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Post by phred1812 on Mar 27, 2014 14:46:10 GMT
I ran the Windows 7 compatibility programme and it doesn't look too promising. It says I would have to manually download the 32 bit version. It doesn't look as it can cope with 64 bit.
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Post by phred1812 on Oct 19, 2016 18:17:47 GMT
Well, it finally happened. My 17 year old PC went dead on me yesterday. Fortunately everything on it was backed up so I am now joining the 21st century but only as far as using Windows 7 on my new work PC. XP has finally died but it put up a good fight.
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Post by Rocket on Oct 19, 2016 18:26:52 GMT
Still using XP on a top of the range PC I built in 2001. My Hudl 2 tablet is more powerful now I've another box running Ubuntu for day to day stuff.
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Post by baz on Oct 20, 2016 22:44:16 GMT
Wow XP sounds so old, been thru the lot, on windows 10 now but prolly goin back to 8.1
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Post by phred1812 on Oct 21, 2016 14:21:01 GMT
Well, it finally happened. My 17 year old PC went dead on me yesterday. Fortunately everything on it was backed up so I am now joining the 21st century but only as far as using Windows 7 on my new work PC. XP has finally died but it put up a good fight. The transition wasn't as smooth as I had hoped. After a day of transferring data. I finished around 8.00 p.m on Wednesday evening. After a meal I went back to the PC to check something and it crashed. I took it to a specialist yesterday and have just been advised that the hard drive has gone. This was an unused Acer PC. Unfortunately I bought it over a year ago so it is out of warranty. There may be a lesson to be learnt here. It's certainly a costly one. I resent spending money on anything that's not bike related.
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Post by GrumpyDidcot on Oct 23, 2016 14:36:18 GMT
I've got to keep my 8 year old laptop with XP if I want to use my scanner. No Windows 7 drivers for the thing. Damned if I'm buying a new scanner when the old one works just fine.
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Post by phred1812 on Oct 24, 2016 13:17:17 GMT
I've got to keep my 8 year old laptop with XP if I want to use my scanner. No Windows 7 drivers for the thing. Damned if I'm buying a new scanner when the old one works just fine. It was similar for me with XP and my old Quickbooks accounts programme. Not compatible with Windows 7 or later versions. I was really happy with Outlook Express as well. Over ten years of emails, around 40,000 I think now gone. I have had to bite the bullet. Life goes on.....
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Post by baz on Oct 28, 2016 22:42:18 GMT
Windows 10 LTSB installed, no resource hogging apps, the default Start menu on Windows 10 LTSB doesnβt even include a single tile. It doesnβt come with the Windows Store, Cortana, or Microsoft Edge browser. It also omits other Microsoft apps like Calendar, Camera, Clock, Mail, Money, Music, News, OneNote, Sports, and Weather.These machines will get security and bugfix updates through Windows Update, but thatβs it. Clean fresh and fast pc
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Post by chas on Nov 26, 2016 16:55:42 GMT
I've got to keep my 8 year old laptop with XP if I want to use my scanner. No Windows 7 drivers for the thing. Damned if I'm buying a new scanner when the old one works just fine. Just realised the scanner in my all in one no longer works with win 10 (got drivers for the printer part) so downloaded this www.hamrick.com/download.htmlEdit, just tried it and there's a watermark unless you buy
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