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I liked Vista... when I went from 32 to 64 bit, and SP1 was released, Ithought it was the bees knees. Thing is, Snowy, I didn't have the issues you had with Win 7, so it became my primary OS and Vista was relegated to my second rig.
I have Win 8 Pro x64 installed as my primary OS these days, and while it is getting ragged like Vista did, I'm finding it rock solid and a pleasure to use. Win 7 has now been relegated to my second rig and Vista has been installed on the guest rig in the spare room... cos I has a soft spot in me heart for it and XP will never see the light of day in this house... ever. If I wanna see anything Fisher Price looking I'll get it out the kids toy box.
meh, o/s's. Use one that works, skin it silly, drive it 'till the wheels fall off. Rinse and repeat.
I like you......you're silly.
On a lighter side......I ran XP on my first desktop up until SP3 then Vista showed up on my second rig. Worked......meh.....not that great...hang ups, freezes and the like...it was bloated, 3.2 gigs of space it took up as compared to 7 which takes up half that. Thing is my second rig, store bought, an HP Pavillion was supposedly built with Vista in mind. Then a friend of mine asked me to check out her computer which ran Vista. She took it to the shop and the tech 'said' he fixed it, he didn't . All he did was install MalwareBytes, which does not like Norton too too much, cleaned up a few things but did not solve the problem. It still hung up and froze on ocassion. So out with Vista and in with 7. She hasn't had a problem since. To be fair though I do know some who still have Vista and swear by it and like starkers relegated it to a secondary rig in favor of 7 as a primary OS.
This stuff goes all the way back to Win95. Some loved it, some hated it. I hated 98 but loved 98SE, it worked as good as XP. What it all boils down to is this. IMO...there will always be a love/hate relationship with Microsoft OS's. Like Win8 it works good for some and the rest it will act like an expensive door stop.
That'll be ram use, not HD size ....7's bigger than that...
It is?
Hmph.....learn somethin' new everyday.
Not counting driver store, User files or proggy installs/data ...I get 7 Ult 64 at 18gig .....12 of which is the pagefile...
That's an old install, of course...
BTW Starkers, there's this program called WindowBlinds that fixes that on XP. Oh, wait, it won't work on Win 8. Sorry 'bout that.
Ah yes, there's on on every crowd, isn't there!
Now I know why King Arthur got rid of all the court jesters.
Not only were the jesters seiously NOT funny... 'twas the only way he could be sure he got rid of the wizard, who thought he was a comedian.
Just having a bit of fun with ya. Yeah, I know, 25,000 comedians out of work and I'm trying to be funny.
Ya know, there's a lot of wizards out of work as well. I blame it all on them David Copperfied and David Blaine fellers, goin' on TV with all that magic and illusion stuff, creating a general disinterest in wizards by the general public. I mean, once you've seen Copperfied make a space huttle disappear and reappear again, wizards ain't gonna get much of a look in, are they?
I hear there's this opening over at Acme Wizard Central. Seems the Sorcerer who was supposed to handle the PR blitz fo the upcoming election to High Muck-a-Muck had an unfortunate accident. During his practice session for the annual magic convention he oversteeped the newt's eye and the frog legs. Needless to say the upstairs co-ed restroom is off limits for the remainder of the afternoon. Haz Mat teams are already on the scene. News at 11.