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Man i love this operating system! For the sole reason that it can handle me and my needs!

Windows 7 always takes a shit when i multitask like this.

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No I'm not crazy.

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Finally upgraded my dad's PC some time ago. Couldn't see myself using it anymore ...

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I use it from time to time in the VM. Some programms simply only works in XP.

like afterdark :D

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I use it, same with Windows 2000. Only on systems that are offline and if I ever use them online it is with unofficial service packs.

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Might I ask what CPU you are using? I see single core ;)

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I'm rocking Windows 7 for some years now, but some of my friends still use XP. I have  to use it a lot because I'm the only one in my area who knows something about PC's and they often call to me for help with problems. 

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Might I ask what CPU you are using? I see single core ;)

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Good old XP...

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Looking at your system I'm not surprised Win 7 doesn't run properly.

You can't blame the OS for your hamster wheel powered toaster.

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Looking at your system I'm not surprised Win 7 doesn't run properly.

You can't blame the OS for your hamster wheel powered toaster.

Well 7 was preinstalled, and that was nerve-shattering. I tried to install XP, but it gave me a BSOD because some fancy AMD SATA drivers were missing. A friend showed me WinInstallFromUsb and i managed to install XP on this 2010 Compaq Presario CQ56-100SM

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Well 7 was preinstalled, and that was nerve-shattering. I tried to install XP, but it gave me a BSOD because some fancy AMD SATA drivers were missing. A friend showed me WinInstallFromUsb and i managed to install XP on this 2010 Compaq Presario CQ56-100SM

Wow, who ever decided to install 7 on that system should be publicly stockaded so everyone can throw rotton fruit and veg at them.

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Wow, who ever decided to install 7 on that system should be publicly stockaded so everyone can throw rotton fruit and veg at them.

Well he couldn's install XP as it gave a BSOD, so what of a choice did he have? Vista? :P

But originally it left the factory with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and i would install that again, but hell, it was a paid OS and he formatted all the OEM info. Idiot.

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Windows XP? In 2015? Rofl.

 

I liked XP, but I just don't understand why people still use it. 

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I've virtualized all of my XP machines a while ago. Just have 2 left: 1 for programs and games and the second for driving an cnc machine.

 

Than god putty can route serial over ssh. We have a thin client hooked up to the cnc machine and the actual Windows XP machine is virtualized on a server. When we need to mill anything we just connect to the VM from any PC and watch it go.

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Vista and up requires, as it is optimized for:

-> True multi-core CPU (that means no Pentium D's... that statement may soon be false, as Intel decided to revive it but this time, obviously, wont' be 2x Pentium 4s stuck together and cross their fingers that it will work, and sale to compete to, at the time, AMDs actual dual core CPU design which was, funny enough, massacring Intel best offering in the consumer space (until Core 2 Duo).)

-> 4GB of RAM or more in dual channel configuration (you can go by with 2GB in Windows 8, and Windows 10, but obviously you are pushing things. Might be fine for web surfing with IE11/Edge, and Firefox with a stretch, with limited tabs, or Office but that is about it). XP, no mater how much free RAM you have, puts everything in page files as it can. It always acts like if you are low in RAM. While Windows Vista and up, it uses RAM first, once it is near full, it starts page filing. So if you have more RAM under XP (ignoring the 4GB limit), you have no performance or experience benefits. While in Windows Vista and up, it helps hugely. And RAM must be fast.

-> You need a graphics card solution that supports DirectX 10 compatible, with pixel shader 2.0 (and fast at doing so), with 256MB of dedicated video memory, and fast one too.

What I just describe is essentially a high-end gaming system back in 2005-06, and those who did have such configurations are the ones, the few of us, that had Vista running well, as the OS was designed for system of the tomorrow and not "today" (well 2006-Today), and that has given the grounds works of providing a rich, fast, responsive experience.

Getting the above system, and install XP on it, it will noticeably without much effort see a large performance degradation.

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Getting the above system, and install XP on it, it will noticeably without much effort see a large performance degradation.

 

This. I installed 8.1 and 7 on a 10 year old hp laptop (after adding some RAM and new HDD), the performance boost was ridiculous.

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7 years ago I swore by XP, now I despise it kinda :(

So many things I could write here... things like this.

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yes its better for most benchmarks :)

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Windows XP? In 2015? Rofl.

 

I liked XP, but I just don't understand why people still use it. 

I was sort of too young to really like or dislike an OS however at the time XP was at its high time Apple OS 9 and OS X Tiger were used at my elementary, so I can say I liked Tiger and then sequentially OS X Leopard. 

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My uncle's old Pentium 4 423 or 478 socket i dunno. He turns on that pc once a year.

 

 

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