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  1. Originally posted by LikeASong:Aham I get it, I get it. Still don't like it. I didn't update to Vista and I won't update to W7 either........ Windows XP will do for me, I don't need new skins if they come with new bugs; I'll stick with my good old blue skins and my good old XP bugs... Thanks for the offer, Mr. Gates.


    You should at least try it and see - you might like it or not. It's not for everyone - I thought the Vista way was good so I hacked it to go back like that, so no more complaining on that front. The overstuffed Control Panel - I want that back like XP. Not this ridiculous 'let's shove 43979 icons in a dialog and expect people to work it out'. You bloody well can't.

    I have to say, W7 is great apart from that and just like 97% of the tech world says, it's what Vista should have been. No crashes, no delays, no lag, no stupid requirements or GUI confusion (apart from the Control Panel) - just push play it all is. Games I haven't tried yet but haven't had the chance to do graphics drivers yet - I'll get onto those. Do older games from 1998 work yet or are they just as bad as Vista and XP in that regard? I have Theme Hospital and want to play it.
  2. Press start key, enter some letters name of control panel item and hit enter

    Use Dosbox for older games, or a virtual machine with Win98.


  3. Control panel does not look that bad imho.
  4. Originally posted by Risto:Press start key, enter some letters name of control panel item and hit enter

    Use Dosbox for older games, or a virtual machine with Win98.


    It has natural English recognition. ''Delete a program''. YES ABOUT TIME!!! Thanks Chris, I'm on it now. No more Control Panel for me. It only looks bad if you select Small View. Shocking but at least it's all out in front of you and that I like, but the tradeoff is a mess unfortunately. Ah well, next time.

    I'll try DosBox tomorrow. Thanks for the help and I'll put up a small review sometime of W7 and what I think. It's just so fucking quick.

    How do you change your logon background from the flowery sort? I'm not a flower fan...
  5. You gotta admit, the taskbar rules. You can have dozens of apps open without a messy taskbar.

    That should be enough for every user to switch to W7
  6. Originally posted by Risto:You gotta admit, the taskbar rules. You can have dozens of apps open without a messy taskbar.

    That should be enough for every user to switch to W7


    I like it the older way of having the icon and title there but then that's just me in old-school mode. It's much neater and more modern-looking and that I like. Lots of little niggling UI issues but then it's a good enough system, can you complain that much about looks? MS wasn't always great with UIs (Paint) but they did alright in 7, overall.

    I'm happy with it so far. A bit more tweaking and the 'invalid key code' issue is still needed though. I'm off to bed so g'night to y'all.
  7. You can bring the titles back in the taskbar. You'll loose the grouping though. Don't know why you'd want that though

    Goodnight!
  8. Originally posted by Risto:You can bring the titles back in the taskbar. You'll loose the grouping though. Don't know why you'd want that though

    Goodnight!


    What do you mean the grouping? Can't you set it as 'Combine when taskbar is full' - or do you mean the little preview icons without the titles?
  9. Yes but then it will only combine when taskbar is full.

    i like the default better
  10. You reckon default looks better? It seems too empty like that.
  11. Just got an external hard drive (more bootlegs ) and it's taking hours to transfer all my files


  12. What size did you get? I've got a 320 but it just doesn't hold as much as I thought - but then at the time I wasn't storing hundreds of lossless CDs or song mixes - those can take up to 1GB by themselves for the smallest change such as a new drum loop or extra snare.

    Speaking of which, is it possible to get a vocoder plugin for Audacity?
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