Just seen this:

http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/

Alec

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> Just seen this:
>
> http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/
>
I just had my first encounter with Vista.

Blimey, what a dog!

One of my children has a laptop running Vista and was saying he had run out 
of disk space. The first problem was trying to search for files and 
olders  - either of a type or a size and identifying duplicates. How 
difficult was that? A real ordeal. I finally found vast amounts of data 
stored in duplicate and even triplicate in 'virtual store' folders. 
Uninstalling the program didn't remove it, so you hold your breath and 
delete, delete delete. What a mess.

Tim w

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> I just had my first encounter with Vista.
>
> Blimey, what a dog!
>
> One of my children has a laptop running Vista and was saying he had run 
> out of disk space. The first problem was trying to search for files and 
> olders  - either of a type or a size and identifying duplicates. How 
> difficult was that? A real ordeal. I finally found vast amounts of data 
> stored in duplicate and even triplicate in 'virtual store' folders. 
> Uninstalling the program didn't remove it, so you hold your breath and 
> delete, delete delete. What a mess.
>
> Tim w

I've deliberately stayed clear of Vista Tim because I've yet to find anyone 
who has been able to run all their legacy programs successfully on it.  Add 
to that reported problems with drivers to support old hardware etc etc.

I regularly use Norton Ghost (reminds me I need to do one this weekend) to 
make an 'image' of my Dell workstation's C Drive onto another drive, and 
when I do buy a new computer with the inevitable 'must have' Vista on it, I 
shall format the C Drive and load my old faithful XP Pro image onto it. 
Luddite? ... possibly ... but I see no reason to abandon something that has 
served me faithfully.

Dave.

"Dave (Sgt. Pepper)" wrote:

> I've deliberately stayed clear of Vista Tim because I've yet to find anyone
> who has been able to run all their legacy programs successfully on it.  Add
> to that reported problems with drivers to support old hardware etc etc.
> 
> I regularly use Norton Ghost (reminds me I need to do one this weekend) to
> make an 'image' of my Dell workstation's C Drive onto another drive, and
> when I do buy a new computer with the inevitable 'must have' Vista on it, I
> shall format the C Drive and load my old faithful XP Pro image onto it.
> Luddite? ... possibly ... but I see no reason to abandon something that has
> served me faithfully.

Thing that really annoys me is that when you buy a new computer you have
to buy the operating system with it. Wasn't always that way as when i
brought my Escom (all those years ago) you could choose which OS was
installed ar save money and don't have anything installed. 
I have read somewhere that MS are now going to make XP Home available
available to some OEM's.

Alec

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>
> Thing that really annoys me is that when you buy a new computer you have
> to buy the operating system with it. Wasn't always that way as when i
> brought my Escom (all those years ago) you could choose which OS was
> installed ar save money and don't have anything installed.
> I have read somewhere that MS are now going to make XP Home available
> available to some OEM's.
>
When I look at the Novatech systems there is always an option to have no OS 
pre-installed. Looking more carefully they are still offering XP but they 
always have most stock of systems without OS.

Tim w