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I have Xp on my moms computer, as it's the simplest(shes a bit computer-illiterate), and until a few days ago, it only had half a GB of ram, now it has 2 though.
but the computer works well with Xp and she don't complain as much as she did with her vista machine.
but the computer works well with Xp and she don't complain as much as she did with her vista machine.
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i still use xp cus it does everything i want it to do and i know how to use it properly
got no interest or patience to upgrade to windows 7 and have to learn how to use it the way i like
whenever i have to fix a problem on my girlfriends parents laptop which has windows 7 running on it things always seem to take at least twice as long when compared to fixing a similar problem on a xp system
got no interest or patience to upgrade to windows 7 and have to learn how to use it the way i like
whenever i have to fix a problem on my girlfriends parents laptop which has windows 7 running on it things always seem to take at least twice as long when compared to fixing a similar problem on a xp system
I don't trust my technological proficiency enough to start reinstalling operating systems on my only PC. When I (eventually) get a laptop I'll use this old beast to practice stuff like that.
My laptop originally came with Vista, which was a serious drain on them computer thingies. *cough* By which I mean to say it ran slow. I switched to XP and it ran fast. It runs fast. I've had no problems whatsoever, and even if Windows 7 doesn't eat up as many resources, I see no reason to upgrade. I do see one reason not to -> I'm cheap as hell!
edit - and yes, I've used Ubuntu before, and it has one fatal flaw that my buddies Densetsu and Phoenix Goddess may be able to relate to - no Microsoft IME pad or even decent JP input. That is seriously like 99% of what I use my computer for, sooo.......
edit - and yes, I've used Ubuntu before, and it has one fatal flaw that my buddies Densetsu and Phoenix Goddess may be able to relate to - no Microsoft IME pad or even decent JP input. That is seriously like 99% of what I use my computer for, sooo.......
DOSBox or VMware. Both are free and segregate you from the security concerns.
You do know you can disable AERO and set the control panel icon size to the old one and all that jazz, right?
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if you wana play with linux distros without commiting yourself you could always go the live cd/dvd route
i even got a version of linux on a flash drive for when im very bored at work and wana play solitaire
yea i know that, its not just that sorta thing though
i just really like the way i have xp setup and the way i use it and really dont see any need to change it (im a creature of habit i guess)
Windows XP = faster, runs old software better, better hardware support for older hardware (16-bit software compatibility)
Windows Vista = Just use Windows 7
Windows 7 = slower, better driver support for recent hardware, runs recent software better, 32-bit and 64-bit versions (16-bit software compatibility in 32-bit version)
Which version of windows do I use? None, I use ubuntu!
Windows Vista = Just use Windows 7
Windows 7 = slower, better driver support for recent hardware, runs recent software better, 32-bit and 64-bit versions (16-bit software compatibility in 32-bit version)
Which version of windows do I use? None, I use ubuntu!
Neither are of much use when you're playing a game that references certain CPU calls etc. from XP. I know because I tried using VMWare recently to play a game that wouldn't work right in 7. It made little difference to the performance, presumably because some things just can't be replicated perfectly in a VM. There's a reason why even today it's still impossible to play stuff like Heavy Gear 2 in VMWare on Windows 7 without gfx artifacts.
Allot of interesting feedback here lol but it would seem again its all preference based? I'd like to see speed and comparability comparisons between XP, Vista, 7 and possibly 8 as I am using Windows 8 9200 at the moment
The application doesn't have to be hard-coded, you just right click the application, properties and there's an option there to run in compatibity mode. The only problem is that compatibility mode requires your processor to have Virtualization support that some cheaper or older Celeron/Dual Core processor doesn't have.
What does that even mean? CPU instruction sects have no dependency in the OS.
Which games? You may have to use a VM with hardware acceleration.
He's saying that the OS setting there is to get around programs that don't detect the OS properly.
You're thinking of XP mode, not compatibility mode.
What? No. Have you even understood what I wrote? The Windows compatibility settings have nothing to do with virtualization. Virtualization is basically an abstraction layer between real hardware and an application, besides XP mode (which can't be used for games since it lacks 3D acceleration) Windows has nothing like that without additional software. IIRC, XP Mode doesn't even require a CPU with Virtualization extensions, so it would be even compatible with
Every decent gaming PC should use Win7 with a x64 variant installed on it. It's a fairy tale nowadays that games consume less RAM on XP. It's a 100MB difference at max, and it's way negligible in gaming.
I play all my incompatible games in VMWare. It works wonders. CPU calls et likes are virtualized perfectly (1:1, do I dare to say?), the only problem relies with old Win95-era games (obviously MS-DOS based) that might directly push things in the Framebuffer and do strange calls on the VGA bios. But I'm sure the VESA driver should handle 90% of it (it uses Bochs' implementation, iirc). That remains only with poor Direct3D implementation. I know for sure that VirtualBox uses Wine's code, but I think VMWare's implementation is proprietary. Needless to say, it's the only one who at least tries to implement D3D7 support.
It might be because people still prefer to stay away from linux. I mean i know people for whom linux is still a mystery
CPU instruction sets don't depend on an OS. I didn't say they did. Some games referenced certain obscure calls to the hardware which were only available on XP.
As for which games... too many to say, most non-mainstream games I played in the 90s wouldn't work without tweaking on 7. And I did try with full hw virtualization. I know what I'm talking about. This is what made me realize the only acceptable solution is an actual XP machine.
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