Posted: 6/5/2009 8:48:34 AM EDT
| Just put RC1 on a backup computer with Vista home premium;upgraded to 7 ultimate with no problems.Much faster and looks more like XP.Happy so far. |
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Sweet, I really need to install it on my gear. The only issue is that I'm fond of XP. I really don't want to change. I like XP too, and still run it on my work PC (four to ten apps running at all times). But being in IT, I need to be more than familiar with Vista - so that is on my home PC (dual boot XP/Vista). Windows 7 will be installed as soon as I buy my new home PC at the end of this year. |
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YOU KNOW THE RULES: we need photos Your join date, post count, and this post make me go  quick learner or a previously banned users account? hmmm lol Hijack! Some people lurk a while before signing up. I rest my case. For example you never say anything that condemns the great and all powerful COLT unless you have your flames suit on. Blade at 45 wal-mart thread. Sweep the Leg thread. |
| Been running 7for awhile on desktop and a laptop. The only problem I've encountered is on my desktop I'm running 64 bit, sometimes when I close Firefox it doesnt shut down the process and I have to go in manually to do it before I can restart it. No problems at all with the 32bit on my laptop. |
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I've used betas and now RC1 on a laptop.
Like it a lot. One issue I've had with all the versions though is the system turning the fan on. There have been numerous thermal events simply shutting the laptop down. I have reported it using the in-OS system. The only fix I've been able to apply is; noticing the keyboard getting hot, unplugging the laptop (putting it on battery powered), feeling the fan come on, then plugging it in again (or not .... the fan does stays on). Something about that transition "wakes" up the fan controller. |
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I have been running it on my wifes computer for awhile now. I left hers running for 39 days or so straight, with no noticeable degradation in performance. 39 days was between 2 updates that required a restart. Now I am the first one to run Windows 7 in our office environment. No one else wanted to mess around with it, so I volunteered. I had corruption on my hard drive anyway. It's great! I haven't yet figured out all the little tricks for networking yet, but it is better than XP in that regard. |
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I am running it on my windows box, I like it much better than Vista. It is what Vista should have originally have been. Can you expand on that a little.........I run Vista and love it............to be even better it would have to come with a DD cup!!! Not that I was asked,but it does not appear to be such a resource/memory hog. |
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I installed RC1 on a spare 500gig drive on 8 May, and so far it kicks ass.
I have no issues with Vista, but Win7 has been doing a pretty good job. I know they won't do it, but I would like to see Microsoft hook up those of us who downloaded RC1 with a Key, that we could pay for, to "unlock" this temp version. I'd like to keep it. 
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Windows 7 is just Vista SP2 with a bunch of services and features disabled/removed. Most hardware and software are now Vista-compatible, so Windows 7 won't have the teething problems that plagued Vista. Most of Vista's problems weren't due to the OS, but rather 3rd party apps that relied on deprecated Windows 9x functionality. Turn off UAC, and most of those old apps work just fine.
I really dislike the new taskbar/start menu in Windows 7... it's a crappy rip-off of the Mac dock. If I wanted a shitty app-doc, I would own a Mac. The thing that really pisses me off is that M$ removed the Windows Classic (Windows 2000-style) start menu. I hate the WinXP/Vista/Win7 start menu... takes me 12 clicks to do what took 2 clicks on the Classic menu. |
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Windows 7 is just Vista SP2 with a bunch of services and features disabled/removed. Most hardware and software are now Vista-compatible, so Windows 7 won't have the teething problems that plagued Vista. Most of Vista's problems weren't due to the OS, but rather 3rd party apps that relied on deprecated Windows 9x functionality. Turn off UAC, and most of those old apps work just fine. I really dislike the new taskbar/start menu in Windows 7... it's a crappy rip-off of the Mac dock. If I wanted a shitty app-doc, I would own a Mac. The thing that really pisses me off is that M$ removed the Windows Classic (Windows 2000-style) start menu. I hate the WinXP/Vista/Win7 start menu... takes me 12 clicks to do what took 2 clicks on the Classic menu. awww damn tell me they didnt do that!!! its so much easier to use the classic menu |
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I am running it on my windows box, I like it much better than Vista. It is what Vista should have originally have been. Can you expand on that a little.........I run Vista and love it............to be even better it would have to come with a DD cup!!! Vista was not optimized to the level that 7 is. I can install 7 on a machine that was miserable to run Vista on and it runs far better and faster. It looks like this OS will come out of the 'chute well-developed and stable. I had minor issues with the beta, but only one issue in the RC (more of a minor anoyance than anything). I've been dual-booting 7 since the beta came out on my work LT and recently installed it as the primary OS on my home machine. Both run well in the RC and I really cannot find anything that I don't like so much about the OS, save the multitude of steps you have to go through to change settings. I just put in an order with NewEgg for parts to build a HTPC and I looked into OS options for this PC. Windows 7 will get the first shot at prime time. It sounds like it and Media Center will make this machine do everything I want it to do, with room for more functionality later. If things work as I expect, I'll likely buy it for at least the HTPC on the day it comes out. |
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Heres my Windows 7 box. http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo162/megahurts777/Untitled2.jpg I can't wait however to actually have it as my host OS. The virtual just doesn't do it justice. any chance of a screen shot of the network connections menu?? |
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Quoted: Quoted: Windows 7 is just Vista SP2 with a bunch of services and features disabled/removed. Most hardware and software are now Vista-compatible, so Windows 7 won't have the teething problems that plagued Vista. Most of Vista's problems weren't due to the OS, but rather 3rd party apps that relied on deprecated Windows 9x functionality. Turn off UAC, and most of those old apps work just fine. I really dislike the new taskbar/start menu in Windows 7... it's a crappy rip-off of the Mac dock. If I wanted a shitty app-doc, I would own a Mac. The thing that really pisses me off is that M$ removed the Windows Classic (Windows 2000-style) start menu. I hate the WinXP/Vista/Win7 start menu... takes me 12 clicks to do what took 2 clicks on the Classic menu. awww damn tell me they didnt do that!!! its so much easier to use the classic menu You can still use all the classic menus in XP, Vista, and 7, you just have to change the settings a little. There is not much really "new" in 7 that wasn't already in Vista, and for the most part XP as well. |
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Heres my Windows 7 box. http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo162/megahurts777/Untitled2.jpg I can't wait however to actually have it as my host OS. The virtual just doesn't do it justice. any chance of a screen shot of the network connections menu?? You mean this? 
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