Buying a new laptop twelve months ago I intentionally avoided Vista, and got "Media Center Edition", which essentially is an XP. Though there are some annoying new bugs, I chose not to reinstall my old XP Pro. Skymap "F10 Plot star map" must be started from full screen, otherwise it hangs. Programs that perform DOS tasks in the background now show black screens. (UltraEdit F9 functions do that, and cannot redirect output to files; OccultWatcher doing www updates almost blocks keyboard and screen in the process) ----- Original Message ----- >> I have heard that the latest releases of Windoze no longer >> support such MS-DOS programs; there isn't even an MS-DOS prompt >> available. > > This is relevant to observing satellites. I don't know about Vista since > I had no desire to try ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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