windows 7

[bisbee]

just upgraded to win7 took the whole of sun afternoon with 4 gig ram so make sure you have a full bottle

 

[Deleted account 190920001]

Yes it takes a while, depends on how many programs and stuff you have loaded. Took 3 hours to do my better half's laptop.

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

Is it worth it - what do peeps think of 7 (I hate Vista!).

Andres

 

[Deleted account 190920001]

Windows 7 is everything that Vista should have been. I was an MS beta tester on windows 7 from the start so have used it for quite some time now. It had a few problems early on but they have pretty much been ironed out now.

 

[rc mad]

windows 7 is the first os i've ever bought, usually use whatever the computer came with, but vista was utter crap on this computer so i got 7, its been great so far, faster and more stable.

Only got 2 gig of ram so im running the 32 bit software, going to up the memory to 4 gig and try the 64bit stuff soon

 

[cookie]

Is it worth it - what do peeps think of 7 (I hate Vista!).

Andres

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/25/windows_7_reader_reviews_redux/

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

I can't understand why people hate vista

it works... what's the problem

 

[shugie]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/25/windows_7_reader_reviews_redux/

Can't argue with the last comment "it's better than Vista". It is, but how could it not be?

It does seem to work as expected, although I'm having some troubles moving a large ISO file to the server, but I think I might blame the server for that.

 

[cookie]

I can't understand why people hate vista

it works... what's the problem

it's ******* horrible.

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

it's ******* horrible.

how... people say all this.... but to me it works.... it needs 2Gig of ram to work well but apart from that i can't see anything wrong with it

if it runs the programs you need and use... stops idiots from fecking itself up and usually sorts out or warns of most potential problems
how can it be that bad... i've seen far more people feck things up on XP and then they have to take it to someone more knowledgeable to fix their feck up
computer nerds may not like vista as much but the average joe i'd have thought would think it OK

I still remember all the computer nerds i know saying for about the first year XP was crap and that 98 second edition was still far better

 

[cookie]

i don't care if it "works". an OS should do more than that. IME it's just nasty to use. all those nagging permission dialogues for a start. the endless hoops i've had to jump through to just move a file

no, just no.

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

i don't care if it "works". an OS should do more than that. IME it's just nasty to use. all those nagging permission dialogues for a start. the endless hoops i've had to jump through to just move a file

no, just no.

yea i can understand the permission dialogues thing being a bit annoying but i can live with it... most files i move don't need permissions as i'm on as administrator anyway.

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

if you're a student is Aus ...you can get it for $49 from itsnotcheating.





( or you need a friend who might have a spare email address )

 

[Mav]

how... people say all this.... but to me it works.... it needs 2Gig of ram to work well but apart from that i can't see anything wrong with it

if it runs the programs you need and use... stops idiots from fecking itself up and usually sorts out or warns of most potential problems
how can it be that bad... i've seen far more people feck things up on XP and then they have to take it to someone more knowledgeable to fix their feck up
computer nerds may not like vista as much but the average joe i'd have thought would think it OK

I still remember all the computer nerds i know saying for about the first year XP was crap and that 98 second edition was still far better

I have machines running XP, Vista and Mac OS - Vista is incredibly slow (and thats on a desktop compared to an old laptop!), has a remarkable amount of warnings, many of which seem to forget that you've already acknowledged them a hundred times prior, and it's definately less stable than XP. So yep, Vista sucks

 

[rc mad]

if you're a student is Aus ...you can get it for $49 from itsnotcheating.





( or you need a friend who might have a spare email address )

I got it for £58 from of all places, everywhere else is around £70 for the upgrade version.

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

I have machines running XP, Vista and Mac OS - Vista is incredibly slow (and thats on a desktop compared to an old laptop!), has a remarkable amount of warnings, many of which seem to forget that you've already acknowledged them a hundred times prior, and it's definately less stable than XP. So yep, Vista sucks

I found the opposite stability wise XP was really good but it hung far more times than vista ever has with me.... i can say i likely restored XP about 20 times from software install problems... i think i've restored vista twice

maybe i've been lucky

as for slow i've nothing to really compare mine with but I'm not bugged by or have thought to myself this is slow.. i did a bit until i put 2 gig of ram in it

 

[Deleted account 190920001]

Whether Vista is crap or not depends on what your doing with it and in what environment. The nagging security features (UAC) can be got rid of in seconds should you want. Its still there in windows 7 and can be got rid of just as easy although you can now increase or decrease the levels. What UAC is there for is so that you don't run it under an admin account. Neither Linux or Mac let you do this and its half the problem with the Windows OS since you have no idea if a virus/malware is trying to install itself. If you bought into the cheap machine Vista capable 1GB of ram then you will think Vista is the worst software ever because it just wont run on it. Windows 7 will however though I still wouldn't recommend it. Where Vista truly failed was in the corporate environment. The vast majority of companies have elected to downgrade Vista to XP pro although I doubt MS figures suggest this as the sale is logged as a Vista sale. Vista simply didn't work very well on a corporate network, it takes an age to move files around the network and often fails part way through.

 

[ianf]

The policy on any computer mac/windows/linux is that it's best not to run normally as a privileged user. Mac/Linux let you use sudo to temporarily grant admin rights to install stuff.

 

[Deleted account 190920001]

The policy on any computer mac/windows/linux is that it's best not to run normally as a privileged user. Mac/Linux let you use sudo to temporarily grant admin rights to install stuff.

Exactly and thats what MS tried to do with UAC but only seem to have met the wrath of the users for doing so. Even in XP there was an option to run as a restricted user and then right click run as but it has been largely ignored outside a corporate secured domain network.