For all you windows bashers, 8 years and going strong

[spindr0]

That's good, but I got you beat. One of my computers is an 11 year old Dell running XP. Still runs like new! But just to be safe I don't even sneeze on it , and I pet it every day. Am aiming for a spot in Guinness!!

LOL. You just edged me out. My oldest computer is a Dell Inspiron 530 which is 10 years old. I use it because of a routine that I wrote that parses and massages a lot of EOD data and puts it into 40-50 spreadsheets in well under 5 minutes. I was devastated last month when it died but I got an identical power supply replacement from Amazon for $41. Me happy :->)

 

[Simples]

Let me guess: you have a Mac?

Linux. It works much better!

 

[Pekelo]

Windows 10 feels like a smartphone OS in a Desktop, dont like it.

Classic Shell is to the rescue! I never had a "it is not W7" feeling using 10, because I don't use the colored squares or what the fuck they call them. Thanks to Classic Shell, I have been living in a blessed ignorance since 10 was forced on new laptops.

http://www.classicshell.net

 

[FreakofNature]

Classic Shell is to the rescue! I never had a "it is not W7" feeling using 10, because I don't use the colored squares or what the fuck they call them. Thanks to Classic Shell, I have been living in a blessed ignorance since 10 was forced on new laptops.

http://www.classicshell.net

Thanks but Im quite content with Windows 7, fast, reliable, no hiccups.

As a power user I use Take Command https://jpsoft.com/products/take-command.html

and frankly all working as intended.

 

[Pekelo]

Thanks but Im quite content with Windows 7,

Sure, but maybe once in a decade you do buy a new computer. They tend to come with W10, just so you know. And new computers are faster using 10 than 7, in case you want to make it double booted.

 

[FreakofNature]

Sure, but maybe once in a decade you do buy a new computer. They tend to come with W10, just so you know. And new computers are faster using 10 than 7, in case you want to make it double booted.

New computers run W10 faster than W7 ? I honestly thought it was the other way around due to how bloated W10 is.

 

[volpri]

My XP laptop is my "garage radio" now, and is perfectly comfy with that, although I have to massage it frequently if it's on for more than 12 hours or so.

My primary desktop, my backup desktop (which will be my TWS_API test rig, when I get the boiler changed out...

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are each W7, and my primary laptop (a flimsy-as-a-noodle Toshiba ["Bah!"]: great specs, horrible build quality = lesson learned) is also W7.

I was and am a proponent of all things Linux, and really need to put that into action again.
I would start with a major rejuvenation of the back-up laptop. (A quality little Dell unit that would SO enjoy a little Linux action worked on it...). And then maybe the desktop test rig. Yeah. Yeah. [head nodding emogi goes here...]

Windy10 is a fascist enterprise, and needs to be overthrown.

Oh, and, no machine carries Intel CPU -- all are AMD.
(Boy, though, this changed my mind on Intel.....
http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2017/01/intel_ceo_promises_full_suppor.html this, and all that followed.
I am a ferocious fan of history, and history shows rather plainly that all the cool shit about the U-S-of-A, is foreign. And how many of the current S&P500 show foreign/first-generation CEOs??? Want a cool Fun Fact? Look at the pattern of US Patents' growth in the past 50-60 years, and then look at the proportion going to foreign-born. And we want to cut off the New Blood???

So: W7 is okay. MS sucks. Linux rocks; but I'm a hypocrite. AMD for the righteous, but Intel for the righteous-and-smart. "Yay" for immigrants. And Trump sucks.

(That's seven possible thread forks right there.....)

GOOD MORNING, ALL.
Hope our little squeeze on top (SPX up 6+ to 2607 record) does not have your purse in a vice.
T.

What?? ES new record and you don't like mr T?

 

[d08]

New computers run W10 faster than W7 ? I honestly thought it was the other way around due to how bloated W10 is.

It's true. I had W7 on my laptop and moved to W10, there was slightly better responsiveness and the certain type of lag that was present in W7 is gone. Much of the bloat can be disabled but overall there is more trash sitting in the memory, that's true.

 

[FreakofNature]

It's true. I had W7 on my laptop and moved to W10, there was slightly better responsiveness and the certain type of lag that was present in W7 is gone. Much of the bloat can be disabled but overall there is more trash sitting in the memory, that's true.

Thank you for the report.

 

[Pekelo]

Benchmark comparison:

https://www.techspot.com/review/1042-windows-10-vs-windows-8-vs-windows-7/

Now go out and buy that new computer with W10, you know you want it.