LOL, I don't really know where to start with this one. There are numerous improvements to Win 7 over XP.How many dinosaurs are out there (like me) that still use Win XP?
Are there any advantages to Win 7 or 8?
ngnrd - PE said:I run XP at work and WIN7 on my personal laptop. The worst thing about WIN7 is that it won't run some of my 32-bit software; not even with all of its fancy backwards compatible settings - most notably, my personal copy of AutoCAD and my Garmin chartplotter software.
We run into that with a number of legacy Rockwell software packages. But there's a simple way around it. You can run a WinXP virtual machine within Win7 and run the incompatible software that way. It's rather simple to do and there are plenty of VM software packages out there.^Garmin finally upgraded their software for updating the aviation databases so it will work on both 32 and 64 bit operating systems. Any chance thew will do the same for software you're using?
Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise should come with "XP-mode", which runs a vm. Or, VMWare Player works well for VM, and my favorite is VirtualBox from Sun/Oracle. VirtualBox can even let the graphics card drivers pass-through allowing for graphics intensive tasks like games.We run into that with a number of legacy Rockwell software packages. But there's a simple way around it. You can run a WinXP virtual machine within Win7 and run the incompatible software that way. It's rather simple to do and there are plenty of VM software packages out there.
I have an XP vm on my work computer running Win7. The only limitation I've found so far is that in the vm I can't see the USB ports.Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise should come with "XP-mode", which runs a vm. Or, VMWare Player works well for VM, and my favorite is VirtualBox from Sun/Oracle. VirtualBox can even let the graphics card drivers pass-through allowing for graphics intensive tasks like games.We run into that with a number of legacy Rockwell software packages. But there's a simple way around it. You can run a WinXP virtual machine within Win7 and run the incompatible software that way. It's rather simple to do and there are plenty of VM software packages out there.
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