Windows 7 Beta 1 (7000)

Windows 7 Beta 1 (7000) First Impressions:

I just finished installing (and configuring) the new OS.

Time from wipe of Vista hard drive to now: 2 hours

I installed the bare necessities for me. Microsoft office (yes, that "xp" version I bought years ago still works), printer, and the all important Crackberry, uh, Blackberry software. Everything installed just fine. (Although Windows 7 dinged me on my WEI score, which won't be discussed here ). With only one exception, after installing Office XP, Windows 7 placed a non-descript folder icon on the desktop, no label, just a folder icon. I promptly placed it into the bit bucket, and I got a warning message that maybe I shouldn't delete it. I can't check it's properties, it's just an unlabeled folder on my desktop.

I recovered all my email and browser settings (lost the cookies tho....).

Other than that, everything went smoothly. The system seems "snappier" probably 'cause I haven't loaded it down with, uh, stuff.

Overall I give Windows 7 two thumbs up . Even in beta, Microsoft seems to be headed in the right direction.

Now (you hear knuckles crack'n) time to get under the hood and see what's tick'n.

I'll see you out there!

Hi Joe, play nice don't destroy it.

Joe!!!!!!!! How can you not have the love for Office 07 *sigh* Putting something as ugly as Office 02 on Win7 ugh the crime, the shame!

New to the forum, but certainly not new to the concept, lol Now that the pleasentries have been completed...

Installed 7000 and everything was going pretty good. Installed Cisco VPN (5.0) and Office 2007. The Obligatory winamp and some other misc apps. Now all of the sudden, I can't minimize open windows, nor can i close them out by x-ing out. WTH?

Anyone else having this issue?
Thanks in advance, going to be reading a lot today that for sure!

johngalt said:

Apparently Diamond hasn't played with MSPaint yet.....

Haha, yeah I have opened it ... pretty weird :P Then again being addicted to PS CS4 Extended 64bit I doubt I will ever open Paint again. Why they waste their time on Paint instead of adding things like multi-monitor taskbars is beyond me. I am glad they removed Mail and all that other junk.