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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Ah... that makes perfect sense. But, I've got to say... as marking speak as it sounds, Windows 7 is fast, stable and secure (enough). I run it on a new machine I built at the office and I've had no problems with it. Granted it don't need to support any old hardware and such.
Anyone buying a new machine today that wants Windows and thinks they should get Windows XP, in my opinion is making a mistake. As you have found windows XP and @ 2002 software doesn't support or work will with a lot of new hardware these days.
BOb
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But BOb, the purpose of the hardware downgrade was to save money, in the long haul. Windows 7, in full package (not upgrade or OEM) is as much as the machine itself costs. Sorry, I can't see paying as much for the OS as the hardware. (and all other software that ought to be upgraded. Ching, ching, ching. Like I said, I want off the upgrade treadmill.)
It turns out the situation is even worse than I thought. I spent the morning trying to use the OS included with the system to upgrade to a larger hard drive. No problem, just insert the hard drive and restore from the restore disk, right? No restore disk from Acer. You have to build your own. Ok, I have an external USB 2.0 DVD Burner, no problem. Burn the disk, (took 2 disks) swap out the hard drive and run the restore. Restore runs perfectly. Try booting the system. CMOS chksum error. Restore the default checksum. Try booting again. boot works for 5 seconds, then it flashes BSOD and reboots. Over and over. So now I have a machine that I can't restore at all from a hard drive crash. Works just fine from the 160 gb factory disk running windows XP Home SP3. If you used an upgrade disk for Win 7, you'd still be in the same boat, needing to re-install xp before re-installing the upgrade. An you can't get there from here.....
Ah well, it was a nice dream while it lasted...