Thanks Tony for that. The company that used to be called “ONTARIO HYDRO”, is in the process of upgrading from XP to WIN7. They will not go to WIN8 for another 6 years, I am told. They really want to make sure the bugs are out, I guess.. I am comfortable with XP, but was just worried about that dreaded crash in a couple of years when I would have to re-install the OS and not be able to get the updates in the normal manner. Now I’ve got a CD with all the updates (at least up until yesterday) that is self-installing. Its not as fast as I envisioned, but it works. This will save me the bother of updating to a new os, which would probably mean a new computer too for me and my one remaining client when all I really need is the engine. My client is a church which only needs the stuff that comes with OUTLOOK 2010, and access to internet. An xp box with a 76 gb hdd and 2gb of memory serves them just fine. I have the application to track offerings and other stuff on my home computer and do the posting for that. So, why change. I just helped my neighbour recover from a situation where he had 8gb of emails on his VISTA laptop using VISTA MAIL. He had less than 1 gb free on a 100gb hdd. Try moving that with out spending any money. He also has a mail server that does not handle extra folders very well so all that data was stored on his local computer. We ended up with a hotmail account storing all his extra folders, LIVE MAIL as the client, and since he did not want to change his email address, we just forward his incoming mail from his old server to hotmail.
Sorry, probably not a discussion for this group, but we did talk a little about the OS. Dave. From: Tony Gravagno Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 2:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: jb vers 3.x and windows 7 David, I lag behind with OS updates too. I like to see them get field-tested adequately before I start to trust them. I completely skipped Vista, and W8 was out when I moved from XP to W7. As someone who really doesn't like to deal with weird new anomalies, I can tell you W7 is very much like XP except for some new directories and occasional nags for permissions. W8 took a radical turn in the UI but underneath it it's virtually the same. The new UI stuff is optional but it still gets in the way a lot. Microsoft is bringing back some things they removed and making it easier to avoid their new stuff, but we can already make it look just like XP very easily. In short, any kind of change is traumatic, and I resist some change as much as the next Pick guy, but in this case the long-term worry was completely unjustified when I actually started using both W7 and W8. HTH T From: David Grenfell Thanks guys for all your input. The only reason I would even consider leaving xp is that it will probably be impossible to get the updates if the system ever crashed. I have now found a program downloads all the updates to cd and will install them easily. So as long as I am not dependent on MS for those updates, I’ll be staying with xp. I have an xp install disk with sp2, sp3 on separate cd and now all the updates on another cd so I can install any time I choose to. -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jBASE" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jBASE" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
