Posted on 03/12/2013 2:55:18 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I find 7 to be pretty solid. My home computer had a lot of issues with Flash, then I uninstalled all things Adobe and it hasn’t crashed again, I rely on Chrome’s internal Flash for stuff. I actually find 7’s explorer to be superior, I really like the navigation bar, I don’t do much finding. 8 has some good stuff, but it’s a different way of thinking that I’m not 100% sold on, interesting ideas. It’s clearly oriented to the non-power user that generally only runs half a dozen apps, give them all a tile and don’t worry about anything else.
Drag Windows Explorer to the TaskBar and pin it. It works great as a stable file manager. I’m using it that way on 5 Win-7 Pro machines.
To get the File Menu back, download Ubit (English) and click on the idiot ribbon Menu, and you have the File Menu back.
Worth a try...
Disagree on both accounts. MS libraries makes searching your hard drive so vastly superior to XP to be laughable and makes XP archaic in comparison. Ribbon is much easier once you spend sufficient time on it.
I did that for my Win7 desktop, but the Win7 Windows Explorer could only find Win7 versions of Explorer.exe, not the WinXP version of Explorer.exe. Sigh!
This is a very interesting issue because, I agree with newfreep philosophically, but in the real world Leaning Right’s comments are worthy of consideration.
And I would say more there could be a national security issue as well.
They don’t know because they don’t want to know.
I find customers still using win 98, Win NT and Win 2000. They haven’t upgraded because they don’t want to spend the money.
Microsoft support is good if you pay for it.
Why do I view the Win8 Windows Explorer.exe to be inferior to the WinXP Windows Explorer?
Simple.
Because at work, we recently changed from WinXP Pro to Win7 Pro. When my desktop was XP, the XP Explorer.exe could find target data (we have huge amounts of data) readily for client requests. Now with Win7’s Explorer.exe, I no longer am able to reliably search and find target data. I know I have it on our server drives but rarely have successful search results any more.
But then what do I know? I’m just a professional programmer who has to deal with very large amounts of data. Unlike a casual home user.
Yeah imagine having to learn something new every 5 or 6 years. How terrible.
Have been using Firefox since it’s inception. Both Linux and Windows versions.
I built my first computer in 1982. Ran TRSDOS, NewDOS80, all MSDOS and Windows. I never owned a version of ME or Vista, both real dogs. Worked on a number of them and hated it.
My first Linux install was a UMSDOS version of Slackware in around 1995. Used Redhat, Mandrake, FreeBSD and Ubuntu.
Even if I moved my wife to Linux, I would still have the re-education when major changes took place in a release. Some are automatic, but others are not.
That is annoying. That’s why I right-click on the directory in question and “Open in New Window.” That keeps my blood pressure lower.
Actually the interface is designed for the user to transition between devices and for constant internet connectivity. Its designed for people with ADHD in other words.
I still run XP (on a 2 year old PC) and I have never had a problem running anything on it.
Windows 8 and windows 7 are functionally very similar. They added the new front end that works across pc platforms and mobile devices and touch screen functions . I don’t have any machines running 8 but I have read that there are ways to bypass the metro start up screen and third party software to replace it.
So I'll opt, as in years past, to pass.
A lot of issues you probably won’t even detect in this modern age of self updating apps. You can’t run the newest version of IE on XP (not such a bad thing, nothing makes a version of IE look better than the next version), but Windows won’t try. Don’t know if current Firefox supports XP, but again it’s self updating so if it doesn’t it wouldn’t try. I know we’re dropping XP from the stuff I work on, finally. You’ll probably start running into more things dropping XP now, .Net4.5 doesn’t support anything before Vista, so anybody that’s jumping to that has to drop XP.
Did you use the search at the top to locate the XP version?
I was using XP64 for some time, however there is much more that will refuse to run there.
I have an 2 xp systems for most things and a win7 box for the new games and not much else.
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