🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 19:57:52 +0400, "Andrew Rybenkov"
<aryb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Q> On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:37:49 +0400, Garrett <tecknode@nospam.invalid> wrote:
Q> 
Q> > You've got to be kidding?!  Downgrade a key component?
Q> 
Q> I don't know about XP (I skipped it as bloated, slow and cumbersome OS, had moved WinME->Win7),
Q> but in Vista and Win7, when you install another version of DirectX, it does not
Q> replace previous installation, it installs along with it.
Q> So you might have installed all versions, revisions if necessary.
Q> 
Q> Actually not installing Dx that comes with a game is asking for trouble.


You imply WinXP is "bloated" and went to Win7?!  Have you compared the
system requirements for WinXP to Win7?

Win7 is much more of a resource hog than WinXP.

I will not go to Win7, or Win8, because both would require me to
manually reinstall more than 100 apps.  Microdunce NOT providing a way
to convert a WinXP system to a Win7 system as an upgrade (which they
did with Win98 to WinXP) shows how much they do NOT care about
customers.  Way back, when I converted from Win98 to WinXP the only
thing I had to do (after determining my system was stable) was use a
3rd-party tool that converted FAT to NTFS without losing data.  My
WinXP SP3 rig has been very, very stable ever since.





-- 
=========== Tecknomage ===========
   Computer Systems Specialist
         IT Technician
           (retired)
         San Diego, CA