Good things about Windows 7?

The UI is very nice in 7 and does make thing easier. Still never understood the hatred of vista yet the loving of Windows 7 by the same people when underneath there are more or less the same system.
 
Guest2 said:
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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Yeah superfetch is where windows 7 and vista will have apps cached in RAM allowing them to start faster and release this cache when needed by other apps (at least this is my understanding of it). This is a more efficient use of RAM than previous Windows OS where the free RAM is wasted.
 
johnno93 said:
The UI is very nice in 7 and does make thing easier. Still never understood the hatred of vista yet the loving of Windows 7 by the same people when underneath there are more or less the same system.
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Vista caused me problems on every machine I've had it on. Windows 7 hasn't.

For me. Its that that simple.
 
Guest2 said:
Just read this

http://www.osnews.com/story/21471/SuperFetch_How_it_Works_Myths

It does seems like Windows 7 is the way forward, especially if you have more RAM. If this is the case shouldnt it be faster at running applications (and games) than XP?

edit - so what would be faster at laoding programs and games. An SSD and 4gb or 8gb?
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SDD & 4GB would be fine for Windows 7 and gaming, go 8GB if you find your self running out of memory.
 
1337z0r said:
Aslong as it works for you then its all good, I still think some apps and games do run better under XP but overall I prefer Windows 7 as my main OS.
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Aye it does everything I want too and thats all I ask :) Was just wondering if I would see a overall performance upgrade coming from XP?
 
another thing I love about W7 is how it deals with drivers. I've had so many problems with bluetooth dongles on XP and vista that I had nightmares lol

With W7, I plugged in my previously problematic bluetooth dongle, it took me straight to the vendors download page where the driver installed and updated to the latest version. Now I get no 'bluetooth license not found messages', I no longer have to go into device manager and remove the MS driver. Also, when I turn on my bluetooth headset W7 takes care of everything. Skype instantly re-routes to my bluetooth headset, and re-routes back to my soundcard when I turn it off: no restarting skype and having to reconfigure sound settings.

sounds like a small improvement, but I've encountered many of such improvements on W7 that makes my life easier.
 
Infam0us said:
I still use XP and only have 2GB of RAM ... I feel quite inadequate now :p
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I'm still on 2GB but from all the things I've read regarding any 64bit version is the driver problems that depend on what hardware you're using for 64bit. How quick they get them updated or if it's a priority or not for a specific bug over 32bit versions.

johnno93 said:
The UI is very nice in 7 and does make thing easier. Still never understood the hatred of vista yet the loving of Windows 7 by the same people when underneath there are more or less the same system.
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Considering all thats different visually is the black taskbar and start menu. Though I really love how 7 handles the taskbar now/system tray and such etc. I really love using it.

Even though how ancient my PC is now just over 3 years old I honestly prefer to use Windows 7 the way it does things and interact with it. At times when I think about it as I triple boot between the 3 OS's, Vista feels like a glorified XP that wasn't all there yet until Windows 7 hit. I do however miss the sidebar wall/tray? that holds all the gadgets that you could hide to Vista's tray instead they just snap or float on the Windows 7 desktop. Personally I would have preferred it like OS X in another desktop layer that can show or hide as you will. Or hold and drag a widget/gadget to the desktop.

OspreyO said:
Vista caused me problems on every machine I've had it on. Windows 7 hasn't.

For me. Its that that simple.
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The occasional thing that bugged me with Vista was the hard drive grinding away when it's idle plus due to that the seagate sata drive it's on is a tad noisy by design, so I end up hearing it more. As well as the occasional not responding window with some strenuous tasks in Photoshop CS3 or a window with a load of installers due to all the icons loading or such. It didn't happen all the time but when it did it was down right irritating due to my impatience with some things. Apart from that most times Vista was rather nice but only with SP2. Vista out of the box on release, pain pain grief pain pain and lots of network and driver issues.

With the small amount of time I've used Windows 7 I honestly prefer it the most to use when it comes to Windows. I have found myself very rarely booting into XP unless I have to test something. It's now starting to slowly happen with Vista as well but I still like to keep my options open.

I really do believe Windows 7 will become my main OS for Windows.
 
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