You often see postings here advocating abandoning XP in favor of newer
OS's. Yeah sounds great, but the devil is in the details.
I just finished a port to a faster refurbed multicore WIN7 machine.
The task involved:
1)50 programs and data
2) 3 sound cards (4 if you include the video)
3) eight USB ports of stuff
4) five RS232 ports of stuff
5) one lpt port
6) Networking with XP computers
7) Internet
I started October 23. Finally I have 98% of what I had working under
XP. It took an estimated 80 hours of work and cost in excess of $500.
Admittedly, I'm on the low knowledge end of OS stuff (and maybe in the
majority of ham users in that regard).
The most difficult parts were:
1) Device drivers. Trial and error process.
2) Sound card problems. It's a zoo.
3) Networking (it takes 15 at first unknown steps in several pull down
boxes to do what a single click in XP used to do)
I still have one unresolved issue with the motherboard sound. It simply
won't output anything via line out. I'm almost convinced that the sound
out hardware is bad. It's quite possible on the refurbed machine that
the previous owner clobbered the hardware. WIN7 seems a bit flaky in
sound card stuff.
It isn't a trivial process unless you're just interested in E-mail,
Internet browsing and a few spreadsheet programs.
Thank goodness WIN7 isn't bleeding edge. I can't imagine doing this for
a newly released OS. GOOGLE is your friend in the process.
73 de Brian/K3KO
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