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Has anyone upgraded to Windows 7? Are you planning to upgrade? If not Why not?

If you upgraded what was your experience? Any horror stories or problems? Would you recommend Windows 7?

Laura

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Guest Donna Jean

My wife and I have 6 machines at our house....all with Windows 2000 Pro...

I never went above that version as the later versions all try to do things for you whether you want them to or not. I like to root around down in the files and make changes and later Windows versions all seem restrictive..

I'm sure that the 7 version has a lot of built in drivers, etc...

Windows 7 for me would be further down the line after I see how it does....

Remember....Windows Millenum Edition (ME)? Sorry Mary Ellen....

Donna Jean

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I purchased a new laptop a few weeks ago that included a free upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. I haven't

done it yet but plan to. I'll let you know how it turns out. Despite all the negative press about Vista,

I haven't noticed any drawbacks yet.

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Guest NatalieRene

I don't know. Probably not. People complain about Vista but I haven't had any problems with it and my copy of Vista Ultimate was quite expensive. Unless it becomes a limitation that keeps me from running programs like the new star wars mmo (which I doubt) I think I will skip windows 7 and upgrade to the version after that or at least wait for a price drop.

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Guest Ivan Le Renard

I've never had issues with Vista, so I'm fine for now.

Anyways, I don't have the money to buy Windows 7. :c

(And I can't get the free upgrade.)

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Guest erikka2046

I am not sure to upgrade or not unless Wondow 7 has lots of improvement and stability. I have one computer with Vista and it seems ok; the other few are with XP and one even on 98. Do anyone know the changes of the newest Window 7?

Erikka

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Guest ChloëC

"few are with XP and one even on 98"

I've got Windows ME (lol) on one (first op system to take USB's without drivers) tho it's just about retired, XP on three (including a netbook), and my spouse has Vista. Windows 7? Not until I buy a replacement.

Chloë

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I might upgrade to windows 7 eventually, but vista hasn't given me more than a few headaches, now, internet explorer, that's another story. I have other browsers I downloaded, and I haven't used explorer for a long, long time.

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Guest N. Jane

NOT A CHANCE!

Let it prove itself in the field for a couple of years and if the feedback is positive, I'll think about it (if it's free).

XP works fine so I see no reason to replace it until it is no longer supported. Besides, with 3 computers and a couple hundred dollars for each one .... lets just say I am CHEAP!

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  • Root Admin

I'm running XP home edition on my present computer. It was custom built for me and the builder refused to put Vista on it citing that most of the programs that I wanted were incompatable with Vista. XP is going to be around for a while yet so I'm going to stick with it at least until Windows 7 has been proven to be a quality OS.

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There are some of us (MSDN or TechNet subscribers) who got Windows 7 back in August. It's good.

As for Vista "problems" -

1. Hardware incompatibility - This one? Not Microsoft's fault! Microsoft gave driver specs to manufacturers with plenty of time for them to create Vista drivers. The hardware manufacturers were just lazy. This won't be a problem with 7, since the driver model is the same.

2. "Memory Hog" - This gets tossed around all the time. "Vista is a memory hog, 50% usage idling, XP idles at 10%." Although it probably wasn't pulled off in the best manner, there was a very good idea behind this. In a computer you've got three types of storage. There's the cache on board the CPU (really small, really fast), there's the ram (bigger than the cache, fast), and hard drives (very big, slow). The idea is that the more often something is used, the faster the spot it should be stored in is. When you think about this, it makes no sense to have 90% of your ram sitting doing nothing. Vista has a low-priority background process that grabs things it thinks will likely be used and puts them in the open memory. This way if you open an application, and the stuff you need is already in memory, it'll go a lot faster, otherwise it has to load it just the same as always. Windows 7 perfected the idea (at least in my experience).

3. UAC - It's annoying for some people, but it really protects a lot of people from themselves. Don't like it? It's pretty easy to turn off.

As for programs that run fine on XP but not Vista, they may run on Win 7 fine, they might not. The professional version has a very nice thing called XP-Mode. It's essentially an emulated copy of XP that is then integrated into 7, it's a pretty neat idea.

It's definitely worth the upgrade - I've upgraded many computers, on a lot of computers it has actually run faster than XP. For instance, I did a fresh install of XP on a computer with an Athlon XP and 128 megs of ram. Then I did a fresh Win 7 install on the same computer. 7 both installed and performed faster - on a computer with specs lower than even the cheapest computers on the market today.

Also anyone who is in college, check out the "win741" promotion. As long as you've got a valid .edu email address you can get an upgrade copy of Win 7 (home premium or professional) for $30. One copy, and the promotion lasts until the new year.

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Guest Natalie92

In April my computer got infected with a very nasty virus that wiped out my sound, wireless internet capabilities (we have wi-fi in my house since my dad doesn't want to have to install 3 ethernet ports) and changed a lot of the stuff back to it's Windows 95 version (it's an XP), so my dad took me to get my laptop that I'm to use for college (Near top of the line. 2.13 GHz dual-core Processor, 4 GB of RAM, 320 GB HD, NVIDIA GeForce 9800M video card, 16 in screen if you're intrested in that) that came with Windows Vista Home Premium. It works perfectly fine for me, but if I hear nice consumer reviews about Windows 7 in a few months, I'll upgrade before I go to college next fall.

Natalie Alexis

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Guest NatalieRene
I would probably have to see it first, after that perhaps if the price was reasonable.

Jean

I agree. I paid $400 for Windows Vista Ultimate just a couple years ago. It was quite expensive and heavy handed on transferring my license to my new PC after upgrading and parting out the old machine to help pay for the new machine. So while I have nothing against Vista or Windows 7 I just don't want to spend another $400 for the new version of windows so soon especially in light of all the expenses I have right now with my transition. What might change my mind is if Microsoft allows the Windows 7 Ultimate upgrade to do clean installs like XP but Vista couldn't. Then I might be more willing to upgrade.

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Guest Amanda joan

Wow.

I am so glad that I am using my work laptop for everything I do and I have a Tech Team to call on if I have issues. I am so computer iliterate that most of what i just read confusses the heck out of me. Well atleast now I know who to call on if I ever have my own computer to buy software for. Natalie Rene and Hood will be my go to tech professionals.

Peace & Love Amanda

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Guest NatalieRene
Wow.

I am so glad that I am using my work laptop for everything I do and I have a Tech Team to call on if I have issues. I am so computer iliterate that most of what i just read confusses the heck out of me. Well atleast now I know who to call on if I ever have my own computer to buy software for. Natalie Rene and Hood will be my go to tech professionals.

Peace & Love Amanda

No problemo. If you want I can show you sometime how to make a backup image of your laptop's hard drive with all your files and stuff intact so just in case your drive crashes; which on laptops is quite possible if you move around with your machine a lot while it is on. That way if the drive dies you just pop in a new drive and load the backup image onto the drive and you're back in business like it didn't happen at all in 30 minutes. :D

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I'm going to keep this version of windows on this PC and just buy a new PC with Windows 7.

As for anyone who wants to defend Vista.

My computer at home and my computer at work are the exact same towers, same ram, bit, exc. The only thing is my tower at home runs XP and the tower at work runs vista. Pretty much my computer at work crashes 10x more then my home computer and is a hell of a lot slower then my home computer. Vista needs more to run and XP needs less. Sure, mor e"power" to your programs but for what reason? Nothing seems to be working any better then my XP.

By the way, my home computer runs the same programs by Adobe but the vista can only run two or three before crashing, my home can computer runs 6 just fine and I haven't pushed it past that.

So from my own comparing of systems - XP ftw. Windows 7 BETTER be able to match XP's speed or theres really no point to "upgrading". I wont go to mac because I'm a gamer. The only reason I'd get a mac would be to get the perks of not having to worry when things go wrong. The rumors of "macs don't have errors" is fake because they do mess up, a lot, but you don't loose your work when you mess up.

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Guest ~Brenda~

Hi Laura,

I am not a fan of the MicroSoft series of operating systems. I am not planning to "upgrade" to another MS operating systems. When I buy a PC, I simply use the MicroSoft installed OS for anything that is PC application specific. For real work, I use Linux, which is in my opinion, a far more superior operating system any MS OS could ever be.

Brenda

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Guest Charlene_Leona

I've already upgraded to Windows 7 and let me tell you the hype is true, it's the best operating system that Microsoft has ever put out. I have been using Win 7 since they released the beta over a year ago had some problems there, but when the Release Candidate was put out I upgraded to that it was sweet the only problem I had was the programs menu lost all my programs which was a minor inconvenience. Well because I was a beta tester Microsoft sold me my copy of the upgrade for $49.00 and I was able to download it on the 22nd. I installed it as soon as I had everything backed up. I had no problem with the upgrade onto my system. So far the only thing that isn't working is my printer and that's because HP has to ship me the driver disk for my all in one, which I should have by the 5th of Nov.

It is the fastest booting OS I have ever had the pleasure of using. The task bar is one of the best updates where you can place you favorite programs into and with a single click your program is up and running. You can drag you window to the top of the screen it will open full screen. Drag your window to the left and it will open on the left side of the screen and the same for the right side. With this you can have you two windows side by side for easy dropping and dragging of files etc.

One of my favorite things is it use's less resources than you can imagine.

Another nice thing is software that broke with Vista works again under Win 7 and I only have Home Premium with out XP mode. I have yet to install any of my gaming software to see how that runs but will do that when I have time to play. Another thing that pleased me was when it came to reinstalling my software, I had the most problem free experience and it went extremely fast as well.

For anyone who is holding out on upgrading you are making a mistake. I would recommend this operating system for everyone it is a must have.

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Guest ~Brenda~
Do anyone know the changes of the newest Window 7?

No, but I would assume that there are no real changes. Gates is the master of hype. Windows 7 is hype. All Windows OS's these days work from the same kernel that was developed for Windows NT back in the mid 90's.

Brenda

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Guest NatalieRene
I'm going to keep this version of windows on this PC and just buy a new PC with Windows 7.

As for anyone who wants to defend Vista.

My computer at home and my computer at work are the exact same towers, same ram, bit, exc. The only thing is my tower at home runs XP and the tower at work runs vista. Pretty much my computer at work crashes 10x more then my home computer and is a hell of a lot slower then my home computer. Vista needs more to run and XP needs less. Sure, mor e"power" to your programs but for what reason? Nothing seems to be working any better then my XP.

By the way, my home computer runs the same programs by Adobe but the vista can only run two or three before crashing, my home can computer runs 6 just fine and I haven't pushed it past that.

So from my own comparing of systems - XP ftw. Windows 7 BETTER be able to match XP's speed or theres really no point to "upgrading". I wont go to mac because I'm a gamer. The only reason I'd get a mac would be to get the perks of not having to worry when things go wrong. The rumors of "macs don't have errors" is fake because they do mess up, a lot, but you don't loose your work when you mess up.

Zabrak, your forgetting the fact that most IT departments at offices muck with the os install to add lovely features like email snooping, process snooping, and other lovely big brother gotchas. Usually work images run like total crap and regardless of the version of windows used work images stink in comparison to a finely tuned install on a personal machine. I think the main reason XP is still valid is because Microsoft put in much of the updates developed for Vista into XP and killed off much of the reason to upgrade to Vista.

Also I do believe that you are the first to bring up any mention of Apple. While I agree Apple is nice I like it for work because it's simple and not mucked up from the IT department putting all their crap on it. At least where I work they don't. But for personal use at home my 3GHz Core 2 Duo 4GB GF 8800 GTS SLI machine beats the crap out of my mac in raw performance. Just so it's on the up and up I've only seen OSX kernel panic once but then again for all the hoopla I've never seen vista kernel panic. I've seen XP kernel panic a lot back when it first came out but it matured so very much over the years and cleaned up nicely. I think the main reason Vista failed is that while a very nice OS it was just so expensive and didn't do that much that XP didn't especially since DX10 never really took off.

Gosh darn it you went and revealed the inner geek. I need to go take a bath and wash off the geek before I got o bed tonight. LOL

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Zabrak, your forgetting the fact that most IT departments at offices muck with the os install to add lovely features like email snooping, process snooping, and other lovely big brother gotchas.

Not at my work. My computer was the bosses computer. He was tired of working in the area he was working before so he gave me his desk/computer and bought a new one for up front for himself. I work in a small design firm and the only way our computers are connected is through a small network that we just store files on. He doesn't care if we goof off at work - he just cares that we get work done when its in.

Vista does use more ram to run things then XP. Its also SUPER annoying to find files on Vista compared to XP. I do not like how vista set up their "add/remove" files either. I just hate the set up because its way more confusing then XP. XP is so simple, click here and poof you're were you want to be. For vista..click here...now go here...now go here...k now its not really called what it does so you need to know its called somthing random that has nothing to do with what this porgram does on Vista. ok?

/Sorry rant over. :D

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No problems with Vista..honestly it is glitch resistant....(most of the time)...P.C. is only one yr. old.but will be buying a laptop after the "disappointing" Xmas season...it will be installed with Windows 7..so, Laura thanks for the question.....

BTW will their be any changes to the Forum based on the OS?

Also when I retired (the last time) the place was still using DOS...can you imagine how cheap and what a skinflint that guy was....

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