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BillieTheBot
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Anyone else taken the plunge? I got it the other day and have to say I'm impressed. It's a lot faster than vista and doesn't take up half as much space on the HDD.
If you're a student, it'll cost you £30 as well....
If you're a student, it'll cost you £30 as well....
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I run Windows 7 and think it's ok. It's not as much a leap forward as people say it is, it is much more like a service pack for vista with a GUI change.
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Little bit. Although so was Vista. Everyone says it's quicker, but I don't notice much difference tbh. It's certainly not slower overall though.
I upgraded, because I was having problems with Vista. In particular, it stopped me from backing up the computer. But also little things like I was getting an error message when I opened a file that contained AVI files, and that's stopped now (an error message per AVI file too :mad:). And things I didn't even realise were an issue, like how my screen used to go black a few times after logging on, and it no longer does that. The only thing I'm still left to check is that I had a couple of games that would crash all the time on Vista.
All in all it seems like a good piece of software, but unless you're having issues with Vista, I wouldn't bother upgrading. I also think that Vista had so many issues, that this should've been free for anyone who had it.
I upgraded from Vista, the only thing it didn't like was Itunes, so i uninstalled it.
But, when I reinstalled it under windows 7 it found all my music, all my album artwork, all my settings.
Everything else seems to be working well, all my user settings transferred across, everything is the same.
However now everything does seem to be a bit faster. PC boots up in no time at all, programs load quicker, less space taken up (30Gb less) on my HD.
The iconised taskbar, specifically being able to hover over a quick launch icon and see all your minimised windows/tabs and what is in each is a nice touch as well.
I have to say, I'm a fan. It's the first piece of Windows software I've had since Win95 that has worked without causing any problems.
Windows 7 isn't just a upgrade from Vista, SO MUCH of it has been rewritten completely from scratch. Features that made Vista laggy for less-powerful computers have been removed. 7 is basically a new OS. It just has the idea of Vista GUI/Feature wise, but with other things from XP and previous versions.
About the backwards compatability, every version of Windows has had that. There's nothing stupid about it. Millions will need it, specially businesses.
Driver wise/software, pretty much everything that worked with Vista will work with 7. The only issue I had with 7 was Steam. But that's still a fireball of shit anyway, it's not 7's fault. I only upgraded to test drive the release, I already used the beta and already made up my mind, it was solid. Microsoft did the right thing this time... though I still think the GUI is disgusting. I can't do work as fast as I would in XP compared to Vista/7, XP is simplistic (not too much), nice, functional, I still love XP. But the taskbar (on default) is the most stupidest idea ever.
Only other reason I upgraded was to get decent support for DirectX 10. But it's cool, decided to just go back to XP and install DX10 on it anyway. Works like it normally would.
you could probably do with an extra gig of ram. I think the recommendation for older computers as well was to do a "clean" install with 7 instead of just an upgrade. That way you get rid of all the crap your current pc has accumulated in the 4 years since you got it.
My PC is a 2.5ghz quad core and I just upgraded to 4gb of ram. Vista was quite slow at some tasks, and still took a while to boot up despite the system i've got. It feels like 7 is using all the available resources, a lot more efficient and streamlined imo.
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one annoying thing is if you move a window you have open and you hit the top screen it goes bigger when you don't want it too.
Mine takes forver to start up - it's soooo slow to get from powering on into windows ... Once you're actually in windows then it's OK
I'm running mine on a Mac with Bootcamp - a 2GHz core2Duo with 2GB of RAM
I just timed mine and it takes about 53 seconds and thats me typed in my password aswell. And its about another minute until everything is loaded and i can open things easily.
Mine is on a HP with 2.1GHz processor with 3GB of RAM.
I had no end of problems with uTorrent on Windows 7. Also had to try several installs, as they'd get to the end and then decide some random driver was incompatible (which didn't come up in the commpatibility test).
So far I'm just pissed off with the useful things they got rid of! Like pinning shortcuts to the start menu.
I can pin shortcuts to my start menu......
The only thing they've got rid of that I can see is Windows moviemaker.
No great loss there, as I was using Serif Movieplus.
But bollocks to all of that. After your 60 days, just get Openoffice.org which is free and is just as good. Plus it's "portable" which means that you can install it onto a memory stick and you can run it on any machine that has a USB port :-)