Retiring Windows 7 Anyone Else?

FliGi7 said:

noyb said:

We seem to be in a minority .. My W7 handicap list is 14 items long.
The only good thing about W7 is better graphics.

Except for those that don't have the inexplicable, unresolved, and unrelenting inherent graphics display resolution/pixelation issues with the native photo viewer. So, that doesn't leave a lot for those of us that can't get any solution to why viewing pictures in Win7 look grainy and pixelated when zoomed at all and the same ones in XP are smoothed without jagged edges.

I could go on.

There are plenty of free alternatives to the crappy photo viewer MS ships.

dave1812 said:

FliGi7 said:

noyb said:

We seem to be in a minority .. My W7 handicap list is 14 items long.
The only good thing about W7 is better graphics.

Except for those that don't have the inexplicable, unresolved, and unrelenting inherent graphics display resolution/pixelation issues with the native photo viewer. So, that doesn't leave a lot for those of us that can't get any solution to why viewing pictures in Win7 look grainy and pixelated when zoomed at all and the same ones in XP are smoothed without jagged edges.

I could go on.

There are plenty of free alternatives to the crappy photo viewer MS ships.

Absolutely right. i use FastStone Image Viewer ( FastStone Image Viewer - Powerful and Intuitive Photo Viewer, Editor and Batch Converter ) and never noticed that the MS photo viewer is crappy - because I never needed to use it.

I was thinking about DX10 > 11 support.
Irfanview look great.

dave1812 said:

FliGi7 said:

noyb said:

We seem to be in a minority .. My W7 handicap list is 14 items long.
The only good thing about W7 is better graphics.

Except for those that don't have the inexplicable, unresolved, and unrelenting inherent graphics display resolution/pixelation issues with the native photo viewer. So, that doesn't leave a lot for those of us that can't get any solution to why viewing pictures in Win7 look grainy and pixelated when zoomed at all and the same ones in XP are smoothed without jagged edges.

I could go on.

There are plenty of free alternatives to the crappy photo viewer MS ships.

There are. However, the fact remains that Windows 7 natively has crappy image resolution in only particular scenarios. Downloading and using another product does not fix that. No matter how "crappy" or whatever term we want to call it (I'm not even sure how something can be crappy that simply displays an image), the "crappy" native image viewer in XP displays them just fine. So, it has nothing to do with the quality of the image viewer and more to do with something inherently wrong in the display function(s) of the OS that are producing this degraded effect in Win7.

Since we are discussing things inherently wrong in Win7, this would directly satisfy that in the fact that there is no fix and the only suggestions are ones that point to 3rd party apps to mitigate something that shouldn't be happening in the first place.

FliGi7 said:

point to 3rd party apps to mitigate something that shouldn't be happening in the first place.

Like buying a new luxury car .. Then sneaking down to the auto parts store for the after market kits to install Power Windows and Cruise Control ..
and you still have a car that can only turn right .. With 3 left turns.

Yep. 1920x1200 native resolution at native 60Hz. DPI has not been increased and even tried turning off using "XP scaling" to no avail.

Just for grunts, I'm going to download it and try it out. To be honest, I don't think it's going to fix anything as I think the problem is at a lower level than the application layer.

harpua said:

Whether one is experiencing problems or not, I would recommend the FREE Faststone Image Viewer in any case. I love it.

see my link above.