Windows 7, Likes and Dislikes

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Permalink Reply by TheGreatSatan on January 18, 2009 at 6:34pm

Funny, I was about to turn my laptop off and go install it on a test system. They say it will run on older systems better than Vista. We'll see?

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Permalink Reply by JT on January 18, 2009 at 6:42pm

Well,as I said in my Blog, I wanted to run a Repair from the CD to fix an installation problem and I also could not run Windows Updates. I booted from the CD and there was no Repair option to find. At least not one that runs the way that it used to from either Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

I had to reinstall and it wiped all of the already installed applications.

I hope that they change this in the Golden finale product, and don't leave it this way.

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Permalink Reply by Transistor on January 18, 2009 at 6:59pm

Likes:
Stability
Speed
Wallpaper management
Multi-Touch

Dislikes:
New Taskbar
Removal of all the bundled applications (yes I know you can download them via windows live)
The Registry

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Permalink Reply by Ian Walker on January 19, 2009 at 4:12am

The new taskbar does take some getting used to. It's like they added it last as an afterthought.

Take care.

Ian

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Permalink Reply by Matthew on January 19, 2009 at 5:24am

You can change it back to the old way buy doing this:
Right-click the Taskbar, go to Properties, then select "Use small icons", change the Taskbar Buttons to "Never combine" then you'll have a Vista looking sidebar.

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Permalink Reply by Zune80 on January 19, 2009 at 7:26am

Actually, the taskbar was one of the starting points, and something they wanted to incorporate into Vista before it was released, but came up short on time.

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Permalink Reply by Geeksta2 on January 20, 2009 at 3:36pm

Your right. I can't tell what is open or what is a quick link

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Permalink Reply by jake on January 19, 2009 at 4:43am

hahaha the registry.
i think we all hate it but its better than having multiple .ini and.inf files running windows like the older versions eg: 3.1

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Permalink Reply by jacob on January 18, 2009 at 7:08pm

i love every bit of it
microsoft made a new xp and not a vista

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Permalink Reply by Ian Walker on January 19, 2009 at 4:13am

The positive feedback on here to 'the successor of Vista' is really good to see :)

It also seems that even Chris likes it :)

Take care.

Ian

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Permalink Reply by jamesjimmy23 on January 18, 2009 at 9:06pm

It's pretty nice, it runs faster than Vista on the same machine, but that may only be because I don't have hardly anything installed on the Windows 7 partition.

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Permalink Reply by Phill on January 18, 2009 at 10:20pm

I'm pretty impressed at how it works on a low end machine (hyperthreaded intel p4, 1.5gb ram -.-) !!! I like the improvements, and the fact that this really is imho what Vista should have been. so, 7 beta = vista se! lol

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