Hi Matt Been running Windows 7 on 3 machines here for about 6 months. All are never switched off. I have had no trouble connecting any of the peripherals here. It just finds my Network Storage devices etc. I thought it would stutter on a Konica Minolta Colour laser we use here which is nearly 5 years old but they all just found it. My wife runs my accounting system (VFP 9 service pack 2) and doesn't see that much difference in the way it displays the text box's etc. All three are 64 bit and before that they all ran XP 64 bit. Just installed it on a spare drive for my Laptop and again it just installed and ran. A bit of a learning curve especially hard for someone my age but we are getting there with the help of the Wiz Kids who work for me. I know that when I go back to "my" XP machine which I use for development I am getting increasingly frustrated because some of the productivity features are missing. As far as the install is concerned it just gets on with it and installs with a minimum of fuss and quickly. Then the windows 7 machines are running faster with less Memory and slower Processes that my machine which has everything going.
Done a small amount of VFP development on one of them and I have had no problems with that. Haven't had time to check with the noted Vista bugs to see if they are still there. I have run the Beta and now the trial versions. Expect to receive my RTM versions sometime in August. When I installed my Wife's I decided to install it on a new hard drive just in case she didn't like it. Then use a Program transfer program supplied by LapLink to move the working programs across after first uninstalling Office 2007 and others for which I had the installation disks. Had a problem with a few really old applications which she very rarely uses and wont miss but otherwise no problems. She was back using the computer after 2 hours. And most of that was the Office 2007 etc. Installations. The only problem she has is that her Russian Keyboard layout won't work. Changing so She could type Russian and French was easy but we had found someone who had created a keyboard layout that matches the equivalent Russian letters to the English letters. A quick email was answered to say that he was working on it so we will keep our fingers crossed. I told her "It's not my fault if Russians want use different letters with more letters in the alphabet." Cheers Peter Peter Hart Computers. P.S. I have also got a few machines running at some of my big Clients for testing purposes and to see how they get on with it. No problems so far and much enthusiasm with the Employees. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Slay Subject: [NF] Advice about going 64-bit Win 7 OS. I am interested to hear opinions about going with 64 bit Win 7 OS in general. Not just as it relates to VFP, but as an overall workstation. I'm sure we all use lots of software on our machines these days besides just VFP, so I want to look beyond just that detail. I am attracted to a 64 bit OS (I guess I am. Shouldn't it be better? It sure sounds cool, but I have no clue). _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/a57fa4cf19531343a2ee11b57db8e3af04c...@server.peterhartcomputers.local ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
