Remembering why Bill Gates is the greatest Con

[Praxeas]

Oh...another "windows" thing...

That "Compatability Wizard" NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER worked for me. I tried older programs and that stupid wizard never made a difference...I think it was just a fake app to make people think "wow..I can get this and still use my older 98 programs"


Then Vista comes out with this "This program is no longer working, would you like windows to find a solution?".....nothing happens.

And I with Vista I have programs just die and NOT close. I thought with a new OS and all they would have made a way finally for when a program crashes to neatly and quickly just close it.

[ManOfWord]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

I can't stand the new Office layout..

I have xp pro on this PC...I just built it and bought XP for it...no way was I going to pay extra for Vista

They say you need at least 1 gig for XP and 2 for Vista

I like the Mac version of Office FAR more than the latest Windows version. I HATE the ribbon!

[RandyWayne]

Using the new Vista Home Premium 64 bit version, I still have the look set toward "Windows Classic" which makes it appear for the most part like Windows 95/98.

The first thing I do with ANY OS is to turn off as many animations and the "fade in/fade out" junk as soon as possible. About the only thing I leave on is the "Show window contents while dragging".

[Praxeas]

I don't know if it's just my laptop and what came installed but Vista takes a LONG LONG time to load

[SiblingRevelry]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Oh...another "windows" thing...

That "Compatability Wizard" NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER worked for me. I tried older programs and that stupid wizard never made a difference...I think it was just a fake app to make people think "wow..I can get this and still use my older 98 programs"


Then Vista comes out with this "This program is no longer working, would you like windows to find a solution?".....nothing happens.

And I with Vista I have programs just die and NOT close. I thought with a new OS and all they would have made a way finally for when a program crashes to neatly and quickly just close it.

There's a PC video game I like to play (uh, that'd be Alpha Centauri) which came out 10 years ago. Of course the compatibility wizard doesn't work for it. But I discovered the fanbois had already figured out what settings needed to be changed in the game .ini files and in the parameters fed to Windows to start it, and voila! The only message I get is at the beginning of the game: "Your CPU is not supported. Do you want to continue?" I press <Enter> and play for hours.

That's the other reason I don't want to upgrade. I don't know what I'd do without being able to go to my Alpha Centauri to work out some of my frustrations.

[Praxeas]

I believe WinXP never really shipped with a solution for running older software...no emulator, no real difference at all. It was just put there to try to sell the OS