carnival73: See, what I'm thinking is that MS knows a lot of people use their PC for gaming so they should've been more focused on the gaming aspect in Win 7 but I fear that they may, instead, have designed Win 7 to discourage PC gaming in hopes to chase everyone towards thier XBox.
kavazovangel: /facepalm
carnival73: .NET seems to be more of an all-seeing eye than anything.
kavazovangel: /facepalm
That is like saying Java or the Visual C++ redistributable packages are spyware.
Maybe a silly suggestion but it's not like I'm just pulling ideas like that out of a hat.
The most successful business's know how to heard consumers like cattle.
Most people are not going to have the complaints that I do because anything that they were looking for "They got it for the 360"
Let me ask you this: One day you walk into a shop and ask to purchase a 360 game but the shop tells you all they sell is PS3 and that you can get the same game for the PS3 but you don't want to have to pay several hundred for a new console when your XBox is still working fine and dandy.
So you step into every other shop in town only to find the same situation.
Let's say this is an ongoing occurance for two years straight - you're going to be a bit irritated that Sony has bought the world and that you're going to have to fall in line too.
But either way my statement was an aside and off topic and this is just taking it further off topic.
I personally think that hardware and software developers are only concerned with 'new' and 'improved', don't care rather or not Crusader No Remorse still works with their new hardware / software because most mainstream wallets won't really care either therefore when sotware / hardware gets developed there's not much focus on the old stuff so no one spends an extra year in development tweaking compatabilty for the old stuff.
carnival73: I would say that best overall strategy for someone clinging desperately to old software would to be to try and hold out as long as they can to see if a major Win 7 SP gets released which will implement a much stronger backwards compatibility with XP.
Crassmaster: WHY? One person after another talks about how they've had no or very little difficulty running games on Windows 7, so there is next to no reason to stick with an antiquated OS rather than updating to one with a much better UI and better protective measures in place.
Anyway, you're clearly not going to do more than just keep churning up the same 'points' I've already talked about, so whatever.
Though there is one thing I'm curious about...have you resisted installing things like newer and updated .net frameworks and other such software because you've decided they're spyware? Because that probably explains a lot of your software problems if indeed you have.
Naw, rather I am or am not being monitored through the internet I really don't care - it's more of a hassle to keep trying to side step .NET then just go ahead and install every version that gets offered.
.NET was an aggravation back when I first started fixing up this old PC because it was overrun with malware and I was running around tracing and pulling proceesses so all the while I'm trying to bat down unwanted connections I was constantly tripping over .NET tricks and gags. Now that my PC is pretty clean .NET doesn't get in my way.
