Thread: Windows 7

I still have XP ...... look at that as an Emoticon XP XP XP it looks like a dead guy sticking his tongue out or something, you think they did that on purpose to mock us?

Originally Posted by min0 lee

Get it and dump Vista.

you're using it?

I still use XP with the Win2k look. I hated what Vista did to Explorer navigation, and the OS looks nasty. So far Win7 gets good reviews but it looks the same to me?

7 feels very much like Vista. We have all 3 in the house and **knock on wood** they are all pretty stable. I still think my trusty xp desktop (the oldest by a few years) is the fastest.

I have to admit Vista is the most stable Windows OS I have used to date, yes XP was faster, but definitely not as stable. I have not used Windows 7 yet.

Better then XP?

I had XP 32 on this home built system with 4g ram. I upgraded to W7 64-bit and upped the ram to 8gigs.

It's faster with less CPU usage now. I can run all kinds of apps at the same time with ease. It's freaking crazy.

Originally Posted by Prince

you're using it?

Yes, at first I didn't want to leave XP after the disapointment I had with Vista.

I guess you can say Windows 7 is a cleaned up better version than Vista.

Originally Posted by Doublebase

Better then XP?

I like it....maybe because it's new.

It's good for those who download items over the net and don't know how or where to save it.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

Yes, at first I didn't want to leave XP after the disapointment I had with Vista.

I guess you can say Windows 7 is a cleaned up better version than Vista.

I have no issues at all with Vista, however I did not "upgrade" I bought 2 new Compaq PC's that had Vista installed on them.

Windows 7 is good.....When I did Xp installation I had to be ready with atleast 5 different driver cd's.....with W7 I just need one cd...& if any other drivers are missing then in few minutes W7 suggested direct download link to hardware manufacturer's website...which I think is really great...no more hunting for drivers.

Originally Posted by MtnBikerChk

7 feels very much like Vista. We have all 3 in the house and **knock on wood** they are all pretty stable. I still think my trusty xp desktop (the oldest by a few years) is the fastest.

That was what I was afraid of, although I wouldn't expect them to change back the old Explorer navigation. I really just do not like the way you nav through Explorer for directories/files, and the different colors for certain folders sucks, I never liked that function - maybe thats just me.

As for stability though I can't say I ever had a problem with the one laptop we have at the house that has Vista on it, its just that I dont like it. I changed what I could to the old XP look and the rest I live with, begrudgingly. I'm still happy with XP for my personal computers.

With only 2 gig RAM, vista is sluggish on my desktop. Are the recommendations for RAM higher for Win 7?

I thought it was more efficient, I have 2 gigs on the laptop and it runs fine. However I turn off a lot of visualizations, after all, why do I want to wait for a menu to materialize when I right click something? I want it NOW I don't want to wait for it to 'teleport' into place...

If you are using fancy visualizations or haven't defragmented in awhile, try that. Or take a look at startup programs, a lot of stuff likes to stay resident in memory to open faster, but it ends up taking up RAM sitting there doing nothing, i.e. Quicktime and the like.

I use a program called Win Patrol that manages start-ups, and I don't think that's an issue. Maybe I should change the settings. It's not too slow, but it's slower than XP was when I had one gig on the same desktop.

Just saw that it cost $120 to upgrade. I'll pass until I get a new computer. Or get smart and invest in a Mac.

I was looking at benchmarks the other day, and XP smoked windows 7 on all test. I actually saw no advantage to moving to windows 7 other than the pretty interface.

I'd rather stick with XP which still runs like a champion on my 5 year old equipment.

One good thing to say about 7 is that it performed petty than vista on all benchmarks.

Originally Posted by KelJu

I was looking at benchmarks the other day, and XP smoked windows 7 on all test. I actually saw no advantage to moving to windows 7 other than the pretty interface.

I'd rather stick with XP which still runs like a champion on my 5 year old equipment.

One good thing to say about 7 is that it performed petty than vista on all benchmarks.

DX11 and 64bit. Yes there's a WinXP 64bit, but good luck with that.

Only cost me 30$ anyway.

Originally Posted by Pirate!

With only 2 gig RAM, vista is sluggish on my desktop. Are the recommendations for RAM higher for Win 7?

W7 is less resourse intensive than Vista.

With 32-bit systems the max RAM you can use is less than 4g. Having more RAM is good and it's pretty cheap right now. If you want PC goodness W7 64-bit is the way to go, IMHO.

Originally Posted by Pirate!

Just saw that it cost $120 to upgrade. I'll pass until I get a new computer. Or get smart and invest in a Mac.

I have a Mac Mini for media serving, kinda fun to play with, great form factor.

I'd agree with that much, if you have a newer processor (Core 2 Duo etc) use 64 bit.

Originally Posted by danzik17

DX11 and 64bit. Yes there's a WinXP 64bit, but good luck with that.

Only cost me 30$ anyway.

Yeah I tried 64bit xp, and was terrible. What is so nice about directX 11?

Windows 7 Adoption Nudging Out Vista, Not XP

I bought my computer last summer with Vista on it. I spent nearly $2k on it, so if I dont have to upgrade, I wont.

I used to be happy with Windows 98 SE...I even kept it when Windows ME and 2000 came out. Both were crap.

I felt the same about XP but I took a liking to win 7.

I liked 2k, but 98 was pretty good to me also. So was Win95 OSR2 for that matter, and my old combo DOS 6.2/Win3.11, NT4 was also good to me on most systems (driver support was iffy, no plug and play without special INF files).