Windows 7 Impressions

Anybody had any probs with the installers not working, im trying to install Steam after doing a reinstall of 7, but when i set it away, i keep getting something about the installer not working properly, and do i want to let MS know, yet i got it installed on here fine before.
 
I only had about an hour to play around with it last night, as I had to be up early this morning - however, here are my impressions...

At the moment, things do seem to be a little slower, however I'm thinking because this is a beta, things will improve... I have faith! :D

It is, however, an improvement over Vista, which is always a good thing.

In my hour of playing with it, I installed FSX (As you may know, I had problems with it in Vista where the ATC window was tiny), I got on it, ramped the settings to max and started it with no problems whatsoever! The improvement in frame-rate really impressed me, and the fact the ATC window has seem to have cured itself, is a nice bonus!

One thing I will have to get used to is the small icons in the taskbar, instead of full tabs - however I did like the fact that when you are downloading something in IE8(Beta), the download bar is shown in the small tab in the taskbar, which means you don't need to switch to the download window to see the progress!

Anyways - I hope to play around with it some more tonight after work, so hopefully I shall be back ;)

Marky
 
I've found a problem. I cannot connect to our wireless at work, because Windows 7 does not support WEP (It told me itself). Now I see from a security point of view that it is a good thing, but not being able to connect to a network who's owners will not want to change it is very annoying. Certainly a bad point of 7, I hope that I don't find too many more.
 
I hope you do because then you submit a bug report to MS so it doesn't bug retail copies!
 
Oh wow, I do really like the new Bluetooth stack 7 comes with, makes phone/device management much easier to pair and assign services :D

Controlling my Samsung NC10 with my SE K800i atm :P
 
deadite66 said:
i think its a good idea that 7 doesn't support WEP, its so horribly broken that it needs to be killed off.
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It could be possible this is a driver issue - a (very, very quick) google revealed someone having an issue with WEP on 7 (it wanted a longer key than he had). So it sounds like it still works.

It should be up to the user, not the OS, to decide whether you're going to use WEP. A warning might be a good idea though (similar to the ! shield you get for unsecured networks).
 
any1 else getting any sound issues with the creative vista drivers?

Im running an X-fi xtreme gamer and am getting intermittent outages in sount playback in itunes.
 
Mattf121 said:
I've found a problem. I cannot connect to our wireless at work, because Windows 7 does not support WEP (It told me itself).
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If that's true, then it's a change between build 6956 and the beta (which I find unlikely!) I used 6956 on a WEP network with no problems at all.

Fire Wizard said:
Hi Tomc@T, it would seem that Windows 7 is slightly better optimized which results in on slightly lower specification machines, it runs a little better than Windows Vista. On the machines which I have used both Windows Vista and Windows 7 on, which have been fairly high end systems, the performance seems to be pretty much identical.
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Whilst I agree with you that it runs similarly to Vista on high-end systems, I have to say that on slower and older hardware there's a world of difference from Vista. For me the main failing of Vista is that it just doesn't run well on older kit. I have a Vaio laptop which is about three years old now and has a Core Duo 1.66Ghz processor, 1.5GB of DDR2, an old 5400rpm hard drive and the Intel 945 integrated graphics. This machine came with XP and just didn't run all that well when I put Vista on it. It was perfectly usable for day-to-day tasks, but everything was much slower than XP, and things which used the slow HD a lot such as hibernating and resuming took absolutely ages. Aero performance was also less than stellar owing to the rubbish graphics chip.

Tried 7 on it and was very pleasantly surprised. I only spent a day or so with it installed (would rather not run a beta OS on a system I need when I'm away from home, even though I found it to be very stable) but the system performance was on a par with XP. Out of curiosity I also installed 7 in a virtual machine, on my quad but only allocated 512MB of RAM. For surfing and office-type stuff it was perfectly usable, which is more than can be said for Vista - anyone who's used a Vista system with 512MB knows that it's a painful experience. 7 actually ran OK with 256MB allocated, albeit very slowly :p

The performance improvements might not be noticeable on faster systems, particularly on decent hard drives, but my experience leads me to think that MS have done a good job optimising 7. I don't really blame MS for performance issues with Vista - it was a massive upgrade, and they had a lot of driver issues to contend with - but I think 7 is going to win over a lot of XP diehards.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Anybody had any probs with the installers not working, im trying to install Steam after doing a reinstall of 7, but when i set it away, i keep getting something about the installer not working properly, and do i want to let MS know, yet i got it installed on here fine before.
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I just copied a shortcut from my vista drive and ran it in windows 7,
It grabs a few files this way and also means you dont have to re-download your games ;)
 
I haven't done a search yet (I know, unforgivable) so I may be going over old ground here, but I want to ask about booting speeds. I just timed my computer at 35 seconds to go from the "Starting Windows" screen post-POST, through the login screen (hammering my password in very quickly indeed) to having Win7 x64 completely loaded (all start-up programs running, network connected. This is on an Athlon X2 5200+ @240x13.5, 4gig of RAM @720Mhz and a not desperately quick hard drive (200gig SATA Maxtor). That's quicker than both XP and Vista (both of them x64 editions) ever managed. This tallying with what other people are seeing?
 
JRS said:
I haven't done a search yet (I know, unforgivable) so I may be going over old ground here, but I want to ask about booting speeds. I just timed my computer at 35 seconds to go from the "Starting Windows" screen post-POST, through the login screen (hammering my password in very quickly indeed) to having Win7 x64 completely loaded (all start-up programs running, network connected. This is on an Athlon X2 5200+ @240x13.5, 4gig of RAM @720Mhz and a not desperately quick hard drive (200gig SATA Maxtor). That's quicker than both XP and Vista (both of them x64 editions) ever managed. This tallying with what other people are seeing?
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vista on my system takes about 15secs to boot, see sig for system.
 
I dunno how windows 7 does it but i just went to networks, and i can see the name of my main PC on there, double click and i can see all my shared drives !!!

Much easier than before, it's like networking for dummies !
 
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