Thanks. Others have recommended the shell. I would do that in a New York Minute, but my partner is less inclined to modify what he is sold. I will have to work on him. <G> I am sticking with Windows 7 on my work desktop, although I prefer to use my Mac machines when I can. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/03/2013 10:58 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >> >> We were previously advised that "Home Premium" Windows 7 does not work >> well in an office environment, and apparently is not fully compatible >> with the network we are using. In any event, both our consultant and >> Dell are showing us only Windows 8 machines. > > > The "Home" versions of Windows don't like to be fully networked. They can be > set up for file sharing easily enough, but that seems to be about it. If you > want full networking, you need to go with the premium or pro editions. > Apparently, Microsoft isn't making this easy, but if you go with Win8 > Professional (whatever the top end version is), you can "downgrade" to > Windows 7 if you have a legit copy that OS available on a disc. > Unless you are well and truly into computer geekery, get the top end Win 8 > OS, it should play nice on your network, and then put a classic shell on it. > http://www.classicshell.net > > It works, and it takes all of the Windows 8 pain away, while at the same > time leaving in some of the nice features that Windows 8 inherited from > Window 7. > > bill > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
