[pchelpers] Re: Vista vs XP

Hi Susan,

Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 3:44:03 AM, you wrote:

S> I guess the old adage is true. You can't teach an old dog a new
S> operating system. ;-) All this discussion reminds me of Windows 3.1
S> We had that OS for a few years, then we bought Windows 95. A friend
S> of mine rather excitedly said, "Isn't Windows 95 great?!" and all I
S> could say is, "I liked Windows 3.1 better." It's true. It took me
S> so long to figure out Windows 95 and I zipped around 3.1 so easily
S> and I knew where everything was. Windows 95 was just so
S> "different." I got used to it though, and yes the new OS, which
S> hasn't changed much at all through to Windows XP, really was great.
S> It just took awhile to get used to it. Not having Vista myself, I'm
S> sure the learning curve to Vista is probably not as large as the
S> learning curve was when upgrading to Windows 95.

Every major revision (3.1 to 95, 98/ME to 2000, XP to Vista) requires
doing some things differently.  That's why I decided to jump in
early with Vista, this time, starting with the public Release
Candidates.  It may have been easier for me, because I know multiple
ays of doing some things, so if one no longer worked as expected, I
could try another.  I wanted to get an early start so that I'd be able
to answer questions when they came up.

For people upgrading, Windows 95 broke lots of things, due to lack of
drivers, due to bugs in memory systems, motherboards, video systems,
and hard drive systems which weren't seen under DOS or 3.1, and so
forth.  The problems that I've been hearing of with Vista are trivial.

I'm using the 64-bit version of Vista, and my only problems compared
with regular 32-mit version are the drivers for my onboard wi-fi, and
Flash (64-bit flash is needed for 64-bit IE).  To view Flash, I need
to run the 32-bit version of IE, which is provided.

One of my reasons for asking "Vista vs XP" was so that maybe we can
put together a list of things that can be adjusted, worked around,
explained, etc.

Control Panel:
I've never liked the category view in Control Panel; I always switch
it to classic view.

Devices:
With some devices, you may find a driver for a similar device which
may work with your device. For example, almost every HP laser printer
will probably work with the "HP Laserjet Series II" driver, although
it mat not do some of the new stuff. In the past, I've had to replace
the "correct" driver with the "Series II" driver to get things to work
right.

Start Menu:
You can get the old 95/98/ME/2000 start menu by RIGHT-clicking on the
Start button, selecting Properties, and selecting  "Classic Start
Menu".

Disabling Aero:
RIGHT-click on the desktop )or go to Control Panel), select
Personalize, Theme, select "Windows Classic".

-- 
Scott.



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