Originally Posted by wigsajumper

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To the OG poster. Win 7 is on amazon at about $99 I would seriously consider the upgrade if you spare (or bribe a college student to get buy a cheap student copy)

+1. Your entire life will improve. Sunrises and sunsets will be more beautiful. Food will taste better. You won't yell at your kid (so much.) Your SO will thank you. One word of advice, though. Save your files. Format your disk and install from the bottom up. DO NOT simply upgrade Vista to Win 7. It may seem to work but there are demons who will haunt you. Vista, like a vampire, must be killed with a stake in the heart. I tried the easy route and nine months later had to start over after the poison of uneliminated Vista had made my system unusable.

Originally Posted by jsh1120

+1. Your entire life will improve. Sunrises and sunsets will be more beautiful. Food will taste better. You won't yell at your kid (so much.) Your SO will thank you. One word of advice, though. Save your files. Format your disk and install from the bottom up. DO NOT simply upgrade Vista to Win 7. It may seem to work but there are demons who will haunt you. Vista, like a vampire, must be killed with a stake in the heart. I tried the easy route and nine months later had to start over after the poison of uneliminated Vista had made my system unusable.

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I love ITunes, works fine on my Windows 7 pc. To my ears, the sound quality of the ITunes player is better than Windows Media Player.

Originally Posted by jonkay182

I love ITunes, works fine on my Windows 7 pc. To my ears, the sound quality of the ITunes player is better than Windows Media Player.

I have no problem with iTunes as a media player. The problem is using a media player to manage applications on a separate device. Roughly equivalent to using an automobile to plow a field.

Originally Posted by jonkay182

I love ITunes, works fine on my Windows 7 pc. To my ears, the sound quality of the ITunes player is better than Windows Media Player.

It's not just your ears. My wife wanted to know what was wrong with the computer because it sounded terrible. She was using WMP. I restarted the song in iTunes and it sounded infinitely better.

I read somewhere that WMP deliberately degrades the quality of anything that was ripped with a different program, which rings true for me.

I usually use VLC if I'm in front of the computer, or iTunes if I want to control it remotely from my iPhone.

Like so many others have said, it's probably Vista. I'm running a 4 year old Hackintosh HP that came with Vista. It was easier to hack OSX onto the computer than it was to get Vista to connect to the internet so it could download the drivers that would let Vista connect to the internet (yes, it was that convoluted).

As for iTunes, my transition to the program was hesitant, but now I love the program. Once you get the quirks figured out, it becomes quite simple to work with.

Originally Posted by SingingSabre

Like so many others have said, it's probably Vista. I'm running a 4 year old Hackintosh HP that came with Vista. It was easier to hack OSX onto the computer than it was to get Vista to connect to the internet so it could download the drivers that would let Vista connect to the internet (yes, it was that convoluted).

As for iTunes, my transition to the program was hesitant, but now I love the program. Once you get the quirks figured out, it becomes quite simple to work with.

What have you figured out about a better shopping experience in the app store, for instance? You can spend your life shopping for apps or resort to an app like App Shopper, or recommendations, as far as I know. I don't see crummy shopping experience as a quirk, lol.

Originally Posted by Kaykaykay

What have you figured out about a better shopping experience in the app store, for instance? You can spend your life shopping for apps or resort to an app like App Shopper, or recommendations, as far as I know. I don't see crummy shopping experience as a quirk, lol.

Read the posts on iPF! I snagged EA Tiger Woods Golf for free and Risk! for $3 after reading about EAs sale on here. Now THAT was a good shopping experience.

Originally Posted by Kaykaykay

What have you figured out about a better shopping experience in the app store, for instance? You can spend your life shopping for apps or resort to an app like App Shopper, or recommendations, as far as I know. I don't see crummy shopping experience as a quirk, lol.

What does the App Store have to do with itunes? How is the App Store a crummy shopping experience? I haven't had any issues whatsoever with it. Much to the contrary, it's been one of the easiest things I've used.

Jsh1120, I guess I'm confused (no sarcasm, I really am confused). How is managing your applications using a media player a problem? What difficulties are you experiencing? I'm sort of late to the party.