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What Do You Think Of Windows 7?

Posted by on Mar 31, 2009 | 6 Comments

Gnomie Mainth writes:

Hi!

I just wonder what you think of Windows 7; many people are already saying they don’t like it. I, on the other hand, have been using it since it first came out as beta and I love it.

Windows Vista is still the most powerful version of Windows currently available, though I think it’s too powerful for the needs of most people. I think its bad reputation comes from hogging 1 GB of RAM just to run — systems only a couple of years old will find this strain on resources too demanding and their users just wind up frustrated as a result. If you’ve got 6 GB of RAM and a 64 bit system, you probably love Vista!

It’s not even an XP vs. Vista thing, either: I tried the Windows XP 64 bit and it was a disaster from the beginning. I think I could bear with it for like two days until I changed back to XP 32 bit. My GPU totally flipped, and textures in games were flashing between black and white and colored.

Anyway, back to Windows 7. Since I installed it, I haven’t been happier about an OS. I mean just to be able to load drivers from Vista, XP, or even the older ones like 98 and NT is refreshing.

You actually don’t even have to install drivers: it is an automatic process. Sure, the installation of the system itself will take ten minutes longer than XP, but how many times would you otherwise need to restart your computer to install all of the updates to drivers? And sometimes you might run into a problem like I did — I accidentally moved my computer icon from the start menu to the start menu field three times and wound up with three icons I couldn’t remove until I communicated with Microsoft directly. Microsoft fixed this bug a few updates later.

Just a good tip for people to send feedback for things they don’t like! It’s the only way developers will learn.

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  • Stuart

    Hi there… Well I’m a old man by computer standards, I first started with a Atari64 and Basic Lauguage, then Windows 95, 98, 98SP, XP Home Pro, Vista Home Pro and now Windoes 7. I am now a happy old fart. I know it’s still buggy, it’s a beta fool, and now that there are actually drivers for Windows 7, like Nvidia and Realtek my answer is YES…
    Install was the easiest of any operating system, it knew my Newer Nvidia 780i Motherboard and my old Tuner and loaded drivers for all. Basically operation out of the box, a first…

    Of course there are some problems still, denial of better drivers on update, better controls for Windows Media Player (remember the remote for Media Center Microsoft?), but I ramble. All in all a pleasent time for all.
    Oh yeah except UAC for dummy’s…

  • http://checksnet.com Glenn Welt

    As a software publisher for past 15 years & former Microsoft, Inuit and Hp beta tester, I am forced to dive into all the new PC operating systems.

    After approx 8 hours of tinkering win Win 7 RC1 here are my impressions:
    1. Definitely faster than Xp by approx. 20% in all respects.
    2. Automatically found 7 installed ALL the drivers for my motherboard (Gigabyte EP45-UD3P) which no other OS has ever done with any of my motherboards
    3. Going from Xp to Win 7 will frustrate those accustomed to using Outlook Express and you can’t install or use the similar Windows Mail unless you first run Windows Vista and then migrate it to Win 7.
    4. If you have a problem installing some old software favorites that are in 16 or 32 bit, right-click the setup file and chaange the compatability tab to emulate Windows XP SP3. I did that for 5 utilities & apps and it worked every time (including the drivers for my Pinnacle 800i PCTV card).
    5. I’m not a gamer so my Nvidia Geforce 7600 video card serves my needs to 2 Acer AL2051W monitors. The Win 7 driver is OK but I downloaded Nvidia Win 7 driver and it allowed me to tweak settings so my L and R monitors appear same. I do like speed so I have an E8400 OC’d to 4.05Ghz perfectly mated with 2GB of OCZ 1066 Reaper.

  • http://www.linuxmint.com keith fox

    I have had the Windows 7 Beta. And then I got the Windows 7 Ultimate. It was nice and pretty, but you can’t polish a terd. The Beta actually ran smoother than the release, lol. I had it installed maybe a couple weeks. A lot of my hardware and software I like to use, are not able to work on the 64 bit version, which is upsetting. Not to mention it crashed my whole computer, I was unable to boot from any partition, even my Linux on a seperate partition. So I ended up formatting the drive, losing all my information and photos, documents, etc., and I am truely sticking with GNU/Linux. I didn’t even bother reinstalling. My uncle has gotten Home Premium 7, which came on a new computer. Has a fancy Wireless N Adapter, would work great if the driver would work. One boot, the driver works but can’t connect any wireless networks even though it sees many available networks. Next boot it says the service can’t be started, another time it says the driver is missing. So I try to upgrade the driver, and it says Windows already has the most current driver.
    You know they call it an Operating System, but to me it seems to be the most disfunctional system I have ever seen. I would rather have windows 98 compared to this piece. I agree, it is fancy looking, but it lacks functionability. It makes it simpler on one hand for new users with the GUI, but lacks the advanced features like in XP. I find it harder to locate what I need to acomplish, and it’s not a learning curve, for I have had the Beta the first year it was out. Like I said, the BETA worked more fluid than the release. My uncle’s new pc with preinstalled Win 7 Home Premium, gets BSOD’s while doing nothing but running. They have added a lot of new features like the toolbar at the top of the desktop which is nice for new users, I find it to be a pseudo-jacking of Ubuntu or Debian’s style Top Menu. It lacks basic funtions and ability to run stable, yet they got rid of advanced options, or make it impossible to find. I don’t like how Microsoft keeps users out of their loop, whereas GNU wants people to develop their software.

  • http://- Nat

    I have moved from xp to windows 7. (I have never used vista). I brought windows 7 as a package so it was already installed.

    Problems I have include:
    It has taken a dislike to my vertbatim external hard drive, despite having done a disc check on it with windows 7 disc checker. It claims it could have disc errors and do i want to check the disk but lets me use it though.

    When you move from one window like explorer to another, it moves one off to the right hand side and you have do resize it using the icon representing it on the taskbar. You can not just double click on it to get it to maxmise. A real pain in the butt.

    There is no ability to move files, only copy. Another real pain in the butt

    Not such a pain but still annoying, they have moved the windows update button and you cannot use microsoft update website like i use to.

    I think retrieving minimized windows and not being ab le to move files is the biggest pains I have found so far.

    To its credit it has accepted all my programs from xp, using the windows transfer application (does not list them in the uninstall programs like though)

  • Harry Lockwood

    I have windows7 , I cannot open a lot of my email .
    How do I go back to windowsXP Please HELP .
    Thank You.

  • Richard Hayes

    I’ve used XP Pro since its release, I have Vista on my laptop. I recently bought a new system with Win 7 64 bit Home Premiun and although it’s faster than XP it is certainly not as reliable. It does not recognize the majority of my XP 32 bit programmes. Windows Mail was available for use on Vista but not on Win 7, WHY? Even if one imports it from Vista it then has to take control of the folder to run it, WHY? Why does one have to take control of anything in Win 7? And the Take Control process is akin to secrecy and secret code. Why do the stupid programmers make it so hard, it’s supposed to be an improvement over and above the other Windows versions, IT’S NOT! And neither is Vista an improvement over XP Pro. I think the whole Microsoft Company personell should be locked up for producing such expensive tripe.