Windows XP - Saxperience

PJN · 1st June 2011, 01:30

Anybody still running it?

Just installed it on my Laptop (i3, Reasonably Newish) and it makes me wonder why I ever bothered with 7, runs like a dream.

Manu · 1st June 2011, 03:34

old news...

jus_tin · 1st June 2011, 16:37

personally im all for win 7... never had a problem with it... xp is dated.

brianS · 2nd June 2011, 04:01

i run xp.
we even still use it at work for all our new installs with our touch screen pos software. so much more stable than windows 7 we have found esp with having to use sql server etc

PJN · 2nd June 2011, 21:34

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Originally Posted by brianS

i run xp.
we even still use it at work for all our new installs with our touch screen pos software. so much more stable than windows 7 we have found esp with having to use sql server etc

Do you use normal XP or the Embedded Version for your POS's, the Embedded one's even more bulletproof than the normal version!

Windows 7 just seems like bloatware, even with most of the Windows Features turned off that slow it right down.

j_breezy · 3rd June 2011, 19:08

windows 7 all the way!

Peter_D · 3rd June 2011, 22:19

I just installed Windows 7 64bit today upgrading from Vista

I have an Acer laptop, and got this HP Windows 7 CD on eBay for £5...it's confusing because it's actually a genuine Windows 7 "HP reinstallation disc", not a copied one

The guy said it would work on any make of machine, i stuck it in and it installed no bother...fucking bargain

PJN · 3rd June 2011, 23:01

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Originally Posted by Peter_D

I just installed Windows 7 64bit today upgrading from Vista

I have an Acer laptop, and got this HP Windows 7 CD on eBay for £5...it's confusing because it's actually a genuine Windows 7 "HP reinstallation disc", not a copied one

The guy said it would work on any make of machine, i stuck it in and it installed no bother...fucking bargain

Aye it'll install, only difference is if you have a HP laptop, then it automatically activates, otherwise you'll need to Crack it.

Brenz · 4th June 2011, 01:37

I upgraded to 7 the on launch night and have never looked back. Much more user friendly than XP and doesn't have any stability issues that I have encountered.

And seeing as XP is now being phased out with new software no longer supporting it and websites beginning to stop supporting dated web browsers I cant see XP lasting much longer except in POS systems as mentioned above, near enough all POS and ATM's run XP and are not effected by the lack of support with new software.

However looking at what Microsoft have revealed about Windows 8 it looks like they have completly ballsed it up by making a tiled system like WP7 primary over the standard desktop and made it all for touch screens on desktops which are completly stupid and the most stupid idea any computer manufacturer has ever come up with.

Peter_D · 4th June 2011, 10:04

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Originally Posted by PJN

Aye it'll install, only difference is if you have a HP laptop, then it automatically activates, otherwise you'll need to Crack it.

I never had to crack it at all, it just installed and thats it, didn't have to do anything!