Anyone regret moving to Windows 7?

Sbrideau said:

Vista was a very good OS. Windows 7 is an equally good OS.

Vista became a very good OS after SP1. Great after SP2. Pre SP1, not so much.

Win 7 is awesome. Even at the earliest of beta testing stages it was.

I switched to 7 on a old Pentium M system that could not run aero. I love it. Here's what I like

1. The Classic Interface. I switched from the Vista Basic interface because of window redrawing lag. I love the big icons on the taskbar; they allow me to fit more programs on the taskbar. I know that this feature is not unique to the classic interface though.
2. Beautiful icons, big, and redesigned
3. Start menu search -- the killer feature that has been refined since Vista -- now it is faster and more accurate
4. More intuitive access to computer settings
5. Aero Snap
6. Program icons on taskbar that stack by default
7. Extended battery life

What I don't like

1. Laggy window redrawing, still present but not that much of a bugger anymore
2. Online gaming lag, although I won't be gaming on this laptop

harpua said:

On the mouse issue, have you updated to the latest version of Logitech Setpoint? If not, that may resolve your issues.

Oddly enough, that issue solved itself with the latest Logitech driver update supplied by Windows 7 update. Gotta love self healing.

I switch to Windows 7 from XP 64-Bit Pro and totally love it. My favourite version of Windows yet. No regrets. I'm not bothered about the lack of classic start menu either.

I switched from Win XP to Win 7 on my older laptop (dell inspiron 640m: intel core 2 duo 1.83GHz 1gb ram) because I lost my XP cd ( i found it now ). Everything was ok at first, and I got past the annoyances I had. However, it all comes down to performance:

Once I turn off all the special effects Win 7 runs worse than XP. When I have a lot of windows open, there is noticeable lag from time to time. And once I get Matlab running, the slowdowns hit even harder.

The bottom line is, Win 7 is fine if you have a top of the line computer, I would use it. But 7 doesnt use what resources it has visely. I would have to go back to XP, or maybe go back to Ubuntu, or both to get the performance I know I have from my laptop.


As for all the improvements for the UI, I have two answers: object doc + launchy :)

Woland said:

I switched from Win XP to Win 7 on my older laptop (dell inspiron 640m: intel core 2 duo 1.83GHz 1gb ram) because I lost my XP cd ( i found it now ). Everything was ok at first, and I got past the annoyances I had. However, it all comes down to performance:

Once I turn off all the special effects Win 7 runs worse than XP. When I have a lot of windows open, there is noticeable lag from time to time. And once I get Matlab running, the slowdowns hit even harder.

The bottom line is, Win 7 is fine if you have a top of the line computer, I would use it. But 7 doesnt use what resources it has visely. I would have to go back to XP, or maybe go back to Ubuntu, or both to get the performance I know I have from my laptop.


As for all the improvements for the UI, I have two answers: object doc + launchy :)

Incorrect. 7 runs better on my secondary machine (and spec machine) using a P4 1.5 GHz non-hyperthreaded processor. You just have your system setup wrong with not latest drivers or something.

See here.

Incorrect. 7 runs better on my secondary machine (and spec machine) using a P4 1.5 GHz non-hyperthreaded processor. You just have your system setup wrong with not latest drivers or something.

See here.

That's really cool. So there's no problem running 7 on older hardware, then...

TechOutsider said:

I switched to 7 on a old Pentium M system that could not run aero.

Do you know what kind of gpu it has, out of curiosity?