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I'm not very happy with Windows 7 so far
I must admit, I made a huge mistake by formatting and moving to Windows 7 from my absolutely perfect XP set up, but now that 7 is here I might try and figure out what my problems are before reverting back to XP.
Lets get one thing out of the way first, while I do know how to maintain a computer more than the average user, I'm definitely not all that computer savvy and I'm also easily frustrated with computers and absolutely hate them, it's just not stuff I like tinkering with or have any interest to mess with.
My Specs:
Athlon 64 3500+
2GB RAM
7800GTX 256MB
I had an absolutely perfect XP SP2 installation on this system that used BBLean(blackbox) as its main shell and in the two years it was on my computer I didn't have a single problem with that setup, technically it's 4 years since I've had the same setup since 2005 but my HDD in 2007 and I replaced it with a new one then and had to install stuff all over again.
Fact of the matter is, from 2005-2009 I didn't have any problems with my system, no slow downs, no viruses or spyware, I maintained a nice, clean registry at all times with RegCleaner I think and TuneUp.
Yesterday I installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and I honestly hate it, it doesn't do what I want it to do and I can't even begin to understand why. Was getting x64 for my system a mistake?
My biggest problem is, my Wacom Intuos 3 tablet, I don't have Phtoshop CS4, tried installing a trial and of course it wouldn't even want to install on Windows 7, I'll give something else a try, but I do have CS3 and that just refuses to work with my tablet correctly.
There is this weird input lag in CS3 when I try to draw with my tablet, like you draw and after a few seconds the lines show up, usually not even in the same shape as you drew them.
This isn't the case when I draw in PS with my mouse and I can draw just fine in MSPaint with the tablet.
Also Windows 7 has this TERRIBLY ANNOYING program that pops up every time my tablet activates, some writing program or something, dunno what it is and I don't want to know what it is, I just want it out of my system but couldn't find a way to get rid of it.
My second problem is I can't get VMWare workstation to work right, it works but the internet inside it doesn't work and the program just doesn't perform as well as it did in XP for me.
In XP I used one of the 5.5 VMWare release, now I'm using 6.5.something and it's just terrible, can't get the internet working inside it, can't do nothing right.
The fact that Windows 7 x64 only recognizes my SB5100 USB Modem if I connected it through the ethernet cable doesn't make things better either, because this renders me unable to use Xbox Live, I don't have a router or want one since I didn't need one until now.
Try to understand guys, not everyone likes computers or wants to mess around with them to get things working, I personally just want things to work for me and that's it.
If anyone can help me, please do so.
Thanks in advance