[AccessD] Winfax Pro and Access

I've been running Windows 7 on a minimally configured (2gb RAM, 1.5Ghz dual
core Intel) Toshiba laptop for a couple of weeks now and I'm extremely
impressed.  I know from experience with similarly configured computers that
this machine would have been an absolute dog running Vista.  But Windows 7
runs like a rocket even with the Aero graphic stuff enabled.

I've done some work in Access 2003 without encountering any problems.  I
have had some strange compiler errors in Visual Studio 2008 on code that
compiled OK in Windows XP, but that could be me.

Doug

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>wrote:

> I used Winfax Pro for a long time. But it doesn't work in Vista.  Which was
> the machine I put the fax line on.  So I  put WF into a virtual machine.
> But we used the fax so infrequently that I cancelled the line and now use
> eFax, which is free,to receive faxes.  I still send from the old fax
> machine
> - just plug in the phone line.
>
> Vista seems OK now - pretty stable but I don't do anything very much with
> it
> so I don't run into any problems.  I tested Win 7 on a third machine - ran
> fine - again, I didn't 'stretch' it.  My biggest complaint with Vista is
> that it seems to run much slower than XP.  I haven't done enough in 7 to
> know.  What's your experience with response times among the three Oses?
>
> O2007 is the biggest pile of poo they've released since Windows ME, IMO. I
> suppose if you start with O2007 and don't know anything else, you get used
> to it.  Of course, as we know from the list, it's a developer's nightmare.
> Why move everything around while maintaining essentially the same
> functionality?  Same reason, I suppose, that car makers change model
> designs
> every year.
>
> But, IIUC, O2007 did not get widespread acceptance in corporate accounts -
> they didn't see the need to upgrade.  Over time, of course, O2007 will
> become the standard as new machines are loaded with it.
>
> But the worst thing I find about O2007 is that it runs at 1/2 the speed of
> O2003.  Don't know why that should be.  But my plan is to do a 'generation
> skipping' thing and go to O10 if it's good.
>
> Rocky
>