[CQ-Contest] Win 10

[Peter Dougherty (W2IRT)]

Not XP. If you're running XP at this point and you have it connected to the Internet you are at severe risk of infection and having your PC turned into a Zombie without your knowledge. Seriously. Just Don't Do It. If you're on XP, find a cheap copy of Win7 or 8 or 8.1, or even the Beta of Win 10, upgrading to the final on July 29th when it's released. You're right about Classic Shell on Win 8, though. Turns that steaming pile of code known as Win 8.x into something usable. You'll find Win10 does a much better job on the desktop and looks halfway nice at times. The start menu is still weird but not as bad as Win 8.

But for any modern ham applications, anything post-XP (Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 or 10) will work acceptably well and all function about the same in terms of where program components have to live. N1MM+ installs cleanly and correctly. Others still can't be placed in the Program Files (or Program Files (x86)) hierarchy since their data components are part of the program file--a huge no-no post XP. For those, just put them in C:\Ham or something like that and they'll run quite happily.

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Peter Dougherty, W2IRT
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-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Younker NE6I
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 10:32 PM
To: 'CQ-Contest'
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Win 10

If you like the look and feel of Win 7 or WinXP but it's time to upgrade the PC for some reason, and Win8 is your only option, install the free program Classic Shell. It is highly configurable and will provide you the look and feel of XP or 7...your choice.