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Re: Windows 7
To balance the discussion:
I bought a cheap HP (Compaq) Vista box, making sure it had one extra
slot for my old M-Audio Delta-66. Expecting the worst, I began with
the notion of just getting internet connectivity dialed. I used a
Hawking USB wireless adapter.
No hitches—connectivity came up after plugging in my router key.
After a few days mucking around, downloading Audacity so I had a basic
recorder (ditched all my old Win-98 Sonic Foundry suite of tools), and
had them feeding the regular audio outs. No problem.
Finally I decided to see if my 10 year old audio i/f was going to
work. Opened up the box, installed the card, started the system and
had a couple bad internet searches for drdivers, finally found the
correct driver, set up the control panel, done.
To my absolute amazement, my system pretty much came up as a
plug-and-play install.
I feel Vista is a bit "chatty" regarding security, but otherwise it's
been a breeze. If Windows 7 is better I'm totally stoked.
I know many folks have trouble with MS, but I've heard lots about
Apple stuff too. Your mileage may vary . . . -m
On 8/6/09, Jim Goodin <jimgoodinmusic@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you want to rollback I can get you a copy of XP but depending on the
> hardware you're dealing with, getting XP drivers particularly audio can
>be a
> chase. I recently did an HP laptop and though I found the drivers kept
> playing shell games with the audio drivers, it would work then it would
>be
> canceled out by another driver update. In the end I had to give it to
>the
> end user without sound but XP was stable so they were happy. I've done 3
> rollbacks in my day work.
>
> For some things I tend to agree re Apple as that's what I use beyond my
>day
> work but neither system is without 'sin'
>
> j
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Miko Biffle
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"Running scared from all the usual distractions!"