner I have , where I struggled to find win7 drivers may be rendered useless, and I have no money to buy another one, also they dont make them anymore as there is no call for them, I also have an Alps printer for decals, made for xp, its things like that.
One thing I still havent resolved despite classic shell (have they a fix for this now) is the fact that you start typing the file date range you want to search on in windows explorer and its already searching before knowing what the criteria are ! It finds nothing until 99% of the search is done, how become ? open a folder its found and then go backwards from that move and it starts searching all over again.
One big problem with win 7 after xp was that decent black only text became rainbow colours edges I had text in Microsofty word as taking on different colour fringes depending on font size, yet in XP all text was a black just as in win98 and 95. Being into graphics seeing coloured text in graphics progs was very wrong, it was Msoft they had removed a text controller thing that caused this, what a mess, by dabbling with settings and removing aero I minimised the effect.
what's win10 like do they care about font appearance again ? £1400 screen and Msoft can mess it all up with removal of something that worked just fine prior 7.
At the time I would have rearranged Bill Gates features as it took me a month to try and fix the issue. 3 months out of action in total due to Msoft making changes for changes sake. Why is it that each OS needs fixing by us actual users ? Those that make the OS simply dont do serious graphics computing against the clock.Cheers
DBenz
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My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 64bit proIntel Core i7 479032Gb DDR3GeForce GTX970
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Custom built
- OS
- Windows 7 64bit pro
- CPU
- Intel Core i7 4790
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 Socket 1150 DDR3
- Memory
- 32Gb DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- GeForce GTX970
- Hard Drives
- Samsung SSD for OS and WD green for data
- Antivirus
- Kaspersky Internet Security 2014
- Browser
- Firefox
