Hi everybody willing to share experience

I am a retired naval architect, familiar with use of some more or less specific PC tools, using XP SP3 and Win7 Ultimate. I thought it may be wise to get familiar with Win7, so I installed it on a separate partition of the same PC. But many problems started, so I prefer to use XP.

 

I most prefer Windows XP. I think it is the epitome of a friendly user interface.

 

I agree.
I am not a comp freak, I use it for other interesting and useful functions. Most of my tools do operate successfully on this platform and I cant effort spending large sums for buying new tool operating on Win 7.

 

I adopt the new operating systems very slowly; about three years behind the new releases.
When XP came out, I stuck with Win95 for years before upgrading. Now I have grown into XP and when I look at Windows 95, it looks so simple now.

Arie, you have me wondering now, . . .
What are the consessions we have to accept when adopting Windows 7 ?

 

I would quite agree - and so do my friends, more experienced in SW. Because of my bad experience with that USB printing support, where presumably just an update switched the settings, provoking some month for me to discover the catch, it is advisable to be suspicious. I suspect that MS & HP experts knew the snare, but they did not write the solution explicitly.

 

No looking back eh? It is amazing how our minds get integrated into these machines, I'm kind of glad I can remember the day when there were no computers.
Babage Machines were used at stores by poking in a calculation then pulling a lever to process it; one calculation in five seconds, (three if you're quick). I was just a kid then, and the only thing that intrigued me about Machine Calculations, was the cool noize it made, now there is no such thing as something happening Without a machine calculating something.

I think XP does everything a computer needs to do, and with all the updates will sustain communications over the network for alot of people. We only have to find a way to fend off the hackers and survive amid the Germ Warefare.

Arie, we'll catch-up soon enough.

Welcome to Windows BBS hpdjnetiskami.

Cheers,