Well I'm throwing in the towel. Got a Dell Optiplex with Win7pro and had high hopes. Got some stuff installed on the win xp virtual machine without any trouble.
Bluetooth worked with my Jetxl data collector on the first try. Carlson CES (10 yrs old) booted right up. Things are looking good, right?
Not so much two days later.
Windows XP mode won't even start. Says it's missing the ntoskrnl.exe file.
Blutooth "sees" my data collector, but won't connect.
Printer seems to be located on another planet where actually printing anything is high treason.
What a PITA. I swear there needs to be a law that all OS's are required to be backward compatible.
I'm going to try to buy, or have built, a new Win XP machine.
I know I'll have to upgrade everything someday, just not now.
Seems to me someone could make a damn fortune building new machines running XP.
:pissed:
There actually is a company that is making XP machines. Neil Bortz advertises for them. Can't think of the name of the company for the life of me, but if it comes to me I'll post it.
Also, might consider buying some used boxes. Several months ago I went on eBay and bought 2 Dell boxes that match all the other desktops in my office - just to have as spares. Within a month one of my old machines had a power supply go bad. Swapped it out and all is well. Cost including shipping was about $80 each. Money well spent.
> Well I'm throwing in the towel. Got a Dell Optiplex with Win7pro and had high hopes.
My son's computer is a Dell XPS Studio with Win7 that's about 3 years old. It's been cranky from the start, especially with high-end games. Windows updates often produced blue screens, and it's just been a maintenance PITA.
Last week Windows refused to load, and none of the recovery tricks was able to bring it back. I decided to replace the hard drive and reinstall Windows, and what a difference! Games load and run without complaint, Windows updates itself happily, and now I'm wondering if the proprietary stuff that Dell loads at the factory was the problem all along.
Your situation might be different, but I'd seriously consider doing a clean install on a new disk to see if that might make things run more smoothly.
Agreed...I would definitely reload the emulator first then reload W7 if that doesn't work. I have always had issues with emulators. I have better luck installing programs and telling Windows to run the program in XP mode.
JB,
My SWMBO built three computers for me. Two for the office and one for home. She says Win 7 Ultimate is the only version of Win 7 is use.
He's not on the radio around here anymore, but he used to always advertise Vision Computers.
I think she's correct. I run Windows 7 Ultimate and have had no problems. The paperwork implies that the only differance between PRO and ULTIMATE is some foreign language capabilities, but evidently there is more to it than that.
I'm still living in Vista H___. 🙁
The updates are never ending. They can't keep up with all of the security leaks in that thing.
Last weekend, I loaded Windows 7-32 Pro on a new hard drive, 3 year old computer. There have been a few glitches, but I'm surprised how smoothly it went.
The RECON was recognized automatically, and while it won't synchronize calendar & contacts, I can transfer my DC files. My HP Designjet 450c connected wirelessly as a network printer (Trendnet parallel port network card) works with the XP (or was it Vista) driver, but only in B&W. That's ok. I backed up my XP hard drive to a usb external drive "raw" - that is without using a backup program - and then transferred all my downloaded programs and my data over to the W7 drive. Most of the important stuff has been installed.
🙂 so far.
One of my sons works in data center support. December of 2008 we ordered components and built a new computer. After reviewing the requirements of the software I planned to run he advised Win 7/64 ultimate. Have been running that since January of 2009. Upgraded memory and added a solid state drive in 2011 without problems. Have found very few programs that will not run although install of old dos programs is a learning process.
I've went from XP to Win 7 Pro and have had very few compatibility problems. I'm running AutoCAD 2007 and a lot of other legacy software. I didn't install an XP emulator.
I can understand how you'd run into problems with using emulators.
That's sort of like putting an adapter on a gas truck to burn diesel. The conversion is going to make it less reliable.
> Well I'm throwing in the towel. Got a Dell Optiplex with Win7pro and had high hopes. Got some stuff installed on the win xp virtual machine without any trouble.
> Bluetooth worked with my Jetxl data collector on the first try. Carlson CES (10 yrs old) booted right up. Things are looking good, right?
> Not so much two days later.
> Windows XP mode won't even start. Says it's missing the ntoskrnl.exe file.
> Blutooth "sees" my data collector, but won't connect.
> Printer seems to be located on another planet where actually printing anything is high treason.
> What a PITA. I swear there needs to be a law that all OS's are required to be backward compatible.
> I'm going to try to buy, or have built, a new Win XP machine.
> I know I'll have to upgrade everything someday, just not now.
> Seems to me someone could make a damn fortune building new machines running XP.
> :pissed:
I would not give upjust yet, i did the transition 7 months ago, and am only now getting comfortable with win 7 , and am finally leaning to thinking that it was worth it.
My advice is to give up on the old software buy or upgrade to new versions, it costs a whack, but it comes with productivity improvements . Leave the xp mode , its just not any good for any graphics intensive stuff, also junk the old printers, get a wireless one that can talk to anything from pc, imac, iphone or any new smartphone, wireless printing really sets you free from a desktop.
I have probably over extended myself, but i decided to use a ultra book for my mobile office while out in the field and went with a dual boot 11 inch mac airbook, and with works like a dream, all the cad and survey software is is on the windows boot and the fun stuff on the os x side, so all week its in windows mode and on weekends it in os x mode. And it flies , loading huge cad files, tiff files or tbc projects is a breeze, it beats all my better speced desktops or laptops.
Data synching between all the systems was a problemn, but finally just caved and put it all on dropbox, so i know have about 5 uptodate backups on 5 differnt devices.
I have one xp box still running, but find i am using it less and less.
I will probably buy a second drive , stick it in the fastest desktop, and dual boot it with xp on the one drive and have a complete xp os for redudancy sake.
I dont believe staying with xp will be a sustainable option, i will waste to much time looking for legacy drivers and hardware in the future, i decided to suck it in , stop whining and accept it, so far so good. But hell i have bitched and moaned for the last 7 months.
Windows 8,,,, well thats not even on my radar.
Good luck.