If you are having problems try running your old programs in compatibility mode.
A lot of people said the same thing when XP replaced W98. It is a fact that many of us are just resistant to change in their OS (now if we would have only followed the same path last November).I didn't like Vista when it first came out, but now I like it. It took some time to adjust, but once I did it works great. That and they came out with SP1 and 2 which helped fix the bugs
it seems its almost more cost effective if you have xp to buy a new computerI was all set to upgrade to 7 but then I read where, using XP, I would have to do a clean install. Then I would have to load all my other programs and then have all of them upgraded. This is a few years of work so needless to say I will not be upgrading to 7.
A lot of people said the same thing when XP replaced W98. It is a fact that many of us are just resistant to change in their OS (now if we would have only followed the same path last November).
Yeah I meant to say ^^^ going from W98 to W2k even though I purposely skipped millennium.
Agreed that Vista was severely bloated and W7 simplifies much of it. Plus many were just 'happy' with the way XP ran even with all of it's issues. I think that one reason was it has been out so long that many people have just learned to deal with those issues.
I still believe that most of the changes are for the good ~ especially when it comes to hardware. You went from jumper/pin setting in hw along with settings in sw, managing IRQ's and port setting and to simply plugging it in (plug 'n play). Anyone who remembers those nightmare days know what I mean.