Re: Windows 7 beta

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:37:46 -0500, ingvald44 <noone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| Robert Brereton wrote:
| > "The Brass Turner" <Brass1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > news:n9mdnaSQeeI5Ze_UnZ2dnUVZ8q7inZ2d@xxxxxxxxx
| >> I have had it running on a spare comp for 2 days and have given up already.
| >>
| >> Purely on the grounds of the Print Spooler.....it just will not stay
| >> Started.
| >>
| >> There are no printers or drivers installed it just stops out after a few
| >> minutes of starting Windows.
| >>
| >> As there is very little support for 7 at the present I have tried all the
| >> Vista OS recommendations concerning printer and spooler problems but to no
| >> avail.........
| >>
| >> All said and done I do like its front end.
| >>
| >> ah well I'll stick with XP thanks........I keep saying this.
| >>
| > I have had windows 7 installed on an 'old' 3.0gig P4 with 2.5gig RAM for
| > nearly a week now and on balance I like it. It does seem a lot quicker
| > booting, loading programs and executing commands. It found my networked
| > printer and installed the correct driver for it, and there was only a sound
| > driver problem which I had to find and download, as their version did not
| > work with this machine.
| >
| > Once you get used to where everything is hidden it is OK. I did a 'clean'
| > install - from XP, rather than an upgrade, which removed all the old bits of
| > registry and files - it stores the previous system files as windows .old
| > which can then be removed with disk cleanup. With Office 2003 and a few
| > other programs installed and before data files it then takes a much reduced
| > amount of disk space. I think when it is released I will probably go for
| > 64bit for my main PC and get the other 2gig of RAM.
| >
| > Bob
| >
| >
| >
| Same problem here. Soundmax driver with os installs ok, device mgr says
| it is working ok, just no sound from spkr output.
| No biggie, I have a usb adaptor that works ok.
| Also, BSOD from tdx.sys when avast antivirus installed. Avg seems
| ok so far.
|
| I agree it seems quicker to boot than Vista. Altogether did a great
| job of finding hardware.
| Pretty impressive for a beta.

I may have to give 7 a try on one of my extra boxes. It sounds pretty good so
far. Reactions to Vista in early beta seemed to be more negative than positive.
But the atmosphere now is as much a plus ? or even more so ? for 7 as it was for
early XP betas.

Larc
.

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