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mike54

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Posted: 10/26/09 07:45am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

I'll stay with XP and Vista learned with ME if what I have works don't change it creates a lot of driver problems with my printers and software


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I was going to buy the three pack but found Staples has a sale on a laptop with 7 already loaded for $350. With 3gb of ram, a dual layer DVD burner, wi-fi and a great screen I decided to keep my XP laptop as is because I would have to clean it out completely and start over. Quite a chore and I just didn't want to do it on an old machine. I can use it for other things now. As for the new machine there was an additional $75 trade in if I had wanted to trade the old one in. So the cost could be as low as $275 for a new laptop. Wow, quite a bargain.

So I bought one. Windows 7 came up fast and hasn't locked up once yet. To get my e-mail going all I had to do was supply my e-mail address and it took care of the rest of the setup in seconds. I had e-mail going in less than two minutes. Now I need to figure out how to import my contacts. Seems they have some new and improved method! I think I will like it though.

I do a lot of video editing and Windows Movie Maker was not in the program list. Oh darn. Well they have a feature that lets you download it for free. It seems they are keeping the thing clean and letting the customer add the features needed. One great improvement is WMM will handle MPEG4 now. I off loaded some high def video from my camera and was able to actually use it.

While doing some side by side re-boots comparing XP to 7, I found the 7 to boot in about 1/2 the time. I did not bother comparing to my Vista Machine.


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College students can get Win 7 for $29.99 from Microsoft. Student Offer

I have 4 kids in college and at least 2 of them are planning to buy Win 7 thru this offer.

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mike54 wrote:

I'll stay with XP and Vista learned with ME if what I have works don't change it creates a lot of driver problems with my printers and software

I just did a clean install on an new HD from Vista to Windows 7 on an HP laptop. Window 7 found all the drivers, connected to the internet, updated the needed drivers at first boot! No problems with having to hunt replacement drivers.

The best part of this install no more HP software nagging me all the time. It's almost like a generic desktop, the install was so easy.

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strollin wrote:

College students can get Win 7 for $29.99 from Microsoft. Student Offer

I have 4 kids in college and at least 2 of them are planning to buy Win 7 thru this offer.


You may want them to wait a bit- *if* they are running Vista 32 bit, the upgrade is seriously borked.
Story here

The funny part- the instructions on making it work:
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To start with, make sure your downloaded Windows 7 files (the 'expandedSetup' directory) is unzipped into C:\ — it'll make things easier later.

1. Download this tool — alternatively you can obtain the official pack from Microsoft, but that's a whole darn gigabyte.

2. Unzip and move oscdimg.exe to your System32 directory (likely to be C:\Windows\System32)

3. Open an elevated command prompt. In Vista you do this by typing 'cmd' into your 'Start Menu' and hitting ctrl+shift+enter. In XP, just type 'cmd' into the Run dialogue (Windows Key+R or from your Start Menu).

4. Type (or copy and paste) the following into your command prompt (this will vary a little, depending on where you've put your expandedSetup folder):

oscdimg.exe –u2 –b"C:\expandedSetup\boot\etfsboot.com" –h "C:\expandedSetup" C:\WIN7.ISO

5. Ta'da! You've got a burnable ISO!

All you need to finish the job is a good burning application like ImgBurn, CDBurnerXP, or InfraRecorder. For this particular task I'd recommend ImgBurn – then just right click the ISO file and start the burn from your context menu. Or launch ImgBurn and choose "write image file to disc" — your choice!



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