Re: Did you have Windows 7?

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:40:31 -0400, blake murphy
<blakepmNOTTHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:00:16 -0700, Ron wrote:

On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:49:01 -0400, "cybercat" <cyberpurrs@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


"FERRANTE" <manthonyferrante@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If so, do you like it or no and why? Just curious if it is as good as
the magazines and Internet articles says it is?


I like Vista.


I've read that to upgrade from Vista to 7, is not worth the price.
Most of the improvements can be made in Vista by turning off the
annoying stuff. Improvements that can't be made by Vista are
"usually" not of much value to the home user.

My computer (Dell) came with Vista preloaded. I've had it for nearly
three years and the only problem I had was the inability to talk to
and old Lexmark printer I had. Needed a new printer anyway so bought
a HP. Great printer, no problems with Vista.

I have automatic updates turned on... maybe that's the secret of
success. So far I like Vista.

Ron Kelley

i've had no problems with vista (yes, you do have to turn off the annoying
User Account Control (UAC)). i'm hoping that anything scary that happens
due to having this 'valuable' security option turned off is caught by a
daily virus scan by AVG. (i'm also the only user of this non-networked
machine.)

but you do have to have a machine capacious enough to run it. anything
that came pre-loaded with it should fit that bill. and printers are so
cheap now (especially if you get some package deal) that i didn't worry
about obsolete drivers.

Right. My computer came with 2 gigs of memory. I asked the guy at
Dell, 'why not bump it up to 4 gigs... memory isn't that expensive'.
Turns out that anything over 2 gigs can actually slow down the
computer. It was explained to me at the time, but my personal memory
banks are so full now, anything new coming in just pushes out some old
information. ;-)


i would consider booping up to windows seven if it was free (or even cheap)
to paid vista users, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards (or, more
precisely, microsoft's DNA).


I'm not sure I'd even go for a free upgrade at this point. I have
this thing running like I want it and don't really want to introduce a
new OS and a chance to mess it up.

Ron Kelley

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