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)
 
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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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
 
NathanE said:
Since when has Aero Glass been "gimmicky"?

It's half the reason Vista/W7 are so damn fast. GPU accelerated desktop (with nice animations and transitions for absolutely free, zero cost)? Yes please.

Superfetch? Yes please, I'll have that too.

The OP sounds like one of those "thinks he knows it all but doesn't" types. Hope I'm wrong :)
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No, I dont know everything, which is why I am posting questions about Windows 7 and what it has to offer

Is Aero Glass the same as Aero Peek? What else is it used for other than moving the mouse over show desktop on the right so you can see the background?

I have turned off minimise/maximise animations because its running slow when doing it (sometimes stuttering) Office work machines generally dont have GPUs as standard

I am using a brand new Optiplex 780 machine

I'll look into what 'Superfetch' is. At a guess its the way Windows 7 'learns' what you use and presumably stores this info in cache somwhere
 
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