View Full Version : windows 7 is the best way today ?
blaster
07-29-2009, 09:24 PM
please tell me , windows 7 is the best way today ?
tesco
07-29-2009, 10:50 PM
Best way what?
And is this a hardware related question?
Too vague of a question, blaster.
clocker
07-30-2009, 12:06 AM
please tell me , windows 7 is the best way today ?
Yes, it is.
It cleans, shines and leaves a long lasting protective film that resists grease, mildew and bird droppings.
bioflare
07-30-2009, 12:44 AM
Windows 7 is very good. It's compatibility with XP software as well as Vista is 90%+. Its faster than vista and nicer looking than XP. Give it a year and you'll be enjoying it if you choose to purchase it.
clocker
07-30-2009, 12:46 AM
A year?
Cauliflower can make decisions faster than that.
bioflare
07-30-2009, 12:49 AM
Or you could just get the full release before it GA's.
mbucari1
07-30-2009, 03:11 AM
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
Detale
07-30-2009, 03:43 AM
This way dude
http://blogs.fayobserver.com/faytoz/files/2009/03/hope-mills-sign.JPG
Gotta say, Win7 is making a fan out of me - I have it installed on my old dual-core Dell, and all of the problems I've had with and been aggravated by in Vista have been addressed...copying times are crazy-speedy, and the one that pissed me off the worst - formatting flash memory, is faster than XP by an order of magnitude, and Vista isn't even in the game.
This is no shit - to format a 2G SD card in XP takes about 15 seconds (Intel 1.86G, 4G RAM), and in Win 7 64-bit (AMD 2.3G, 2G RAM), the "format complete" message appears immediately after clicking "start" format.
The healthiest machine I have (Intel E8400@4G, 8G RAM) runs Vista Ultimate 64-bit and takes about 20 MINUTES to format the same card.
Disgusting.
tesco
08-06-2009, 12:24 AM
Gotta say, Win7 is making a fan out of me - I have it installed on my old dual-core Dell, and all of the problems I've had with and been aggravated by in Vista have been addressed...copying times are crazy-speedy, and the one that pissed me off the worst - formatting flash memory, is faster than XP by an order of magnitude, and Vista isn't even in the game.
This is no shit - to format a 2G SD card in XP takes about 15 seconds (Intel 1.86G, 4G RAM), and in Win 7 64-bit (AMD 2.3G, 2G RAM), the "format complete" message appears immediately after clicking "start" format.
The healthiest machine I have (Intel E8400@4G, 8G RAM) runs Vista Ultimate 64-bit and takes about 20 MINUTES to format the same card.
Disgusting.That's odd. I was able to format my flash card from vista instantly.
Are you sure that you have "Quick Format" selected in Vista? :unsure:
clocker
08-06-2009, 01:50 AM
That's odd. I was able to format my flash card from vista instantly.
Are you sure that you have "Quick Format" selected in Vista? :unsure:
Kev is running the special "Conservative Edition" of Vista.
Before it will do anything, it has to check for socialist tendencies and see a valid birth certificate.
That's odd. I was able to format my flash card from vista instantly.
Are you sure that you have "Quick Format" selected in Vista? :unsure:
Kev is running the special "Conservative Edition" of Vista.
Before it will do anything, it has to check for socialist tendencies and see a valid birth certificate.
Al of my OS's are the "conservative" version, so there.
Yay for triple posts! A new record o.0
I'm still on Windows 7 RC1 but I'm loving it so far. Works fast, well, and the compatability is surprisingly extensive. I haven't found a single program yet that didn't work on the OS when it was still in beta.
peat moss
08-08-2009, 01:42 AM
Yay for triple posts! A new record o.0
I'm still on Windows 7 RC1 but I'm loving it so far. Works fast, well, and the compatability is surprisingly extensive. I haven't found a single program yet that didn't work on the OS when it was still in beta.
Don't use a Security program I take it ? ;)
Nope. Hehe. Hate antivirues. Leech system resources, and I don't really need them. I guess I can't really comment on compatability for any of that.
gangleader
08-09-2009, 07:45 AM
i prefer xp i hope windows 7 will be more better in 1 year time
clocker
08-09-2009, 12:52 PM
Better than what?
tesco
08-09-2009, 01:11 PM
i prefer xp i hope windows 7 will be more better in 1 year time
How would it get better?
What did you not like about it?
tantra69
08-09-2009, 06:36 PM
There are some issues with some ASUS MB. (May be more)
can't turn off or reboot.. and the occasional BSOD
Other than that it's great :)
I haven't gotten a single BSOD on it yet. I believe there are issues with memory leaks on RTM if you're using that.
clocker
08-10-2009, 12:51 PM
I'm using the build 7600.16385 x64- which I believe is the RTM- and don't have "memory leaks".
I checked Sprocket's Depends and it was totally dry.
commpers
08-19-2009, 01:49 AM
I think all the new operating systems such as Vista and 7 are good at loading up faster. Other than that they are crap compared to xp
clocker
08-19-2009, 10:21 AM
I think all the new operating systems such as Vista and 7 are good at loading up faster. Other than that they are crap compared to xp
Explain please.
Bonus points for avoiding the terms "bloat", "eye candy" and "Sasquatch".
I think all the new operating systems such as Vista and 7 are good at loading up faster. Other than that they are crap compared to xp
Explain please.
Bonus points for avoiding the terms "bloat", "eye candy" and "Sasquatch".
I must agree with my friend.
Took me a long time to make peace with anything other than XP, and I had to buy/build/equip four other computers to pull that off.
I think I may even be persuaded to pay for my first edition of Win7 Ultimate.
I will, of course, entertain other options...
kwanzabot
08-20-2009, 06:49 AM
I'm still using the RC1 and I absolutely love it. Massive upgrade from Vista in my eyes.
I've only had one issue on my Asus laptop and it's not exactly debilitating, just an annoyance. My eSata port seems to be very finicky about recognizing an external hd, sometimes it will load after a few tries and other times it won't recognize at all.
Other than the eSata issue of which I'm sure there is already a fix or will be soon, I couldn't be happier. I might actually go out and buy the OS this time around.
MagnaZombie
08-21-2009, 10:56 PM
Can't wait until I'm done downloading it. :) I wanna see just how good Win7 is.
GamesoulMaster
08-22-2009, 04:20 AM
In my own experience, I am quite pleased with how Win7 runs (still using build 7100). It had drivers readily available for all the hardware in my computer (including my 802.11g USB dongle that WinXP has horrible problems with), and it discovers and installs drivers for devices faster than WinXP.
Even on RC, I've seen very few problems (most annoying is how right-clicking an item that isn't already selected, sometimes fails to select the device and acts as if I'm right-clicking the background instead).
I won't say that Vista is horrible (yeah, it has its problems, but it's not *that* bad in its current state), but Win7 is certainly a nice upgrade (more user-friendly is one thought, and more efficient of course).
Back when WinXP came out, I had refused to upgrade from Win2k. I dealt with Win95, became an expert with Win98 (loved it, but had to reinstall a lot), and found my home on Win2k. But WinXP... I wouldn't even touch it until SP2 came out (and even then, it was more because of compatibility trends than anything else that pushed me to switch).
But Win7... I was much more impressed than I thought I'd be (especially after trying Vista when *it* first came out). Retail is obviously going to be better than the RC, and I'm obviously very happy with the RC.
tesco
08-22-2009, 11:21 PM
most annoying is how right-clicking an item that isn't already selected, sometimes fails to select the device and acts as if I'm right-clicking the background instead
I thought it was just me!
It does that to me too, at completely random times.
You'll be happy to hear that Vista did it too, so it's unlikely to get fixed. :dry:
I just did some tests and I think this i show it happens.
When you hover over an item it highlights in light blue color.
This happens whether you're on top of the icon, ontop of the text, or even on a blank area near the item.
Clicking any part of the light blue highlighted area will always highlight it.
It is now highlighted in a darker blue.
Right-clicking any part of the dark blue highlighted area will always bring up the context menu for that item.
Hovering a different item causes it to highlight in light blue.
Right-clicking that hovered item (unselected) on the icon or text will bring up the context menu for that item.
Right-clicking that hovered item (unselected) in a blank area will bring up the context menu for the background.
This is unexpected behavior. If you've got the light blue highlight on an item then you expect any clicks to associate with that item, since they do when left-clicking, but they don't with right-clicking. :blink:
GamesoulMaster
08-23-2009, 02:18 AM
I didn't know it did that in Vista. At least it's not a new bug then (though as you say, seems unlikely to be fixed, at least anytime soon). Nice investigating on the cause though... lol. I never bothered to really try and see how it happens, but now that you mention it, maybe I'll look into it and see about changing how I do things a bit so it doesn't happen to me... :D
clocker
08-23-2009, 02:32 AM
Last week I had to do a full install of XP for a neighbor.
Compared to a Win7 install on my personal PC (which has far more hardware and a more complex disk setup), the XP experience was much slower and even almost painful when faced with gathering and installing all the necessary drivers required to make even her rudimentary PC operable.
People who claim that XP>Win7 are, IMO, being willfully retro and static.
There is no comparison.
GamesoulMaster
08-23-2009, 12:19 PM
People who claim that XP>Win7 are, IMO, being willfully retro and static.
There is no comparison.
That is where I have to agree the most. Unless you're running really old hardware, Win7 seems to be the new king. I have all graphics settings up to the max, which is something I had first done to see how it would impact my computer. And they stayed that way because I didn't see any slowdowns with it. Set that way, my games still run about as fast as WinXP (though in a couple games, I notice what is literally just a couple FPS loss).
I installed RC1 on my friend's fresh-bought PC (lowest-end, with single-core CPU, 1 GB RAM, etc) as the only OS, because I was that confident that he'd have no problems with it. It's over a month later now, and after using WinXP for years, he has yet to give a single complaint about Win7.
Only reason I still dual-boot between WinXP and Win7 is because I have so many things installed on WinXP that would literally take days to reinstall on Win7, so I'm waiting until I can install a final version of Win7 before I make that huge transfer over.
Installed the MSDN RTM Professional version yesterday, for someone else (it was from my account, but I've already got a paid for upgrade from my current Vista, come october).
All I can say thus far it's that it feels more or less like Vista but with some new GUI upgrades. I've not had any issues with Vista thus far (beyond the sometimes idiotic UAC), though, so that's by no means bad.
The one difference I've seen, performance-wise, is that the install was a lot faster. Which may be related to what hardware I installed it on. Wholly different chipsets, processors and drives, although with comparable hardware for the most part.
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