It's been fun but time to move on

[Guest Colin Barnhorst]

I wish all you XP folks the best!

 

With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last

XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is time for

me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to keep up with

both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it is a good time to

go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition as well, but it is not

the same as using something daily.

 

Keep up the good work!

[Guest Big Al]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

Colin Barnhorst wrote:

> I wish all you XP folks the best!

>

> With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last

> XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is time

> for me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to keep

> up with both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it is a

> good time to go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition as

> well, but it is not the same as using something daily.

>

> Keep up the good work!

 

Good luck, Maybe some of us will make this migration to Vista one day too.

 

Damn, we sound like we are on Stargate SG-1 and we are moving on to a

hight plane of existence. :-)

[Guest Tony Meloche]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

Colin Barnhorst wrote:

> I wish all you XP folks the best!

>

> With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last

> XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is time

> for me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to keep

> up with both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it is a

> good time to go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition as

> well, but it is not the same as using something daily.

>

> Keep up the good work!

 

 

You will be much missed, Mr. B. Thanks for all your input over time to

this group.

 

Tony

 

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[Guest JS]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

All good things must come to an end.

Good luck with Vista.

As for me I'm waiting for Windows 7 if at all possible.

 

Again, best of luck

JS

 

"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message

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>I wish all you XP folks the best!

>

> With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last

> XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is time

> for me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to keep up

> with both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it is a good

> time to go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition as well, but

> it is not the same as using something daily.

>

> Keep up the good work!

[Guest John]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

Colin Barnhorst wrote:

> I wish all you XP folks the best!

>

> With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last

> XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is time

> for me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to keep

> up with both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it is a

> good time to go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition as

> well, but it is not the same as using something daily.

>

> Keep up the good work!

 

I'm sorry, but if you consider going over to Vista as moving on, then

there's not much hope for you.

 

John.

[Guest Colin Barnhorst]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

I've been using Vista since the beginning of beta 1 in 2005. I know very

well what I am doing.

 

"John" <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote in message

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> Colin Barnhorst wrote:

>> I wish all you XP folks the best!

>>

>> With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last

>> XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is time

>> for me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to keep

>> up with both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it is a

>> good time to go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition as

>> well, but it is not the same as using something daily.

>>

>> Keep up the good work!

>

> I'm sorry, but if you consider going over to Vista as moving on, then

> there's not much hope for you.

>

> John.

[Guest Alias]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

Colin Barnhorst wrote:

> I've been using Vista since the beginning of beta 1 in 2005. I know

> very well what I am doing.

 

That's what Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld said when they attacked Iraq.

 

Alias

>

> "John" <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote in message

> news:69g7v0F31hp27U2@mid.individual.net...

>> Colin Barnhorst wrote:

>>> I wish all you XP folks the best!

>>>

>>> With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last

>>> XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is

>>> time for me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much

>>> to keep up with both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now

>>> launched it is a good time to go. I still run XP on a test box and

>>> the x64 edition as well, but it is not the same as using something

>>> daily.

>>>

>>> Keep up the good work!

>>

>> I'm sorry, but if you consider going over to Vista as moving on, then

>> there's not much hope for you.

>>

>> John.

>

[Guest RJK]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

....psssst, ...I don't think he got your humour - in the first place !

 

regards, Richard

 

 

"Alias" <iamalias@nukethisgmail.com> wrote in message

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> Colin Barnhorst wrote:

>> I've been using Vista since the beginning of beta 1 in 2005. I know very

>> well what I am doing.

>

> That's what Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld said when they attacked Iraq.

>

> Alias

>>

>> "John" <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote in message

>> news:69g7v0F31hp27U2@mid.individual.net...

>>> Colin Barnhorst wrote:

>>>> I wish all you XP folks the best!

>>>>

>>>> With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last

>>>> XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is

>>>> time for me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to

>>>> keep up with both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it

>>>> is a good time to go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition

>>>> as well, but it is not the same as using something daily.

>>>>

>>>> Keep up the good work!

>>>

>>> I'm sorry, but if you consider going over to Vista as moving on, then

>>> there's not much hope for you.

>>>

>>> John.

>>

[Guest RJK]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

I've worked on several PC's with Vista in'em !

....they all looked like XP with a different theme | several things had been

moved to places where they were hard to find | ...and security settings had

been yanked up all over the place, ...so that, for example, you couldn't

even drop a new hosts file from mvps.org into

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC, without fighting with permissions !!

....I'm staying with XP ...just like I stayed with W98se !!

 

....good luck Colin, ...I'll take a peek in Vista NG's now and again.

 

regards, Richard

 

 

"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message

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> I've been using Vista since the beginning of beta 1 in 2005. I know very

> well what I am doing.

>

> "John" <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote in message

> news:69g7v0F31hp27U2@mid.individual.net...

>> Colin Barnhorst wrote:

>>> I wish all you XP folks the best!

>>>

>>> With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last

>>> XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is time

>>> for me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to keep

>>> up with both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it is a

>>> good time to go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition as

>>> well, but it is not the same as using something daily.

>>>

>>> Keep up the good work!

>>

>> I'm sorry, but if you consider going over to Vista as moving on, then

>> there's not much hope for you.

>>

>> John.

>

[Guest XS11E]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote:

> I wish all you XP folks the best!

 

Thanks, Colin.

> With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the

> last XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so

> it is time for me to finishing moving on to Vista.

 

Good luck and best wishes, we'll miss you. I just moved back from

Vista to XP and I'd forgotten just how much better Vista is but until

some essential software is updated, I'll be dual booting and I'll be

needing to use XP for my main OS. <sigh>

 

 

 

 

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[Guest John]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

XS11E wrote:

> "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote:

>

>> I wish all you XP folks the best!

>

> Thanks, Colin.

>

>> With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the

>> last XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so

>> it is time for me to finishing moving on to Vista.

>

> Good luck and best wishes, we'll miss you. I just moved back from

> Vista to XP and I'd forgotten just how much better Vista is but until

> some essential software is updated, I'll be dual booting and I'll be

> needing to use XP for my main OS. <sigh>

>

>

>

>

Why dual boot? What can Vista do that XP can't?

 

John.

[Guest XS11E]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

John <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote:

> Why dual boot? What can Vista do that XP can't?

 

Damn near everything it does, it does better, MUCH better!

 

For one thing, Vista finally got the media center right.

 

I dual booted for years during beta testing and finally decided I no

longer needed XP, I almost never booted into it. I decided to delete

XP and run Vista 64 only but some people (are you listening, Motorola?)

decided not to upgrade their software for 64 bit use and I need it.

 

 

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[Guest Bill in Co.]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

Colin Barnhorst wrote:

> I wish all you XP folks the best!

>

> With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last

> XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is time

> for

> me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to keep up

> with

> both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it is a good time

> to

> go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition as well, but it is

> not

> the same as using something daily.

>

> Keep up the good work!

 

Sorry to see you go, Colin. Well, good luck over there!

[Guest John]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

XS11E wrote:

> John <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote:

>

>> Why dual boot? What can Vista do that XP can't?

>

> Damn near everything it does, it does better, MUCH better!

 

And this would be why 1000's of people have been going back to XP since

Vista came out then would it.

 

John.

[Guest Colin Barnhorst]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

Thanks. I've been hanging out in the vista.hardware_devices ng for a couple

of years and that is enough for me. Good luck to you too.

 

"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@earthlink.net> wrote in message

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> Colin Barnhorst wrote:

>> I wish all you XP folks the best!

>>

>> With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last

>> XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is time

>> for

>> me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to keep up

>> with

>> both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it is a good time

>> to

>> go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition as well, but it is

>> not

>> the same as using something daily.

>>

>> Keep up the good work!

>

> Sorry to see you go, Colin. Well, good luck over there!

>

[Guest XS11E]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

John <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote:

> XS11E wrote:

>> John <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote:

>>

>>> Why dual boot? What can Vista do that XP can't?

>>

>> Damn near everything it does, it does better, MUCH better!

>

> And this would be why 1000's of people have been going back to XP

> since Vista came out then would it.

 

Nope, not 1,000s but please do continue your imaginary statistics,

they're entertaining.

 

There are people who won't RTFM or do their homework, Vista won't work

for them just like XP wouldn't work for them when it first came out

but, of course, you conveniently forgot that, didn't you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest Allen]

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XS11E wrote:

> John <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote:

>

>> XS11E wrote:

>>> John <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote:

>>>

>>>> Why dual boot? What can Vista do that XP can't?

>>> Damn near everything it does, it does better, MUCH better!

>> And this would be why 1000's of people have been going back to XP

>> since Vista came out then would it.

>

> Nope, not 1,000s but please do continue your imaginary statistics,

> they're entertaining.

>

John isn't alone in this statistical world. After all, 72.3 percent of

statistics are made up.

Allen

> There are people who won't RTFM or do their homework, Vista won't work

> for them just like XP wouldn't work for them when it first came out

> but, of course, you conveniently forgot that, didn't you?

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest Just.some.guy]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

 

"Big Al" <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote in message

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> Colin Barnhorst wrote:

>> I wish all you XP folks the best!

>>

>> With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last

>> XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is time

>> for me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to keep

>> up with both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it is a

>> good time to go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition as

>> well, but it is not the same as using something daily.

>>

>> Keep up the good work!

>

> Good luck, Maybe some of us will make this migration to Vista one day

> too.

>

> Damn, we sound like we are on Stargate SG-1 and we are moving on to a

> hight plane of existence. :-)

 

We have ascended. But like Daniel, we too will come back, but be in another

galaxy, this one called Vista.

[Guest Colin Barnhorst]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

And to paraphrase Yogi, 90% of those are only half right.

 

"Allen" <allen@nothere.net> wrote in message

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> XS11E wrote:

>> John <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote:

>>

>>> XS11E wrote:

>>>> John <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote:

>>>>

>>>>> Why dual boot? What can Vista do that XP can't?

>>>> Damn near everything it does, it does better, MUCH better!

>>> And this would be why 1000's of people have been going back to XP

>>> since Vista came out then would it.

>>

>> Nope, not 1,000s but please do continue your imaginary statistics,

>> they're entertaining.

> John isn't alone in this statistical world. After all, 72.3 percent of

> statistics are made up.

> Allen

>

>> There are people who won't RTFM or do their homework, Vista won't work

>> for them just like XP wouldn't work for them when it first came out but,

>> of course, you conveniently forgot that, didn't you?

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

[Guest XS11E]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

Allen <allen@nothere.net> wrote:

> XS11E wrote:

>> John <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote:

>>

>>> XS11E wrote:

>>>> John <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote:

>>>>

>>>>> Why dual boot? What can Vista do that XP can't? Damn near

>>>>> everything it does, it does better, MUCH better!

>>> And this would be why 1000's of people have been going back to

>>> XP since Vista came out then would it.

>>

>> Nope, not 1,000s but please do continue your imaginary

>> statistics, they're entertaining.

>>

> John isn't alone in this statistical world. After all, 72.3

> percent of statistics are made up.

 

Lies, damn lies and statistics.

- Mark Twain

 

This might be appropriate to those, like John, who like to state

opinions with insufficient information to have an opinion:

 

Think about how stupid the average person is; now realise half of them

are dumber than that.

- George Carlin

 

And I'm gone. Too many problems with XP, it's just too damn unstable

trying to run hardware made for Vista, XP MCE's gone and me too. The

old software I need will have to run on my XP Laptop, I guess?

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

Hell, I don't run Win98 or IE5 anymore but I still support it, Colin. Why

waste your knowledge?

 

Colin Barnhorst wrote:

> I wish all you XP folks the best!

>

> With the arrival of my wife's new HP laptop we are retiring the last

> XP-based computer that we use on any kind of regular basis so it is time

> for

> me to finishing moving on to Vista. It is getting too much to keep up

> with

> both XP and Vista newsgroups and with SP3 now launched it is a good time

> to

> go. I still run XP on a test box and the x64 edition as well, but it is

> not

> the same as using something daily.

>

> Keep up the good work!

[Guest Allen]

Re: It's been fun but time to move on

 

XS11E wrote:

> Allen <allen@nothere.net> wrote:

>

>> XS11E wrote:

>>> John <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote:

>>>

>>>> XS11E wrote:

>>>>> John <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote:

>>>>>

>>>>>> Why dual boot? What can Vista do that XP can't? Damn near

>>>>>> everything it does, it does better, MUCH better!

>>>> And this would be why 1000's of people have been going back to

>>>> XP since Vista came out then would it.

>>> Nope, not 1,000s but please do continue your imaginary

>>> statistics, they're entertaining.

>>>

>> John isn't alone in this statistical world. After all, 72.3

>> percent of statistics are made up.

>

> Lies, damn lies and statistics.

> - Mark Twain

>

> This might be appropriate to those, like John, who like to state

> opinions with insufficient information to have an opinion:

>

> Think about how stupid the average person is; now realise half of them

> are dumber than that.

> - George Carlin

>

Also:

Q: What do you call the person last in his graduating class at medical

school?

A: Doctor.

Allen

[Guest XS11E]

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"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hell, I don't run Win98 or IE5 anymore but I still support it,

> Colin. Why waste your knowledge?

 

I can't speak for Colin but I stopped dual booting over a year ago and

then just a few days back I decided I needed XP MCE.

 

I was a bit surprised at the things I didn't remember about XP.

Knowledge gets stale very quickly, it's hard to keep up with all the

updates, service packs, new software, etc. if you're not running the

OS.

 

FWIW, XP MCE was a huge mistake, it's just not able to handle current

hardware so I finally just deleted it, I'm too old and too tired to put

up with that much agravation...

 

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