[WinTard]

I apologize to all, it's been over a week my mailbox is full, and being lazy as I am, tend to put off things I must do... I shall correct that soon, but like to keep my correspondence thus, must somehow back it up.. And that is tedious. As a useful and constructive suggestion to PCWorld, why not allow a "convert to PDF" the entire mailbox, sent/received chronologically into a single document? Like you have in the regular threads? All the algorithms are there... It's just a matter of implementing it. But I digress...

So problem will be fixed ASAP, between my life, career, and PCWorld, I barely sleep 3 hours a day... Yes I'm crazy.

[caimito]

ImaPhake, on 04 April 2009 - 01:15 AM, said:

"For the next 3 years, we'll be running older PC's that will not be able to run either Vista or Windows-7."

Your "VERY large enterprise" must have purchased the crappiest computers in existence. I have a 10-year-old P4 with 1Gb of RAM which can run Windows 7 just fine -- and it runs nearly as well as did Windows XP Pro on the same machine.

If a lowly netbook can run Windows 7 and the enterprise computers at your firm cannot, then I feel sorry for your IT department -- they must be total ignoramuses.

I am shocked at hearing this becasue my situation has been totally different. I found that Vista on my lenovo thinkpad often seemded to be running its own thing and ignoring my commands. Even using msconfig and deactivating as much as I could, the os had a life of its own and slowed down to a crawl at its own whim. The laptop took a very long time to boot up, although the shutdown was pretty decent. I work for a large enterprise and you must realize that buying one computer is easy, but upgrading thousands costs money and companies are not going to do this once every six months as would be required to stay up to date with every program and hardware improvement. My firm still uses xp, and i dont see us moving forward yet.

[KStrawn]

caimito, on 15 October 2009 - 10:43 AM, said:

ImaPhake, on 04 April 2009 - 01:15 AM, said:

"For the next 3 years, we'll be running older PC's that will not be able to run either Vista or Windows-7."

Your "VERY large enterprise" must have purchased the crappiest computers in existence. I have a 10-year-old P4 with 1Gb of RAM which can run Windows 7 just fine -- and it runs nearly as well as did Windows XP Pro on the same machine.

If a lowly netbook can run Windows 7 and the enterprise computers at your firm cannot, then I feel sorry for your IT department -- they must be total ignoramuses.

I am shocked at hearing this becasue my situation has been totally different. I found that Vista on my lenovo thinkpad often seemded to be running its own thing and ignoring my commands. Even using msconfig and deactivating as much as I could, the os had a life of its own and slowed down to a crawl at its own whim. The laptop took a very long time to boot up, although the shutdown was pretty decent. I work for a large enterprise and you must realize that buying one computer is easy, but upgrading thousands costs money and companies are not going to do this once every six months as would be required to stay up to date with every program and hardware improvement. My firm still uses xp, and i dont see us moving forward yet.

It's not Vista we're talking about. It's Windows 7, which has run on a Pentium 2 CPU, 96MB of RAM, and 4MB of discrete graphics RAM. Windows 7 may have a very featured interface, but really is better than Vista. That said, better performing.

[quackadilly]

KStrawn, on 15 October 2009 - 11:59 AM, said:

caimito, on 15 October 2009 - 10:43 AM, said:

ImaPhake, on 04 April 2009 - 01:15 AM, said:

"For the next 3 years, we'll be running older PC's that will not be able to run either Vista or Windows-7."

Your "VERY large enterprise" must have purchased the crappiest computers in existence. I have a 10-year-old P4 with 1Gb of RAM which can run Windows 7 just fine -- and it runs nearly as well as did Windows XP Pro on the same machine.

If a lowly netbook can run Windows 7 and the enterprise computers at your firm cannot, then I feel sorry for your IT department -- they must be total ignoramuses.

I am shocked at hearing this becasue my situation has been totally different. I found that Vista on my lenovo thinkpad often seemded to be running its own thing and ignoring my commands. Even using msconfig and deactivating as much as I could, the os had a life of its own and slowed down to a crawl at its own whim. The laptop took a very long time to boot up, although the shutdown was pretty decent. I work for a large enterprise and you must realize that buying one computer is easy, but upgrading thousands costs money and companies are not going to do this once every six months as would be required to stay up to date with every program and hardware improvement. My firm still uses xp, and i dont see us moving forward yet.

It's not Vista we're talking about. It's Windows 7, which has run on a Pentium 2 CPU, 96MB of RAM, and 4MB of discrete graphics RAM. Windows 7 may have a very featured interface, but really is better than Vista. That said, better performing.

Very true. Windows 7 does not require much to run smoothly. My laptop with a Turion X2 1.9GHz with 2GB of RAM runs amazingly.

Anything less than 10 years old that was not bottom-of-the-barrel should run W7 just fine.

[KStrawn]

quackadilly, on 15 October 2009 - 11:18 AM, said:

Very true. Windows 7 does not require much to run smoothly. My laptop with a Turion X2 1.9GHz with 2GB of RAM runs amazingly.

Anything less than 10 years old that was not bottom-of-the-barrel should run W7 just fine.

Thank you, Quackadilly! I agree with you that Windows 7 can run on anything built within the last 10 years. Good work!