Windows 7... finally, the windows you've been waiting for...

I guess I have installed about 50-60 shareware programs, and games, and uninstalled about 30-40 of them. I may be wrong, but as far as I remember this slowed down XP so much over time that I formatted the hard drive and reinstalled the operating system every three months. The Windows Update works without failure (so far). Everything I connect through usb, hdmi (including TV) and so on works without me having to do anything except plugging it in, of course. This is how it should be, but my eXPerience is that with XP, ME, 98SE, 98 and 95 I had to alter some alternative or another to get this to work...

This being said, I have one problem that I have not been able to solve. It may have nothing to do with Vista, but I have never had this problem before. Internet Explorer and Windows Live Mail work perfectly until I use Windows Media Player. Most of the time the Internet Explorer fails to connect to the internet. The Windows Live Mail still checks for mail once a minute, and the download manager still download files. This never happened in XP, and I have no idea how to fix. It might be a conflict between other programs outside Vista, for example the anti-virus program, maybe a problem with conflicting ports…

Just installed windows 7 RC on my external drive. Looks good. LOve the new desktop picture. Beautiful one of sydney harbour & the opera house.

got the licence for 12months & then after that constant rebooting until you install retail licence.
This version is ultimate.

I Love windows 7

plumgas wrote:I Love windows 7

Hahaha, another happy camper.

with windows 7 my pc feels like brand new, I was reading about xp mode & microsoft says it's not for games only applications . I checked my bios & I have the hardware virtualisation.

So anyone thinking xp mode for games it seems we can think again.

Just saw it in action on a friend's PC.

You can count me in as a converted. Next machine I'm building will have Win 7 as its centerpiece!

So when is Windows 7 being released??

And how good of a computer do you need to run it efficiently?

and does it install itself into the boot sector of your hard drive like vista does?

Can dosbox run on it when in xp mode?

and does it give you full access to the computer to make changes to system files and registry etc without asking your permission?


I want to know more about this.

Cub, you seem to be the expert.
So I guess this question is directed at you =P

Thanks for your imput.

The minimum system requirements of Windows 7 are as follows:

* 1 GHz processor (32- or 64-bit)
* 1 GB of RAM (32-bit); 2 GB of RAM (64-bit)
* 16 GB of available disk space (32-bit); 20 GB of avaiable disk space (64-bit)
* DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

...so it is not as power hungry as Vista was. Also keep note that they recommend a min 2GB of Ram and additional 16GB HDD space to run the Windows XP Virtualisation mode efficiently.

Also, all windows operating systems upgrade the boot sector. This has always been the case. You can elect to have Windows 7 running alongside Vista or even XP in a dual boot mode if you so wish. However, you may also upgrade your existing OS, or format and start fresh. All options are there.

I don't see why Dos Box would not run in XP mode... but if you can run a version of Dos Box in Vista, then it will run fine in Windows 7 as well anyway. Any software designed to run in Vista will work flawlessly in Windows 7 without the need to do anything. And the rest (such as XP based software that never got upgraded to run in Vista) will run via XP virtualisation.

UAC (User Account Control, which is what you speak of with regards to always asking for your permission for changes, as it was in Vista) can be adjusted in Windows 7 so that you may opt out of all warnings and allow full access, or you may choose in what cases you want the OS to notify you of changes. You can also choose which OS based warnings you want to suppress (in case you get sick of any of them, such as bubble notifications about system updates in the system tray, etc.)... all options with regards to UAC in Windows 7 are customisable. Just on a side note, the ability to turn UAC off is also a feature of vista, however fine tuning the options is not.

hope this helps clear up a few Q's.

-Cub. =o)

Thanks =)

That was really informative.

One last question though.

I know Microsoft was trying to implement DRM into Vista... or eventually implement it.

Did they scrap that with Windows 7?

That was one reason I was weary of Vista too.

lestat666 wrote:Thanks =)

That was really informative.

One last question though.

I know Microsoft was trying to implement DRM into Vista... or eventually implement it.

Did they scrap that with Windows 7?

That was one reason I was weary of Vista too.

DRM is not an active component of the Windows operating system. It is "supported" by the OS, but the actual use of DRM is completely up to the other software vendors when they create the programs and/or content. In other words, if you want to know whether or not something will make use of DRM, you should check up on the software itself.

-Cub. =o)

to answer your question re dos box under windows 7, works well with pandora. Actually the sound is fantastic. I think the sound is better than even with xp. Crisp & clean with no static at all. Windows 7 driver only.

I have to adjust mouse as the rooms tend to spin around a bit. full screen doesn't work need to solve that. But then again vista did that also, maybe I need to adjust something, maybe aero feature causes this.