Windows 7: Changes listed since beta for the RC

na it won't be much of a diffirence, i think people that go from xp to windows7 will have the same issues that people going from xp to vista will have
 
i dont completely agree with that. ive been using vista for as long as i could - vista drivers for my 800gtx where a shambles on release and took about a year to get up to speed from memory - and i an genuinely excited about windows 7.


Why does nVidia's shoddy drivers make Vista a bad operating system? Surely you should be pointing the finger at nVidia not Vista? :confused:. 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.
 
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:p(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? :confused:. 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.

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) 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.



i said i couldnt use vista because of the state of the gpu drivers. i never said that was microsofts fault lol

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:D
3. But you have to turn the glass look totally off?
 
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:D
3. But you have to turn the glass look totally off?

It didnt on the two machines i have it installed on:confused: as far as turning glass off again, its the same as vista.
 
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1 It automatically creates a 2nd partitpm on install
1) no it doesnt
1. It wont let you install win 7 unless it creates a 2nd partion cos I tried
It didnt on the two machines i have it installed on:confused:
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:confused: as far as turning glass off again, its the same as vista.

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???
 
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 :D
 
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 despise that Sharing centre thing, so annoying as it has lots of sub folders and crap.... why not keep it simple eh.

^for what hardware

all my vista drivers have worked, some i had to extract first, then point at in device manager. others i had to tick 'vista compatibility' on the exe when running, like creatives

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?
 
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
 
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

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?
 
Just installed windows 7 on a mega old dell inspiron 1200 1.6 celeron and a gig of ram, running rather nicely for such an old laptop.

time to have a play, but so far quite liking it.
 
jimlad, yes libraries work like that..

ie you can set multiple folders to be your 'pictures' library, imo 7 is what vista should have been
 
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