Lol well said Tom and much better then I would put it. So there you go Dark. Have fun with xp until next spring. Btw, If you ever do upgrade to win7 I have an audio tutorial that may help you out. You are welcome to ask for it Whenever and I shall pass it along. Have a blessed day.
Darren. -----Original Message----- From: Gamers [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 2:50 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users Hi Dark, I am afraid any answer we give will not satisfy you, because you are convinced you are right. So no answer we give will ever satisfy you. You want to know why? Its simple Dark has made up his mind that nothing but XP will ever bee good enough for him. XP does all he wants so other people's opinions, reasons, and personal experiences mean absolutely zero. So any answer we give will mean absolutely nothing to you. All I can say is that the rest of us have reasons, good reasons we consider pretty valid, even if you don't consider those reasons valid. It boils down to a personal opinion of value, and of course personal value is not something that can be measured with facts, statistics, or empirical evidence. Personal value is personal judgment, and I guess from that point of view there isn't a thing we can say to sway you towards a newer version of Windows. As for myself there are lots of things I like about Windows 7. Unlike you I actually find the Start Menu better laid out than in XP. All of my personal folders like Documents, Music, Pictures, Downloads, etc are on one side of the screen while the tree view containing my programs is on the other. I like this newer look and feel and find it easier to find things, because all of my personal folders are right there in an organized list rather than being scattered all over my desktop. My All Programs Menu is similarly organized. I have submenus for Games, Office, Tools, Development, etc and under those are the Submenus for each program in that category. So I have a great deal of organization in Windows 7 I didn't find in XP. The new Search feature is great. I can open the Start Menu and type the name of a file, folder, program, etc and have it find it in short order. I can often open the Start Menu and type "Winword" into the search box and have it fire up Word. So the Search box doubles as a type of run dialog which is cool. This works in Windows 8 as well as Windows 7 making it unnecessary to locate any icon if you know the name of the program. Pinning programs to the Taskbar is another one of those features that doesn't seem to be important to an XP user such as yourself, but I personally love it. I can pin all of my favorite programs like Firefox, Thunderbird, Visual C++, to the Taskbar meaning I can launch them directly from the Taskbar rather than from the Windows 7 Start Menu or the Start Screen in Windows 8. Even cooler there are hot keys assigned to those programs meaning I can use them to jump directly to that program or Window with a single keystroke rather than alt+tabbing through all the open Windows on the Taskbar. Another feature Windows 7 and Windows 8 has that frequently is useful to me is being able to burn data DVDs without having to pay for a third-party software like Nero. All I have to do is select the files and folders I want to burn, drag and drop them on the DVD drive, and click on Write Disc. That's both simple and actually saves money not having to pay $75 USD for Nero etc. A feature that I frequently use, when programming or dictating long documents and emails, is Microsoft's speech recognition. Its built into Windows 7 and Windows 8, and gets better every version that comes out. Its superior to the Speech Recognition that comes with XP, and it really helps save time when dictating a huge block of programming code, dictating a long email, or whatever.You should try it some time. Would you rather type a long email message or simply dictate it to your computer by voice? Something else I particularly like about Windows 8 is the introduction of apps to the Windows OS. Apps are basically miniature programs that run in the background all the time, and have a specific feature such as displaying today's headline news, the weather, stock reports, and various other things of that sort. Sure, I recognize apps aren't for everyone, but for me personally I'd sooner have them than not have them because I can just click on the weather app, for example, and get an idea of the current temp, a weather forecast, and not have to go online to look that information up. Although, I don't have a lot of experience with touchscreens and Windows 8 I know Windows 8 has touchscreen support, and NVDA 2013.2 works with touchscreens too. I fully expect the next desktop or laptop I buy will have a touchscreen and I like the idea of simply pointing at the screen and double tapping an icon rather than tabbing all over creation to find it and then pressing enter etc. Add to those features that Windows 7 and Windows 8 have better security features such as User Account Control, Windows Defender, Microsoft Security Essentials, I felt upgrading was well worth the money I paid for it. That might not personally be worth it to you, but it was for me and a lot of others. So to answer your question on what you are missing out on is quite a lot. However, those things you are missing out on apparently not importent enough to you to justify upgrading. That's the difference between you and I. Cheers! On 9/12/13, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Well darren what the hell am I actually missing out on? > > when I say I don't like windows 7's interface, I mean that on the > basis of experience, ---- perhaps not extensive experience, but > certainly not nothing. As I said, I could well get used to it, but why should I? > > Learning the iphone interface was a challenge I admit, however it was > well worth my while because of the games and other useful applications > I got out > > of it. > > Is the same true for windows 7 or 8? will I get anything better to > compensate me for the inconvenience? > > This is the point it seems people don't understand, so I'm not using > the latest version with the biggest numbers and most swanky hardware, > ---- well > > so what? I really couldn't care less. > > To missquote a famous american president, ask not what you can do for > your computer but what your computer can do for you :D. > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. 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