Which Version of Windows?

[CliffyBiro]

How do you disable superfetch on Windows 7?

 

[DreXeL]

Filling RAM with programs you're unlikely to use is equally a waste of RAM and additonally of HD activity, I'd rather have memory empty and ready to be filled when asked than to have the HD un-necessarily thrashing away on the off chance that I use it.

Strange that it only seems to fill the ram with the programs I actually use most often. And also I don't understand when people say that their HD is always thrashing, mine only ever 'thrashes' for about 30 seconds after boot. It doesn't sit there constantly thrashing like so many people say theirs does

 

[snowdog]

Windows 98 is way faster than XP on the same hardware, why are we no longer running windows 98? This is the same argument you are trying to push here.

No it isn't, afaik it can't make use of dual/quad cores and it definitely doesn't have drivers for my GTX260. Also uses fat32 as a default which is slower than ntfs in many things. If it would I would use win98 for games but it's not faster so I'm not sure what argument YOU are trying to push...

Strange that it only seems to fill the ram with the programs I actually use most often. And also I don't understand when people say that their HD is always thrashing, mine only ever 'thrashes' for about 30 seconds after boot. It doesn't sit there constantly thrashing like so many people say theirs does

Exactly, superfetch is great (though, allowing more user input like manually saying what folders/apps to cache would have been nice).

security improvements

Yawn, security is only a pain in the *** imo.

stability

Are you saying xp was unstable ?

 

[Dark_Angel]

Are you saying xp was unstable ?

It was early on, with a heck of a lot more bugs in it compared to vista and Windows 7 on release.

Also in terms of vulnerability -

http://blogs.csoonline.com/windows_vista_6_month_vulnerability_report

Now XP is completely stable, but so is Vista and Windows 7. So I would rather choose the newer OS.

*EDIT*

Wait what?

Security is a pain in the butt?

You simply can make UAC silent if you wish. I would MUCH rather have my stuff less vulnerable than not. Especially as I bank and buy online, I also work from home and more.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/ReportsDetails.mspx?recid=54&tapm=A80S05B05 worth reading. Nothing at all to do with performance, just saying that it is more secure / bug free.

BUT I digress, if you prefer XP or whatever knock yourself out I will stick with W7 though.

 

[JessicaD]

Paul11,
It's great that you are loving Windows 7 and the speed improvements Microsoft has made. Have you pre-ordered your copy of Windows 7 yet? If you haven't, it would be good to know that you can pre-order your copy of Windows 7 for a discounted price of more than half off! For more information, see the Windows 7 Pre-Order offer page here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/pre-order.aspx

Jessica
Microsoft Windows Client Team