Windows 7 Impressions

just sent my first feedback.
wanted to install my hl-1240 printer which is on my server via cups but the driver wasn't in the w7 driver list, had to connect via usb let it download the driver then i could add it via the network.

vista always had the driver builtin.
 
What AV's are people installing on Windows 7?

I'm tempted to put on my copy of Kaspersky but unsure yet until more feedback comes.
 
Well I have to say i'm very impressed with the 64bit version so far.

X-FI drivers are OK. have not yet installed ATI Drivers yet. Are the 8.12's ok or shall I install the beta ones?

If all goes well, I may give it a bash on my Raid setup to see the true potential of it.
 
Strife212 said:
I personally can't notice any performance difference whatsoever but then again I've got a good PC and I optimized Vista a fair bit.
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I feel the same, I think Vista is a great OS and Windows 7 is just a skin of Vista, like I said before, I bet you (even people in here) who "hated" Vista to death are now praising Windows 7, I know some of the bloggers and media guys are :p
 
rafster said:
I feel the same, I think Vista is a great OS and Windows 7 is just a skin of Vista, like I said before, I bet you (even people in here) who "hated" Vista to death are now praising Windows 7, I know some of the bloggers and media guys are :p
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Yeah its pretty funny really, its just exposing them as the hypocrites / clueless people they are! (Not aimed at anyone here)
 
Problem with vista was all the bugs on release. If windows 7 launches bug free with full driver/software support it will dethrone xp. Thats asking a lot from ms tho ;).
 
EvilOne said:
Problem with vista was all the bugs on release. If windows 7 launches bug free with full driver/software support it will dethrone xp. Thats asking a lot from ms tho ;).
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Agreed. The problem with Vista was that even after 7 years of development it was still full of bugs on release. Therefore I stayed away. I dont see why it should be considered acceptable for a company to release something full of bugs, and then when they release all the patches to fix it that should have been there in the first place, eveyone praises them... but anyway.

I avoided Vista because it didnt work for me (it may have worked for you, but that doesnt help me does it), and now that Vista is supposedly up to scratch, theres somethign new coming allong. So if W7 is just a reskinned Vista (which it isnt, but trying to explain this point to Vista "lovers" is prooving difficult) and I think that W7 is good, then it means Vista SP1 is now good too. But if im given a choice between W7 and Vista SP1 to install on my next build... im sure you will agree W7 is the logical choice.
 
Shadows1990 said:
I've added a few devices: Wireless Mice, Phones, GPS, that sort of thing.

Two problems I've found; the GPS I have (TomTom Wireless GPS MKII) doesn't show-up in the sensors section, and the fingerprint reader doesn't show in the biometrics devices.
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Not sure if this will help but in the Windows Team Blog link where you sign up for the beta there is a short bit about biometric readers and depending on who produces it there are some beta drivers available for them for Windows 7.
 
ajf said:
Not sure if this will help but in the Windows Team Blog link where you sign up for the beta there is a short bit about biometric readers and depending on who produces it there are some beta drivers available for them for Windows 7.
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Thanks for that ajf, I'll look into ASAP. :)

edit: Ahh, found it. For those interested, you can find the article here
 
Wiggins said:
What AV's are people installing on Windows 7?

I'm tempted to put on my copy of Kaspersky but unsure yet until more feedback comes.
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AVG seems to work fine also. I have Kaspersky but it digs into your system that much I didn't want to risk breaking it before I'd had chance to play around. :o
 
Wiggins said:
Well I have to say i'm very impressed with the 64bit version so far.

X-FI drivers are OK. have not yet installed ATI Drivers yet. Are the 8.12's ok or shall I install the beta ones?

If all goes well, I may give it a bash on my Raid setup to see the true potential of it.
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I have it on raid 0 seems fine would like to know how to set the intel Matrix controller like I had it on Vista for faster transfers.
Only problem I have found is sometimes it mess's around restarting and shutting down.
Using it as my main OS now, so will see what its like to live with until August.
 
EvilOne said:
Problem with vista was all the bugs on release. If windows 7 launches bug free with full driver/software support it will dethrone xp. Thats asking a lot from ms tho ;).
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Every OS has been plagued with problems on release more or less, I think the main problem with Vista was bloggers and what not painting a rubbish picture of the OS despite many not using it, and everyone formulating their opinion on it from such. Vista runs fast on every machine I have it on here, laptops and PCs, never had one problem, and any gripes with drivers is the problem of the manufacturer, not MS.

Another thing that people also forget that Windows is a leader by far in the aspect that it supports almost infinite hardware combinations. People who are ready to criticise MS (e.g. fervent Apple users) forget that it's probably the only OS which you can deploy on a desktop and be sure that all if not a few devices will work with it without much mucking around.

As a result, if I mention to a friend who say has 4gb RAM on his PC to install 64 bit version, they usually say "oh but I read on the internet it's not stable etc etc" which is rubbish. I think Windows 7 (although it's Vista) is a great idea by MS to banish a lot of these demons and this is probably the purpose of the OS, all these people who sat down on their XP PCs laying into Vista without even using it will now adopt it :p

(As an aside, our company rolled out Vista to our laptops, and it runs way better than XP :P)
 
I think the main problem with Vista was people trying to install it on older hardware. The newer driver structure prevented many older systems from working correctly initially. Also there were a number of annoying bugs which were ironed out between release and SP1. Also newer mobos and chipsets helped. But, to the general public, the damage was done. The BBC report of installing Vista was showing it to be a nightmare (They selected upgrade on a laptop, silly chaps!) Networking and joining domains on Vista can be hit and miss at times. From a work POV we would prefer to use XP or Linux but are now having to buy Vista Business. This has caused problems with Photoshop crashing and a few other niggles.

I am now quite used to using W7 and feels like I am still using Vista. Its only when something annoying happens, like very slow internet or a service has stopped working that I realise I am on an early Beta. I do kinda think it could have been an "Ultimate Extra" for Vista though! Might justify it's bloated price.
 
I'm very impressed.

Its as quick as XP, even with the fluid shiny interface switched on.

This is on a low powered Acer Aspire One Netbook.
 
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