"pyotr filipivich" wrote

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| 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)
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It's probably good timing. Support for XP is beginning
to wane. Though I'm surprised you need 64-bit.

For what it's worth, I think of Win7 as salvageable but
not desirable. The two biggest points against it are
bloat and file restrictions. You have to come to terms
with both of those in your own way. The bloat is mainly
just a problem with disk image backup. But in some cases
the winsxs folder can grows by 10s of GBs. So it's a
good idea to have disk images ready to clear the deck
if necessary. Win7 is too brittle to fiddle around too
much with trying to keep it lean.

File restrictions: Some people like that, for security.
Though most self-respecting malware these days can
bypass user limits.
You can learn to live with it. you can set yourself
up as the real Administrator and use it like XP. Or you
can do halfway measures, like taking control of some
files, turning off UAC, and maybe having one or
more FAT32 partitions for hassle-free file storage.

Tempers get heated about this issue and everyone
knows the only right way.

I also have numerous minor quibbles. Overwriting
files with a copy is a pain. Windows wants to have a
discussion about it rather than just warning that the
old files will be lost. Every time I put in a USB stick
Win7 wants to format it.... There are a hundred little
things like that where XP stays out of my way while
Win7 acts "neurotic". But I don't find anything to be
an insurmountable problem. I just tend not to use it
much because I don't want to spend a month trying
to figure out how to make it shut up and get out of
my way.