Windows Vista

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RumRat wrote: »

You don't need any tiles on the start menu. Even if you use some you don't have to have any 'trying to sell you something'.
If you have those problems, you aren't using it correctly.

Correct not used it fully. Only installed it a couple of times but replaced it soon afterwards. Once on my Netbook which couldn't handle it, and on another Pentium 4 ex-corporate Esprimo like my Vista machine.

Frozen_up_north

Deleted_User wrote: »

Not nearly as bad as Windows 10 though. Plus Windows 10 is always trying to sell you something with all those tiles on the start menu.

I use Classic Shell with Win 10 to give a "classic" start menu in place of the mobile phone style of Win 10, and have never seen any Microsoft adverts:

http://classicshell.net

worried_jim

My PC (Acer T180) runs Vista, I bought it the week it was launched (coincidently) so it's about ten years old. I'll be looking to upgrade to a new machine soon as I can't get windows 7 onto it. Shame as it runs fine and is as good as the day I got it.

WAYT

worried_jim wrote: »

My PC (Acer T180) runs Vista, I bought it the week it was launched (coincidently) so it's about ten years old. I'll be looking to upgrade to a new machine soon as I can't get windows 7 onto it. Shame as it runs fine and is as good as the day I got it.

What makes you think that you can't get Windows 7 on it??

worried_jim

WAYT wrote: »

What makes you think that you can't get Windows 7 on it??

Using Win7 upgrade checker-

"Before you can upgrade to windows 7, you need to install Windows Vista service pack 1"

Now I've done this before years ago but I've taken the pc back to factory settings since and if I try to do it now it never works- just says installation complete after a few seconds but its not.

Gillor

worried_jim wrote: »

My PC (Acer T180) runs Vista...... Shame as it runs fine and is as good as the day I got it.

Then if it works for you why bother changing it?

If you're concerned about the lack of Windows security support there are ways of making Vista virtually "bomb-proof"and certainly safer than a basic Windows 10/Windows Defender combination.

molerat

worried_jim wrote: »

Using Win7 upgrade checker-

"Before you can upgrade to windows 7, you need to install Windows Vista service pack 1"

Now I've done this before years ago but I've taken the pc back to factory settings since and if I try to do it now it never works- just says installation complete after a few seconds but its not.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=7120

WAYT

worried_jim wrote: »

Using Win7 upgrade checker-

"Before you can upgrade to windows 7, you need to install Windows Vista service pack 1"

Now I've done this before years ago but I've taken the pc back to factory settings since and if I try to do it now it never works- just says installation complete after a few seconds but its not.

I would always run a clean install anyway. Then no issue. Do you already have a licence for Windows 7?

worried_jim

WAYT wrote: »

I would always run a clean install anyway. Then no issue. Do you already have a licence for Windows 7?

No, I shall just upgrade to a new machine come Christmas.

Robisere

I am getting all the mileage I can out of this self-build desktop with a full retail Windows 7 installed, over the last 8 years. Despite all the horror stories about "mainstream support" being withdrawn, it just keeps on keeping on, because I know how to protect it.

Eventually 2020 will get closer, so sometime soon I will sell the desktop system for whatever I can get and buy a laptop with 10 installed. Then I will learn how to use it, as I have done with every issue of Windows since 3.1.

The BIG problem will be when I try to get my OH to upgrade her laptop to 10. Anything 'new' is viewed as the Devil's Work!