Thoughts on Windows 7?

I didn't even bother with Vista. Aint bothering with Win 7, until I know it is compatible with my stuff LOL. I am settled with XP cus I know that all the stuff I have on my computer works well. And well, if it aint broke, you know the rest lol ;)

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ive got windows 7 installed...im on a dual boot..so i can have either xp or win 7....made a 50 gig partition ..and put it on there..i never tried vista..cause its bad bad,,lol..well for most it is..but win 7 is gonna take over..its gonna be the main operating system in the future..think vista will die!!lol...

im very impressed with win7...its very smooth and the applications run great...there is some driver problems here and there..but things runs..i love the fact u can have say 5 web browsers up..and it just shows 1 at the bottom bar..u hoover ur mouse over it and it shows all 5 as a small web pic..click one and it pops up too ur main screen..for people with a small screen its great..its very user friendly..i got msn workin..fire wall..anit virus etc....all workin fine...

got sound ..but the drivers are standard..i use audigy 2 sound card..and i cant use me old software...there not out yet..so thts my only moan....all the rest work up too now..and there xp drivers..so some will work..and some wont..

i think this is win7 is gonna be here for good not like vista wista,lol...

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u will need about a gig or more of memory ...u can run it on less...but it will slow ur pc or lappy down...

ive had it on a laptop..512 mem...the more i added it ran slower...if it has too use virtual memory well it will really slow down,lol...

im on 3 gig on me pc..so its flying...i was runnin some stuff..and it went too over a gig in use.not used photo shop yet....ill have too install it and see wht the damage is on mem there.lol..

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The Windows 7 team has worked very hard to improve the 64 bit version. They are very excited about what they came up with. Check out what the guys at Gizmodo had to say about the 64 bit Windows 7: http://bit.ly/Fb6Hj

Cheers,
Andy
Windows Canada Outreach

http://www.facebook.com/windowscanada

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Vista is the ONLY Windows operating system I have ever actually bought (Yeah I know, shame on me!) and it is absolutely pants. I am on dual boot too and I use the XP side almost exclusively.

Here's an extract from my favourite website "The Daily Mash":

"Windows 7 has been introduced after Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths."

My biggest problem is much like iffy's; none of the software for my Audigy2 soundcard works through Vista, except the drivers, which means you have to go through Windows sound controls (absolutely diabolical on Vista) and none of the EAX audio effects work. In 2 years they have NEVER had that fixed.

I'm going to leave it a year before I jump in on this. Someone told me that 7 is a lot smaller than Vista. This true?

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I did Beta testing on 7 on my laptop and my bf just bought a new cpu for his office. The one on my laptop was "decent"... mind you it was still in Beta. BUT the one on his cpu is amazing! It's like they took all the good stuff from XP and all the good stuff from Vista (short list) and put it together. I dont think I've found a single thing about 7 that I didn't like... yet. I was rather annoyed though that even though it's brand new (bought the cpu on monday) it already had like 40 some updates :/

oh well.... I give it two thumbs up. it's CERTAINLY better than Vista, that's for sure.

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Running win7 64bit on my core i7 with 6gb ram. Had it about 2 weeks and so far it's great. Everything installed has worked!

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I do my best not to think about Windows anything. ;)

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im fallin out with win 7 slowly,lol..nero wont install..few other things as well.. my main prob is like mick....audigy drivers..u dont get the eax console like xp.just a basic driver for audigy..and wht u get is soo igly pigly.lol..confused aint the word,lol.and i get a delay on the mic...so for now..xp is stayin ..but on the general running of win 7...wht a nice peice of kit...i love it :)

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Right now I am running Vista. The on board sound card that is in this lap top does not seem to want to work properly in SingSnap, and a few other places, so I got an external one.

I don't like the way Vista is laid out or the way it operates on most anything I try to do. Can't even play a decent game of Solitaire on this thing.

Does anyone know if an external sound card .. specifically a Creative X-Fi Surround 5.1 .. works with Windows 7 ?

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*has no idea what they are on aboot..... but do know i need a new pc*

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Thank you Piano74,

This is a Hewlett Packard HP Pavilion Entertainment computer with an AMD Athlon Neo Processor MV-40

I am running a 64 bit operating system and have 4 gig.'s of memory on here.
There seems to be lag time on anything I try to do on this computer.

Do you think it would be beneficial for me to upgrade to Windows 7 ?

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typomaniac wrote:Thank you Piano74,

This is a Hewlett Packard HP Pavilion Entertainment computer with an AMD Athlon Neo Processor MV-40

I am running a 64 bit operating system and have 4 gig.'s of memory on here.
There seems to be lag time on anything I try to do on this computer.

Do you think it would be beneficial for me to upgrade to Windows 7 ?

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Yes iffy,

I go into task manager, at least once a day, and make sure nothing is on that doesn't need to be.

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DO NOT BUY WINDOW"S 7!!!!!!! 2 weeks,lot's of phone calls!( Total waste of time)They won't admit there's a problem!They well waste a few hours of your time though!!!! Hp,Mircosoft,and the sound card Maker refuse to help....It's a sound card compatablity Problem,But they could care less!!!They will ask you a 10,000 un-related question's though.I suppose a year or two from now they'll come out with a fix,,,,,Then a new system and more problem's!!!!For Us to Fix's

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To Typo,,,NO,No,and NO!!!!!!

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I bought two differant sound card's.said Win7 compatable neither was!!! Waste of 200 dollars.
Hp computer 700 dollars waste of money!

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Thank you WallyGB,

I had heard there were problems with compatibility on sound cards.

The HP computer seems to be a good one .. I just don't like the Vista operating system and was hoping that Windows 7 was better.

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drivers drivers....lol...its gonna be like tht for a long while...lol..

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is there not a part of win7 that allows old xp drivers to run smoothly?

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I understand that some of the issues with sound-cards especially some creative cards are not establishing the bit-rate properly. I think that like in Vista, windows is running and processing your sound at 44khz and the sound card at 48, I would imagine checking your sound card settings and see if they actually match up correctly.

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I got my upgrade disc about 3 days ago. The only thing I don't like is, where as Vista took maybe one minute to load, 7 takes 3-4 minutes to load.
I have no sound issues, but then I am using the sound card that came with the puter.

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I don't understand most of what is being said here
about bits and sound cards etc.

I have a Mac
and everything works just dandy on it.
Have had it for 3 years
and not a problem yet.

I be sticking with my Mac.

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