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Quite the opposite. Vista got a bad rap, but imho it wasn't all that bad. My only grip with it now is that IE can't be upgraded to current version. I have 8.1 installed on a laptop for testing, but my workhorse is still Win7.
To be honest, I pretty much skipped XP altogether moving straight from Win2K to Win7.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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XP is leaner meaner and more responsive than 7.
Seems like MS got it right performance wise with 8.
Too bad they hung Metro on it.......
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Ron Anders wrote: XP is leaner meaner and more responsive than 7.
That has not been my experience. Windows XP would often freeze up for me. And, while Windows XP had much better performance than Windows Vista, I found that both XP and Vista had worse performance than Windows 7. And, I measure performance.
By the way, I either read, or was told, that after the issues with Windows XP and Windows Vista, Microsoft went back to the Windows 2000 code base to develop Windows 7 so that the mistakes made with XP and Vista could be avoided.
I dislike Windows 8's UI so much I am staying at Windows 7 until Microsoft either fixes Windows 8 or provides another operating system that makes it easy to switch between multiple applications that are all running simultaneously, just like previous versions of Windows. I am hopeful that the Windows 8.1 update on April 8 will fix this.
When, on Ubuntu Linux 12.x, the UI was changed to use the "Unity" by default to support both tablets and desktop system, there were complaints from desktop developers about the new UI. I guess Microsoft developers missed that. I also wish they had read "User Interface Design For Programmers" by Joel Spolsky. This book is like a Cliff's notes version of a UI textbook. An understanding of the book's contents would have avoided lots of the issues with Windows 8.
In any event, I don't doubt whatever network issue you're referring to exists. I do wonder what specific issue you're having. There can be more setup for Windows Vista and 7 than XP, because specific security settings have to be bypassed. I don't know if that applies to your situation or not.
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Bill_Hallahan wrote: XP would often freeze up for me
That's third party drivers and bloat ware. I bet fresh out of the box it didn't. Cant say the same for win 7 though.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Bill_Hallahan wrote: I dislike Windows 8's UI so much I am staying at Windows 7
I felt the same way, until I got my Win8 (which is impressively speedy and stable) to look like this[^].
/ravi
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Bill_Hallahan wrote: By the way, I either read, or was told, that after the issues with Windows XP and Windows Vista, Microsoft went back to the Windows 2000 code base to develop Windows 7 so that the mistakes made with XP and Vista could be avoided.
That's not been the case. They couldn't have done such a thing as the changes to the operating system between Windows 2000/XP and Vista were too enourmous and fundamental, and Windows 7/8/8.1 pretty much build on the foundation that was formed with Vista.
The only time they changed the codebase and literally "reset" development was during the Longhorn project: They started building it on the Windows XP codebase, and when it eventually went off track, they restarted on the Windows Server 2003 SP1 codebase and gradually added and refined key parts from the "broken" trunk.
I'm using Windows 8.1 on all my machines now (it's actually only two). Before that, I was using Windows 7 since it was in beta. According to my experience, they pretty much got the performance issues of Vista solved with Windows 7 and even improved it with Windows 8/8.1. They only reason I see why a Windows XP machine can be faster compared to a Windows 7 machine is the hardware: XP is very likely to beat Windows 7 on XP-class hardware. But as soon as you're using something newer that's not dating back to 2004, there's no noticeable difference.
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Yeah. 8 with a third party shell actually feels pretty good. but you need the shell, the stock UI is bollocks.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Vista was a disaster, and IMO there is too much of it inside win7 still.
Try Windows 8. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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No, I think Win 7 was good and technically, so is Win 8. (Win 8's UI is a huge mess and a PR disaster but under the covers it seems stable and fast.)
I don't use any near-the-edge features though.
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Does anyone running windows 7 have an instance of resize32.ocx on their system?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Nope, never bought the control - it's a bit pricy. Do you need a copy - they do a free demo version at Larcom and Young (has a nag screen though)
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I bought some software that requires the file, but it wasn't installed with the application. I'm sure it should come with a license file of some sort if it's included with an app, but since it didn't install, I'm kinda in the dark.
EDIT ==================
Well, I found it and installed it and the software seems to run. Thanks.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 5-Apr-14 13:22pm.
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I just received more CodeProject coupons as in the message below:
It seems I was mistaken, and drunkenly read an old message.
modified 5-Apr-14 9:51am.
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Have you got any that go "Pretty Polly!" or "Twelve and a half percent!" - my ones go "cheap" already... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Me  . Yesterday was Good...lets hope Sunday is too....
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Me.......but the combination is a little boring one 
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Yes it is. I wish it would be Ind Vs WI
But Ind Vs Sl fir ek baar
Abki baar Modi Sarkarr..!! 
Thanks & Regards
Puneet Goel
Save Paper >> Save Tree >> Save Huminity
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After the leaking explorer incident in my post a few days back, I installed Windows 8.1.
Got it set up to boot to Desktop, and since I use the keyboard much more than the mouse, I hardly notice any difference. Some shortcuts like Win+X are actually quite an improvement.
Client Hyper-V looks promising, currently fiddling with it to set up some test VMs. Anybody have any experience with it? Any tips on what to watch out for will be much appreciated...
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For one, the Hyper-V manager in Windows 8 won't let you manage VMs running on Server 2008 R2. Which is pretty dumb as the Hyper-V manager you can run on Windows 7 does.
Other than that, I can see very little that's different between "client" Hyper-V and the version you run on server OSes.
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One thing about Hyper-V: When you install it, it disables CPU throttling. So the CPU speed won't vary with the load.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The 1st Generation VMs work well as long as the OS you install has the drivers.
I imagine the 2nd Generation VMs work well with a Windows 8 guest, but you need to watch out if installing Linux. While the kernel drivers have been working since 3.10 or 3.11 and Secure Boot can be turned off, the efibootmgr from Intel does not format the entries in a way that complies with the UEFI standard. Thus when it creates entries (and the setup tool for all the boot managers use it) it corrupts the VM config file and renders it unusable. Then Hyper-V stops acknowledging the VM exists and will not even let you delete it.
I believe there are some very recent patches in Ubuntu to fix this, but it will be a while before they get to other distros. Till then just name the loader bootx64.efi and put it under "efi/boot" if you care to try.
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Thanks, that sounds like a hairy situation. I think I'll avoid generation 2 for the moment.
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Integration services for supported Linux operating systems are not included with an installation of Hyper-V. They are distributed through the Microsoft Download Center. For more information, see Linux Integration Components for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=173274) in the Microsoft Download Center.
Bummer. I've got no internet connection to my dev PC. More hassle. Stupid paranoid clients. 
modified 6-Apr-14 19:18pm.
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Those old. Now all Linux guests need is the Hyper-V drivers, which are in the kernel's source tree.
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