Mine don't. I had an old S..l..o..w laptop and put Ubuntu on it becuase it was so B***y awful with XP.
It was still B***y awful with Ubuntu. Even after I had someone who knew what they were doing polish it.
Andy
*Any* OS call that is used frequently by an application will affect the speed of the application depending upon how efficiently that routine is implemented and coded. Things such as calls to check whether a keyboard or mouse input has occured, for example.
The swap file is potentially accessed whenever an application performs a memory read or write operation - or even when an application is resumed after other threads have been called.
Oh yet another Cannon model with an uneconomic to repair fault.
There is a wrinkle in the OEM license, that allows you to "repair" a machine. So a motherboard "failure" can be swapped out for a new one, and chances are that will mean new CPU and RAM to current spec as well.
Usually only if you have the Pro version - so Win 7 Professional can be downgraded to Win XP Pro. Its a slightly cumbersome process mind you that requires getting a new key from MS first.
no, you don't need to "downgrade" W7 Pro to XP. You run an XP emulator from W7. It works, that's how I have kept my old scanner which has no W7 drivers.
I assume that you are running a virtual machine. If this is the case you should still need an XP code to validate your XP virtual machine. If it is not a virtual machine I'd be keen to know how you go about it . I have not had Win7 long and I have not spent much time playing with it (probably because is works so well).
I run my old XP computer in a virtual machine inside my Win7 machine. I have been told that this is not permitted as my Win7 was an upgrade on my XP installation and as such should cancel out my XP installation. If I wanted to keep using my XP installation I should have bought the Win7 Full Installation disk. However I am not planning to lose sleep over it as my XP VM is very rarely used.
Andy
Interesting. My A70 did this too. However, shortly afterwards it stopped taking pictures. Shame it was brilliant when it worked.
My opinion of ebuyer has dropped recently since they refused to delete an unused account.
If you have Windows 7 Pro, you can download a legal copy of the XP virtual machine from Microsoft. It is pre-activated and you can just use it, on that one Windows 7 system.
Excellent. I shall do that tonight. Thanks for that.
Andy
In message , Bob Eager writes
Ta, makes mental note for future.
While, Win7 Pro includes "XP Mode" (i.e. MS Virtual PC + XP image) what I said is correct; If you want to run WinXP and not 7, without virtual machines, then there is a formal downgrade process for installing real XP Pro in place of Win 7 Pro, but utilising the Win 7 license.
Whether you need to install XP in place of 7 is debatable - although some corporates will insist on it...
Comprehensive review here:
My company still uses XP and a lot of others do. They would have switched to Vista years ago but the technology testing phase was a nightmare and so they shelved it. I suspect that we may move to Win7 with virtual machines for backward compatibility
Andy
My company also chose to use XP over Win7 for a load of new computers recently purchased. The problem is that a lot of extremely expensive simulation software we use is not yet available to run under Win7.
In message , charles writes
You can do that with win7 pro but not home, although, stop press, I just heard elsewhere of someone just ignoring the warnings and installing it anyway - apparently it works
Else you could install Sun's Virtual box or something
Wow - don't I sound like I have a clue ...
I still use DOS software that is simply not available in a windows form. Thankfully Dosbox runs under Win7.
Andy
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