Windows 7

X · October 14, 2009, 04:05:55 PM

okay folks just installed windows 7 and so far so good.

Rico · October 14, 2009, 04:54:41 PM

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?

X · October 14, 2009, 05:24:08 PM

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.

Bromptonboy · 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.

X · October 14, 2009, 06:47:55 PM

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.

sheldor · October 14, 2009, 07:37:34 PM

Is windows 7 object based or was that going to be windows 8

Rico · 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.

X · October 14, 2009, 08:00:27 PM

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

iceman · October 15, 2009, 09:38:16 AM

did you find you had problems with missing drivers or did windows 7 install them for you

X · October 15, 2009, 09:49:18 AM

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

Ktrek · October 15, 2009, 10:06:17 AM

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

billybob476 · October 15, 2009, 10:36:37 AM

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.

X · October 15, 2009, 10:55:09 AM

Yeah, what billybob said. I had Vista, but I did the clean install because it works the best.

Rico · October 15, 2009, 10:56:43 AM

Joe is correct. Here's a good link of information and upgrade paths.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/upgrade-advisor.aspx

Ktrek · 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