Upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7?
I have an 8 year old Dell XPS computer with XP on it. Now that I am seeing the end of the road for XP, I have been thinking about my options. This computer, when it was purchased, was a very high end ...
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Wayne Dohnal wrote:
I went from XP to Win 7 on my desktop machine and consider it a downgrade. "Improvements" to Windows Explorer make it less useful. If you use Outlook Express for email you be spending a lot of time converting to something else. I have multiple applications that needed new versions ($$$) to run on Win 7. Running apps in the XP box generally works, just makes everything overall more difficult. Win 7 is somewhat more stable, I have to reboot maybe once a week instead of every few days. If I had it do do over I wouldn't do it, and the XP laptop is going to stay an XP laptop. IMO, the best upgrade is to replace the hard disk with an SSD.
Wayne, I'm sorry your experience was so bad. I'm well aware that Outlook Express has been replaced with Live Mail. I helped a friend to move from an old XP desktop to a new W8 machine. My friend learned to like Live Mail OK after getting use to it. It was a job to convert. As for myself, I use Outlook 2007. DW and I both worked with Outlook before we retired and decided we wanted to keep using it.
I would like to hear of any other programs that failed on W7. Most of what I have heard is that nearly all programs that run on XP will still run on W7. Thanks.
