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[adad64]

Greetings all!

Hey there! I'm Adad64 (pronounced add-add and not a-dad btw. I am not a dad, just a programmer cursed with a crappy username but locked in by habit and years of using it.) I'm not a huge fan of Windows, but I use it when I must and have gained a bit of experience. Hopefully I can help some of the noobs and get helped by some of the 1337 in my stay here

 

[JaidynM]

Welcome adad64!

 

[A Guy]

Welcome to Seven Forums adad64. A Guy

 

[Dave76]

Hi adad64, welcome to Seven Forums.

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

Welcome adad64 Seven Forums has a huge tutorial section to further ones experience of using Windows 7 and can also be used to help others. As for your username I consider it to be an homage to the inventor of the abacus which is the very early foundation of digits used by computer.

 

[ariwata]

Hello. I'm from Malaysia. Just upgraded to Windows 7 64bit and thus a complete noob. Hope you guys can bear with me.

 

[JaidynM]

Welcome ariwata!

 

[A Guy]

Welcome to Seven Forums ariwata. We all started somewhere, and learn something new almost every day

A Guy

 

[OvenMaster]

Greetings, all. My name's Tom, and as I sit here, my copy of Win7 Pro 32bit is waiting at the post office for me to pick it up. I ran Win95c from 2001 to 2004, then XP Home since 2004, and I'll be installing Win7 in a dual boot config the week of May 13. I tried the Win8 Consumer Preview and simply hated it, and figured I'd better buy a copy of Win7 before the demand and prices start going up. Better late to the party than never.

My primary goal is to tweak and bend and do whatever it takes to get Win7 working the way I need and want... in other words, as much like XP as possible! I've already downloaded stuff like Classic Shell, ShellFolderFix, finding ways to add Quick Launch and the flashing Network indicator going, and get my unsigned drivers working on my soundcard, and will be keeping XP for a while... I have software that won't work with Vista, never mind 7 or 8.

Too long for an intro, so I'll just shut up now and start digging for info. Thanks for having me.

 

[Golden]

Welcome to SevenForums Tom,

Windows 7 is an excellent choice. You will find it requires far less tweaking than XP : in fact, the best advice I can give you is not to treat Windows 7 like XP. 7 is just so much better at everything.

Check out our extensive range of tutorials (linked at the bottom of my signature) and if you need more help just post away : we have a significant amount of very experienced members that will be able to help.

Enjoy your stay at SevenForums.

Regards,
Golden

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

Welcome ariwata and OvenMaster.

 

[A Guy]

Welcome to Seven Forums Tom. I must laugh as I planned to make Seven like XP when I first got it. But I soon found I like Seven better in almost every way. And in the things I liked XP more, I soon found a way to use Seven's method. In other words, I let Seven be Seven

A Guy

 

[OvenMaster]

I'll admit that I'm very much used to the way XP works, so please forgive me for impatience and for having my mind stuck in 2004 LOL Thanks for the welcome, guys.

 

[Dave76]

Welcome to Seven Forums ariwata and Tom.

Tom, as Golden and A Guy have mentioned, Win7 is a very solid OS and with a little time you will come to enjoy it as we do.
A lot of us here have used most of the Windows OSs, and found it best to let the newer versions show there improvements.

We all do some customizing, but we have seen some go too far and then blame the OS for not being able to function with all the tweaks.

Just keep that in mind and enjoy Win7.

 

[JaidynM]

Welcome OvenMaster!

 

[Tekno Venus]

Welcome to Seven Forums Tom. Remember, we have an amazing tutorial section with tutorials on pretty much anything and everything to do with w7

 

[MWRed]

Welcome ariwata, OvenMaster.

Tutorials and the wealth of knowledge here is unbelievable.
Anything you could want to figure out about 7 is sure to be here, and if not, someone will have an answer.


Hope you enjoy yourselves here.


MWR

 

[stigemat]

Welcome

Thanks for the warm welcome, and hello from a not-so-sunny Kent in UK. I've spent about an hour on the Forum and have quickly solved Windows7 peculiarities that have stumped and annoyed this XP user for quite a while! Windows Viewer, diskspace information,themes, and more. So I thought I should properly register to say... Thanks Guys!

 

[A Guy]

Welcome to Seven Forums stigemat. Glad you joined us. A Guy

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

Welcome stingemat, I too had to join this forum and give a big Thank You to all contributing members after following various Tutorials and advice as a lurker. I now seem 10 times smarter than I really am in real life.