Re: Windows 7 Professional judged

The Henchman wrote:
Found to be pretty damn good.

I used the 64 bit upgrade product key. Formatted my XP partition.

Core 2 duo E6300, the slowest of the original core 2's, 6 gig ram, video accelerator card, sata drives. 22 minute total install 6 updates waiting for me, 5 of which were for hardware drivers. It took Microsoft Office 2007 (enterprise) about 60 minutes and about 60 updates afterwards.

Control panel is way cool and far more functional than vista. No nag screen except to run .exe files from the web. IE8 64 bit just flies!!!!! Easy to customise and personalise. Administrative tools is more functional and useful and the task manager is a vast improvement over Xp's. Resource meters is handy and uses low overhead. Hardware driver search online is easy and quick. Windows 7 seems to make more use of the CPU often hitting 80% but has yet to use more than 25% of the RAM. This will have to be monitored once windows bloats up that it doesn't tie up the cpu all the time. In fact windows 7 wants to make available 2 gig of ram for my video accelerator because it doesn't want to use ram. Windows wants a 9 gig pagefile. What in the hell will I do with 6 gig of ram plus 9 gig pagefile? I was gonna upgrade to 8 gig ram but maybe I won't now.

Need to learn "libraries". I'm still stuck in the windows explorer mode because of my dos 4 upbringin as a child. Windows explorer is pretty much over as we know it. Using windows mail to send this message. Outlook express is long over

Drivers install blistering fast, new settings change blistering fast, Microsoft office is slower than when run on XP. So far a clean install of 7 is faster than a clean intsall of XP professional. Adobe photoshop works the same speed but loads faster. Previewing thumbnails on sd cards and usb drives is quicker. Have yet to edit photos. 2 virus scanners running in background don't seem to tie up resources.

One click networking and sharing for Admins. It's so easy to setup device sharing over a network on this.

Will run the XP compatitbility test tonight.

Overall a good purchase and I find faster and more responsive than XP and it's 4 gig limit. Office sucks so Microsoft cannot get more than 50% marks from me.

Another bitch about Vista...CODECS aren't designed up to date for Media Player.
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