My company was a beta site for WIN95 Chicago. That was very interesting. We waited a year and service pack I before we put it in production in our business.
We used NT for servers, then 2000. Never bothered with ME and hardly even flinched for XP. We tested it thoroughly and put it right into production. We had never even looked back with XP. My home/shack/office computer is the first unit to get Vista and I installed 64 to see what bugs I would have with drivers and applications. I have been quite pleased with it so far. Yes It has presented a few challenges, but I expected it to do that. As far as client sites, I think they will be on XP for another year. Which is a standard recommendation. For people who don't want to "work" on their computer this is also recommended. The thing to remember with every version of Windows, they are advancing the original product (95) sure they may change a few things, ONLINE HELP for instance. This would take DXBase to support this system is all. Redirecting to a website isn't that tough I would think. Now did I convert my "Old" computer to Vista? No I built up another machine. Core Duo processor and faster memory. I also installed a faster video card. Yes I suppose this would make it a gaming computer. The whole thing including the Vista 64 Ultimate cost me $1500. This includes a pair of SATA RAID 250 drives in the thing. Hams still running 5 year old machines, well that's fine and all. But not the way I do stuff and that's fine. Running down a new product (Vista) because it wont run on your dinosaur, or that some drivers for older scanners wont be available... Or even it takes some special tactics to get this application going (the probs are mostly due to increased security) Arent too Bad. BOB DD -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of KQ8M Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:35 AM To: 'DXBase List' Subject: RE: [Dxbase] Winhelp32.exe for Vista now available I have been running XP for several years now and I like it much better over win2k. I had to reinstall 2k many times usually every 4 to 6 months. With XP I have only had to do that once and I use my machine for many things. Software development, gaming, ham, web development, graphics work and the list goes on. I will not upgrade to Vista though unless forced to. (I.E. new computer in which I build my own.) I find no advantage to Vista other than it's neat and the cool factor and, at this point, the "I have to have the latest and greatest" factor. It is pretty bad that you have to buy a "gaming" machine just to run the operating system! (If you use the 3D junk.) Hasn't anyone noticed that a lot of apps and hardware don't work with Vista? The really cool stuff was stripped from Vista! That's my 2 cents. Tim, KQ8M -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Cash Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'crownhaven' Cc: 'DXBase List' Subject: RE: [Dxbase] Winhelp32.exe for Vista now available Never ran Win 2K but I sure am not going to give up my XP Pro for the new Vista. I'll be running XP Pro until there is nothing that will run on it OR maybe a better OS but NOT Vista. 73 de Tony, KD4K My Radio web site http://www.kd4k.com/radio.html My Weather Web Site http://www.kd4k.com Sawnee Mountain Repeater Web Site http://www.sawneemtn.org/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Bonner Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:22 PM To: 'crownhaven' Cc: 'DXBase List' Subject: RE: [Dxbase] Winhelp32.exe for Vista now available Steve, Well if you are still on win 2000 you missed a fantastic product "XP" over the last 5 years that made 2000 look like a boat anchor. Vista is doing just fine, they are based around ONLINE HELPS now and not help files. That's old technology. Catch the wave or float out to sea my friend. BOB DD -----Original Message----- From: crownhaven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'John Pelham'; 'DXBase List' Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Winhelp32.exe for Vista now available Just curious.....why would anyone want to flog themselves with another Microsoft product that we all know is shot full of holes and will take years to stabilize???? Serious question. I am still running Windows 2000 and it is rock solid. I just don't understand what Vista does for you unless your hobby is computing. Steve, N4JQQ Robert Bonner wrote: >I loaded that help thing too and mine does exactly the same thing. I'm on >Vista 64 > >BOB DD > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Behalf Of John Pelham >Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 4:30 PM >To: DXBase List >Subject: [Dxbase] Winhelp32.exe for Vista now available > >A few weeks ago us Vista "beta testers" were lamenting the fact that we >couldn't read the DXbase help topics using the Vista OS. MS has released >Winhelp32.exe for Vista which will run .hlp files such as those used by >DXbase. > >http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6ebcfad9-d3f5-4365 - >8070-334cd175d4bb&displaylang=en > >or > >http://tinyurl.com/yvstvw > >Although, on my system, there's still a bit of a problem: When I choose a >help topic I get an error message "there was a problem running the macro." >The help topic displays, but I can't get back to the list of topics; i.e., I >can navigate within a topic using the << and >> buttons, but to view another >topic I have to start over from the DXbase app with Help | Help Topics and >choose another one. > >Better than nothing, though. > >73, W1JA > > >______________________________________________________________ >Dxbase mailing list >Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > >______________________________________________________________ >Dxbase mailing list >Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected]
