Broke my Windows 7 virginity

Sin_Chase

Sin_Chase

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New laptop prompted a new OS, Windows 7. A first time for me.

Not much to this post other than a props to MS for a fantastic job on 7. I have fallen in love with it, it's quick, it works, it looks good and overall is leaps and bounds ahead of vista. The new taskbar is a work of art the grouping and window previewing and 'pin to taskbar' functionality has streamlined my PC usage no end, all my commonly used apps such as IRC/IM/Opera/Winamp are pinned for quick loading and quick retrieval. Major major high five to the team who developed that.

I hated Vista since the second I touched it, not just the buggyness of it but the way processes worked compared to XP for example. Win 7 certainly seems to be more intuitive in this respect. UAC is no longer a headache and out of the box works as it always should have done. I already had hacks and settings bookmarked to disable the thing after my Vista experiences on client systems but...I don't need it.

I thought it was going to be hard making the move being a die hard XP user but now 7 will be going on my home desktop as soon as I return from travels.

Thinking about the jump to Win 7? Do it, you will not regret it. It's not often a piece of software prompts me to make a forum post, but the joy of working with Windows 7 is one of them. (I sound like a poster boy, I am usually a proper cynic so this is a one off for me!)
 
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Yup it's a great o/s. They had to pull out all the stops after Vista. lol ! I actually have a licence for Vista (shame on me). Think Microsoft developers came up with the idea for Vista on a beer mat after a few Whiskeys. They should give people who bought Vista a free licence for Win 7 but they wouldn't do that as it admits defeat.
 
theheyes said:
Real geeks like Vista. :p
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+1

While i think some aspects of the taskbar are much of an improvement - as well as its ability to properly manage services, I still prefer vista. It's more configurable than 7.

don't get me wrong, i do like 7. I recommend it to family & friends as well as the workplace. I think its great for laptops, media center pc's and the mainstream user, but for my power setup(s) I like having the ability to configure and control everything.
 
What can't you control in Windows 7 you can in Vista?

My career is as a technical specialist, I game, I use my systems heavily and as of yet I have not found anything I could not change or configure in Windows 7, I am intrigued what sort of things you are changing in Vista that Win 7 cannot.
 
Uh. Win7 is a step backward in terms of usability, for me anyway. I find it incredibly difficult to keep track of where my windows are, what they are showing. Even when turning everything back to classic it's better but still deeply flawed. e.g. the breadcrumbs in the address bar. These take up way more space, mean you need an extra click to get to the path. They removed Up, which I suppose is fine for people that didn't know the difference between back and up. Now when clicking the drop down you DON't get a list of your drives you get some other list which makes no sense. The windoes seem to take up so much space while not actually being useful. + about a million other things I keep meaning to write a lsit of all the regressions, but I only use win7 rarely anyway. I moved to Mac instead.
 
Halfmad said:
Lies, real geeks know it's not worth installing.
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I never had problems with Vista personally which is a good OS IMHO,Win7 which I also use is an improvement on Vista with regards to slower/older hardware.
Just remember Win7 is based on Vista so any complements to Win7 is really down to the groundwork they did with Vista.


I never really had any major issues with any OS but then again I know what I'm doing ;).

I also use good old Ubuntu too and would be a Linux user period if I did not game,I know one thing Microsoft can learn a thing or two from Linux :).
 
I only ever got one bluescreen with Vista and it was on my sisters laptop. After it came back up again Vista prompted it had found a solution to the problem and gave a direct link to an updated wireless driver - and that was all the troubleshooting I had to do. :p
 
Elevon said:
I never really had any major issues with any OS but then again I know what I'm doing ;).
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Nobody said anything about major issues, I just don't like the OS. Windows 7 is in my mind more of a reskin of it than a total reworking of Vista, but it still manages to improve on it no end. Just as Server 2003 is improved on in 2008 (although oddly I prefer using 2003!!) :D
 
vista was good, especially after sp1. Compatibility issues were its main problem for a long time.

either way, windows 7 is a major improvement on an already good foundation... been using 7 since beta couldn't imagine going back to anything pre-7 now
 
No OS will be perfect for everyone, but Windows 7 goes a long way to trying to achieve that. Vista wasn't terrible after the first service pack. It was never great either. Windows 7 is leaps and bounds ahead.

The core foundation of Vista was OK, just everything else was sloppy. MS fixed that and we're getting what Vista should have been years ago. I am a heavy user of Windows 7 and OS X and I much prefer Windows. To avoid any kind of debate, OS X is great too! :p
 
Halfmad said:
Nobody said anything about major issues, I just don't like the OS. Windows 7 is in my mind more of a reskin of it than a total reworking of Vista, but it still manages to improve on it no end. Just as Server 2003 is improved on in 2008 (although oddly I prefer using 2003!!) :D
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You actually said it was not worth installing which is wrong,I like how you say
Lies, real geeks know it's not worth installing.
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A lot of users know Vista is a decent OS especially after service packs,we can all argue whats best OS of the day but even that changes depending on whats available at the time and if you are a Linux or Windows fan etc...
 
If MS had not done the discount pre-order deal I would never have bought W7.

Never had a single issue with Vista and still haven't as its now on my HTPC and running as smooth as W7.

I do prefer W7 though.
 
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