OT: Win XP start button

[Roger Mills]

On my 3-year old XP system - which started as SP1 but has subsequently been updated to SP2 - I have always used Classic start menus etc., and the start button is rectangular, just like W98.

My wife has just bought a new computer which has XP SP2 pre-installed - to replace her W98 system - and I'm trying to set it up to look as much like W98 as I can. But when I select Classic menus, it behaves like W98 in way it cascades, but the button itself is still the XP curvy variety.

What am I doing wrong?

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Click on the screen area(not an icon)with right mouse button and go to properties/appearence,goto windows and buttons drop down menu and select

*Windows classic style*.

[meow2222]

buying xp

NT

[Mark]

Two essential sites if you are using M$ XP

[Roger Mills]

[Roger Mills]

Brilliant - many thanks!

[Roger Mills]

As opposed to what?

[Owain]

CP/M, probably

Owain

[Andy Hall]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:46:08 +0100, Roger Mills wrote (in article ):

Linux, FreeBSD - they are both free, are stable, give higher performance on give PC hardware and come with applications with equivalent functionality to MS stuff.

MAC OS X - not free, runs only on Apple hardware, commercially supported - offers same as above but also has versions of MS applications

Both are 1-2 orders of magnitude more stable, reliable and functional than XP and probably 2-3 orders of magnitude more so than than Win98

[Bookworm]

I agree with you but the Linux applications do not interpret Windows Applications in quite the same way if you are wanting to convert or receive Windows Application over the Internet.

I have stopped using it for this reason. The OS is OK its just the applications that have caused me probs.

[gort]

What do you mean interpret windows applications ?. Windows app code is totally different to Linux app code, you cant run win code on Linux!!.

DAve

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[Paul Herber]

Isis I or II

[Bob Eager]

I think what they mean is that in reality you can't get a good match between (say) Word and (say) OpenOffice. Documents never really port totally successfully unless they are trivial.

Doesn't stop me from avoiding Windows like the plague. I have one Windows machine that is stoked up when I have no other option. But then I have been using UNIX for 30 years....!

[Owain]

I use MS Win and MS Office right now but am planning a long-term strategic move towards Linux. Almost tempted to get the beta of Office

2007 off a magazine cover and use it to send Office 07 files to everyone that insists on using .doc (etc) files.

Won't be my fault if the files are incompatible with their earlier version of Office will it, after all everyone uses the same version of Word.

30 years ago I was using an Imperial Model 7 typewriter, IIRC.

Owain

[Bob Eager]

We dealt with an external examiner at work who flatly refused to read or send anything but plain text files. He got his way, too! (but then we are a computing department)

[gort]

Oh explain then

Dave

[gort]

We are going to get an explaination soon from the poster called ., who believes its bullshit.

Dave

[meow2222]

Win 2k. Plus a util to back up the registry.

NT

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define your "you cant run win code on Linux!!" statement correctly in future.