Re: Upgrades
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"One of these days I must reformat the disks and start again. We always did that with MS-DOS & Win9x every year. Speeded things up no end. It was XP activation process that discouraged me from continuing ;-)"
Sadly it is still the case that a re-install invigorates the machine and gets rid of unsightly blemishes and wrinkles.
Having said that NT4 on a DEC Alpha was one of the sweetest Windows systems I ever used, 2000 OK, Win 7 OK, Win 8 ? nuff said geezer.