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Tip to the Vista laptop users. Microsoft is activating about anything now. Install a basic XP OS and trim it down to what you need.

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I hear Window 7 may be trimmed down some..

My Toshiba laptop runs XP Pro and Sax & Dottie

My other Toshiba laptop is Vista Home Premium, no karaoke, just 'puter work..

I have 7, but have not installed it yet..

when ME and 2000 and whatever else came out after 98 were released i stuck with what i had. when XP came out i was hesitant, stuck with 98 for about a year. when vista came out...im still hesitant, now comes 7..ill give it some time, in a year or so if i hear good reviews i may put it on my next system. Ive got three nice XP lappys that treat me well and do what i ask. my personal laptop has the old S & D, the others are both karaoke only and have the new S & D, but the second is really not needed so it would become my personal laptop if this one died. it seems Microsoft comes out with 1 good OS for every 3 they release.

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Micro$oft in in it for the Benjamin Franklins..

I still use (on the very computer I typed this on) Win2Kpro... I have a license for XP Home (the computer I had it on died), and my wife has XP Pro. I use XP Pro at work ... I'm not afraid of upgrading, I just don't choose to do it. I like what 2k does for me.

On my Karaoke Laptop I run Vista 64bit (to support the 4 GB Ram). So far I haven't had any issues with it. Everything runs the way it's supposed to. I have to say, that I trimmed down Vista a little bit. Since I only use it for that one purpose (to run my shows) I deactivated everything I don't need for my shows.

On my Desktop at home I have a Beta version of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit running. I have to say, that I'm really really impressed with Windows 7 so far. It is by far more compatible with older Software than Vista and it runs circles around Vista when it comes to speed. I can't wait for the final version to come out, which is supposed to happen by the end of the year.

You guy's got me thinking ...it just may be time to upgrade mine from windows 3.1
I think I can get a copy of windows 95 real cheap by now.

I have Vista 32 on my destop & 64 on my laptop with no real problems so far - I did disable sidebar and a couple other things that I don't really use anyway. Both run MTU Hoster perfectly.


Actually looking forward to 7 coming out, have heard great things about it so far.

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