21-05-2016, 07:54 PM
I'm certainly not changing from Vista while ever I can keep it going — I still use XP a but as well. When I can't I'll go over to Linux, though that is also a sod at not only updating the OS but the programs you've installed as well.
I don't know about Windows 7 and on but certainly on Vista you can set the updates to download but not install without permission so you can decline and you don't want and tell it to not offer them again.
I've used W98se, Vista and XP and each seems to have only slight enhancements over their predecessors and these are often off-set by problems. For instance Vista has a far better image viewer built-in that the one on XP and it includes basic editing functions (though I see these have been removed on W7) but the Cut, Copy, Paste short-cut icons were removed from Windows Explorer.
As for the potential of loosing data I can't say it bothers me; I'm not running a business or writing some great work of literature. I've always thought that if I could create or download something once I could do it again. Data you've only one copy of is data you don't care about and anything really important is on paper.
— Joe
I don't know about Windows 7 and on but certainly on Vista you can set the updates to download but not install without permission so you can decline and you don't want and tell it to not offer them again.
I've used W98se, Vista and XP and each seems to have only slight enhancements over their predecessors and these are often off-set by problems. For instance Vista has a far better image viewer built-in that the one on XP and it includes basic editing functions (though I see these have been removed on W7) but the Cut, Copy, Paste short-cut icons were removed from Windows Explorer.
As for the potential of loosing data I can't say it bothers me; I'm not running a business or writing some great work of literature. I've always thought that if I could create or download something once I could do it again. Data you've only one copy of is data you don't care about and anything really important is on paper.
— Joe
