[Elecraft] OT- experience porting XP->WIN7

[Phil Wheeler]

Win 7 is more stable that Win XP.

And now Microsoft no longer supports XP, perhaps a 
more significant issue.

I casually support a business that must us 
Wordperfect 5.1, and they must use XP for that 
reason. But it's becoming harder and harder to 
keep that in play.

73, Phil W7OX

On 11/19/14 8:33 AM, Richard Solomon wrote:
> I often wonder why folks will abandon a 
> perfectly good working system just to
> have the "latest and greatest".  Just look at 
> all the pain you go through and then
> ask yourself what the benefits are.
>
> As for me, I picked up a Shuttle machine with 
> WIN8.1 and 16 GB of RAM. It sits
> on the test bench awaiting the day my old XP 
> Station machine finally dies. Not
> until then will I embark on the self-torture of 
> updating.
>
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>
>
> On 11/19/2014 7:39 AM, brian 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