On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Mark Hanchey wro= te: > I can work around most of these, but I was wondering what others are > doing. Are you staying with an older OS for compatibility or are you > toughing it out slowly changing to a newer OS ? I am at the point of > considering going back to xp for my development pc but I hate the idea > of going to an OS I know will not be supported in the future. Curious > what others are doing here . I went from my first 8-bit PC directly to Unix, and happily avoided all the stupidity of Windows. I have used many different flavors of Unix over the years, but for past five years I have been using OS/X exclusively for desktop use. When I need to run a Windows app, I run it in a VM. As far as I am concerned, the *only* way to run Windows is safely locked away inside of a VM. I use nLite to build a stripped down Windows XP installer with all of the updates installed. I then use this to build a base Windows install. This image is then cloned, and used to build various VMs tailored to specific projects. This "virgin" image is also archived so that I can easily get back to a known working state after Windows chokes itself, which it inevitably does. Fortunately, when using a Windows Install for specific purposes like this, Windows chokes itself far less frequently. A nice side effect is that it then becomes trivial to move an entire project and it's associated development environment from one physical machine to another. -p. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .