[Elecraft] OT- experience porting XP->WIN7

[Rick Tavan N6XI]

Your experience is exactly why I avoid changing OSs as long as possible.
When I do, I take it as an opportunity to drop applications and features
that I haven't been using - no need to port what you won't use.
Nonetheless, it's always odious. However, I must say that converting to Win
7 was a really good move for me. It boots faster and runs much more
reliably than XP on my setup. Now I'm trying to avoid Win 8 and expect I'll
skip it entirely. Totally new OSs from Microsoft tend to be flaky until
their second incarnation.

73,

/Rick N6XI

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 6:39 AM, brian <alsopb at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> You often see postings here advocating abandoning XP in favor of newer
> OS's.   Yeah sounds great, but the devil is in the details.
>
> I just finished a port to a faster refurbed multicore WIN7 machine.
>
> The task involved:
> 1)50 programs and data
> 2) 3 sound cards (4 if you include the video)
> 3) eight USB ports of stuff
> 4) five RS232 ports of stuff
> 5) one lpt port
> 6) Networking with XP computers
> 7) Internet
>
> I started October 23.  Finally I have 98% of what I had working under
> XP.   It took an estimated 80 hours of work and cost in excess of $500.
> Admittedly, I'm on the low knowledge end of OS stuff (and maybe in the
> majority of ham users in that regard).
>
> The most difficult parts were:
> 1) Device drivers.  Trial and error process.
> 2) Sound card problems.  It's a zoo.
> 3) Networking  (it takes 15 at first unknown steps in several pull down
> boxes to do what a single click in XP used to do)
>
> I still have one unresolved issue with the motherboard sound.  It simply
> won't output anything via line out.  I'm almost convinced that the sound
> out hardware is bad.    It's quite possible on the refurbed machine that
> the previous owner clobbered the hardware. WIN7 seems a bit flaky in sound
> card stuff.
>
> It isn't a trivial process unless you're just interested in E-mail,
> Internet browsing and a few spreadsheet programs.
>
> Thank goodness WIN7 isn't bleeding edge.  I can't imagine doing this for a
> newly released OS.  GOOGLE is your friend in the process.
>
> 73 de Brian/K3KO
>
>
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Rick Tavan N6XI
Truckee, CA