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Old 29th Oct 2009, 12:14
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Forkandles
 
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Just got a new PC because the old one's given up on me.

The one I've acquired had W7 Build 7600 on it and was working fine. The only problem, to me anyhoo, was the message at the bottom right telling me it wasn't a genuine version and to activate it.

Didn't like Vista at all, but W7 does seem a whole lot better. Just plugged in my graphics & sound cards, connected to t'internet and it was fine.

I then decided that I would put XP on it because the wife wasn't happy with it. Being a bit of a blagger when it comes to confusers, I decided to put in my XP disc and just install it over the top of W7.

I now have a PC that won't run IE7 and was told by someone who knows better that I should've formatted my drive first before going 'backwards' to a previous operating system. Everything else works fine, but you kind of need web access. That porn doesn't download itself, you know?
Have to do it properly tonight...

W7 did seem quite intuitive and well thought out and there was enough similarity to XP to make it seem 'familiar' where Vista never did. As soon as I can justify it cashwise, I'll probably get W7 Ultimate, which Build 7600 was really...
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