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Re: Is Vista now Retro

I actually used Vista in this 'Classic' mode for the first couple of years, and then I realized that I like the way Aero looks. 😀 Additionally I installed Classic Shell, so I can have both classic and modern start menus accessible (not that I use either much).

Re: eBay shipments from Asia taking 2+ months

in Milliways
International shipping from the USA is generally very expensive relative to other countries, but Canada and Mexico, being immediate neighbors, get reduced rates. For intercontinental shipping, it can easily be 3 times as much more expensive to ship from the USA than the same distance to the USA (in …

Re: Which XP?

95DosBox wrote: If you install Vanilla and then SP1, SP2, and then SP3, you can only revert back to SP2, then go back to SP1, then back to Vanilla. Is there any practical reason why one would want to do this? I can't think of one.

Re: Is Vista now Retro

It would be a real killer OS if MS had created Intel xHCI USB 3.0 drivers for Vista and would have stolen any chance W7 would have been as great as it is today because for the most part they were on the surface nearly identical except for that one feature. Well, Intel xHCI came rather late into the …

Re: Is Vista now Retro

Depends on what you mean by 'support'. Because a few posts above, things like IE11, Office and Visual Studio were mentioned. These are not the OS itself, but standalone applications. And that's the important difference here: The OS may be in the 'support lifecycle' in the sense that MS actively …

Re: Is Vista now Retro

Win 8.1 can't do a lot of things that Windows 10 can, which makes it fall by the wayside quickly. In fact, Windows 8.x never really received much support for their Store Apps, if at all. Windows 10 UWP is taking off considerably better, with for example various AAA game titles having UWP support, …

Re: eBay shipments from Asia taking 2+ months

in Milliways
My experience is similar to kixs's - 30-45 days seems standard now, but more than that is very rare. It is still longer than it used to be. I think the problem is on the far east end. They probably have too many packages to process.

Re: Is Vista now Retro

Windows 7 was no better, but nobody complained about that. And even today, as we see in this thread for example, people complain about Vista for being resource-hungry, but Windows 7 gets a free pass Windows 7 did bring some optimizations for increased UI responsiveness. At least Microsoft talked at …

Re: Which XP?

If you want to install XP I suggest XP vanilla. Later you can add SP1 to defeat 128GB hard drive barrier. SP2 is recommended since most software and hardware require it to install or drivers to function. SP3 is basically a security update which is outdated now. SP4 exists but I haven't tested. So …

Re: Is Vista now Retro

Well, Firefox/Chrome are not web technology. They are actual software. The reason Chrome stopped supporting Vista is because Google is a huge corporation and does not want to waste resources on validating their software for anything that has a negligible market share. The reason Firefox stopped …

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