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Subject: [OM] Re: Laptop vs Desktop
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:04:15 -0700
Alan Wood wrote:

[snip]

> Avoid [Windows Vista] like the plague.  I have a fast dual-core processor and 
> 2 GB RAM.
> It is pathetically slow, and getting slower.  I have nearly all of the fancy
> options turned off.  12 seconds to open a Save As dialog box when editing a
> text file on my hard disk.

Good God.  That's *appalling*!

> You can still have the Classic interface:
> Right-click on the desktop
> Personalize
> Window Color and Appearance
> Color scheme: Windows Classic

Now all they have to do is insert an option that says "Turn off all the 
Vista crud whilst maintaining the larger-than-4-Gigabyte RAM address 
space" and I'll be all set.  ;-)


Garth

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