Compatibility with Windows 7

[Daniel Zajdel]

Here, Here, Amen & Halleluiah. My lab never ran better than under Windows ME. As a researcher I am quite annoyed that every so often Microsoft comes along and insists I upgrade my already prefectly working system with inferior software that not only screws up my timing but also exposes me to all sorts of malicious code. I am firmly prepared to resist this new iniative to covert to Windows 7. It is already two years late, and every time Microsoft has pushed for a new operating system, starting with Windows 2000, it has made my life worse, so I cannot rely on any promises about reliability or efficiency, and I am through with debugging their crap code for them. My advice for anyone that seriously wants good timing is to run Eprime 1.x on any pre-Windows 2000 OS. 

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From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michiel Spape [Michiel.Spape at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 6:10 AM
To: e-prime at googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Compatibility with Windows 7

Hi David & List,
Happy new year!
Anyway, for a further tuppence, why not go all hardcore and use good old Windows 98 (SECOND EDITION!)? I remember we had E-Prime running on Pentium machines and, testing this with the E-Prime time-testing tools showed that they performed much better than any Windows XP system. Although that may well be because the XP lab-machines were 'helpdesk supported', who did not like shutting down processes such as anti-virus, the amount of background processing was much lower on the 98SE machines as well, which, I believe, greatly improved timing. Besides, PST wasn't quite sure they supported XP up until XP was actually getting quite old and Microsoft discontinued supporting 98.

Granted, the security of 98 was absolutely rubbish, but that's easily solved by putting a good old lock on the doors to the lab; and no, it didn't usually support USB disks, but floppy disks were fine...

Cheers,
Mich

Michiel Spapé
Research Fellow
Perception & Action group
University of Nottingham
School of Psychology


-----Original Message-----
From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David McFarlane
Sent: 07 January 2010 17:54
To: e-prime at googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Compatibility with Windows 7

I don't run the Win7/XP mode/EP setup myself, but I can imagine why I would.  I would never do this for running subjects, but I might well want to to this on my development machine so that I could have all the advanatages of Win7 for most of my work and still do E-Prime development all on the same modern machine.  Then of course I would copy the result to a good old XP machine for running subjects.

Just my $.02,
-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


>I can't believe what I'm reading. Really? Run Windows 7 in XP mode?
>Why bother? Why upgrade from XP in the first place then? Absurdities
>don't get much better than that.
>
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>From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
>Gilgamesh [fblanco81 at gmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 6:19 AM
>To: E-Prime
>Subject: Re: Compatibility with Windows 7
>
>It worked with me.
>Thank you very much!
>
>On 27 dic 2009, 16:29, Craig <cmark... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >   One idea is to use XP mode in Windows 7.  There is virtualization
> > software available from Windows to allow you to run XP software in
> > Windows 7.  I am actually planning on trying this out in the next
> > few days as well. Here is the link:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/
> > virtual-pc/download.aspx

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