Anyone got windows 7 yet?

[-Alex-]

All I can say is wow, huge improvement. It is much more streamline and generally pisses all over Vista, my cpu is falling asleep with this new software and not even breaking a sweat. To me the hype is well lived!

[digital]

you think they have finally got it right this time?... It is much much better :)

[J222JRA]

Yeah mate awesome, good thing is because i bought a new laptop a few weeks back it came with the free upgrade.

[Rob-6]

wouldnt take much to be better than vista lets be honest

[-Alex-]

I love it, admitidly took a very long time to install for the speed of everything else it is very forgivable. I got the ultimate version off a certain site *shifty eyes* and it is the only microsoft ultimate product that doesn't demand a nuclear processor to make it work lol.

[JamesR]

Only just got used to poo Vista, actally kepy XP on my PC.

[-Alex-]

Just noticed that sound is abit gritty through vista.

[PSPDan]

Windows 7 looks like a Windows OS that I might actually want to use.

I haven't installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard on my MacBook yet but when I have it will be good to compare the two.

[0rang3peel]

Will stick with xp, but we support windows seven at work so yeah it seems alright

[rich112]

yeah its pretty good, runs smooooth

[P90PTS]

Had it for ages now, dual boot on my mac, much needed improvement from windowze

[Joe3490]

It is a great improvement on Vista, Altho i have been running 7 for few months now :)

[TomBob]

Where did you get it from?

[P90PTS]

He'll be running a BETA version

[karlh944]

they got windows 7 home in tesco for £58 something that just the thing to put in on you pc/laptop

[P90PTS]

You can get the upgrade disk for like 30 quid.

Home is crap too... Windows Se7en Pro FTW!

[karlh944]

how much is the pro then and is i woth getting it?

[P90PTS]

Here's the differences:

http://www.neowin.net/images/uploaded/win71_(Medium).PNG

http://www.neowin.net/images/uploaded/win72_(Medium).PNG

Make up your own decision, your a big boy surely?

[karlh944]

alot differences then. do you not how much the pro would be then?

[P90PTS]

Can you not search? (http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/advice/758/windows7)

[karlh944]

sorry didnt kno where to find all the info

[grahamroxuk]

Mrs Swarzaneggar asks her husband

"hey arnold, have you seen the new windows 7? It looks excellent , I think we should get it!"

Arnie replies

"Nah, I still love vista baby"

(badoom chhh) lol

[mclarenmatt]

Windows Vista was epic, Windows 7 is just even more epic :)

Gotta love all the Vista bashing tbh, even though it blew XP away which is showing its age now.

Vista's only problem was drivers for hardware and people slagging it off when they never gave it a chance/never even tried it :n:

[P90PTS]

Vista was just too slow for all you windowze loyalists!

[0rang3peel]

Windows Vista was epic, Windows 7 is just even more epic :)

Gotta love all the Vista bashing tbh, even though it blew XP away which is showing its age now.

Vista's only problem was drivers for hardware and people slagging it off when they never gave it a chance/never even tried it :n:

vista didn't blow xp away lol, it was a massive flop infact

[mclarenmatt]

vista didn't blow xp away lol, it was a massive flop infact

Why was it a flop then?

Other than people slagging it off? Out performed XP in just about everyway ...

[0rang3peel]

How did it out perform anything its a resource hog. yeah it might be better if you have 16gb of ram & a setup worth over 5k lets not even mention that obtaining drivers that work for anything is a nightmare. I love how it comes pre-installed on pretty much every budget low range laptop aswel...

/RAGE

[machevelli7777]

I had no problems with vista64 atall tbh, just that silly popup that wanted me to be sure about everything i was opening, right pain. Now i have W7 and its an improvement, CPU isnt working as hard and is very stable, just as good as vista for me.

[-Alex-]

To whoever said I had the beta, I have the full ultimate version. Took a while to download from the torrent though :)

[mclarenmatt]

How did it out perform anything its a resource hog. yeah it might be better if you have 16gb of ram & a setup worth over 5k lets not even mention that obtaining drivers that work for anything is a nightmare. I love how it comes pre-installed on pretty much every budget low range laptop aswel...

/RAGE

LOL.

Its called Superfetch, will be slow for the first few days until it works out what programs you use most so it can cache them so they open up uber quick.

Or you do what I did and turn all that crap off = much quicker than XP in everyway.

/Fact.

Suppose everyone is entiled to their opinion though ;) Was always perfect for me tbh.

[mclarenmatt]

I had no problems with vista64 atall tbh, just that silly popup that wanted me to be sure about everything i was opening, right pain. Now i have W7 and its an improvement, CPU isnt working as hard and is very stable, just as good as vista for me.

Same here mate, just turned the UAC off so it didnt pop up every 2 minutes ;)

Can't wait to get Win 7 on though, just waiting for my new PC bits to come through :)

[0rang3peel]

LOL.

Its called Superfetch, will be slow for the first few days until it works out what programs you use most so it can cache them so they open up uber quick.

Or you do what I did and turn all that crap off = much quicker than XP in everyway.

/Fact.

Suppose everyone is entiled to their opinion though ;) Was always perfect for me tbh.

I used it for a few months, still thought it was slow & terrible then realised there was no vent drivers for the 64bit version so got rid of the steaming sack of shit.

[WheresMeNuts]

Why was it a flop then?

Other than people slagging it off? Out performed XP in just about everyway ...

Vista was more like BetaVista.It was a Memory Hog, half the software & hardware never worked on it & above all the Hog took No less than 1GB to run the stupid thing.To say it blew XP away :wacko: Thats a CraZzZzZy Statement to make.

[bald24]

If anything, it sped up the innovation of technology. If vista wasn't so demanding of power, then we wouldn't buy the power required and it'd take alot longer before we had the powerful computers we have today.

[ad_77]

Been running 7 rtm for a few months now (dual booted with vista and osx86) hardly use anything but 7 now!

I play alot of mkv videos (1080p) and vista would just not play them, windows 7 plays them with ease :)

[mclarenmatt]

Vista was more like BetaVista.It was a Memory Hog, half the software & hardware never worked on it & above all the Hog took No less than 1GB to run the stupid thing.To say it blew XP away :wacko: Thats a CraZzZzZy Statement to make.

Never hogged my PC :/

It seems a bit hit and mess as to whether it ran great or not on some machines.

[sammyd]

i got windows 7 and gonna do copies of it to sell mowah haha haha ha ha

[Mystic]

Vista was utter tripe, there is no other way of saying it. It was microsofts longest operating system in development & their shortest lived OS in use.

Truely an Epic Fail.

I think ill actually upgrade my windows box from Xp to 7. Im not expecting it to win my favour over OSX though

[MarkyG]

I love it, admitidly took a very long time to install for the speed of everything else it is very forgivable. I got the ultimate version off a certain site *shifty eyes* and it is the only microsoft ultimate product that doesn't demand a nuclear processor to make it work lol.

Vista didnt need one, neither did any others!

[MarkyG]

i got windows 7 and gonna do copies of it to sell mowah haha haha ha ha

Good luck with that. Who wants to buy a dodgy copy of W7 when after a week or so it will be illegit and stop updating etc. Waste of money. Not even worth pirating!

[0rang3peel]

i got windows 7 and gonna do copies of it to sell mowah haha haha ha ha

pikey much?

[-Alex-]

Good luck with that. Who wants to buy a dodgy copy of W7 when after a week or so it will be illegit and stop updating etc. Waste of money. Not even worth pirating!
How do you work that one out then, it's full activated and receives updates from Microsoft happilly.

[flynnsvtr]

Personally, I quite liked vista, used it for the past few years and haven't had any problems with it, but Windows 7 does seem alot smoother so far!

[WheresMeNuts]

pikey much?

All Free........

[WheresMeNuts]

For those who are thinking about changing Windows,You will find the Link below of some help........

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/572-63-windows-windows-vista

[Barry123]

I've had Windoz 7 for about 2 months now, got it through the student license here at the uni for free which is bo.

Absolutely love it, I don't normally give a shiny crap about computers and gay shit like that but the difference in speed doing photo automation and the loading times for ma porn were much better.

[Oblivionm1ck]

Would you say its worth upgrading my laptop or Should I just wait intill I buy something new?

Im on Vista atm

[adam_baker]

Windows Vista was epic, Windows 7 is just even more epic :)

Gotta love all the Vista bashing tbh, even though it blew XP away which is showing its age now.

Vista's only problem was drivers for hardware and people slagging it off when they never gave it a chance/never even tried it :n:

I bought my laptop about 6 weeks ago, when Vista was running in it's prime, I've had no problems with it and runs beautifully, but i do wish i could have windows 7 now :(

[RichM]

I'm still waiting for my college to give me free copiezzz through ELMS

[WheresMeNuts]

Would you say its worth upgrading my laptop or Should I just wait intill I buy something new?

Im on Vista atm

If it's not broke, Why fix it ?
If your like a few of us & want to see what all the fuss is about then go for it.
As stated in the Link I've posted....Windows 7 is built on the Vista code base.

[hellonpluto]

Vista is shite:

http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2009/1/25/633684715577047360-windowsvistayoudidntreallyneedyoursanitydidyou.jpg

Windows 7 is epic win i've heard i'm really tempted to go out and buy. Currently still running XP cos its the cats tits. At work i run windows server 2008 on my desktop and love it!

[Jordysport]

Vista is shite:

http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2009/1/25/633684715577047360-windowsvistayoudidntreallyneedyoursanitydidyou.jpg

Windows 7 is epic win i've heard i'm really tempted to go out and buy. Currently still running XP cos its the cats tits. At work i run windows server 2008 on my desktop and love it!

have to agree with that photo, vista was not compatable with my power hungry apps.

[pr0xibus]

Windows Vista was epic, Windows 7 is just even more epic :)

Gotta love all the Vista bashing tbh, even though it blew XP away which is showing its age now.

Vista's only problem was drivers for hardware and people slagging it off when they never gave it a chance/never even tried it :n:

VISTA blew XP away what are you basing that facts on. majority of work places still use XP and i still use XP at home i wouldnt even touch vista and i certainly wont be touching windows 7 until the first service pack comes out. everyone knows what vista was like. SHIT. sorry for the language but it is. the backwards compatability with certain or should say most applications out is shit. the constant use of processor even though you arent doing anything lol the list goes on and on about vista, NOW XP there is an OS yeah sure its windows and am not really a fan am biased as im a linux man through and through but i only use it to play games but XP,ME and 98 is probably more stable than vista

[WheresMeNuts]

Correct me if I'm wrong but XP has lasted twice as long as Vista on the market....I wonder why that is ???
And Vista was almost as bad as Windows ME.

[-Alex-]

XP may be more stable, but it's so shite now compared to WIN7, if you have the hardware you might aswell use it, especially on WIN7, I've never known Windows to be released so stable and non CPU and Ram hungry.
http://yfrog.com/2odesktopwin7p
My CPU usage is second to none.

[P90PTS]

I got a copy of win 7 sitting next to me, just needs to be installed on 3 laptops im repairing and also the rents computer.

[hellonpluto]

Correct me if I'm wrong but XP has lasted twice as long as Vista on the market....I wonder why that is ???
And Vista was almost as bad as Windows ME.

more than that XP is c.10 years old now!!

you're right that vista is as bad as windows me, but i ran windows me and had no problems with it which surprised a lot of people.

[pr0xibus]

more than that XP is c.10 years old now!!

you're right that vista is as bad as windows me, but i ran windows me and had no problems with it which surprised a lot of people.

windows ME was a classic i must admit i ran it without any problems and when XP came out i was still reluctant to move XP. they are both good versions and i must say much better than vista although i havent given 7 a proper test i dont think its worth it till the 1st service pack comes out we all know it wont be long for it anyway lol

[Graeme]

might try this on my old pc that has XP on defo dont fancy paying for it though

[laura_g]

We are meant to get a free upgrade coz we only got our laptop a few months back anyways this may be a dump question but do you get microsoft word on the new windows 7? i need it for college they will be damned if im writing anything by hand

[pr0xibus]

not usually but if your a student you can get it for only 30 quid or something lol

or if you know certain places you can get it free but piracy is illegal lol

[laura_g]

Is that a Windows student pack ?

[davidandrews5343]

Windows 7 is win, if i leave my pc to idle my cpu will spin down and even stop sometimes, epic heatsink tho, it really does shit all over vista, i used vista for a year so i didnt have alot of driver issues as they had been sorted, it wasnt bad, but 7 is just so much better, not a single issue with it so far

[pr0xibus]

Is that a Windows student pack ?

na there is deals on with microsoft for teh ultimate pack for 30 notes or something

[TomBob]

To whoever said I had the beta, I have the full ultimate version. Took a while to download from the torrent though :)

Link? Thanks :)

[Elliott]

currently downloading again.

[Mochachino]

I sorted out £2.5million of Windows 7 the other day at work ready for distribution, got 30% discount off it. Gonna get one!

[Elliott]

i gotz mine for free.

[baker556]

Ive had it about a month now !

Runs so smooth its real nice, got it free aswel as im a networking student ;)

[furiomike]

Vista wasn't bad, it just wasn't finished. 7 makes things better, yet the difference between the two isn't huge. People still diss Vista and wank over 7 though. I got it when retail became available just over a week ago. Cheapo pre-order with Amazon.

[WheresMeNuts]

Not 100% sure, But I think you need Vista to update to Windows 7.....So with XP your Snookered. :n:

[furiomike]

Not 100% sure, But I think you need Vista to update to Windows 7.....So with XP your Snookered. :n:
Don't upgrade then. I paid £45 for a full version (not upgrade) of 7.

[Bound]

Was looking at it the other day.. can't fresh install though, and XP - Windows 7 route is formatted.. Which isn't possible for me, 500gb hard drive, and no way of backing it up really.

But XP - Vista can be done within XP, without formatting I think, then Vista - Windows 7 the same way.

I may acquire these products through a prompt and legal fashion.

[-Alex-]

Was looking at it the other day.. can't fresh install though, and XP - Windows 7 route is formatted.. Which isn't possible for me, 500gb hard drive, and no way of backing it up really.

But XP - Vista can be done within XP, without formatting I think, then Vista - Windows 7 the same way.

I may acquire these products through a prompt and legal fashion.

WIN7 Backed everything up into a folder called windows.old

[mclarenmatt]

windows ME was a classic i must admit i ran it without any problems and when XP came out i was still reluctant to move XP. they are both good versions and i must say much better than vista although i havent given 7 a proper test i dont think its worth it till the 1st service pack comes out we all know it wont be long for it anyway lol

So ME was a classic but Vista was shit? Wtf.

ME was the worst operating system ever, your just joining the usual Vista bashing club tbh.

Vista wasnt that bad if you disabled superfetch, indexing etc.

Still Win 7 is here so lets all stfu :P

[WheresMeNuts]

Was looking at it the other day.. can't fresh install though, and XP - Windows 7 route is formatted.. Which isn't possible for me, 500gb hard drive, and no way of backing it up really.

But XP - Vista can be done within XP, without formatting I think, then Vista - Windows 7 the same way.

I may acquire these products through a prompt and legal fashion.

Yes as far as I'm aware you can't go from XP to Windows 7 Only Vista to Windows 7 :wall:

[Jordysport]

So ME was a classic but Vista was shit? Wtf.

ME was the worst operating system ever, your just joining the usual Vista bashing club tbh.

Vista wasnt that bad if you disabled superfetch, indexing etc.

Still Win 7 is here so lets all stfu :P

ME was good, at the time, and tbh should people have to turn off those things, the run of the mill people wouldn't know how to do that, so its being rated on the performance as it comes out of the box.

[-Alex-]

Yes as far as I'm aware you can't go from XP to Windows 7 Only Vista to Windows 7 :wall:
Correcto-mundoooo

[furiomike]

Nah ME was crap, especially at the time. 98SE was good and ME ruined it. 2000 and XP were just round the corner too. ME was pointless.

[Penn]

Yes as far as I'm aware you can't go from XP to Windows 7 Only Vista to Windows 7 :wall:

Correcto-mundoooo

Not true.

You can go from XP or Vista using an "upgrade" version of Windows 7. The only difference is that if you're going from XP to 7 you NEED to do a fresh install. Going from Vista to 7 gives you the option to keep all of your settings/files etc and as mentioned before will stick them in windows.old.

The second method of keeping settings/files is pretty pointless though as you won't get a fresh install which kind of defeats the object of installing a brand new OS. You don't want remnants of vista sticking around on your PC.

Just back up all the data you need to an external drive and do a fresh install.

[WheresMeNuts]

Not true.

You can go from XP or Vista using an "upgrade" version of Windows 7. The only difference is that if you're going from XP to 7 you NEED to do a fresh install. Going from Vista to 7 gives you the option to keep all of your settings/files etc and as mentioned before will stick them in windows.old.

The second method of keeping settings/files is pretty pointless though as you won't get a fresh install which kind of defeats the object of installing a brand new OS. You don't want remnants of vista sticking around on your PC.

Just back up all the data you need to an external drive and do a fresh install.
So I can just delete my XP Partition in Bios & Install Windows 7 with No probs ?

[Penn]

So I can just delete my XP Partition in Bios & Install Windows 7 with No probs ?

I'm not 100% sure if you currently need XP installed when you enter the windows 7 disk, I am assuming you do. If you install from an image or a physical disk you should get the option to install onto your XP partition and format it before installing as per re-installing XP or installing vista.

I wouldn't delete it prior to installing 7 just in case. I wish my windows 7 exam book would hurry up, could give you a definite answer then :P

[P90PTS]

You need to be in the current OS before Se7en will install

[Adam_Q]

Had it since the RC release and its so so so much better than vista! Its basically just a big update to make vista better or should I say, usable!

[baker556]

Yes as far as I'm aware you can't go from XP to Windows 7 Only Vista to Windows 7 :wall:

Yes you can, ive done it myself straight onto Windows 7 Ultimate !

[WheresMeNuts]

Yes you can, ive done it myself straight onto Windows 7 Ultimate !

Did you delete your XP Partition first before Installing Windows 7 ?

[baker556]

Did you delete your XP Partition first before Installing Windows 7 ?

Nah just straight install, you can parition it if you want so you can start either xp or 7 from the start up, currently trying to install leopard to partition it in line with 7 so i have a hackintosh ;)

but just put the disc in and install, dont forget to back all your docs up first though.

[Sparco_Tom]

i have been using windows 7 rc for quite some time with nothing but issues. im going to be installing ultimate at somepoint soon hopefully it will have smoothed out the issues.

[Bound]

Yes you can, ive done it myself straight onto Windows 7 Ultimate !

Not true.

You can go from XP or Vista using an "upgrade" version of Windows 7. The only difference is that if you're going from XP to 7 you NEED to do a fresh install. Going from Vista to 7 gives you the option to keep all of your settings/files etc and as mentioned before will stick them in windows.old.

The second method of keeping settings/files is pretty pointless though as you won't get a fresh install which kind of defeats the object of installing a brand new OS. You don't want remnants of vista sticking around on your PC.

Just back up all the data you need to an external drive and do a fresh install.

This is the point I was making.

Going from XP - Windows 7 you have to format your harddrive (mi mi mi partiton). Not possible for me, so I have to delete my stuff if I wanted to do a straight upgrade.

However, Going from XP - Vista, then Vista - Windows 7 holds within your files without formatting.

Great like that huh.

[pr0xibus]

So ME was a classic but Vista was shit? Wtf.

ME was the worst operating system ever, your just joining the usual Vista bashing club tbh.

Vista wasnt that bad if you disabled superfetch, indexing etc.

Still Win 7 is here so lets all stfu :P

lol na 3.1 was the worst operating system ever. its weird am old enough to remember using this lol. anyway am not just joining the usual vista bashing club if i am bashing anything its fucking windows its self. vista wasnt that bad if you formatted over the fucking thing other than that it was pretty good. yup when i get round to testing win 7 at work i will certainly give my opinion good or bad




come on everyone join the nix* club

heheheheheh

[MarkyG]

How do you work that one out then, it's full activated and receives updates from Microsoft happilly.

Buy a copy off him then mate and see how long it stays updating and that. Microsoft are fast at cottoning on to pirate material that is legally theirs nowadays anyway.

So thats how I work it out. That ok?

[MarkyG]

Why was it a flop then?

Other than people slagging it off? Out performed XP in just about everyway ...

And at the press release Vista crashed in front of everyone, severely embarassing Bill and his chums.

Vista, I find, is ok, never had a prob with the Ultimate x64 version, no crashes, errors, hardware problems at all! All good this end. Getting my W7 today for nothing :P and no, I'm not downloading a pirate copy of it.

[wadoryu]

no and im not planning to either

[Maxamus]

Installed it yesterday... very impressed with the finished product. No major issues with compatability, the only issue being with the fingerprint reader software which was swiftly fixed with an update!

One of the easiest £40 ive spent...

[Mark51]

do i go x86 or x64???

[haz_pro]

how much ram do you have and what type of processor?

x64 is 64 bit,

and x86 is 32 bit.

x64 will allow you to use more ram, 4 upwardsi believe, how ever you may have problems finding drivers for some hardware.

x86 will allow you to make use of arouind 3.5 gigs of ram, maybe 4 sometimes im not sure. This is the safe option though as all drivers pretty much have a 32 bit option.

[Mark51]

oooo, glad i went for the x86 then. I choose this by 'bigger is better' rule which i normally use when doing DIY at home lol

[Mark51]

for those of you that have loaded windows 7 on did you keep your windows.old file?

[pr0xibus]

oooo, glad i went for the x86 then. I choose this by 'bigger is better' rule which i normally use when doing DIY at home lol

x86 is smaller lol

anyway yeah x86 is probably the best unless your getting 4gb or more ram and doing intense programming,graphics etc etc

[Bound]

And at the press release Vista crashed in front of everyone, severely embarassing Bill and his chums.

Wanna see this :D.

for those of you that have loaded windows 7 on did you keep your windows.old file?

Is that not all your old documents,files,programs from your previous OS stuffed in one folder?

oooo, glad i went for the x86 then. I choose this by 'bigger is better' rule which i normally use when doing DIY at home lol

lol.. bigger is always better!

how much ram do you have and what type of processor?

x64 is 64 bit,

and x86 is 32 bit.

x64 will allow you to use more ram, 4 upwardsi believe, how ever you may have problems finding drivers for some hardware.

x86 will allow you to make use of arouind 3.5 gigs of ram, maybe 4 sometimes im not sure. This is the safe option though as all drivers pretty much have a 32 bit option.

Summed it up perfectly.

[Mark51]

Is that not all your old documents,files,programs from your previous OS stuffed in one folder?



yeah, thats it. dont see why id need them just didnt want to delete 20gb and then realise i needed something from there?

[Bound]

yeah, thats it. dont see why id need them just didnt want to delete 20gb and then realise i needed something from there?

Well do you want any of your old files or documents?

Otherwise you can go ahead and delete it.

[Mark51]

already backed them up so no.

Just trying to get AVG to work now, its been gay!