*** The Official OcUK Windows 7 Opinions Thread ***

Just got mine through, was quite surprised the box was so small, don't know why but for some reason I was expecting a large old school operating system box!
 
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Just noticed another nice feature. Basically if you download anything the IE box turns green the further it gets up so when it's full your download is complete. Only just noticed this with a 50mb download... everyones probably seen it but I missed it on the beta and RC.



M.
 
I love it. Been using the beta since January, then updated to RC and all leaked builds as they came out. Actually been using it as my OS since I download the beta. Awesome OS. Microsoft really did a great job. Full marks to them =)
 
What i dont like is the standard Windows Photo Viewer.

The outside of an image isnt pure white like XP (the edges left and right are a cream colour), and the images generally looks quite awful looking at them in this view. If you then edit the image in any other editor, the image looks totally different based heavily on a purely neutral background image.

Have a look through some of your wallpapers etc and you'll see what i mean. :o
 
OzZie said:
What i dont like is the standard Windows Photo Viewer.

The outside of an image isnt pure white like XP (the edges left and right are a cream colour), and the images generally looks quite awful looking at them in this view. If you then edit the image in any other editor, the image looks totally different based heavily on a purely neutral background image.

Have a look through some of your wallpapers etc and you'll see what i mean. :o
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I don't see it :confused:
 
Fairly happy so far. Install was easy despite what I read about people having issues with the digital download.

Only issue I have at the moment is the drag resizing. Cause I have two screens I cannot auto 50% resize a window when I drag it to the right of my first monitor... it just drags onto my 2nd monitor.

Getting 5.9 on WEI, only due to my RAID setup though. Other tests come in at 7.6 /7.7/ 7.6/ 7.6
 
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matthewhotdude said:
I don't see it :confused:
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Bear with me, i'll upload a screenie. :)

Image viewed in Photo Viewer
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Image viewed in MS Pain
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Massive difference in colour!
 
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Meatball said:
I feel the same, Vista was one of Microsofts most underated OSs ever. You hear people slagging it off left right and centre about how it was slow, buggy and hogged ram but I felt it was a breath of fresh air since day of release. I don't see how people can still be using XP in this day and age, everything about it feels prehistoric!
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Ah, fixed it :)

Turns out it could be down to a dodgy samsung display driver that automatically installs via windows update as a recommended download (i.e installs immediatly upon installation).

If you do go device manager > display > roll back driver > reboot it should then fix the issue. :)
 
OzZie said:
What i dont like is the standard Windows Photo Viewer.

The outside of an image isnt pure white like XP (the edges left and right are a cream colour), and the images generally looks quite awful looking at them in this view. If you then edit the image in any other editor, the image looks totally different based heavily on a purely neutral background image.

Have a look through some of your wallpapers etc and you'll see what i mean. :o
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That doesnt happen on my W7, it is white.
 
installation was very easy and fairly speedy, as was re-installing everything, the whole GUI looks improved and i'm still seeing nice little effects every now and then that make it appeal even more BUT it seems to run like a dog on my system (e5200, 4gb RAM, HD 4830 512mb etc), it takes about an extra minute from boot before i can actually do anything than it did in vista, it seems to hang when i try to transfer files, my RAM usage is more than it was in vista just sitting at the desktop.

overall i'd say i'm pretty unimpressed, i'm almost certain i'll be going back to vista and flogging it on but i'll give it a fair trial first, see if it settles down.

oh, that and i've cocked up my WMP12 already, tried to revert it back to 11 following a guide so that i could have the toolbar (ffs, why wmp12 doesn't have it is anybodies guess!) and i can't download wmp 12 from MS nor can i seem to be able to work out how to do a fix from the disc manually. oh well :mad:
 
vincent1989 said:
installation was very easy and fairly speedy, as was re-installing everything, the whole GUI looks improved and i'm still seeing nice little effects every now and then that make it appeal even more BUT it seems to run like a dog on my system (e5200, 4gb RAM, HD 4830 512mb etc), it takes about an extra minute from boot before i can actually do anything than it did in vista, it seems to hang when i try to transfer files, my RAM usage is more than it was in vista just sitting at the desktop.
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That is strange, I think most people find the opposite. (well the RAM thing is because it is reserving the RAM as it isn't needed for anything else at that time I think)
 
vincent1989 said:
installation was very easy and fairly speedy, as was re-installing everything, the whole GUI looks improved and i'm still seeing nice little effects every now and then that make it appeal even more BUT it seems to run like a dog on my system (e5200, 4gb RAM, HD 4830 512mb etc), it takes about an extra minute from boot before i can actually do anything than it did in vista, it seems to hang when i try to transfer files, my RAM usage is more than it was in vista just sitting at the desktop.

overall i'd say i'm pretty unimpressed, i'm almost certain i'll be going back to vista and flogging it on but i'll give it a fair trial first, see if it settles down.

oh, that and i've cocked up my WMP12 already, tried to revert it back to 11 following a guide so that i could have the toolbar (ffs, why wmp12 doesn't have it is anybodies guess!) and i can't download wmp 12 from MS nor can i seem to be able to work out how to do a fix from the disc manually. oh well :mad:
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Goto control panel
Click on programs and features
Click on turn windows features on or off
Click on + next to Media Features
Click on Tick Box next to Windows Media Player (if it's ticked un tick it and then after it's properly uninstalled, restart and do this again but tick it and restart).

Did you upgrade your OS or reinstall it?

If you upgraded it then it could be this that's slowing it down.



M.
 
m4cc45 said:
Goto control panel
Click on programs and features
Click on turn windows features on or off
Click on + next to Media Features
Click on Tick Box next to Windows Media Player (if it's ticked un tick it and then after it's properly uninstalled, restart and do this again but tick it and restart).

Did you upgrade your OS or reinstall it?

If you upgraded it then it could be this that's slowing it down.



M.
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thanks, i'll give that a go. complete re-install, i'd never bother with simply upgrading.

edit; no joy on the WMP front.
 
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vincent1989 said:
it takes about an extra minute from boot before i can actually do anything than it did in vista, it seems to hang when i try to transfer files, my RAM usage is more than it was in vista just sitting at the desktop.
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Whats your motherboard... Nforce by any chance ?
check your IDE controller drivers.
 
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