{"id":760,"date":"2010-01-19T15:46:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T22:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=760"},"modified":"2010-02-03T15:15:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:15:47","slug":"moving-to-windows-7-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2010\/01\/moving-to-windows-7-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving to Windows 7 \u2014 Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mother\u00adboard on my old Win\u00addows XP<\/span> box quit while I was tak\u00ading a break for lunch one day, and I decided to replace it with an updated Win\u00addows box. So I\u2019ll keep on using a Snow Leo\u00adpard laptop, OpenSol\u00adar\u00adis serv\u00ader, and Win\u00addows 7 as well. <\/p>\n

Maybe I was ask\u00ading for trouble, going with the 64-bit ver\u00adsion of Win\u00addows 7 Pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal, but with a quad core Intel box it seemed a shame to not do so. Most of the tools I use every day (like Fire\u00adfox and Pidgin) are easy to rein\u00adstall and thus ignor\u00adable. But there are some that cost me a little more time to fig\u00adure out. Admit\u00adtedly, it\u2019s a some\u00adwhat eclect\u00adic collection.<\/p>\n

First off, mail. I use Pegas\u00adus Mail<\/a>, have for many years, and it suits the way I work. Every time I\u2019ve upgraded, it\u2019s worked flaw\u00adlessly. This time, it took a while before I figured out that I needed to not take the defaults in the install, but rather uncheck the \u201ccre\u00adate user con\u00adfig\u00adur\u00ada\u00adtion\u201d box, and then in the fol\u00adlow\u00ading con\u00adfig\u00adur\u00ada\u00adtion step select \u201csingle user only\u201d. After that, copy\u00ading across the mail and con\u00adfig\u00adur\u00ada\u00adtion file worked per\u00adfectly to set it up right.<\/p>\n

The Palm desktop presents more of an issue. It turns out that you can\u00ad\u2019t use a USB<\/span> con\u00adnec\u00adtion to syn\u00adchron\u00adize under the 64-bit ver\u00adsion of Win\u00addows 7, so I\u2019ll have to get a bluetooth adapter to syn\u00adchron\u00adize my Treo 680. Or get a new phone. I\u2019m still mulling the options on that one.<\/p>\n

Print\u00ader: the HP<\/span> Col\u00ador Laser\u00adjet CP1510<\/span> drivers and soft\u00adware won\u2019t install from the CD<\/span>. This isn\u2019t really an issue; the default Win\u00addows 7 driver works fine but does\u00adn\u2019t show you the toner status etc. For\u00adtu\u00adnately, the HP<\/span>.com web\u00adsite has an updated \u201cadvanced\u201d driver. Except for, it does\u00adn\u2019t do all the status stuff either, appar\u00adently. Oh well.<\/p>\n

The scan\u00adner is an ancient one from Can\u00adon, the 3000F<\/span>. The scan\u00adning applic\u00ada\u00adtion won\u2019t install. There are no drivers or updated applic\u00ada\u00adtions on the Can\u00adon web site for Win\u00addows 7. The tool\u00adbox applic\u00ada\u00adtion for scan\u00adning and copy\u00ading shows up on c|net, at http:\/\/download.cnet.com\/CanoScan-Toolbox\/3000\u20132094_4-10972136.html (it may be a dead link by the time you read this), but without the drivers it isn\u2019t much use. Hunt\u00ading around on the web showed that this is a case for the Vir\u00adtu\u00adal XP<\/span> mode<\/a>. This con\u00adsists of 2 down\u00adloads, the first of which is 500 MB<\/span>. The cur\u00adrent estim\u00adate on our cur\u00adrently floaky DSL<\/span> link is almost 2 hours to go, so I think I\u2019ll go and do some real work while wait\u00ading for it to trickle in, and con\u00adtin\u00adue this post when I\u2019ve made some more progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mother\u00adboard on my old Win\u00addows XP<\/span> box quit while I was tak\u00ading a break for lunch one day, and I decided to replace it with an updated Win\u00addows box. So I\u2019ll keep on using a Snow Leo\u00adpard laptop, OpenSol\u00adar\u00adis serv\u00ader, and Win\u00addows 7 as well.  Maybe I was ask\u00ading for trouble, going with the 64-bit \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cMov\u00ading to Win\u00addows 7 \u2014 Part One\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-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","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=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}