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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Just to check, did you do a straight Windows 7 install, or install XP and then upgrade it? Because doing the second is...icky.[/QUOTE]The former. You can't to a straight upgrade of XP like you can with Vista, you basically have to do a fresh install. Calling it an upgrade appears to just be a licence agreement technicality that still baffles me. [QUOTE]Congratulations though on finally getting rid of XP. Just don't make the classic new operating system mistake, which is trying to make it work like the old one. Embrace the new start menu, taskbar, and all that jazz. Going from XP to 7 it's pretty easy. Certainly easier than going from 7 to 8 (although even that isn't as bad as a lot of people make out.)[/QUOTE]XP has been very good to me over the years and I'd hold onto it if I could be the hardware has finally left it behind. I'm not 100% up to date though, at least not on the gaming side of things. My GPU can't run Direct X 11 (or 10, I think) so if there are any games that won't run without it I'll be stuck. Haven't come across any yet though and from what I can tell, it's not worth worrying about for the time being. [QUOTE]Germans are crazy.[/QUOTE]Shh! Bernd might be lurking! ;) But yeah, they can be a stuborn single minded bunch. I recall an incident in one of my old jobs; the manufacturer of one of out main products was a German subsidiary. At some point before my time a design fault was discovered in the internal modem and was causing issues, so they were instructed to cease installing that particular model in favor of a newer one that actually worked properly. It takes a while to cycle through the stock so it was ages before anyone flagged up that the issue was still occurring with the new model. After testing & retesting the new component we couldn't reproduce the error and we double checked that the serial numbers that were having problems were the newer units...then someone finally cracked open one of them and discovered that the newer units...ALL of them...were still being fitted with the old faulty modems. We assumed it was some clerical error at Germany's end (yeah, I know, we should have known better than assume *that*) but as it turned out they were well aware. When asked why they were intentionally installing components known to be faulty, the response that came back was something to the effect of "because we have so many of them left in stock and we need to make room." o_O ...Bloody nutters. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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