Santilli
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Sounds like my house...
The Beast, which DD is working on, is down. I've had to move to move the HTPC in, and I'm now doing my business stuff on it.
I kept the HTPC on XP3 because of a lack of drivers in 7 for the sound card and printer. I do understand why people keep XP around. Some
of the old hardware was just REALLY good, and lasts forever. Examples are my Xerox printer/copier, 130 something, and the HP 4000N that continues to run
perfectly. Both bought around 2000, and still going strong. Hard to throw away a $1200-1700 printer that works flawlessly.
Why doesn't anyone make DVI monitors anymore??? Samsungs' are all HDMI or analog. Thank God for Costco's return policy...
The sad part for me is the apparent similarities in certain areas, where XP and 7 are both similarly slow. Even with the hardware in the Beast, their are spots where 7 slows, as does XP on the 3800+ X2 Athlon.
I run two XP3 machines now. The Panasonic laptops don't have drivers for 7, so they stay on XP. Both machines use Peerblock, windows firewalls, and Avast and or Nod32.
I download a lot of stuff, and it's been a very long time since a scan has nailed a bad file, trojan, or virus.
Still, it does happen.
I try and use Firefox for just about everything...