[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Windows 7 First Impressions? (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 10/22/2009 7:54:48 AM EDT
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Well today is the day. I know a lot of you were able to get the RTM before today, but still.....let's hear all of those first impressions from those who have bought Windows 7. |
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I'm really hoping that the compatibility issues are gone. I have been sticking to windows XP...until today. As soon as I have a chance I will be upgrading to 7...I hope I don't regret it. I was running XP until my upgrade to 7 about two months ago and I am quite happy. |
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Got the RTM 64 bit Ultimate - my system setup
Mobo - EVGA 680i Proc - E 6600 oc'ed to 3.25 on air Memory - Kingston Hyper X 887 - 4gbs GPU - EVGA 260 GTX PSU - PC Power and Cooling 750 Silencer HD - WD 250 Black OS boots up very very very fast - not as bloated as Vista and GUI has more appeal than XP |
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Did an in place upgrade over Vista Home Premium x64 bit edition. The upgrade took exactly 3hrs and I didn't have that much on my machine since it's just for gaming, photo and video editing. Installing updates now. So far everything "seems" to be ok. Will do some more testing to be sure. Specs of my machine: Intel i7 2.66GHz proc OC'd to 3GHz 12GB of 1333 memory. 2 - 500GB 7200rpm hard drives 2 - 1TB 7200 rpm hard drives EVGA nVidia 260 Super Clocked Edition video card |
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Quoted: Did an in place upgrade over Vista Home Premium x64 bit edition. The upgrade took exactly 3hrs and I didn't have that much on my machine since it's just for gaming, photo and video editing. Installing updates now. So far everything "seems" to be ok. Will do some more testing to be sure. Specs of my machine: Intel i7 2.66GHz proc OC'd to 3GHz 12GB of 1333 memory. 2 - 500GB 7200rpm hard drives 2 - 1TB 7200 rpm hard drives EVGA nVidia 260 Super Clocked Edition video card Ehh... for everyone else reading this thread, I highly recommend doing a clean install instead of an upgrade. Takes about 20 minutes. And you start with a clean system. |
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Did an in place upgrade over Vista Home Premium x64 bit edition. The upgrade took exactly 3hrs and I didn't have that much on my machine since it's just for gaming, photo and video editing. Installing updates now. So far everything "seems" to be ok. Will do some more testing to be sure. Specs of my machine: Intel i7 2.66GHz proc OC'd to 3GHz 12GB of 1333 memory. 2 - 500GB 7200rpm hard drives 2 - 1TB 7200 rpm hard drives EVGA nVidia 260 Super Clocked Edition video card Ehh... for everyone else reading this thread, I highly recommend doing a clean install instead of an upgrade. Takes about 20 minutes. And you start with a clean system. eh, I have done it multiple times now, both clean and upgrade, and to be honest I don't really see a difference between the two in performance. But a clean install is always prefered if possible. 
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Quoted: i had an issue with my LAN port driver, but i rolled it back and it worked fine afterwards. basically let windows find drivers for you and you're okay. Yep. Only drivers you should worry about are any specialized ones, like your video card. And any that show a yellow question mark in device manager. |
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downloaded it off a torrent. It is AMAZINg. I absolutely love it. Do not admit to being a pirate in this forum.  I now remember why he is on my ignore list. 
Or how about you put me on your ignore because I called you out on being full of shit a long with 40 other people and you didn't have a single decent answer to any persons question, and you couldn't form a comprehensible rebuttal to anything we stated. but hey you might have put me on ignore because I downloaded something of a torrent. Damn those torrent users, no other arfcom members who do that! |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Did an in place upgrade over Vista Home Premium x64 bit edition. The upgrade took exactly 3hrs and I didn't have that much on my machine since it's just for gaming, photo and video editing. Installing updates now. So far everything "seems" to be ok. Will do some more testing to be sure. Specs of my machine: Intel i7 2.66GHz proc OC'd to 3GHz 12GB of 1333 memory. 2 - 500GB 7200rpm hard drives 2 - 1TB 7200 rpm hard drives EVGA nVidia 260 Super Clocked Edition video card Ehh... for everyone else reading this thread, I highly recommend doing a clean install instead of an upgrade. Takes about 20 minutes. And you start with a clean system. eh, I have done it multiple times now, both clean and upgrade, and to be honest I don't really see a difference between the two in performance. But a clean install is always prefered if possible. Well the reason I'm not doing to do a fresh install was that I had too many programs on there that were by smaller companies and it is a PITA to get them reactivated. So the upgrade route made the most sense. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: downloaded it off a torrent. It is AMAZINg. I absolutely love it. Do not admit to being a pirate in this forum. I now remember why he is on my ignore list. Or how about you put me on your ignore because I called you out on being full of shit a long with 40 other people and you didn't have a single decent answer to any persons question, and you couldn't form a comprehensible rebuttal to anything we stated.  |
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Lol. The dark side has captured the One. |
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Lol. The dark side has captured the One. I wondered if anyone would recognize him. 
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haha I saw this on ubuntuforums.org love it |
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Quoted: Quoted: Lol. The dark side has captured the One. I wondered if anyone would recognize him. Hell yes I recognize him. I have heard him speak a few times and had the opportunity to shake his hand and get an autograph once. Also have had the opportunity to meet these guys, Wozniak on more than one occasion:      Late 90's/Early 2000's Silicon Valley was an interesting place to cut ones teeth.  |
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Quoted: Why the hate for a torrent? Now if he downloaded a keygen or a hack then yeah, he's a pirate. Downloading the installation files via torrent isn't a big deal and probably faster. Edit: I'm wondering if the Microsoft downloader is a torrent client. No hate for Bit Torrent at all. The pirate talk is what will get this site marked and threads locked. MS Does use the Bit Torrent tech to deliver DL's, at least they were for a while. |
| I am a septic. I am currently using the 32-bit 90-day free version, which should be expected to have less features than the full versions. I have it running on a Dell Optiplex 760 that came with XP Pro and Vista. I removed the drive and placed a new SATA drive in. I followed the instructions for formatting the drive (easy) and did a clean install. The first couple of days it was a little slower. I had trouble with applications opening. Now, it seems to have sped up! I only have a single gig of RAM in the machine and it is running well. During the last week, I had to log remotely into several PCs at the same time and do maintenance. It was just as quick to log into them from this machine as it was the original XP build and as fast as my IBM laptop. I have been impressed with it. Especially following Vista. I realize that it is based off of the Vista design, but I really think it is quicker and better. I really like XP and still use it, but I feel more comfortable upgrading to & than Vista. Besides, if you don't more forward, you aren't moving. |
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I am a septic. I am currently using the 32-bit 90-day free version, which should be expected to have less features than the full versions. I have it running on a Dell Optiplex 760 that came with XP Pro and Vista. I removed the drive and placed a new SATA drive in. I followed the instructions for formatting the drive (easy) and did a clean install. The first couple of days it was a little slower. I had trouble with applications opening. Now, it seems to have sped up! I only have a single gig of RAM in the machine and it is running well. During the last week, I had to log remotely into several PCs at the same time and do maintenance. It was just as quick to log into them from this machine as it was the original XP build and as fast as my IBM laptop. I have been impressed with it. Especially following Vista. I realize that it is based off of the Vista design, but I really think it is quicker and better. I really like XP and still use it, but I feel more comfortable upgrading to & than Vista. Besides, if you don't more forward, you aren't moving. Dude, if you are septic, you might want to get to the ER right now, instead of posting here...... If you are a skeptic, you won't be for long.
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The first couple of days it was a little slower. I had trouble with applications opening. Now, it seems to have sped up! I only have a single gig of RAM in the machine and it is running well. That was likely Superfetch it takes Superfetch a couple days to learn your habits and it is now caching programs you use frequently so they open faster. Get another GB of ram and it will do even better.. |
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I am a septic. I am currently using the 32-bit 90-day free version, which should be expected to have less features than the full versions. I have it running on a Dell Optiplex 760 that came with XP Pro and Vista. I removed the drive and placed a new SATA drive in. I followed the instructions for formatting the drive (easy) and did a clean install. The first couple of days it was a little slower. I had trouble with applications opening. Now, it seems to have sped up! I only have a single gig of RAM in the machine and it is running well. During the last week, I had to log remotely into several PCs at the same time and do maintenance. It was just as quick to log into them from this machine as it was the original XP build and as fast as my IBM laptop. I have been impressed with it. Especially following Vista. I realize that it is based off of the Vista design, but I really think it is quicker and better. I really like XP and still use it, but I feel more comfortable upgrading to & than Vista. Besides, if you don't more forward, you aren't moving. Dude, if you are septic, you might want to get to the ER right now, instead of posting here...... If you are a skeptic, you won't be for long. My sediments exactly. 
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Running pro 64 bit. No major application problems so far, but a lot of nit pick issues that are adding up. I still hate the start menu, I don't like the new windows explorer, file associations for media players are an issue as i can't get them set correctly. Too many damn services turn on after I turn them off. MS must think I want that functionality, because even though I am on a LAN with no other computers and I turned the server service off, apparently I must really want it on. Can't get rid of the hybernate file, but the swap file is gone (i run without a page file) Clear type is on intermittently, though I turned it off..... I like the reworked control panel, the new device manager. |
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I am a septic. I am currently using the 32-bit 90-day free version, which should be expected to have less features than the full versions. I have it running on a Dell Optiplex 760 that came with XP Pro and Vista. I removed the drive and placed a new SATA drive in. I followed the instructions for formatting the drive (easy) and did a clean install. The first couple of days it was a little slower. I had trouble with applications opening. Now, it seems to have sped up! I only have a single gig of RAM in the machine and it is running well. During the last week, I had to log remotely into several PCs at the same time and do maintenance. It was just as quick to log into them from this machine as it was the original XP build and as fast as my IBM laptop. I have been impressed with it. Especially following Vista. I realize that it is based off of the Vista design, but I really think it is quicker and better. I really like XP and still use it, but I feel more comfortable upgrading to & than Vista. Besides, if you don't more forward, you aren't moving. Dude, if you are septic, you might want to get to the ER right now, instead of posting here...... If you are a skeptic, you won't be for long. My sediments exactly.
of what you have done, i have visual confirmation. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Lol. The dark side has captured the One. I wondered if anyone would recognize him. He looks familiar, but I'm still not sure who he is? Care to explain? |
| I have been running windows 7 professional for about a month or so and I absolutely love it. It boots up fast, it's appealing to the eyes and I have yet to break it yet. It seems as though windows 7 is definitely more stable as I haven't really had any issues with it yet even though I am sure I may encounter minor problems along the way. |
| I have done two installs. I did a fresh install on my laptop. It’s more critical to my computer needs and don’t want to mess it up. It was a smooth install and it’s running great. I installed 7 Ultimate X86 on the laptop. Then I did an in place upgrade on my desktop. It’s been running Vista Ultimate X86 same install with a few restores for about 2.5 years with no major software issues. I wanted to do the in place just for the experienced. Well I ran the upgrade advisor and it came back ok with the exception of my Acronis software. I took care of the issues listed and was off. The instillation of 7 was fine except for my antivirus software. It messes the whole thing up. So I did a fresh install of Ultimate x64 and love it. This thing is running great. I am having no issues except one of my games but it’s an EA issue not a Windows. |
[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Windows 7 First Impressions? (Page 1 of 3)
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