{"id":323,"date":"2010-01-25T12:13:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=323"},"modified":"2010-02-03T15:15:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:15:40","slug":"moving-to-windows-7-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2010\/01\/moving-to-windows-7-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving to Windows 7 \u2014 Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the pre\u00advi\u00adous set of Win\u00addows 7 adven\u00adtures<\/a>, I dis\u00adcovered that the box I bought does\u00adn\u2019t sup\u00adport hard\u00adware-assisted vir\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adisa\u00adtion, which is needed for the Vir\u00adtu\u00adal XP<\/span> mode. Option 2 for the scan\u00adner: try out a sep\u00adar\u00adate applic\u00ada\u00adtion called VueS\u00adcan<\/a>, which claims to sup\u00adport a large num\u00adber of scan\u00adners. Except for, this pro\u00adgram needs the Can\u00adon scan\u00adner drivers to first be installed. Which don\u2019t exist. On to the next attempt: install Vir\u00adtu\u00adal Box<\/a>, and put Win\u00addows XP<\/span> on that as a vir\u00adtu\u00adal machine. The prob\u00adlem with this was that the USB<\/span> port kept claim\u00ading it was busy, and none of the vari\u00adous tips I found worked. Ver\u00addict: I could\u00adn\u2019t find a way to sup\u00adport the Can\u00adon 3000F<\/span> scan\u00adner under Win\u00addows 7 64-bit, and will have to use my old XP<\/span> laptop as a scan\u00adner driver until I have suf\u00adfi\u00adcient motiv\u00ada\u00adtion to buy a new scanner.<\/p>\n

Mind you, installing the vir\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adbox + Win\u00addows XP<\/span> combo ended up being use\u00adful any\u00adway. Quick\u00adBooks 2003 installs, but does\u00adn\u2019t run, under Win\u00addows 7. I gath\u00ader that even the latest ver\u00adsions of Quick\u00adBooks have issues with Win\u00addows 7, so I simply installed the one I have in the Win\u00addows XP<\/span> vir\u00adtu\u00adal machine. There was a bit of fid\u00addling involved in mov\u00ading data around, that involved installing the vbox guest addi\u00adtions and set\u00adting up shared folders, but in the end it all worked. I sus\u00adpect more than a couple of pro\u00adgrams will end up in that vir\u00adtu\u00adal machine.<\/p>\n

Over\u00adall, I prob\u00adably spent close to a week of work time set\u00adting up my work envir\u00adon\u00adment to be more or less where I was before my old PC<\/span> died. It\u2019s obvi\u00adous they bor\u00adrowed quite a bit from the Mac OS<\/span> X envir\u00adon\u00adment, includ\u00ading hid\u00ading some of the use\u00adful func\u00adtions. The menus fad\u00ading in and out were start\u00ading to make me sea-sick until I found out how to turn that off (Con\u00adtrol Pan\u00adel -> Sys\u00adtem and Secur\u00adity -> Sys\u00adtem -> Advanced -> Per\u00adform\u00adance Set\u00adtings). I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll find more issues as I get more used to the envir\u00adon\u00adment, along with more pro\u00adgrams that won\u2019t install or work. For\u00adtu\u00adnately cyg\u00adwin<\/a> does work under Win\u00addows 7, along with Office 2003 (which I need for cli\u00adent compatability).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the pre\u00advi\u00adous set of Win\u00addows 7 adven\u00adtures, I dis\u00adcovered that the box I bought does\u00adn\u2019t sup\u00adport hard\u00adware-assisted vir\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adisa\u00adtion, which is needed for the Vir\u00adtu\u00adal XP<\/span> mode. Option 2 for the scan\u00adner: try out a sep\u00adar\u00adate applic\u00ada\u00adtion called VueS\u00adcan, which claims to sup\u00adport a large num\u00adber of scan\u00adners. Except for, this pro\u00adgram needs the Can\u00adon \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cMov\u00ading to Win\u00addows 7 \u2014 Part Two\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}