So, windows 7 came out

[jamuko]

Re: So, windows 7 came out

THANK YOU MISTER GOOGLES!wtf

[virus003]

Re: So, windows 7 came out

Judging by the amount of FFR today I played on Windows 7, it's like playing on Vista now. :\

[fido123]

Re: So, windows 7 came out

I just got my windows 7 professional for $30...but I'm not going to install it over my XP. I'm going to wait a bit until I really need to upgrade. I just wanted the good deal now.

Duel boot it. Contact me over AIM if you need help doing that. You can just shrink your current partition and in fact run all your apps and files such as music off your XP partition.


Also I forget to list my experiences with Windows7 RC.

I installed it on 4 computers, 3 of them being my friends.

My Computer: Everything working fine. Had something happen twice which made it so I couldn't open files, or use any part of explorer.exe, restarting it didn't help. Rebooting fixed it but wtf.
EDIT: This was in fact on 2 different computers, a home built one and a Lenovo laptop. Happened once for each of them.

Computer 2: explorer.exe after a couple of weeks would simply crash every 30 seconds and pop an error message up which wouldn't be closed until you manually restarted explorer.exe in a command line.

Computer 3: Same thing as computer 2 but it happens sooner

Computer 4: The start button on boot won't work until you restart explorer.exe


On every one of these computers, Firefox was the browser and NoScript was used and all my friends who used Windows 7 know how to use it well. This pretty much eliminates the assumption that we all got viruses. Computer 3 also had McAffee (lol)


So basically Windows7 RC sucks ass, I'm using it now on my machine but I'm probably just going to use XP again, as the sole reason I have any version of Windows on my computer is for gaming and other comparability issues. All 4 computers had exclusive Windows 7 drivers released which I installed. Hopefully all these problems are fixed in the official release, or at least by SP1. I'll try them both and hope there are no more mess ups. I'm just going to stick with Linux distros.

[Izzy]

Re: So, windows 7 came out

That seems hard to believe. For one thing the official release of windows 7 has only been out for a few days.

[MrGiggles]

Re: So, windows 7 came out

The only problems I had with the RC was that sleep mode only worked 1/3 of the time. The other 2/3 it would randomly turn itself back in the middle of the night, making me **** myself, or it would get into an unstoppable power loop and I'd have to kill the PSU for a bit.

But wow, Fido. I've not heard of anything like that from anyone else. Maybe you had a bad download? I dunno.

[fido123]

Re: So, windows 7 came out

That seems hard to believe. For one thing the official release of windows 7 has only been out for a few days.

The RC was released quite a few months ago. I've been using Windows 7 for a while.

Also I would probably upgrade from XP/Vista if I was using Windows for more than gaming but I don't.

EDIT: Wasn't a bad download. I gave each person their own disc. Although I know this kind of stuff doesn't happen all the time, this is why I don't use Windows lol. It's the most bloated and unreliable OS I know. I don't understand why the OS that costs the most has the most bloat code and less features than the free one. </elitist rant>

srsly though if we all switch to Linux and the market share flips we're all set 8D

[foilman8805]

Re: So, windows 7 came out

The only problems I had with the RC was that sleep mode only worked 1/3 of the time. The other 2/3 it would randomly turn itself back in the middle of the night, making me **** myself, or it would get into an unstoppable power loop and I'd have to kill the PSU for a bit.

my laptop with Vista 64bit SP2 does this **** every so often.

[Izzy]

Re: So, windows 7 came out

What do you people do to screw over your OS? I always hear stories about peoples hardware failing or their monitors dieing or possibly their OS giving ridiculous errors. What do you do to your computers? It seems like people kick their PC's or something. Why do people claim their harddrives randomally fail all the time. I have crappy HD's from 10 years ago that I haven't particularly taken good care of and they work fantastic. I haven't ever had hardware break or had any major OS crashing issues. It leaves me confused.

[MrRubix]

Re: So, windows 7 came out

People don't know how to take care of their ****, run spyware checks regularly, keep things running clean and efficient, etc. **** just keeps building up until everything's so tightly convoluted and corrupt that things start failing.

Empty your case of dust, keep the computer clear of virii, give everything proper ventilation, don't be retarded, and you're good to go.

[leonid]

Re: So, windows 7 came out

Or just buy a mac

[Zageron]

Re: So, windows 7 came out

I don't know what you're all talking about.
Windows 7 works like a charm and I'm still using revision 7100. Everything works smoothly, FFR plays great when you disable Aero, openITG works well, games play well, shutdown and startup is lightning fast.

Windows 7 > Windows Vista SP2 > Windows XP SP3 > Windows Vista (release)
Just disable the security features in the control panel and don't do anything stupid. :]

[V-Ormix]

Re: So, windows 7 came out

oh dam I needs to get some of that cuz my laptop is new and you can get updated for free!

[MrGiggles]

Re: So, windows 7 came out

Or just buy a mac

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NOW I'VE LOST IT

I KNOW I CAN KILL

THE TRUTH LIES JUST BEYOND THE GATE

[fido123]

Re: So, windows 7 came out

Or just buy a mac

I'm sorry I don't have the extra $2000 to fork out for a nice metrosexual design. Also I like my computer to do more than media design and browse the internet.

What do you people do to screw over your OS? I always hear stories about peoples hardware failing or their monitors dieing or possibly their OS giving ridiculous errors. What do you do to your computers? It seems like people kick their PC's or something. Why do people claim their harddrives randomally fail all the time. I have crappy HD's from 10 years ago that I haven't particularly taken good care of and they work fantastic. I haven't ever had hardware break or had any major OS crashing issues. It leaves me confused.

I honestly don't know why this **** is happening. Windows in general if a VERY bloated OS and it does tend to crash, and have more problems than any other popular OS. These people were using NoScript and they know how to use it well so I doubt there's any malware. Maybe it's just because it's the RC, or Windows 7 just doesn't like the chipsets used in our computers.

[fido123]

Re: So, windows 7 came out

So I finished writing a cover letter on Windows 7 cause I was too lazy to reboot after playing WoW. I finish it up and I saved it at the beginning and by habit I hit Ctrl + S after every sentence. I was on MSO2010 on Word. So I notice it hasn't actually been saving ever since I did the header. Tried to open up notepad and it says it can't be accessed. All my quick launch icons not in use and the start button disappear. When I minimized all my other icons were there but if I clicked them nothing happens, Windows 7 ftw. Restarted and it's all fine but I now I have to restart. Will not be using Windows 7 to type **** up ever again until I upgrade my version at least.