Sure, we dont have to worry about viking raids or scurvy anymore, but instead we make a daily routine of sitting in flimsy, fibreglass (or metal) boxes full of gasoline which are propelled in opposing directions on the freeway at velocities matching that of low flying aircraft.
This is a roundabout way of saying that cars are dangerous....
you can live in a car but cant race a house
Current: 1979 Chrysler Lancer Hatch & 2007 Holden ve Commodore SSV
past: 2002 SRi Astra & 1985 Holden vk Berlina
And this isn't a release. It's a Developer Preview. This is the kind of thing where Microsoft themselves will say "Do not run this on your main computer". We haven't got to Beta 1 yet, let alone RTM. And as people say, SP1 is probably when you can consider it stable enough for everyday use.
I was thinking of installing win7
I'm still on WinXP service pack 3... no more support
MY07 Golf GTI DSG
Volvo XC60 T6
Ex- 2003 Astra SRI Turbo
Do it John, just remember it will be a fresh install, there is no upgrade path from XP -> 7
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2013 Ford Focus ST
Calibra - The only car that will institutionalise you and send you broke in the mean time
Yeah, you really shouldn't "upgrade" a operating system. You will cause bugs in the long run.
Most people should just backup their stuff. Do what Pete said and do a fresh install and then put your files back from the back up.
When I used to run Windows machines, every couple of months I'd reinstall windows just to remove any bugs in the system and it speeds it up a hell of a lot too... Just like a new computer every couple of months.
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Its more to the point that you actually can't upgrade from XP to 7. Its impossible, you can only from vista to 7
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2013 Ford Focus ST
Calibra - The only car that will institutionalise you and send you broke in the mean time
Interesting how different OSes impress different people.
I loved Win95 when it first came out - such a change from 3.1. Win98 struck me as pointless. I started 'playing' with NT4 - but it wasn't until the release of Win2K that I found what I had been looking for. I'd count that as the second Windows that impressed me. XP didn't impress me, but I considered the 64 bit version worth switching to. (For the curious, it's actually windows 5.2 internally - and is closer to Server 2003 than XP). I got myself a legit copy of Vista - but I never actually installed it. Now using 7 on the laptop (because it came with it), and I find it OK, but not impressive. It's more a case of I can't be arsed formatting it - 7 isn't bad enough that I'd actually go through the effort of wiping it and installing XP64 - or the likely pain of finding drivers.
Might try installing 8 inside VPC soon - if that doesn't work, then I'm sure there's some spare hardware around here I can try it on
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