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Old 06-24-2013, 10:30 PM
Brian Carlton Brian Carlton is offline
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Originally Posted by compu_85 View Post
The CMD shell does everything in Win7 that I used it for in XP. I'll agree that the ribbon in Office 2010 is kind of annoying, however I find that Win 7 runs a lot better than XP did. Very much so when you've got lots of applications going at once (which you can do now that you aren't capped at 4 GB of ram!). If you have ever had to use Vista, you'll know how much of an improvement 7 is.

There are only two 32bit apps that won't run in 7 64bit for me (The Mercedes EPC, and the VW EPC (ETKA)). In that case I just fire up "Windows XP Mode", the free virtual machine you were talking about. Since I don't use those apps all the time it's hardly a bother.

What isn't running for you?

-J
I agree that it's fast............with 8 gig, I won't suffer the annoying slowness that XP develops when the browser hogs 700 MB.

I still have a few very old DOS programs that I use periodically. I'd like to get them to work in the virtual machine if I can.

Any benefit of a command prompt on the Win7 side? I can't see how anyone can use it?
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