okay folks just installed windows 7 and so far so good.
Quote from: Just X on October 14, 2009, 04:05:55 PM
okay folks just installed windows 7 and so far so good.
What kind of system did you put it on? Did you do a clean install or go over Win XP or Vista?
I did a clean install and now I'm trying to install all the programs I dropped. I'm running it on 3 gigs of ram 512 meg video card AMD Athalon x2 processor.
It installed FAST. Now I'm just trying to put everything back in place.
I have my copy - but am waiting till 10/22 to install it during my 'House Party'. I will be doing an upgrade from Vista 64-Bit to Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
Quote from: bromptonboy on October 14, 2009, 05:30:53 PM
I have my copy - but am waiting till 10/22 to install it during my 'House Party'. I will be doing an upgrade from Vista 64-Bit to Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
I thought about doing that, but I wanted to test out any kinks first. Here were the two issues that I had.
Didn't load my network drivers, but I had the disk.
I cleaned two drives for it and it installed a boot system on one drive and the rest on the other. Checking the help, when you do a clean install, it partitions 100 megs for a boot drive on a blank disk. Be cause it did that, I had to go in after and manually format the rest of the drive and assign it a drive letter, but it was pretty easy to do. I would have rathered that 100 megs been on the same drive, but it was my fault for deleting the partitions on both during the install.
Is windows 7 object based or was that going to be windows 8
Sounds pretty good. I'm in no rush for it personally. Vista's been working like a champ for me. Maybe I'll upgrade in a couple months.
Quote from: Rico on October 14, 2009, 07:37:59 PM
Sounds pretty good. I'm in no rush for it personally. Vista's been working like a champ for me. Maybe I'll upgrade in a couple months.
I don't have any benchmark test on hand, but this runs FAR faster than Vista and there aren't those boxed popping twice every time you want to do something
did you find you had problems with missing drivers or did windows 7 install them for you
Quote from: iceman on October 15, 2009, 09:38:16 AM
did you find you had problems with missing drivers or did windows 7 install them for you
It didn't have my network driver, but once I put that in, it found everything else, including drivers for stuff that Vista wouldn't
I wonder if it would install over XP without any complications? I'd like to purchase it but my system is running perfectly on XP and I'd hate to have it mess up everything and then need to format and install to get back running again.
Kevin
I believe you have to do a clean install from XP. You can only do an upgrade install from Vista. I wouldn't recommend that anyways, upgrade installs are always a bit sketchy.
Yeah, what billybob said. I had Vista, but I did the clean install because it works the best.
Joe is correct. Here's a good link of information and upgrade paths.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/upgrade-advisor.aspx (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/upgrade-advisor.aspx)
Thanks for that link Rico! I ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Beta and it showed several incompatibility issues. So, I'll not be upgrading anytime soon.
Kevin
Quote from: Ktrek on October 15, 2009, 11:12:41 AM
Thanks for that link Rico! I ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Beta and it showed several incompatibility issues. So, I'll not be upgrading anytime soon.
Kevin
I would not upgrade unless you have a fairly new machine. Something much more than say 2 years or older I wouldn't do it. Another good check is if you are running Vista, you should at some point be able to use Win 7. If you have Win XP, I really would be cautious unless you know what you are doing. Even Microsoft is making that type of suggestion.
True but at least they have a program designed for XP to migrate all your important stuff on over once you have installed it. The problem is that it has to be on another computer or thru a USB cable. I'll probably just wait until my PC gives up the ghost. I guess I could install it on my laptop though. It currently has Vista.
Kevin
I was thinking about it for my laptop as well. It's a core2 duo with 2 gigs of ram. All i have to do according to the upgrade advisor is flash the bios. That seems like a pretty random thing to do but i checked and there is indeed a bios update for my specific machine (ver a09 to a17).
I looked at some features. Pinning? This is just adding a shortcut to the quick start, right? Is there something to this?
I liked the shake feature to minimize all other windows. I have a meeting with a rep in a few days - hoping to get wowed