On 10/31/2017 04:41 PM, Alfred Molon wrote:
In article , PeterN says...
In the
interest of fairness, may main machine is Win 7.

I'm using 8.1 here. It has a horrible reputation, but with the classic
shell it works perfectly smoothly without any problems.

Before I was using Vista, another of those supposedly terrible OSs.
Worked fine for me as well. I skipped Win 7.




Once SP1 was applied, Vista was just fine. I think MS just released it
before it was quite ready.

As to Win8

Every single machine I've worked on had to have Classic Shell installed.
No one liked it the way it was.