What Would I Give Up If I Go To Windows 7?

[Abby Brown]

Hi,

We have XP running on all our home and corporate computers and
are happy with it. But it seems the clock is ticking and some
new software and hardware products don't support XP. I didn't
like Vista so retrograded my laptop to XP after a year. Every
new OS drops some things from its predecessor that causes
problems. One I am concerned about is NT4 File Manager (works
in XP, needs hack in Vista). Another is performance counters; I
wrote a program to display network activity (or any other
counters) at the top of the screen. The counters weren't
available in Vista Premium. Will I give these up? What else
have you had to give up?

Thanks,
Gary

 

[philo]

On 08/16/2010 03:59 PM, Abby Brown wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have XP running on all our home and corporate computers and
> are happy with it. But it seems the clock is ticking and some
> new software and hardware products don't support XP. I didn't
> like Vista so retrograded my laptop to XP after a year. Every
> new OS drops some things from its predecessor that causes
> problems. One I am concerned about is NT4 File Manager (works
> in XP, needs hack in Vista). Another is performance counters; I
> wrote a program to display network activity (or any other
> counters) at the top of the screen. The counters weren't
> available in Vista Premium. Will I give these up? What else
> have you had to give up?
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
>


If XP is working fine for you

I am not sure why you are thinking of changing it

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

"Abby Brown" <abbybrown@charter.net> wrote in message
news:uwUyfXYPLHA.4988@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> We have XP running on all our home and corporate computers and are happy
> with it. But it seems the clock is ticking and some new software and
> hardware products don't support XP. I didn't like Vista so retrograded my
> laptop to XP after a year. Every new OS drops some things from its
> predecessor that causes problems. One I am concerned about is NT4 File
> Manager (works in XP, needs hack in Vista). Another is performance
> counters; I wrote a program to display network activity (or any other
> counters) at the top of the screen. The counters weren't available in
> Vista Premium. Will I give these up? What else have you had to give up?
>
> Thanks,
> Gary

Here are a few things you will have to give up:
- All 16-bit programs, unless the BIOSs of your machines support the Windows
XP compatibility mode.
- Write-access to cProgram Files.
- Write-access to the root of C:.
- Utilities that do nasty things such as feeding passwords into "runas" or
attempt to write directly to the disk.
- The WinXP versions of some third-party programs such as partition managers
or imaging tools.
- A lot of disk space. WinXP got by with 10 GBytes. Windows 7 needs 40.
- An easy way to repair the boot environment. It is no longer sufficient to
run "fdisk /MBR", then drop a few boot files into the root of C:.

On the other hand, as you say, the clock is ticking . . .

 

[Erik Vastmasd]

I caught a glimpse of "Abby Brown" <abbybrown@charter.net> on Mon, 16
Aug 2010 16:59:14 -0400, writing in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

>We have XP running on all our home and corporate computers and
>are happy with it. But it seems the clock is ticking and some
>new software and hardware products don't support XP. I didn't
>like Vista so retrograded my laptop to XP after a year. Every
>new OS drops some things from its predecessor that causes
>problems. One I am concerned about is NT4 File Manager (works
>in XP, needs hack in Vista). Another is performance counters; I
>wrote a program to display network activity (or any other
>counters) at the top of the screen. The counters weren't
>available in Vista Premium. Will I give these up? What else
>have you had to give up?

I didn't give up anything. I was using XP and purchased a new computer
which I partitioned into C: D: E: drives.
Then installed C Windows 7.
I regard Windows 7 as an operation system and expect nothing else.
I copied my programs to D: and my music to E: and away we go.

Most programs on D: don't need to be installed, I can just create a
shortcut, then click on it and the program fires up.

MSMoney, Opera. Eudora etc.
--

Erik