[Piratepete]

So I upgraded 3 PC's (One 18months old, one about 6 years old and a new netbook) to Windows 7 Ultimate on Saturday.

The Vista upgrade which should have kept all my files and setting took hours and then decided to stop. In fairness I hadn't cleaned up the PC so it was clogged with all sorts of meaningless crap. However then went for a fresh install which took 20 minutes and worked perfectly. More my fault than MS i think.

Mrs P's old Dell machine worked perfectly with one old driver problem. I went looking for a solution and unbeknowst to me the machine was doing this itself and popped up with a update to solve the problem, which it duely did.

Made a bootable USB stick for the notebook, whioch installed perfectly and now runs considerably quicker than XP. (Half life runs like a dream)

What has particularly impressed me is the fact that:

a. All the machines are now networked and can swap files, something I never managed to sort out before.
b. All the machines can now print across the network, again something that never quite worked before.
c. I had a weird sound related issue on my machine where the speakers blatted if the volume was turned up too loud. This is now resolved and with the 'self set up' music now sounds brilliant.

So well done to MS I am actually very impressed. I had set aside Sunday for pulling my hair out and getting frustrated with it but it was all done by Saturday night and everything work.

I would recommend it tbh. (And I never thought I would be saying that)

[Piratepete]

oh and for some reason my wireless connection strength hass gone from 75% avg to 95% avg.

Go figure.

[Dadaist]

Piratepete, on 9 Feb 2010, 09:10, said:

oh and for some reason my wireless connection strength hass gone from 75% avg to 95% avg.

Go figure.

[simon green]

Piratepete, on 9 Feb 2010, 09:41, said:

So well done to MS I am actually very impressed. I had set aside Sunday for pulling my hair out and getting frustrated with it but it was all done by Saturday night and everything work.

I would recommend it tbh. (And I never thought I would be saying that)

good to hear a happy ms user :)

I might do this on cheryls laptop ... a piece of junk, how much did it cost?

[hoods]

yep
windows 7 is sooooo much better than vista

[Piratepete]

simon green, on 9 Feb 2010, 10:37, said:

good to hear a happy ms user :)

I might do this on cheryls laptop ... a piece of junk, how much did it cost?

It was not expensive for a fully validated version of Windows 7 ;)

[Munkee]

I like mine for the reasons you give but I want to turn some of the annoying (to me) extras off. Things like the little scrolling bars that seem to pop up at random etc. etc.
Maybe if I actually went through the tutorial....

[Piratepete]

Munkee, on 9 Feb 2010, 11:17, said:

I like mine for the reasons you give but I want to turn some of the annoying (to me) extras off. Things like the little scrolling bars that seem to pop up at random etc. etc.
Maybe if I actually went through the tutorial....

Random scrolling bars? Haven't seen any of them.....yet.

(I also didn't go through the tutorial)

[Munkee]

Piratepete, on 9 Feb 2010, 11:01, said:

Random scrolling bars? Haven't seen any of them.....yet.

(I also didn't go through the tutorial)

Little tiny ones that pop up under the cursor from time to time?

Maybe I have a Pirate copy...

[Ja Nai]

Windows 7 is full of Win and good

[Dr Mo]

windows 7 is actually not too bad at all. it's no mac os, but it's perfectly usable.

[Piratepete]

Dr Mo, on 9 Feb 2010, 12:15, said:

windows 7 is actually not too bad at all. it's no mac os, but it's perfectly usable.

Which Vista wasn't. Definitely the first time I have loaded a MS OS to discover 'It all just works'

[Sherlock Ohms]

Still sticking stubbornly to XP Pro SP3 - I went to a lot of geeky effort to get it to work on my Laptop which was bundled with Vista, as it turned the machine into a dog.

Pete, my machines a Core 2 Duo T5800 with 2GB RAM, onboard GMA graphics - will Windows 7 play nicely, do they have a little tool for telling you whether your machine will run their s/w?

[Piratepete]

Teiresias, on 9 Feb 2010, 12:30, said:

Still sticking stubbornly to XP Pro SP3 - I went to a lot of geeky effort to get it to work on my Laptop which was bundled with Vista, as it turned the machine into a dog.

Pete, my machines a Core 2 Duo T5800 with 2GB RAM, onboard GMA graphics - will Windows 7 play nicely, do they have a little tool for telling you whether your machine will run their s/w?

Well Mrs P's desktop is a P4 with 2gb ram and a nvidia 7800gt card. Good about 5 years ago. The Windows Upgrade advisor said it would have a few issues, however it didn't have any at all apart from one driver problem on the network card that win 7 then dealt with (and didn't prevent connecting to the network or internet). I think yours would be fine.

The only thing is , from XP it needs to do a clean install (20mins), from Vista although it does say it will upgrade Vista it crashed on mine and I had to do a clean install.

[Mach V]

Piratepete, on 9 Feb 2010, 08:41, said:

a. All the machines are now networked and can swap files, something I never managed to sort out before.
b. All the machines can now print across the network, again something that never quite worked before.

congratulations! you've just got OS X!

;)

[omeron]

I really want to pay good money for an upgrade to a company that took 20 years to
sort out the very basics of an operating system.

And I hate those ads, "I suggested not taking 15 years to boot a laptop, I invented windows 7".

Cretins.

[Munkee]

better to pay good money to a company that locks you in to their system and charges twice as much per gig for the priviledge of having a white goods computer.


;-)

[omeron]

There's always Linux... :-)

[Piratepete]

omeron, on 9 Feb 2010, 13:57, said:

There's always Linux... :-)

There is lots about linux I really like but two main problems stymied me.

1. No gaming, or crappy gaming. Web games or Oolite basically.
2. If it goes wrong you need a wizard to come round and fix it. Unfortunately my wizard couldn't help me all the time so I ended up with problems I couldn't resolve.

[mixmaster morris]