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Lengthen the life of Windows 7 using the legal system
On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 21:54:49 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , Paul writes: Char Jackson wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 21:16:37 -0500, Stan Brown wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:53:52 -0600, Char Jackson wrote: In many ways, XP was better than 7 Really? I remember when I got my Windows 7 laptop, how much easier Windows 7 was to use than XP. What are some of the things you consider to be steps backward in Win 7? That's a valid question, but for me it comes quite a few years too late. It's hard to answer with specifics, but I do remember a couple of things related to file management. XP's Windows Explorer never tried to be smarter than me and jump (scroll) the folder display. Classic Shell fixes that in 7 and 8, and probably 10. Also, in XP I could delete a few thousand files in 2-3 seconds, likewise with emptying the Recycle Bin. Starting with 7, it can take 30-60 seconds to do the same, but at least I get to watch a green bar slowly move across the path display at the top of the screen. There's lots more that I'm forgetting now, each of them probably minor by itself, but all together they add up. But del works a treat. If you have an issue like that, the Command Prompt may be one way around it. And comparatively speaking, "dir" is lightspeed compared to Explorer, when dealing with large directories. "dir" can seemingly read a 40GB $MFT in maybe 30 seconds or so. It's fast enough, I was checking for "violations of physics" :-) If you know trouble is brewing, head to the Command Prompt. I think Char was saying that, in XP, he didn't have to. He was answering Stan's question "What are some of the things you consider to be steps backward in Win 7?". True, thanks. But then the thread seems to have immediately drifted a bit, as they tend to do. |
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