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Hey! we have just installed Windows 7 Ultimate onto my old desk top computer! Its great and runs a lot faster than Vista, which I have on my lap top, it even found and installed all the drivers it needed.
If it could not find any item, it posted up a link to the page I needed!

I still have a few programs to install, but after spending most of the afternoon on it, I came off for a break.
So I think I will be using the old desk top a lot more now

Smudger.

now I almost wanna try it...

Smudger, thanks for the info. Windoze7 is available for less than €80 over here, so next time I have problems I´ll take the jump.
Thanks and

Aye! I was lucky really, as I got for free! Thing is I had to remove in the end, as the Media card in my old desk top computer couldn't cope with it, and every time the screen saver came on, it would crash the computer. You really need 2GB of RAM to run Windows 7.

Must admit though, I am quite happy as my wife's note book has XP same as my desk top, so I can transfer stuff between them without any problems. This lap top has Vista, which I have now got used to, but Windows 7 has the edge on it

Smudger.

Programs written for XP run OK on 7?

Well, not quite all of them, that forum on computeractive has a full thread on that very subject?

Smudger.

OK then and not a real problem anypath. The old steam engine still runs on Doze 3.11 and the programmer of the prog is long in pension.

To clear things - prog is for measuring loudspeakers and the hardware requires an ISA slot. For other jobs I have a slightly more modern numbermuncher.

I can still remember my very first computer, it never even had a mouse, it was an Amstrad 6120 or some kind of number?

Then when we moved down here, a bloke sold me a second hand pile of junk, as I never knew any better at that time, anyway the monitor started to smoke and the hard drive was on its last legs.

Have come a long way since those days

Smudger.

Sinclair Xsometing. 4KB (no typo) of memory, and you had to solder cables to use your cassette player to store programs.

Aye! and you had to use cassettes to load it up? My one wouldn't start unless I put a car racing game into it, mind you it did come with a stereo monitor.

Smudger.