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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Gaffers on 24 June 2009, 22:27:03
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I have just installed W7 after dragging my heels until I finally blew my lid with vista and bit the bullet.
First impressions are very good, nice interface easy to use (even the wife may find it more intuitive!) only time will tell on the reliability :y
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Hi there
i installed windows 7 as soon as it became available :)
needs a little tweaking but is much much better than vista as anyone with any computer knowledge would agree :)
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Hi there
i installed windows 7 as soon as it became available :)
needs a little tweaking but is much much better than vista as anyone with any computer knowledge would agree :)
I agree, it was pure procrastination on my part that was stopping me. But now I am settled into my new house I have had the time and motivation to do it :y
What tweaks have you played with?
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I've just bought 2 Laptops (for SWMBO and I), both of which have come with Vista >:( >:( >:(
I'm struggling to get to grips with it TBH but I'm reluctant to upgrade to 7 until I know the bugs have been ironed out :y :y
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What's wrong with vista.......?
A computer user but technical knowledge nil....... though I did recently reload windows :y
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I've just bought 2 Laptops (for SWMBO and I), both of which have come with Vista >:( >:( >:(
I'm struggling to get to grips with it TBH but I'm reluctant to upgrade to 7 until I know the bugs have been ironed out :y :y
upgrade to windows 7 less bugs in it than vista :y
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I've just bought 2 Laptops (for SWMBO and I), both of which have come with Vista >:( >:( >:(
I'm struggling to get to grips with it TBH but I'm reluctant to upgrade to 7 until I know the bugs have been ironed out :y :y
upgrade to windows 7 less bugs in it than vista :y
Are there any driver issues like there were when Vista was released?
I'm off to Brighton tomorrow to see my Dad for the weekend... He's a bit of an IT buff so I'll ask his opinion :y :y :y
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Are there any driver issues like there were when Vista was released?
The driver issues only came about because the various hardware manufacturers dragged their heels, it wasn't MS's fault.
So far, the Vista drivers for the hardware I have work quite happily under Win 7.
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Nothing wrong with XP!!!
I got a laptop with vista on it and have now gone back to XP on it!!! :y
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I've just bought 2 Laptops (for SWMBO and I), both of which have come with Vista >:( >:( >:(
I'm struggling to get to grips with it TBH but I'm reluctant to upgrade to 7 until I know the bugs have been ironed out :y :y
upgrade to windows 7 less bugs in it than vista :y
Are there any driver issues like there were when Vista was released?
I'm off to Brighton tomorrow to see my Dad for the weekend... He's a bit of an IT buff so I'll ask his opinion :y :y :y
I had no problems apart from my webcam drivers but then it was a cheap one and too be honest needs an upgrade :y
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Nothing wrong with XP!!!
I got a laptop with vista on it and have now gone back to XP on it!!! :y
Must confess, I wanted XP but it's not easy to find on a laptop of the spec I was after :y :y
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'dangle berries' to Windows, its nice to come home and use my Intel Mac Mini running OSX, sooo much nicer to use.
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Hi there
i installed windows 7 as soon as it became available :)
needs a little tweaking but is much much better than vista as anyone with any computer knowledge would agree :)
I agree, it was pure procrastination on my part that was stopping me. But now I am settled into my new house I have had the time and motivation to do it :y
What tweaks have you played with?
Hi gaffers
I tweaked the Drivers and the wireless access ither than that itrs very stable and seems to run all applictaions well! :)
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Hi there
i installed windows 7 as soon as it became available :)
needs a little tweaking but is much much better than vista as anyone with any computer knowledge would agree :)
I agree, it was pure procrastination on my part that was stopping me. But now I am settled into my new house I have had the time and motivation to do it :y
What tweaks have you played with?
Hi gaffers
I tweaked the Drivers and the wireless access ither than that itrs very stable and seems to run all applictaions well! :)
So far I would agree, when I first got vista I had no end of problems. Up till now its groooovy baby!
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I've just bought 2 Laptops (for SWMBO and I), both of which have come with Vista >:( >:( >:(
I'm struggling to get to grips with it TBH but I'm reluctant to upgrade to 7 until I know the bugs have been ironed out :y :y
upgrade to windows 7 less bugs in it than vista :y
Thats a brave statement without proof ;), esp as they both have the same number of known errata
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Nothing wrong with XP!!!
I got a laptop with vista on it and have now gone back to XP on it!!! :y
XP is not great on security by default to be honest. The fact its now in extended support is now probably the final nail it ins coffin.
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'dangle berries' to Windows, its nice to come home and use my Intel Mac Mini running OSX, sooo much nicer to use.
Not many decent apps for Mac that I would use, and generally the software is too expensive.
I'll stick to Windows ;)
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I have a laptop with vista , and a tower ( for the business accounts etc ) on XP . I must admit that I prefer vista I find it very user friendly but thats just my opinion. Again this along with mechanics I know very little about so my main question is :
If I upgrade the xp one to windows 7 and dont like it , is it easy enough to change back to xp ? Any help would be much appreciatted.
Dave :y
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XP is not great on security by default to be honest.
OSX has more holes out of the box than Windows though.
The fact its now in extended support is now probably the final nail it ins coffin.
It's in extended support because it's 8 years old, which is a very long time in IT as I'm sure you well know.
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If I upgrade the xp one to windows 7 and dont like it , is it easy enough to change back to xp ?
You can't do an "upgrade", it has to be a clean install.
In fact, I would never do an upgrade even if the OS allowed it anyway....always make it a clean install if you want no problems.
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If I upgrade the xp one to windows 7 and dont like it , is it easy enough to change back to xp ?
You can't do an "upgrade", it has to be a clean install.
In fact, I would never do an upgrade even if the OS allowed it anyway....always make it a clean install if you want no problems.
I agree. I also consider a Service Pack a 'new' OS (particularly XP SP2!) and thus always put on a fresh build before SP'ing it. Obviously MS are going to make this difficult for future SPs :(
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Obviously MS are going to make this difficult for future SPs :(
How do you mean?
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Obviously MS are going to make this difficult for future SPs :(
How do you mean?
No longer cumulative. tinkers.
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Obviously MS are going to make this difficult for future SPs :(
How do you mean?
No longer cumulative. tinkers.
:-? :(
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Obviously MS are going to make this difficult for future SPs :(
How do you mean?
No longer cumulative. tinkers.
Ah yes, had that when I did a Vista install for someone the other day....as you say.....tinkerS!!