windows 7 vs Vista?

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now I have herd some good and some bad thing about the both of there, I my-self have vista and have wonted to move on since I got it, but what I'm asking is, is windows 7 any better?

can I still run 32bit apps in 64bit os?

now if win7 can run 32bit apps in 64bit os whats stoping me from getting it? lol

any help here?
 
Lord Sindore said:
now I have herd some good and some bad thing about the both of there, I my-self have vista and have wonted to move on since I got it, but what I'm asking is, is windows 7 any better?
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Yes. Are you likely to notice the ways in which it's better? Depends on how much you use your computer and what you do with it.. If you don't like vista though, then 7 still might put a smile on you're face :)

Can you describe what it is about vista you dislike in particular?

Lord Sindore said:
can I still run 32bit apps in 64bit os?
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Yes

Lord Sindore said:
now if win7 can run 32bit apps in 64bit os whats stoping me from getting it?
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Nothing :p
 
lol Vista is just so clunky, I think that I liked XP more, and the fact that if you shut off uac that you get a message that pops up every five minutes telling you that you are at risk!... "my god! I'm at risk, at risk of being able use vista" lol.

sorry about that, it just drives me mad.

but that is good news about win7 running 32bit apps in 64bit os, NICE!...

thanks.

is there any other good changes from vista to 7?
 
Lots of new hotkeys and a new taskbar [think of it is a giant quick launch]. Has features such as Libraries [provides a view of multiple folders in one virtual folder] and Jump Lists [a sort of recent items and common tasks you can access via a programs shortcut icon]. A Google search will provide you with lots more and with details :)

I never particularly disliked Vista, despite a lot of its annoyances. I absolutely love 7.

Oh and UAC is still in Windows 7, albeit by default less annoying than in Vista.
 
thanks that sounds a bit more like it, and a bit less annoying UAC wow that dose sound good, just as long as its not as clunky as Vista I think I could live with it.

thanks again
 
how about games and the like, whats the oldest thing I could run on 7?

could I run unreal or quake2 for example? or could I go even older and run say Sam and Max hit the road, or day of the tentacle within 64bit 7?
 
I've searched Google and found nothing relating to old school games like this on 7, but if any one has done so and got them up and running, I would love to here what your results are/were.
 
64 bit Windows drops support for 16 bit apps so as long as they don't fall into that category they should be okay, however your mileage may vary app to app as older stuff can be quirky sometimes.
 
UAC really isn't that bad. So some software needs one extra click before it runs, woah!

SLI works just fine in Windows 7 as far as I am aware. RAID and SSDs are fully supported. In fact Windows 7 knows when an SSD is running and turns off automatic defrag of that drive and some other things. It also supports the TRIM function natively.
 
As a general rule of thumb, if something worked in Vista there is a decent chance it will work in 7. However, as theheyes has already pointed out, 16-bit applications will not work and as with any new OS no guarantees can be made about older software.
 
thanks thats a grate help to me, I think a quick move on is in order, 7 here I come.

as for UAC in Vista, it can take up to a 25 to 35 seconds on my pc, and I have an i7 920, that how much I hate UAC. lol
 
however my UAC problem could be more to do with my Vista being 32bit and my i7 being 64bit that makes it take so long. lol, but it was free so what can I say.
 
I prefer the browser preview pop-up in Vista over Windows 7.

Vista keeps the seperate browsers in their own pop-up, just showing tabs of that one browser. Windows 7 sticks every open new instance of IE, and tabs in one big preview pop-up.
 
Having used Vista home premium 32 bit I can say it's pure bloat !! Windows 7 seems to be a slimmed down version of Vista. I still find it pathetic that Microsoft expected Vista user's to spend money to upgrade to Win 7 when it was essentialy what Vista should have been.
 
Without Vista we would never have gotten to Windows 7. Don't forget Vista was launched back in 2006, and Microsoft actually gave the early W7 adopters pretty good pricing.
 
Lord Sindore said:
how about games and the like, whats the oldest thing I could run on 7?

could I run unreal or quake2 for example? or could I go even older and run say Sam and Max hit the road, or day of the tentacle within 64bit 7?
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Providing it's not 16-bit then you'll find most games will run perfectly in Windows 7, and in Vista actually :)

You may need to do some compatibility/run in admin mode, but that's not a problem.

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Having used Vista home premium 32 bit I can say it's pure bloat !! Windows 7 seems to be a slimmed down version of Vista.
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I wouldn't say bloated, just not as good as it could have been. Windows 7 is hardly slimmed down, it has more built in and more functions if anything.

Never had a problem with Vista myself, I actually quite liked it.

Go for Windows 7 though, no question about it.
 
I upgraded from x64 Vista Ultimate to x64 7 Professional and tbh haven't noticed much difference. Slightly different task bar and a few bits changed here and there but speed wise there is little/no difference and the only "wow" feature is the Homegroup option (so much easier to share my videos and music with the other W7 computers we have).

If I had to pay full price for W7 I probably wouldn't have upgraded, it's not really worth it.
 
Aside from the new taskbar (:)), and the new gadget system ( :() instead of a sidebar ( crappier if you have 2 screens, ''always on front doesn't always work and when you maximize things on the 2nd screen the gadgets are either not visible or in the way ) and changing desktop backgrounds (:), though achievable with 3rd party apps...).

Vista never bothered me that much since I always used the hidden admin account ( can't stand uac and having to run things as administrator manually) vista wasn't that annoying at all to use.
 
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