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I have used heps of OS progs.
Never had to deal with such a systeme that tries to preconcive what I want till this.
Is it the addOn? or the OS?
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Vista works just fine with Oolite for me here. What is it that it does to you?

As a general rule, when there are issues with some software, the OS is the absolute last to blame, and only if and when all other possibilities have been eliminated. You will be surprised how rare it is that a problem belongs to the OS itself - and this is not Windows-specific, I am talking about any OS.
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Yup gotta agree on that.
Every OS has it's inherant problems.
This is not a ms bashing. I got this m/c from a good friend. It has better hardware than my old one, which I ran XP on.
Before she got a new sys. I had the "job" of making her old stuff (98 SE) work on Vista.
Now I try to make some of my old XP stuff work here (Vista) Not really working.

One thing that has worked since 80's is Elite then Oolite, so when it doesn't.
Well.
Don't blame the author for a typo that only appears in your copy.
I just found Vista to throw up heaps of blocks. Like when I want to change extensions (.*** to .***) OS baulks.
Like "do I have Authority"
My TDM!
Anyway mute point.
Vista will go as all the other interm OS's by ms. Like ms Windows 2000.
Anyone actually load that not in a partition?
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Ah.. if you're coming from XP to Vista, there'll be a lot you won't like. As you said, it assumes it knows better than you, what it is you're trying to do. Get used to it, because Win7 and Win8 are much the same, in that regard.

Or you can jump ship, and leave MS behind.. :wink:
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Diziet Sma wrote:
... because Win7 and Win8 are much the same, in that regard.
Properly house-trained, Win7 64-bit is fine (which is probably why MS want to sideline it) - no experience of Win8 though.
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Win8 takes getting used to, just think 'tablet' and 'your mouse is your finger'. Works better if you have it across the range (I've got it on my phone and my various windows machines.
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NigelJK wrote:
Win8 takes getting used to, just think 'tablet' and 'your mouse is your finger'. Works better if you have it across the range (I've got it on my phone and my various windows machines.
That's the problem, right there. A tablet interface is a cut-down desktop for mobile devices. Why Microsoft thought that would make a good interface for a full desktop machine is beyond me.
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Alex wrote:
Yup gotta agree on that.
Every OS has it's inherant problems.
This is not a ms bashing. I got this m/c from a good friend. It has better hardware than my old one, which I ran XP on.
Before she got a new sys. I had the "job" of making her old stuff (98 SE) work on Vista.
Now I try to make some of my old XP stuff work here (Vista) Not really working.

One thing that has worked since 80's is Elite then Oolite, so when it doesn't.
Well.
Don't blame the author for a typo that only appears in your copy.
I just found Vista to throw up heaps of blocks. Like when I want to change extensions (.*** to .***) OS baulks.
Like "do I have Authority"
My TDM!
Anyway mute point.
Vista will go as all the other interm OS's by ms. Like ms Windows 2000.
Anyone actually load that not in a partition?
Ran Vista 64 bit for 7 years no problems at all. only reason i went to Win 7 was the OS HDD died.

your problem is UAC.... you can turn it off.... never liked an OS telling me what i cant do.... even W7 has the damn UAC harder to turn off though.

work have just provided me with a Surface Pro 3 ( the tiny one i3 64GB storage) has 8.1 on it seems fine but dont like the preference for it to use "apps"instead of full desktop programs. once open with preferences are sorted out its seems to work fine..
BTW dont get this tablet! get the i5 128 minimum...... the os takes uo nearly 30GB and then there is a swap file a page sys file and a hibsys file which take up another 5GB of your storage...so much for 64GB... had to add a 32GB microSD card to put our manuals and firmwares on...approx 27GB just there...

on the bright side it does play oolite quite well now i have the typetouch 2 keyboard.... i think it plays it in win7 compatibility mode.....
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I don't own or use any mobile devices not even a phone (if you can even have just a phone anymore.)
This is my choice. I have absolutly no need of them or the inherant costs involved.
Vista was a hand down when my TDM (This Damn Machine) with XP imploded.
I think my next will be with win7 64bit. And no touch screen. Enough problems keeping the house glass clean without adding more.
Haven't dumped win os as don't fancy starting to learn a new one from scratch.
Besides from what I've read, they all have their own set of problems.
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Alex wrote:
I don't own or use any mobile devices not even a phone...
You are not alone!
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Cody wrote:
Alex wrote:
I don't own or use any mobile devices not even a phone...
You are not alone!
Likewise.
Well I do have an ancient mobile phone for emergencies. I believe it can also do these 'texts' things as well, but it's basically just a phone that's not tied to the wall. It's more than I need. :wink:
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