Posted on 10/22/2009 4:24:06 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
Does it keep programs organized in one place?
My husband has had it on his laptop for a few months now and loves it.
We transitioned the laptops here at work from XP to W7 without any issues at all. Every device on the laptops work, printers all have drivers, all the software works fine.
Now, we did do Wipe and Reload, not an upgrade. Saved all important data off to removable drives and then reloaded it after install.
All of it went seamless.
Yes — it is back to the old ONE SINGLE program files directory instead of multiple like Vista.
I’m with you. I won’t be upgrading to Win 7 until I buy a new PC. I accept the fact that 7 is better than Vista, but personally I have few problems with Vista. And I am as interested in the upgraded hardware for PVCs coming out with Win 7 loaded on them, as I am in Win 7. I’ve seen Laptops listed with 7+ hrs battery life, systems coming as is with 4gigs of RAM in them..Laptops with good not just acceptable grapihics subsystems....Buying Win 7 for my maxed out at 2 ghis RAM, 120Gig HDD system, seems like putting a 440 engine into a Ford Escort. Not knocking Ford Escorts, as I owned one, but you *know* its gonna get shaky on the turns, before you even get behind the wheel. The Escort just wasn’t built for it, no matter how you modify it.
WooHoo! I was forced into upgrading my aging hardware a few months ago and will get a free upgrade to W7 in a couple days.
Very glad to hear of your experiences.
Thank you. I will get it then. Early next year.
the beta versions have been getting good reviews
C’mon - you’re supposed to jump on the bandwagon and mindlessly bash Windows because it’s the ‘in’ thing to do.
Where’s your spirit?
tooo bad the morons at microsoft can’t the gremlins out of vista first .... 7 ... yeah in about ten years when I don’t have a choice. But in reality, in ten years I will not have a stinking piece of microsoft product in any of my labs, admin or distribution.
losers that no longer listen. Screw microsoft. I have 30 laptops with Vista purchased this year that are boat anchors. Microsoft solution .... change out all existing “proprietary hardware, in house design” to match their crap. They walked away. Got news.... I am walking away from anything microsoft.
Or you could have gone with XP, wow theres a shocker
Will I still need anti-virus and anti-malware protection on Windows 7?
I preordered 7 back in July when the upgrade was $40. My older laptop could really use the help and I’m looking forward to the new package. I never used Vista (both my computers are XP) so I’m curious about the learning curve.
The libraries feature is VERY intriguing.
I believe full install is the only way to upgrade if you have Windows XP.
I’m talking about the ‘old’ upgrade style, which you could do XP -> Vista and can’t do XP -> Win7.
Should be interesting to hear the screams of some of the early adopters when they discover this.
Sorry, you’re too late. I’m already not in that line and haven’t been since yesterday.
Funny thing about that ..
the vendor, in order to keep a sale, after finding nothing I have worked with Vista removed Vista, and installed Xp proffesional on all 30 units.
Vendor and Hp have been working ever since, none of the thirty units work .. they claim that in the swap Xp was corrupted as well. None of the new machines that were swapped to Xp will run any of my Data Acquistion or controll systmes. My older units with Xp run them just fine.
Microsoft has walked away. I will run, not walk as well.
More or less. It is sort of a 'hybrid' upgrade. W7 has a tool that you use to move all of your XP files and settings to a backup location. W7 then wipes and reloads, then imports all the data back in. I believe it is only data though, you have to actually reinstall the programs.
I agree - have been running W7 as well. It is a dramatic upgrade from Vista in every respect.
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