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Hi all,
Vanilla are planning an update to the site on April 24th (next Wednesday). It is a major PHP8 update which is expected to boost performance across the site. The site will be down from 7pm and it is expected to take about an hour to complete. We appreciate your patience during the update.
Thanks all.

Hopeful endeavor Part 2.

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  • 20-12-2014 5:19pm
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    Roger Hassenforder
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    Now that I'm off to change my hard drive, is it worth the effort to upgrade from Vista to 7?
    (only need this thing for managing the wife and kids fotos and videos...


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    FSL
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    You could always try a Linux distro.


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    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    FSL wrote: »
    You could always try a Linux distro.

    ill have to google that
    what ever it is!


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    yoyo
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    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    ill have to google that
    what ever it is!

    Check out Linux Mint, fairly Windows like

    Nick

    My Beer Glass collection site 🍺

    My Irish Callcards site



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    shanec1928
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    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    Now that I'm off to change my hard drive, is it worth the effort to upgrade from Vista to 7?
    (only need this thing for managing the wife and kids fotos and videos...
    Are windows 7 drivers available. Most of the time it's not worth upgrading. And just easier to buy a new machine


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    yoyo
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    shanec1928 wrote: »
    Are windows 7 drivers available. Most of the time it's not worth upgrading. And just easier to buy a new machine

    Drivers for Vista tend to work with 7 in most cases. Should be no problem going from Vista to 7. Vista back to XP was more problematic due to the major difference between them. 7 and 8 are not all that different to Vista

    Nick

    My Beer Glass collection site 🍺

    My Irish Callcards site



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    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    is it worth the hassle though?


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    FSL
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    For what you are using it for it's probably not worth the expense of buying Windows 7.

    As suggested earlier you could try Linux Mint or PCLinuxOS.

    I prefer the latter as it is unfussy and has a driver for my very serviceable albeit elderly laser printer which Windows 7 and above doesn't.


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