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Old January 6th 19, 06:56 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Bill in Co[_3_]
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Default references for changing to Win7 from XP?

pyotr filipivich wrote:
It has been a long time, but I had to switch from XP to Win7 (I
knew I should have upgraded XP to 64 bit when that came out) a couple
years ago, and did not have the time to "play" with it to find out how
the GUI worked. I bashed together some shortcuts and the like on the
desktop (etc), and worked around MS.

I realized last month that I have more time now on my hands, at
least until spring, and maybe, now might not be a bad time to
"formally" switch over to Win 7. (I see some things on my wife's
computer that seem like they might work. OTOH ...)

So, any tutorial/books pointers, etc?


Here are some of my suggestions regarding a few useful programs:

Windows Shell: First suggestion is to install Windows 7 Classic Shell
(freebie), unless you can stand the default Windows 7 shell. :-)

http://www.classicshell.net/

Registry Backups: You can't really rely on ERUNT anymore for a complete
registry backup utility, although ERUNT worked great for Windows XP. The
best replacement I've found for that seems to be a program by tweaking.com
called "Registry Backup".

https://www.tweaking.com/content/pag...ry_backup.html

Another useful one is called RegOwnershipEx, to take ownership of some
registry keys. Windows 7 is otherwise very possessive of gaining access to
some of its registry keys:

https://www.tweaking.com/content/pag...ry_backup.html

And perhaps most useful in the main use category would be to install some
later versions of Firefox and Chrome (ones that you couldn't install on
Windows XP), if you are so inclined

Not sure what you were looking for, however, and some of these may not be of
much use to you, but were for me (except that 99% of the time I'm still
using Windows XP here). I still prefer Windows XP, and will continue to use
Windows XP until I can't any longer. (I imagine that will be when the XP
version browsers for FF and Chrome are no longer usable on the Internet),
but that time hasn't arrived yet. :-)


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