Good things about Windows 7?

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Yesterday I moved from XP to Windows 7 on my work machine.

So far the only good things I can find are the following -

Windows Firewall - Splitting into Domain, Home and Public places

It looks nice with all the fade stuff and preview windows when you move over a taskbar item. (I would personally love to turn all this gimmicky crap off)

Desktop background fade (same as above)
 
RAM doesn't learn what you use, that's quite an absurd statement!

Superfetch will do this and will poll application usage to and from paging/ram etc on the fly (and very well in fact). Superfetch will take a few weeks to learn into routinely used applications so they should start faster as time progresses.

The key benefits being taskbar jumplists, explorer jump locations and user document area handling as it's shifted away from the virtual folders of Vista to raw locations - just add new locations via right click properties on any library folder to add a new location for that type etc.

And then there's the new WINKEY shortcuts, the taskbar previews and better utilisation of the GFX card and multicore processors.

Why do you want to turn off the fade effects? They improve the user experience but you've only just moved from XP so you're not at home with it yet and you're still in the "change? noooooooooo!" phase.
 
Guest2 said:
How do you stop all the daft fade effects?
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Right click my computer, go to properties. Then click "Advanced system settings" then under "performance" click settings and choose "Adjust for best performance".

This will turn OFF all the nice slick GUI features of windows 7.
 
asim18 said:
Right click my computer, go to properties. Then click "Advanced system settings" then under "performance" click settings and choose "Adjust for best performance".

This will turn OFF all the nice slick GUI features of windows 7.
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arhhhhhhh. Thats nice and raw!

All the stuff i have just turned off seems to be about the only selling point of Windows 7.

Turned it back on now, but will disable a couple of things.

Edit - where is the option to stop it displaying a preview of the item on the taskbar when you move over it?
 
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I've gone from xp 32bit to W7 64bit, as well as being able to use all my ram now the OS feels way more modern than xp which is ancient now in computer terms, although still more than adequate for most tasks. Other things i've noticed are i can put the pc in sleep mode when not using and after more than a week of no proper shutdown and daily use it is still responsive, xp would become very sluggish on the same machine with the same treatment. Also from my experience with the later RC it boots a lot quicker even after months of use and plenty of installed programs than xp would under the same circs.
 
It would be interesting to see how Windows 7 performs against XP with 128mb of RAM. I have an old laptop with 192mb ram with XP on. It only has winamp and media player classic on it. Startup is fast for what it is

I know you are going to say Windows 7 is new and no one has 192mb of ram now but some people do. One of my mates still runs Windows 95 on with 16mb ram. Think all he uses if for is champ mananger 98
 
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It would be interesting to see how Windows 7 performs against XP with 128mb of RAM.
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Thats a stupid thing to say really:eek: XP will run on real old pcs and dosent need a large amount of mem to run. Win 7 is a brand new OS, so it requires quite modern hardware and larger amount of mem to run.
 
You're disabling / not using the best new features.

+1 to what Phil said

XP runs like a 2 legged dog on <256mb ram, 7 wouldn't even install. Pointless excercise
 
I think the bigger difference is Vista vs Windows 7 rather than XP vs Windows 7, I can't imagine Vista running anywhere near as well as Windows 7 does on a 1.6Ghz Atom.
 
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It would be interesting to see how Windows 7 performs against XP with 128mb of RAM. I have an old laptop with 192mb ram with XP on. It only has winamp and media player classic on it. Startup is fast for what it is

I know you are going to say Windows 7 is new and no one has 192mb of ram now but some people do. One of my mates still runs Windows 95 on with 16mb ram. Think all he uses if for is champ mananger 98
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As you said, either use an old Windows for such a system (3.11 will run on as little as 4meg ;) ), or put some version of Linux on it. There are quite a few Linux distributions which can run well with little memory.

XP needs 512-1gig to run acceptably, and I wouldn't put win7 on anything less than 2gig.

If you have 192 meg, either go old (win98), or go Linux.
 
In my experience, a standard install XP works fine on 192MB RAM once you turn off all the fluff. XP is better then 98 because it vastly less driver issues. I wouldn't bother with less than 192MB though. But as you can pick up a used machine with a vastly better spec, for next to nothing, so why bother with something that old? Even new bottom of the rung machines would be light years better. You can pick up cheap machine new now.

From my point of view Window 7 has no killer features I need to have. I have it on one laptop for well over a year. But I have no urge to upgrade the other machines to it. Only if I had a newish machine with more than 2GB of RAM and wanted to play the latest games on it would I see Windows 7 as a must have. When I'm on a XP machine I never find myself wishing it was Windows 7.
 
If you use Internet Explorer the protected mode is a decent advanatge over XP web browsing. Although I've not used Firefox for years and the plethora of addons available.
 
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