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What didn't work on transitioning to W7?
Meaning, does anyone care to comment on applications
that had to be dumped, repurchased in upgraded versions, or replaced with something else on transitioning from WinXP (would be my situation) or Vista to W7? For comparison, I had problems only with two insignficant utilities transitioning from Win98 to WinXP (not counting any eventless reinstallations). |
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What didn't work on transitioning to W7?
"Anthony Buckland" wrote in message ... Meaning, does anyone care to comment on applications that had to be dumped, repurchased in upgraded versions, or replaced with something else on transitioning from WinXP (would be my situation) or Vista to W7? For comparison, I had problems only with two insignficant utilities transitioning from Win98 to WinXP (not counting any eventless reinstallations). I haven't come across anything yet that doesn't work, but I have a couple of programs that don't work quite right, mainly in the way they display. One in particular that I like is Tiger Woods 2006. When I had Vista on my notebook, it would play full screen, even though the display settings in the game were set at 1024x768. My notebook screen is 1280x800, so there wasn't any distortion to speak of. In Win7, TW2006 displays with the black borders on each side. I have a number of old (Win98 and DOS) apps and games that still work fine, so I have no real complaints about 7. SC Tom |
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What didn't work on transitioning to W7?
"Anthony Buckland" wrote in message
... Meaning, does anyone care to comment on applications that had to be dumped, repurchased in upgraded versions, or replaced with something else on transitioning from WinXP (would be my situation) or Vista to W7? For comparison, I had problems only with two insignficant utilities transitioning from Win98 to WinXP (not counting any eventless reinstallations). it's worth pointing out that if you are also going from a 32 bit OS to 64 bit W7 you are going to have lots more problems. -- Brian Gregory. (In the UK) To email me remove the letter vee. |
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What didn't work on transitioning to W7?
Brian--I think you are right on-- when you say more problems from 32bit to
64bit. I have a HP with AMD dual core and 4 GB memory. Had a free upgrade disk from Vista Home Premium to Windows7 Home Premium with 64bit OS. The upgrade worked fine and all the basic programs and internet searching works fine when I use Internet Explorer 8 32bit. I also have Internet Explorer 64bit--web pages act a little strange in 64bit--I don't think active x and java script are up to speed to run the web pages in 64bit mode. Anyone else notice this? I am just using IE 32bit and everything is working OK. Also, I don't think Logitech Cam and Skype have upgraded drivers for Win 7 64bit yet. Don Morgan "Brian Gregory [UK]" wrote in message ... "Anthony Buckland" wrote in message ... Meaning, does anyone care to comment on applications that had to be dumped, repurchased in upgraded versions, or replaced with something else on transitioning from WinXP (would be my situation) or Vista to W7? For comparison, I had problems only with two insignficant utilities transitioning from Win98 to WinXP (not counting any eventless reinstallations). it's worth pointing out that if you are also going from a 32 bit OS to 64 bit W7 you are going to have lots more problems. -- Brian Gregory. (In the UK) To email me remove the letter vee. |
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What didn't work on transitioning to W7?
Anthony Buckland wrote:
Meaning, does anyone care to comment on applications that had to be dumped, repurchased in upgraded versions, or replaced with something else on transitioning from WinXP (would be my situation) or Vista to W7? For comparison, I had problems only with two insignficant utilities transitioning from Win98 to WinXP (not counting any eventless reinstallations). I moved 2 computers from 32 bit to 64 bit. One a Toshiba Laptop that had Vista Home Premium and and one a Dell desktop that had XP Pro. I have a 5 year old Epson Photo printer attached to the laptop and set up for network printing from the desktop. I works fine. All hardware on both computers work just like they did before the change except for a USB network adapter on the desktop, so I bought a new one. My Norton Ghost 9 would not work on Windows 7, so I bought Acronis 2010. I've been using WS-FTP Pro for uploading my web pages but I had just upgraded my Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 to Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 so I'm using that for file uploads. I've not attached my scanner yet, but will this weekend and will report back on how that works. It's a 5 year old Epson and I've already downloaded the new drivers from Epson for that. I have 2 USB hubs on the desktop and both work fine along with a SATA Dock and 2 external hard drives, 2 thumb drives and a USB card reader. So far I've not had one major problem except for some permissions issues with some files. I have an old dBase compiled program that I used to run on my XP machine and it wouldn't run on Windows 7, so I installed DosBox and it runs fine using that free utility. Tomorrow I'm going to install a friends older program in XP and see if it will work in XP Mode. Right now I see no reason to go back to a 32 bit machine and see no reason for "major" concerns about 64 bit. -- "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt http://www.bobhatch.com http://www.tdsrvresort.com |
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What didn't work on transitioning to W7?
Anthony Buckland wrote:
Meaning, does anyone care to comment on applications that had to be dumped, repurchased in upgraded versions, or replaced with something else on transitioning from WinXP (would be my situation) or Vista to W7? For comparison, I had problems only with two insignficant utilities transitioning from Win98 to WinXP (not counting any eventless reinstallations). New machine (own build) and Win 7 64bit clean install. Two SATA DVD R/W drives do not work, all drivers ok, device manager recognises them, issue raised with Microsoft, no joy. Issue solved by installing and IDE drive, works perfectly. No software issues (yet). Cheers Kol ''' |
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On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:31:11 -0800, "Anthony Buckland"
wrote: Meaning, does anyone care to comment on applications that had to be dumped, repurchased in upgraded versions, or replaced with something else on transitioning from WinXP (would be my situation) or Vista to W7? For comparison, I had problems only with two insignficant utilities transitioning from Win98 to WinXP (not counting any eventless reinstallations). Slightly off topic, but when my XP machine died, I got a Vista x64 machine where only one legacy program did not work. I downloaded Microsoft's free Virtual PC from the Microsoft website, installed XP in the virtual machine, did all the updates, and can now run the program I need. Not an elegant solution, but it works. I haven't upgraded to Windows 7 yet, but since the website says Virtual PC will install under Windows 7, I hope I will be able to do the same for legacy programs that don't work under 7. James |
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What didn't work on transitioning to W7?
Bob Hatch wrote:
Anthony Buckland wrote: Meaning, does anyone care to comment on applications that had to be dumped, repurchased in upgraded versions, or replaced with something else on transitioning from WinXP (would be my situation) or Vista to W7? For comparison, I had problems only with two insignficant utilities transitioning from Win98 to WinXP (not counting any eventless reinstallations). I moved 2 computers from 32 bit to 64 bit. One a Toshiba Laptop that had Vista Home Premium and and one a Dell desktop that had XP Pro. I have a 5 year old Epson Photo printer attached to the laptop and set up for network printing from the desktop. I works fine. All hardware on both computers work just like they did before the change except for a USB network adapter on the desktop, so I bought a new one. My Norton Ghost 9 would not work on Windows 7, so I bought Acronis 2010. I've been using WS-FTP Pro for uploading my web pages but I had just upgraded my Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 to Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 so I'm using that for file uploads. I've not attached my scanner yet, but will this weekend and will report back on how that works. It's a 5 year old Epson and I've already downloaded the new drivers from Epson for that. I have 2 USB hubs on the desktop and both work fine along with a SATA Dock and 2 external hard drives, 2 thumb drives and a USB card reader. So far I've not had one major problem except for some permissions issues with some files. I have an old dBase compiled program that I used to run on my XP machine and it wouldn't run on Windows 7, so I installed DosBox and it runs fine using that free utility. Tomorrow I'm going to install a friends older program in XP and see if it will work in XP Mode. Right now I see no reason to go back to a 32 bit machine and see no reason for "major" concerns about 64 bit. This evening I hooked up my 5 + year old Epson Perfection scanner to my computer. I downloaded and ran the software and drivers for the 64 bit Vista and Win 7 OS from Epson, turned on the scanner and tested it out. It ran perfectly using Epson Scan, Photoshop CS3 and Acrobat 9.2. Still happy with Win 7. :-) -- "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt http://www.bobhatch.com http://www.tdsrvresort.com |
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