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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #15 on: 25 June 2009, 21:15:59 »
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Nothing wrong with XP!!!

I got a laptop with vista on it and have now gone back to XP on it!!!  :y
XP is not great on security by default to be honest.  The fact its now in extended support is now probably the final nail it ins coffin.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #16 on: 25 June 2009, 21:17:21 »
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'dangle berries' to Windows, its nice to come home and use my Intel Mac Mini running OSX, sooo much nicer to use.
Not many decent apps for Mac that I would use, and generally the software is too expensive.

I'll stick to Windows ;)
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #17 on: 25 June 2009, 21:21:40 »
I have a laptop with vista , and a tower ( for the business accounts etc ) on XP . I must admit that I prefer vista I find it very user friendly but thats just my opinion. Again this along with mechanics I know very little about so my main question is :

If I upgrade the xp one to windows 7 and dont like it , is it easy enough to change back to xp ? Any help would be much appreciatted.

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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #18 on: 25 June 2009, 21:23:23 »
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XP is not great on security by default to be honest.
OSX has more holes out of the box than Windows though.
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The fact its now in extended support is now probably the final nail it ins coffin.
It's in extended support because it's 8 years old, which is a very long time in IT as I'm sure you well know.
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« Reply #19 on: 25 June 2009, 21:25:26 »
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If I upgrade the xp one to windows 7 and dont like it , is it easy enough to change back to xp ?
You can't do an "upgrade", it has to be a clean install.
In fact, I would never do an upgrade even if the OS allowed it anyway....always make it a clean install if you want no problems.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #20 on: 25 June 2009, 21:34:57 »
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If I upgrade the xp one to windows 7 and dont like it , is it easy enough to change back to xp ?
You can't do an "upgrade", it has to be a clean install.
In fact, I would never do an upgrade even if the OS allowed it anyway....always make it a clean install if you want no problems.

I agree.  I also consider a Service Pack a 'new' OS (particularly XP SP2!) and thus always put on a fresh build before SP'ing it.  Obviously MS are going to make this difficult for future SPs :(
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« Reply #21 on: 25 June 2009, 21:37:46 »
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Obviously MS are going to make this difficult for future SPs :(
How do you mean?
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #22 on: 25 June 2009, 21:39:53 »
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Obviously MS are going to make this difficult for future SPs :(
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No longer cumulative. tinkers.
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« Reply #23 on: 25 June 2009, 21:43:36 »
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No longer cumulative. tinkers.

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« Reply #24 on: 25 June 2009, 21:49:08 »
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Obviously MS are going to make this difficult for future SPs :(
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No longer cumulative. tinkers.
Ah yes, had that when I did a Vista install for someone the other day....as you say.....tinkerS!!
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