On Sun, 06 Jan 2019 08:50:44 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

Ken Blake on Sun, 06 Jan 2019 08:31:04 -0700
typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
On Sat, 05 Jan 2019 20:36:09 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:
It has been a long time, but I had to switch from XP to Win7 (I

*Had* to? Why do you say that? Not that I'm saying you shouldn't, but
hardly anyone ever has to.

When the class is about the software, and the software is 64 bit
and your OS is not, you really only have two choices: upgrade to 64
bit, or drop the class.


OK, that's a good reason.


When you're a broke unemployed machinist in
retraining, your options are limited. Refurbished machine for $200 or
try to find XP 64 install disks somewhere.
I'd have "banked" this machine, save that the XP box died about
the same time.

knew I should have upgraded XP to 64 bit when that came out)

Same question on that: *should* have? Why do you say that? My view on
that is even stronger: it's a mistake for most people.

Maybe so. But I have to know Word, despite it being an inferior
product, because so many places use only it; accept no submissions
which are not Word compatible.


But I don't understand that. You don't need 64-bit Windows to run
Word.


years ago, and did not have the time to "play" with it to find out how
the GUI worked.

The GUIs for XP and 7 aren't all that different. It shouldn't take
long at all to learn the difference.

Note well,"aren't all that different". But those little bits can
be critical. "why does the icon for 'desktop' not look like a
desktop?" "Where is the icon for wordpad?" Etc, etc, - and do not
get me started on Win7's apparent inability to know where in the
directory tree I have gone.
When one has time those things are no problem, you can fiddle with
it and learn new procedures.


OK, it's up to you of course, but as far as I'm concerned, those
differences are so slight you can learn them almost instantly.


But when I'm having to stop what I've done for a long time, to
find out where/how to do it "here" - it throws me out. Very much like
getting a new car, and the light switch and wiper controls are
"backwards." Do not tell me that it is 'better'.



Better or not, to me, it's the same thing. Every time I've gotten a
new car, it took me only a few minutes to learn the difference from my
old one. Even if I rent a car, I get comfortable with its controls
very quickly.