Your experience is exactly why I avoid changing OSs as long as possible. When I do, I take it as an opportunity to drop applications and features that I haven't been using - no need to port what you won't use. Nonetheless, it's always odious. However, I must say that converting to Win 7 was a really good move for me. It boots faster and runs much more reliably than XP on my setup. Now I'm trying to avoid Win 8 and expect I'll skip it entirely. Totally new OSs from Microsoft tend to be flaky until their second incarnation.
73, /Rick N6XI On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 6:39 AM, brian <[email protected]> wrote: > You often see postings here advocating abandoning XP in favor of newer > OS's. Yeah sounds great, but the devil is in the details. > > I just finished a port to a faster refurbed multicore WIN7 machine. > > The task involved: > 1)50 programs and data > 2) 3 sound cards (4 if you include the video) > 3) eight USB ports of stuff > 4) five RS232 ports of stuff > 5) one lpt port > 6) Networking with XP computers > 7) Internet > > I started October 23. Finally I have 98% of what I had working under > XP. It took an estimated 80 hours of work and cost in excess of $500. > Admittedly, I'm on the low knowledge end of OS stuff (and maybe in the > majority of ham users in that regard). > > The most difficult parts were: > 1) Device drivers. Trial and error process. > 2) Sound card problems. It's a zoo. > 3) Networking (it takes 15 at first unknown steps in several pull down > boxes to do what a single click in XP used to do) > > I still have one unresolved issue with the motherboard sound. It simply > won't output anything via line out. I'm almost convinced that the sound > out hardware is bad. It's quite possible on the refurbed machine that > the previous owner clobbered the hardware. WIN7 seems a bit flaky in sound > card stuff. > > It isn't a trivial process unless you're just interested in E-mail, > Internet browsing and a few spreadsheet programs. > > Thank goodness WIN7 isn't bleeding edge. I can't imagine doing this for a > newly released OS. GOOGLE is your friend in the process. > > 73 de Brian/K3KO > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > -- Rick Tavan N6XI Truckee, CA ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
