[SBE] HP Printers vs Canon

[Dennis C. Brown]

I bought a new laptop this summer which came with Windows 7 Home 
Premium.  It's well named because I pay a premium of time and patience 
to use it.  I'm not having a technical problem sharing; I'm able to do 
it after some research and experimentation, but Microsoft made it 
mysterious and tedious when it comes to sharing a USB expansion drive.  
Some of my machines are XP ordinary and some are XP Pro.  My real 
complaint is Windows 7 Windows Explorer which can take a very long time 
to prepare and display thumbnails.  I stare at the "green bar of death" 
for minutes while XP requires only seconds to accomplish the same task 
without the stage dressing.  Too, Windows Explorer sometimes takes a 
long time to copy or move files.

On 9/26/2011 7:26 PM, Honigs, William S wrote:

> I am not having any issues with Windows 7 sharing files..are you using Windows 7 Business version?

>

> There were originally several different flavors of XP as well..a home version and a Pro version.

>

>

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Dennis C. Brown

> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 4:11 PM

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> Subject: Re: [SBE] HP Printers vs Canon

>

> Windows 7 won't run some older software that will run on XP unless you spend another $90 to add a Microsoft brand XP emulator.  The Windows Explorer file manager of Windows 7 is dreadful, as is the Windows Live picture editor when run on Windows 7.  Windows 7 Windows Explorer takes forever to generate thumbnails, taking minutes to do what XP does in seconds.  Setting up a Windows 7 machine to share its files over a network is slow and tedious.  I'm strongly considering having my local technician replace 7 with XP.

>

> On 9/26/2011 4:58 PM, Bob Reite wrote:

>>

>>

>>> Maybe we can take shots at Microsoft next..

>>>

>>> Windows 95 (9 to 5)

>>> Windows NT (Nice Try)

>>> Windows ME (Most Excruciating)

>>> Windows XP (X-tra Problems)

>>> Windows VISTA (Very impossible software to apply-- it's so bad, that

>>> XP is the upgrade.)

>>>

>> Actually I recommended to everyone that has to run Windows to stick

>> with XP Pro.   Stay away from Vista at all costs.  However Windows 7

>> does not seem to be too bad, but only run Windows 7 if your

>> application software requires Vista or later.

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