I STILL hate Micro$oft!!!
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 3:25 pm
I finally decided to move from my 4 year old xp Dell Precision to a Dell 9010 Windows 7 machine. major jump in speed: From Performance test 7.0:
Optiplex 9010 cpu 10026 h/d 2616
Precision 3400 cpu 1956 h/d 571
The difference in H/D speed is mainly due to the older machine being raid1 and the newer being raid0.
But windows 7 quite frankly, sucks in a number of areas..
you can't copy user settings from 1 user to another.
mapping drives in explorer does not give you access to those mapped drives in a cmd.exe box running as an adminstrator.
and, while it isn't a m$ problem, moving wise installer was a real problem. we ended up using laplink pc mover, but that moved a lot more stuff than i wanted..
We found a way around the mapped drive problem by disabling UAC, but i'm having flashbacks to the old: "windows is a discoverable operating system"..
As they say in brooklyn, discover this!!
(Hey roger, where the emoticon with the 1 finger salute ??)
Optiplex 9010 cpu 10026 h/d 2616
Precision 3400 cpu 1956 h/d 571
The difference in H/D speed is mainly due to the older machine being raid1 and the newer being raid0.
But windows 7 quite frankly, sucks in a number of areas..
you can't copy user settings from 1 user to another.
mapping drives in explorer does not give you access to those mapped drives in a cmd.exe box running as an adminstrator.
and, while it isn't a m$ problem, moving wise installer was a real problem. we ended up using laplink pc mover, but that moved a lot more stuff than i wanted..
We found a way around the mapped drive problem by disabling UAC, but i'm having flashbacks to the old: "windows is a discoverable operating system"..
As they say in brooklyn, discover this!!
(Hey roger, where the emoticon with the 1 finger salute ??)