Windows 7: Changes listed since beta for the RC
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Why does nVidia's shoddy drivers make Vista a bad operating system? Surely you should be pointing the finger at nVidia not Vista?
. The only reason manufacturers were slow to release Vista drivers was because of the hyped bad press surrounding it. Windows 7 is built upon Vista so this time around drivers should be much better from the start.
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Same here. I dont really see any point im moving to win7 on my current sys, cos its nice and fast, stable and runs everything perfectly even my x-fi card. PPl saying I should change cos its faster, but is win7 any diff then vista on performance wise, if you havd a good spec pc with loads of mem?
Theres 3 things ive notice about win7 that I dont like, and they are..
1 It automatically creates a 2nd partitpm on install
2 no classic startbar(yeah I know im still in the dark ages)
3 when windows are maximized you can still see though the window bar.
1) no it doesnt?
2) yes there is if you choose a classic theme
3) only the frames of the windows, which can be switched off.
Why does nVidia's shoddy drivers make Vista a bad operating system? Surely you should be pointing the finger at nVidia not Vista?
i said i couldnt use vista because of the state of the gpu drivers. i never said that was microsofts fault lol
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1. It wont let you install win 7 unless it creates a 2nd partion cos I tried
2. thats ****, I only want the classic startmenu
3. But you have to turn the glass look totally off?
That goes for Vista too, it's not a new feature.
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1. It wont let you install win 7 unless it creates a 2nd partion cos I tried
2. thats ****, I only want the classic startmenu
3. But you have to turn the glass look totally off?
It didnt on the two machines i have it installed on
as far as turning glass off again, its the same as vista.
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It'll automatically create a small 200MB partition at the start of the HD, which isn't assigned a drive letter - this contains the boot files and certain recovery information. However, it *only* does this on a completely clean, unpartitioned disk - if you install Win 7 to a pre-existing partition (eg one that was previously used for Vista), it'll create a folder called "recovery" and use that instead.It didnt on the two machines i have it installed on
It didnt on the two machines i have it installed on
On vista, a full screen window isnt glass, and a non full screen window is glass.
On win7, its glass nomatter if your viewing a window in full screen or not
Lets all go back to 3.11
I prefer the classic start menu... Surely theres a patch or something that will just let you just change the start menu to classic and not the entire windows theme???
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mm i tride win7 and i liked but what put me off was when in clasic view it run poorley compared to clasic view in vista,has any one else found this ? if they sort that out then i will be very happy.
ps. I dislike the candy on vista and win7 very much but then i also use linux so maybe thats why or im odd
ps. I dislike the candy on vista and win7 very much but then i also use linux so maybe thats why or im odd
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The only thing that saddened me with Vista and now with Win7, is the network and sharing centre.
I thought it got far more dragged out in Vista but now in Win7 it's just a "nice looking" mess. Maybe I'm not looking at it in the right way and I should live with it, just seems far less intuitive though, it's difficult to find what I'm looking for.
Anyone else felt similar?
I thought it got far more dragged out in Vista but now in Win7 it's just a "nice looking" mess. Maybe I'm not looking at it in the right way and I should live with it, just seems far less intuitive though, it's difficult to find what I'm looking for.
Anyone else felt similar?
I despise that Sharing centre thing, so annoying as it has lots of sub folders and crap.... why not keep it simple eh.
Got a link to the Graphics Drivers then?
I use a GTX 280 and I keep getting an error with the Vista ones, some rabble about there being another Windows installation in the background when there isn't. =X
Even tried what ya said but same thing.
Any ideas?
Got a link to the Graphics Drivers then?
I use a GTX 280 and I keep getting an error with the Vista ones, some rabble about there being another Windows installation in the background when there isn't. =X
Even tried what ya said but same thing.
Any ideas?
Care to explain?
My user experience between the os's
XP-> Vista
-Great folder browsing in explorer
-First time I've actually used the inbuilt 'music', 'pictures' folders, due to the new locations and customisability of them
-Nice to have the preview window when hovering over a taskbar item
Vista->7
-Libraries are a great long needed addition to Windows
-UAC barely noticable, and tweakable
-Awesome keyboard shortcuts
-Easier to work with by tiling windows quickly to the left/right side of screen
-Can now view previews in full screen for each window type.
--ie, if you have 5 explorer windows open, clicking on the single explorer group will give you the option of 5 previews to choose from
Productivity is improved from XP>Vista and more so ni Vista>7
Anyone shunning 7 clearly hasn't used it as their main OS to actually 'do' things on the machine.
After using Vista, I would still go back to XP without missing too many features.
After using 7 however, I've not even booted my XP64 partition once (or the Vista one)
I'll be buying 7 on release
XP-> Vista
-Great folder browsing in explorer
-First time I've actually used the inbuilt 'music', 'pictures' folders, due to the new locations and customisability of them
-Nice to have the preview window when hovering over a taskbar item
Vista->7
-Libraries are a great long needed addition to Windows
-UAC barely noticable, and tweakable
-Awesome keyboard shortcuts
-Easier to work with by tiling windows quickly to the left/right side of screen
-Can now view previews in full screen for each window type.
--ie, if you have 5 explorer windows open, clicking on the single explorer group will give you the option of 5 previews to choose from
Productivity is improved from XP>Vista and more so ni Vista>7
Anyone shunning 7 clearly hasn't used it as their main OS to actually 'do' things on the machine.
After using Vista, I would still go back to XP without missing too many features.
After using 7 however, I've not even booted my XP64 partition once (or the Vista one)
I'll be buying 7 on release
so what is the main diffirence between Libraries and folders? am i correct in saying the Libraries located files from various folders? ie if you have music spread over 2 drives?