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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Thank you; that helps.
I'm still not finding the joy in having a swarm of features that aren't explained anywhere in the internal help files; the idea that I need to search online to learn how to use the OS to do functions that were obvious in the previous UI is ridiculous.
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Did you even try the local help files? I did, and there's a page that points out a lot of different filter syntax you can use. It's not as complete as the link I posted above, but the point is that there
is in-box help.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Most of my experience with Vista is that it's slower & glitchier than XP. It regularly freezes the explorer window on searches. It's bad with Word 2000--slow, freezes a lot. It's not entirely compatible with Acrobat Pro 7; it won't save customized options when I close the program. (If the answer is, "you should upgrade those"--forget it. Word 03 is more than $200 from legit places, and a lot of my Acrobat plugins won't work if I upgrade. If I was willing to acquire a whole new software arrangement for the new OS, I'd switch to Linux.) And they removed the Windows Image Viewer, which I liked & found useful.
Vista is, however, a dream with Finereader 7, which finally has load & search speeds that make it work well for 1000-page batches. But I really can't tell if that's the OS or the 4GB of RAM.
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Note that I've been talking about Windows 7. Pretty much everybody agrees that Vista wasn't great. Windows 7 fixes that. If you're going to upgrade now, you should go to 7, not Vista .