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Thanks for the advice. My productivity is going to fall from a respectable warp factor to that of the Minnow being shipwrecked. I ain't going nowhere for a day or two or three.
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> Of Dan Goldstein
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 1:55 PM
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> Subject: RE: Moving from winxp to Windows 7
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> For my work machine, I made the exact same transition as Richard last
> year, because I had no choice.
>
> For my home machine, I happily paid extra to get Win XP. Office 2003 was
> a given.
>
> The best Win 7 advice I can give is to get Classic Shell, at
>http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
>
> It has slightly eased my Win 7 pain, but only slightly.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Melanson
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 1:26 PM
> To: Cardimon, Craig; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Moving from winxp to Windows 7
>
> I was given a new machine yesterday and I went from XP SP3 and Office
> 2003 to Windows 7 Pro and Office 2010,
> AAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!! :-(
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