Windows 7

A mate of mine used his PDA as a touchscreen second desktop. he had all his icons that would normally be on the desktop and quick launch on the PDA so could open applications simply.

That works well, but a touchscreen desktop is pointless.
 
I was playing with the pre-beta today at work. Without the new UI improvements it looks a lot like Vista, but also has a load of nice new features (like mounting VHDs and Paint's first upgrade in since, well, since forever) as well as plenty of tweaks (like a better and quicker screen/projector switching dialog, better network management screen, better task tray). It also installed and boots a lot faster than Vista did.

Think of it more as Vista R2 than the jump from XP to Vista.

Oh yes. UAC doesn't bug you any more.
 
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SiD the Turtle said:
I was played with the pre-beta today at work. Without the new UI improvements it looks a lot like Vista, but also has a load of nice new features (like mounting VHDs and Paint's first upgrade in since, well, since forever) as well as plenty of tweaks (like a better and quicker screen/projector switching dialog, better network management screen, better task tray). It also installed and boots a lot faster than Vista did.

Think of it more as Vista R2 than the jump from XP to Vista.
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You can unlock the new taskbar with a simple hack. Google it.

Here is the new taskbar in 2 different setups. They both show the exact same number of aps open in the same state, i just changed the setting on the taskbar.

First up is the taskbar as default. It groups applications together (see stack of 3 Chrome buttons) and has the pinned but unopen applications randomly scattered inbetween the open ones (Media Cente, IE)

w7newtaskbarwithlargeicgc7.png


Ive now changed the settings so that the taskbar does not group the icons, and uses small icons and text, and have also expanded to double height. Basically, it looks a mess!

w7messynewtaskbarqj6.png
 
It just seems like last month vista was officially released.

And it only seems like last week that it has started to become usable. Now they're throwing another one in the works.
 
willhub said:
Does it use less memory?

How did you get it? Torrent or you with MSDN or something?
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Torrenting as people seem to have worked out :p
It uses almost exactly 1 gig of memory when idle which is slightly less than vista.

To others: Dont hate the new taskbar...it still needs some more tweaks but it is an improvement and about time they did something new.
 
Skeeter said:
You can unlock the new taskbar with a simple hack. Google it.

Here is the new taskbar in 2 different setups. They both show the exact same number of aps open in the same state, i just changed the setting on the taskbar.

First up is the taskbar as default. It groups applications together (see stack of 3 Chrome buttons) and has the pinned but unopen applications randomly scattered inbetween the open ones (Media Cente, IE)

w7newtaskbarwithlargeicgc7.png


Ive now changed the settings so that the taskbar does not group the icons, and uses small icons and text, and have also expanded to double height. Basically, it looks a mess!

w7messynewtaskbarqj6.png
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Once they sort out the random permanent icons appearing between open windows and put them at the beginning it should look a lot better.
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
Is it necessarily a good plan to torrent an OS? How do you know if they're safe or not?
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I did it for all the Vista pre-betas going back to about 2005 and its been fine since then.
You can virus scan the iso and people comment on the torrent files anyway.
If you want I can link you to the one I used?
 
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