ftpecktim Loc: MONTANA

I use this a lot here on the Hog.Hit the download view then the magnifier and hang on.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Make-items-on-the-screen-appear-bigger-Magnifier
Pin this to your task bar for easy access.

tainkc Loc: Kansas City

Geez. You don't look that old.

oldmalky Loc: West Midlands,England.

I hate windows 7 wish I was back with Vista.

joe west Loc: Taylor, Michigan

to make your screen bigger or smaller press ctrl + for bigger press ctrl - for smaller

James56 Loc: Nashville, Tennessee

I hate Vista wish I had Windows 7

ngc1514 Loc: Atlanta, Ga., Lancaster, Oh. and Stuart, Fl.

Still running XP Sp 3 and not looking forward to the hassles of moving to 7 when I build my next machine...

BW326 Loc: Boynton Beach, Florida

We should have a pole sometime to see what everyone's favorite OS was. I agree with you about XP SP3, those were the good old days.
I still have a working RadioShack Colorcomputer whose OS had to be loaded each time via floppy disk. It was DOS 1.0 (which I still have). What made this trully unique was that RS had some OS features of their own that were burned into a chip on the motherboard.

ngc1514 Loc: Atlanta, Ga., Lancaster, Oh. and Stuart, Fl.

The old 6809-based CoCo could have been a great machine if Rat Shack had implemented some of the features of the processor - mainly memory bank switching. I always thought it was a far superior CPU compared to the 6502 in the Apple boxes.

All computers have some of the OS in ROM. If, for not other reason, that to boot the system. It beats having to key in a bootstrap loader like we did with the old DEC PDP-11 machines. You keyed in a small piece of code through the front panel switches that allowed the paper tape reader to work. The paper tape loaded the code necessary to boot the system from a hard drive.

Ahhh.. the bad old days!

Lupine Loc: SF Bay Area

Wait and make the jump directly to Win 8.

Lupine Loc: SF Bay Area

That was true at one time, but not anymore. For Windows and most other operating systems, all the OS software is almost always stored completely on a hard drive . The system BIOS (firmware) tells the computer where to look for the OS when booting up, but the BIOS is not part of the OS, it is specific to the motherboard and varies by manufacturer and feature sets. These days none of the OS is actually stored in ROM or even CMOS memory.

FWIW, my work provided HP i7 laptop is still running 32-bit XP-SP3, because I use some legacy enterprise software that was never updated for Vista or Win7. But my home desktop and laptop are both Win 7 and I vastly prefer working on them. Win 7 is faster, much more stable and has much better productivity features than XP.

My employer and I have agreed that when my current laptop is replaced in about 6 months that it will be Win7 (or 8) and if I still need to use that old software it will be on the old laptop that I will keep only for that 1 program.

WNYShooter Loc: WNY

Thanks alot, eight years of therapy down the drain all in one sentence!

LOL, I used to have repair those all the time, I might even still have one or two of the 32K memory boards floating around somewhere in the basement. My 16G laptop is smaller than those old cards, LOL.

BW326 Loc: Boynton Beach, Florida

Almost as bad as my first computer, the Heathkit H8 with 1- 4K RAM memory onboard. The first version of it that I had would not store any programming, it had to be entered in through the front panel in 'octal', base-8 assembly language *each time*. The memory boards (as well as the computers) had to be hand assembled.
I learned a lot from that experience... I learned that I never, ever would want to build my own equipment again.