How do folks like Windows 7?

Rico · December 30, 2009, 08:00:58 AM

Been toying with upgrading to Win 7 from Vista. Anyone here do the upgrade path like that? Probably should do a clean install, just hate having to kind of start over and install old programs and stuff. So is everyone with Win 7 liking it?

billybob476 · December 30, 2009, 08:11:11 AM

I'm enjoying it. The only small issue I've had is that sometime iTunes acts a little wonky. I dock my iPhone and iTunes tells me it's a new phone and I should retore it. All I have to do is close / open and it works fine.

It really is a great OS.

Rico · December 30, 2009, 08:33:20 AM

Quote from: billybob476 on December 30, 2009, 08:11:11 AM
I'm enjoying it. The only small issue I've had is that sometime iTunes acts a little wonky. I dock my iPhone and iTunes tells me it's a new phone and I should retore it. All I have to do is close / open and it works fine.

It really is a great OS.

Do you do much networking - like with external drives or other PC's on your home network? Vista tends to be a bit slow in finding other networked machines at times. I wondered if Win 7 does that better.

X · December 30, 2009, 09:15:26 AM

I'm loving windows 7. Every once in a while things seem to slow down to vista like speeds, but I think it more that have have like 80 windows and two browsers up at any given time.

KingIsaacLinksr · December 30, 2009, 09:16:35 AM

I have Windows 7 Home edition 64 bit. Works like a charm. There are a couple minor issues:

Administration for old programs/games is a little wonky right now. Run them under XP compatibility will fix this issue (unless they updated it recently). It wouldn't let me update a game because I wasn't the admin (lol, I'm the only person using the computer) until I ran it under XP. 64 bit of course has issues with older programming/hardware, but you know, nothing new here.

iTunes hasn't bothered me much yet. But then again, I don't have an iPhone.

My brother upgraded straight from Vista on his laptop. I never heard he had any issues with the upgrade feature so I'd recommend that, but be wary of course.

Otherwise, I love 7. Its just a really nice OS. Especially compared to XP. Heh.

King

billybob476 · December 30, 2009, 09:27:36 AM

Networking-wise I had no issues seeing my laptop and wife's machine which are both running XP. Only a few minor permissions tweaks on the 7 machine made the XP machines see it no problem.

Also it has full media center extender connectivity over wifi to my 360 which none of my XP Pro machines do. Those just had simple Windows Media Player sharing.

Rico · December 30, 2009, 09:35:19 AM

Yeah, I'll probably do it sometime soon. But I think I want a new drive to put it on first.

Rico · December 30, 2009, 09:46:16 AM

Oh - any other issues with compatibility with the 64-bit version? Is 64 the way to go even if you play older games and use some older software? Sounds like Tim has managed to work around it. For games I tend to play WOW, but I do use some video and sound editing stuff that may have trouble with 64 bit.

billybob476 · December 30, 2009, 09:51:05 AM

WoW is no issue whatsoever.

For Audacity I had to use the latest Beta on Win7 (I can check the version when I get home).

There is an XP compatibility mode for older stuff and if you get Windows 7 Ultimate there is a full on interated XP virtual machine you can run things in if need be. I haven't run into that situation however I haven't really tired running any really old software.

Rico · December 30, 2009, 07:12:43 PM

Wish MS wouldn't release so many editions. Frankly there should be two. One for home, one for business.

X · December 30, 2009, 08:17:45 PM

Quote from: Rico on December 30, 2009, 07:12:43 PM
Wish MS wouldn't release so many editions. Frankly there should be two. One for home, one for business.

there basically is. The other stuff is just like getting a premium edition of any software. Just a few more bells and whistles. I'm running ultimate and I really couldn't tell you what the others are missing.

X · January 01, 2010, 01:49:05 PM

Okay, I was having problems with my second drive and since a clean install of 7 puts the boot partition on the second drive, I decided to remove it and do a clean install. Not only was it fast, I solved those slowdown problems that I was having.

I have to recommend that if you opt to do a clean install, remove any extra drives because it seems to work better with the boot files on the same drive.