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[Plaid Wolf]

I am still alive......a lot going on and i seldom have been this way (or Diana's site, AFTA) much in the last several months....but i do pop in on occasion....

how is everyone this holiday season?

[Gregory]

Pretty good, despite my computer permacrashing from yesterday's snowstorm. New one's up and running. Still messing around and figureing out Win 7 though. Still used to XP.

[Moon Princess]

Doing okie. I'll likely write a update post around the new year. Make ya'll wait in suspense.

So is Windows 7 better, Gregory? Haven't really read any feedback from anyone actually using it.

[Gregory]

So far it's been really nice, though to be honest the first thing I did was search for a classic view mode. Which surprisingly there is a mode which makes it look like windows 98 which made me quite happy.

I was also very impressed with the fact that Not only did windows detect and install drivers for the hardware in the computer, that it actually went and grabbed the manufacturer's drivers, not just a microsoft type driver.

So far the only coflicts i've had, surpriseingly, were not from any 3rd party software, but rather software from microsoft.com such as .net and directx, but so far it's nice. Fast too. It has a game launcher for some reason, not sure if it does anything to windows resources when launching it from the game launcher as opposed to just running the game normally. I bought the professional edition for better compatibility. I have alot of old stuff that I still use.

[Moon Princess]

I have classic mode set in XP as well.

You'll have to give us a six month update or something after it's been used a bit and such.

I like using my old programs too.