Wish me luck

[Kryten]

Just completing a 700gb backup of my C: drive (and taking the opportunity to rearrange my storage) in order to go over to Windows 7 *fully*

Been testing it solidly for a fair amount of time and can't fail to be impressed by it's performance and little gizmo's. Been running 7057 for the last week and it's been the deciding factor, so as of tomorrow I'll be going 7

 

[Deebs]

Good luck Kryt, where did you get build 7057? You on the beta or have they refreshed MSDN/Select ?

 

[Kryten]

No, that one's on the ol' torrent type things. Found it very useful being able to do an upgrade installation from a previous beta (7000 then 7022) up to this without losing anything (testing in both VM and on a separate partition) - so I'm hoping that at release time it may be possible to do the same from 7057 (supposedly an RC, it's certainly meant to be that way) to release. No huge loss if it doesn't, this one lasts till march 2010.


n nnngh sorry attention diverted, advert just on TV for bras & swimwear for large busted women. Lots of models with very large baps :/

 

[Yaka]

ive been tepted to swtich over to 7 from vista ultimate. is 7057 as stable as peeps are making out?

 

[Bob007]

Good Luck.

Been sitting on this wondering if i should do the same. Now i don't have to worry, keep us posted

 

[Kryten]

Only slight niggle is that desktop.ini opens in notepad on startup, however thats very easily fixable:

How to fix the Windows 7 7057 desktop.ini startup bug

Other than that, so far so good. Performance is noticeably higher than Vista, and I wasn't dissapointed with how Vista ran. Startup time is very noticeably quicker. Reliability - well its been running long enough in testing to not be worried and I've really hammered it in VM's with concurrent copies of photoshop and a couple of stresstesters, but the biggest test is in day to day use.

Fingers crossed

 

[Deebs]

I run a multitude of machines at home,

1 Centos x64 server which is also my firewall.
1 Windows Vista Ultimate - main gaming rig, 64bit, 8gig ram
1 Windows Vista Premium - laptop, 32bit, 2gig ram
1 Windows 7 beta - media server plus other things like irc, downloading, music ripping etc.

I have to say I enjoy the Windows 7 most. It fucking flies as fast as when XP was on it. It is running 64bit and has 4gig ram on a quadcore AMD Phenom 9750. Installed Windows 7 the day it was available and the only time I have rebooted it was to install certain pieces of software or the odd windows update. Number of reboots can be counted on one hand.

Suffice to say that I will be upgrading my Vista licences to Windows 7 as it really is a much nicer OS to use.

 

[Trem]

So is this going to cost as much as previous versions? Bit fucking annoyed about buying Vista Ultimate then not a hell of a lot of time after they release another Windows. Is there any discount in place for Vista owners?

 

[Kryten]

I'd sincerely doubt it, as nice as it would be, and it will probably be the largest gripe that any possible windows customer would have.

 

[Sar]

I'm downloading the latest build ATM and gonna install it under a VM first and see how it runs there before poss full install.

 

[Yaka]

im switching to win7 tronite on my main hdd used and old noisey maxtor 20gb hdd first.seems better

 

[GReaper]

So is this going to cost as much as previous versions? Bit fucking annoyed about buying Vista Ultimate then not a hell of a lot of time after they release another Windows. Is there any discount in place for Vista owners?

I know how you feel. I resent the thought of having to upgrade to get improved performance just because they fucked things up with Vista.

It seems like they add a few new features to try and justify the next upgrade, try and market it as the next greatest thing even though it certainly isn't a revolutionary product. I'd guess that Vista to 7 is going to be another XP to Vista, whilst the existing operating system works fine for the majority of users they just aren't going to upgrade - the next operating system they'll get is when it's time to buy new hardware.

I'll probably end up waiting for new hardware myself. By the time Windows 7 is out it won't be worth upgrading my main desktop, I may as well wait until I build a new machine and get an OEM license for it.

 

[Kryten]

As much as I agree with the reasoning behind that, I'd have to call anyone that held back (and could afford it) really rather daft for doing so. The difference so far is shocking. I think the only comparitive I can describe with is if I'd had a major CPU and ram upgrade and was running Vista on a top notch SSD.

Considering I didn't dislike Vista, had absolutely no problems with it other than moronic 3rd party software providers (hello Logitech, here's looking at you kid) and was very happy with it's XP bashing gaming performance, the difference between it and 7 was certainly worth the move.

Obviously this experience will differ a little among different PC's however I've really hammered it over a few different base platforms including a really basic el-shitto Emachines celeron laptop on which it steams along.

 

[Trem]

That sort of isn't the point though Krytlar, people will dig their heels in and not buy the new OS until, like Greaper said, they *have* to.

I am going to admit here that Vista is the first windows I have paid for, I thought it has to be worth it so all the updates are done etc. So I paid a big wedge to be right and proper and they go and fuck you over by bringing a new OS within a very short amount of time of their so called greatest OS ever.

I certainly won't be buying Windows 7 unless they either offer a discount or I need it.

Wankers

 

[DaGaffer]

When's it actually coming out? I don't really want to run a beta as my main OS, but I'm quite keen to bin Vista 64 as I have found issues with it with third-party apps (adobe for one) and it really dicks around with some games. Plus I've got a Shuttle running XP in the bedroom as a media player and I'd like to upgrade that at the same time.

 

[GReaper]

When's it actually coming out? I don't really want to run a beta as my main OS, but I'm quite keen to bin Vista 64 as I have found issues with it with third-party apps (adobe for one) and it really dicks around with some games. Plus I've got a Shuttle running XP in the bedroom as a media player and I'd like to upgrade that at the same time.

I think the estimate ranges from Q4 2009 to Q1 2010 and beyond. That's all we've got at the moment - no firm release dates have been given.

I'm not sure what you're expecting for application compatability, but surely 7 is just an improved version of Vista? So if the idiotic software companies haven't put any consideration into things like UAC and the fact that running as admin is unacceptable, I doubt the situation is going to be any better for 7.

Maybe someone who runs 7 regularly could give some more accurate info on it?

 

[Sar]

Well the current betas expire in March 2010, so I'd imagine final release would probably be around that stage.

Gave it a go on Virtualbox, and it's a little slow, so I'm gonna bite the bullet and replace Vista with it, because I never use Vista atm, so it'll be no great loss tbh.

 

[Kryten]

DaGaffer - what DOESNT adobe software have issues with? Adobe rank up there with Logitech, Apple and Creative Labs for creators of El-Shitto software.

I've had absolutely no application compatibility problems so far. There have been noted issues in past beta's with Photoshop CS4 (which I haven't seen myself or yet in this build) and with some openGL apps/games, again something I can't say appear to be present in this current build.

I'm now back up to speed with the installation - i.e. all my usual apps are working, all my games are installed and working, it's being hammered in a networking and storage sense and does it's job of running a team of 8 VM's without problem, and it's definitely doing all of that damned slight quicker than Vista was.

 

[Yaka]

peh pshop, why use it when theres gimpshop around

 

[Bob007]

Well i followed and went for it today.

Woke up this morning and backed up what i needed to network shared HDD then burnt 3 discs off, hate it when an image fails to burn so like to have spares while am installing, slapped my raid drivers on a pen drive and rebooted.

As I suspected it never had drivers for my raid controller but in 30 secs I had my raid IDed and was formating away my old system, 15 mins later i was booting into a nice clean Windows 7 desktop.

Set to work installing everything i needed. Ccleaner, Malewarebytes, AVG and Firefox all went in without issue, then i noticed a system message pointing towards 3 option updates. bluetooth 1 and 2 for my raid controller. "ohh, i'll have them" I thought. Installed them and rebooted as instructed. System cycles failing to boot. F8, last known good. Nothing. Recover thingy. No help, didn't even pick up raid, had to add my old drivers. After about 10 mins I decided was prob gonna be quicker to reinstall. Not like was losing alot. So I did this time ignoring the optional raid drivers.

Installed some more software, CS4, Office which went fine. The only bad piece of software so far was Deamon Tools, it said it had issues with bla bla and so on and refused to install, that was an easy fix by switching my image mounting stuff to PowerISO. Testout software went in without any problems, this would of killed any ideas of staying with 7 if it had failed. It cost me to much to be a coaster and i need it.

One thing i did notice, I have this crapy mp3/4 player, only a 2 gig thing. Its not great but it serves me well and if it works i see no need to change it. In windows XP I can transfer files around it and everything works fine but vista has never seen it as anything other then empty. It wasn't realy a problem as I have XP laptop next to me most of the time so I would just transfer the files on to it across my network. Just bugged me a little. When i plugged it into 7 it IDed in seconds and all the files showed up fine. Can transfer to and from it without issue. Bonus \o/

As for the OS its self. It's Windows 7, try it if you havn't, it's everything Windows Vista should of been and more(imo).

 

[Sar]

Yep, just got it installed and I'm about to install the necessary proprietary drivers for the gfx, sound etc.

Seems very nice so far, and quite nippy.

If it's decent for games then I may well purchase the 64bit version upon release.

Better than Vista? So far I'd say yes.

 

[Sar]

Yep, definitely liking it quite a bit.

Going to switch main OS's for a week or two from XP to 7 and see how it works out longer-term...

 

[Krazeh]

Been using 7 since the public beta went live. At first did a dual boot with Vista but after realising i'd not logged into Vista for several weeks I did a reformat and have been using just 7 since.

Think will definitely be picking up a copy at release, even after having splashed out for an OEM copy of Vista Ultimate not long after that was released.

 

[Kryten]

Indeed, I also bought Vista on release (Home Premium) although it wasn't installed until 5 months further down the line when nVidia finally sorted their drivers out.

 

[dysfunction]

I see a little project for me to get Windows 7 installed now! Damn you all!

 

[Kryten]

First problem encountered today, which 7 handled fine. Whilst I was at work, my cousin's wife came round with her kids to see my mrs. One of said kids has a magnetic attraction to any button or switch, finding the time to amuse himself by turning my PC on and off several times.

Needless to say, Windows failed to start on the first attempt. Restarted, windows knew there was an issue and automatically went through the startup repair process. Within 5 minutes, all was well again (although my raid setup has to go through the tiresome process of rebuilding)

 

[Sar]

As for Photoshop, I've installed CS3 (don't really like CS4 for some reason) and it's working fine.

 

[Yaka]

my main rig is dual booting to fedora/win7 but why the heck is win7 sharing 4gb of ram with gfx? in fedora i got 12gb in win7 just under 8gb i remember vista ultimate did this till i did something to stop it. i cant remember what the fuck i did to stop it happening