Windows Vista

[dai bread]

One of the things I'm kicking myself about is that I could have bought an XP computer from the same place I bought this one. I didn't, because XP apparently doesn't recognise all the disc space on this machine, and also because I didn't realise how bad Vista is.

Lesson: Never buy a computer in a hurry. I needed one urgently, and didn't think about my options properly.

[analog]

One of the things I'm kicking myself about is that I could have bought an XP computer from the same place I bought this one. I didn't, because XP apparently doesn't recognise all the disc space on this machine, and also because I didn't realise how bad Vista is.

Lesson: Never buy a computer in a hurry. I needed one urgently, and didn't think about my options properly.

Corollary: 'Newer' and 'Better' aren't synonyms.

my son-in-law is by no means an expert but he's ahead of me.
We bought a blank drive and an OEM copy of XP , he set my old drive to "E" and installed XP on the new drive which is set to "C". Seems we spent around $250 including more memory chips, and a CD drive that'll write but i've not yet figured out how to do that...
XP seems quite happy locating files up there on "E", shows a desktop and navigates it fine.. I can create shortcuts or copy frequently used applications down to desktop on "C".

He didn't have to reload anything, it's up there on "E" drive.
I wonder if that might be a viable course for you. Of course I was moving ahead to new er OS and you're moving other way.

There's a handy file attribute called "compatibility" - when I set my old QBASIC.EXE for compatibility with windows 95 it commenced to work under XP.



...... This is an old Pentium 2 purchased late 1999, i'm just waiting for it to give up the ghost.
Like you my next one will be a MAC.

if anyone's interested, here's a qbasic program that turns the PC into a digital clock with roman numerals(how fitting).... maybe somebody knows vbasic and would like to make it into a screen saver...

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' program clock displays time in 24 hr Roman numerals
' press q to exit



DATA "","M","MM","MMM","Mv","v","vM","vMM","vMMM","Mx"
DATA "","C","CC","CCC","CD","D","DC","DCC","DCCC","CM"
DATA "","X","XX","XXX","XL","L","LX","LXX","LXXX","XC"
DATA "","I","II","III","IV","V","VI","VII","VIII","IX"
DIM m(10), c(10), x(10), i(10) AS STRING
FOR a = 0 TO 9: READ m$(a): NEXT a
FOR a = 0 TO 9: READ c$(a): NEXT a
FOR a = 0 TO 9: READ x$(a): NEXT a
FOR a = 0 TO 9: READ i$(a): NEXT a

'
ON TIMER(1) GOSUB time
TIMER ON
WHILE INKEY$ <> "q"
WEND
END

time: time = TIMER
sec = INT(time) MOD 60
min = INT(time / 60) MOD 60
hr = INT(time / 3600) MOD 60
hr$ = m$(INT(hr / 10)) + c$(hr MOD 10)
min$ = x$(INT(min / 10)) + i$(min MOD 10) + ":"
sec$ = x$(INT(sec / 10)) + i$(sec MOD 10)
'
PRINT "Time : "; hr$ + min$ + sec$ '
'PRINT "Time : "; hr; min; sec, hr$ + min$ + sec$ ' use this one if you want Arabic numerals too
RETURN

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[jamiebk]

if anyone's interested, here's a qbasic program that turns the PC into a digital clock with roman numerals(how fitting).... maybe somebody knows vbasic and would like to make it into a screen saver...
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' program clock displays time in 24 hr Roman numerals
' press q to exit

DATA "","M","MM","MMM","Mv","v","vM","vMM","vMMM","Mx"
DATA "","C","CC","CCC","CD","D","DC","DCC","DCCC","CM"
DATA "","X","XX","XXX","XL","L","LX","LXX","LXXX","XC"
DATA "","I","II","III","IV","V","VI","VII","VIII","IX"
DIM m(10), c(10), x(10), i(10) AS STRING
FOR a = 0 TO 9: READ m$(a): NEXT a
FOR a = 0 TO 9: READ c$(a): NEXT a
FOR a = 0 TO 9: READ x$(a): NEXT a
FOR a = 0 TO 9: READ i$(a): NEXT a

'
ON TIMER(1) GOSUB time
TIMER ON
WHILE INKEY$ <> "q"
WEND
END

time: time = TIMER
sec = INT(time) MOD 60
min = INT(time / 60) MOD 60
hr = INT(time / 3600) MOD 60
hr$ = m$(INT(hr / 10)) + c$(hr MOD 10)
min$ = x$(INT(min / 10)) + i$(min MOD 10) + ":"
sec$ = x$(INT(sec / 10)) + i$(sec MOD 10)
'
PRINT "Time : "; hr$ + min$ + sec$ '
'PRINT "Time : "; hr; min; sec, hr$ + min$ + sec$ ' use this one if you want Arabic numerals too
RETURN

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a.

People that can think like this are not normal.....

[Serenity]

You've got to be sh*tt*n' me!