Win 7 is more stable that Win XP.
And now Microsoft no longer supports XP, perhaps a
more significant issue.
I casually support a business that must us
Wordperfect 5.1, and they must use XP for that
reason. But it's becoming harder and harder to
keep that in play.
73, Phil W7OX
On 11/19/14 8:33 AM, Richard Solomon wrote:
I often wonder why folks will abandon a
perfectly good working system just to
have the "latest and greatest". Just look at
all the pain you go through and then
ask yourself what the benefits are.
As for me, I picked up a Shuttle machine with
WIN8.1 and 16 GB of RAM. It sits
on the test bench awaiting the day my old XP
Station machine finally dies. Not
until then will I embark on the self-torture of
updating.
73, Dick, W1KSZ
On 11/19/2014 7:39 AM, brian 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
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