Anyone regret moving to Windows 7?

[Joan Archer]

I don't regret going to Windows 7, this machine came with Vista installed and I never had any problems and I liked using it and still would be if I hadn't been able to afford Windows 7, but I like to have the latest so Windows 7 is it.

There is still an XP in the house that I have to keep check on and I have a dual boot system with Vista and 7 but apart from when I first installed it and was getting files transfered I haven't gone back into Vista yet.

I will eventually disregard the Vista install and just have Windows 7 on here, so no I certainly don't regret going over to it.

 

[harpua]

Hell no. Haven't used my Vista install hard drive since I installed 7. Thinking seriously about wiping the vista install from that drive and using it for something else.

I have the original factory restore disks for my laptop so if/when I ever sell it. I can put the original vista back on it and keep my copy of wonderful 7.

 

[jimbo45]

I've used Windows since version 2.0 (not too many of you had used Windows 2.0, I bet).

Windows 95 was great, but Windows 7 rivals Windows 95 as the best Windows yet.

I liked Windows 95 -- Windows 98 was to me a bit like the "XP===>VISTA" where W98 was Windows 95's "Vista upgrade".

W2000 (or W2K) was far far better and the first really useable corporate network system -- Windows NT was a disaster - we called it Windows No Thanks or Windows NeanderThal.

Ms has made some real dogs in Windows versions - apart from Vista. I think Windows Millenium comes to mind here as well as most of the early versions of Windows 3.0 ( 3.11 was OK BTW) and most versions of W98. Windows NT was truely horrible. Windows 2003 server and Windows 2008 server are good server OS'es.

XP has a certain elegant simplicity (if you customize the desktop sufficiently) and can be made lightning fast with a certain amount of tinkering.

However W7 is a great OS which doesn't need a lot of tinkering to get decent performance out of it. It works decently straight out of the box.

I don't like hugely cluttered desktops -- I know some - especially the youngsters like a load of gadgets and "Heavy Metal" type desktops == I like mine simple and clear but W7 allows decent customisation so that's not an issue. I do like the AERO interface and things like the new taskbar etc.

The only thing that puts me off is the rather large size of the Start menu and the fact that you can't customize / delete stuff from the Right hand side of the menu.

I'll still be using XP for a few years yet (mainly as Virtual machines) but on the whole I LIKE W7.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[harpua]

I don't know about deleting but I added a lot of stuff to the right side of the start menu, so I would assume it can be deleted as well. Check the start menu properties, customize. Lots of stuff can be added (or subsequently removed, e.g. run command to name just one). But I've heard if you add administrative tools, you can't just remove that one without causing it to be removed from everywhere. I think there is a work around for that one in the tutorial section.

 

[sygnus21]

My first Windows experience was Win 95, but I really liked Win 98. Win 2K was OK, Windows ME was GARBAGE!!! Windows XP was really really great! Then came Vista... (which some call Windows ME 2.0) But I personally had no problems with it, especially once the service packs came out and fixed a lot of issues. I like Vista, but Win 7 is what Vista should have been right out of the box. In fact I call it Vista 2.0, but that’s me.

At any rate I just upgraded to Win7 yesterday and I can say it's here to stay and I have no regrets.

Having 4 hard drives in my system allows me to run each OS on its own drive; thus I have XP, Vista, and now Win 7, which is now my main OS.

No regrets thus far moving to Win 7

 

[gzt7d8]

No I don't have any regrets going to Windows 7. I used both the beta and release candidate and had no significant issues.

I got a new PC and installed Win 7 over the Vista version that came with it. There are a few quirky things I'm trying to figure out but no real issues at this time.

Greg

 

[jfar]

Definitely no regrets here. Xp was good , Vista was better, and Seven is the Biz.

 

[aem]

I got one world for those who are "regretting". Dual-boot.

Obviously it's too late now (well not really but u know what i mean) as you have already upgraded to W7, but yeh should've gone down the path of dual-boot...like most do.

Personally, even if i didnt dual-boot, i would still be happy woth W7 (x100).

 

[mdmogren]

For an avid Vista user like me, the main advantage of w7 is the smaller footprint and better performance. As far as function and user interface goes, it is somewhat different but no progress - just different.

All this statement shows is that you haven't gotten used to using the new UI things yet and/or put them to use, you cannot say that Aero Snap, Shake, Peek, enhanced alt tab, and a better taskbar are not improvements.

 

[ineedsomehelpy]

is windows 7's movie maker really that bad? vista's is better wow i know XP's was great

 

[JMH]

Interesting to read the views expressed here re Win 7.
May have to revise my plans & bring forward the purchase of a new Laptop with Win 7 Ultimate on it.

 

[Barman58]

Hi JMH nice to see you visiting the dark side ,

Back OT

All I would say is Don't buy windows 7 because it's new, buy it because it's better - for you.

I personally think it's a benefit to me and it helps my workflow, and so I use it.

If someone else has a Vista or XP install that is working for them I see no reason to update just for the sake of it

 

[HughShaw]

I don't regret it at all! At first I did because I thought some of my old programs were incompatible, but it was later due to a hardware issue.

I just love how you can snap two windows side by side or even have XP mode with an old program running right next to your Win7 programs. Makes multi-tasking so much easier.

 

[corvet786c]

I liked vista and now I bought w7. I like the OS but I think I payed too much for it. I bought the full version. I upgraded from vista 32 bit to windows 64 bit. I like now I can use more memory and have a performance score of 5.8 with vista it was 5.4. I gave the 32 bit verson to my wife so we both now have w7.

 

[Barman58]

I liked vista and now I bought w7. I like the OS but I think I payed too much for it. I bought the full version. I upgraded from vista 32 bit to windows 64 bit. I like now I can use more memory and have a performance score of 5.8 with vista it was 5.4. I gave the 32 bit verson to my wife so we both now have w7.

Please remember that although both versions are available in the box only one licence is supplied so you can use either 32 or 64 bit not both,

The second install is likely to fail validation when the system comes fully on-line in the near future

 

[landozelig]

For an avid Vista user like me, the main advantage of w7 is the smaller footprint and better performance. As far as function and user interface goes, it is somewhat different but no progress - just different.

All this statement shows is that you haven't gotten used to using the new UI things yet and/or put them to use, you cannot say that Aero Snap, Shake, Peek, enhanced alt tab, and a better taskbar are not improvements.

I have to disagree with you there. Aero snap is crap and is the first thing I turned off. I like my desktop in a familiar format I've been using for years, so when I try to position my window and it suddenly snaps to the entire screen, or half the screen just because I'm close to the edge made me see stars. And MS could have made it easier to turn off without googling it. How about right click on the desktop and "turn off aero snap", would that have been so hard?

I also hate when you alt-tab between a bunch of open windows, if you pause for more than a second, everything becomes see-thru except the window you're on. That's very irritating when you have a movie or tv show playing in VLC and it disappears - and for what, just so you can make sure you KNOW what window has the focus? I don't know what that 'feature' is called but i'd turn it off in an instant if I could find out how to.

Overall I love Win7 and am not regretting it. I really missed the missing 'favorite links' being PINNED in windows explorer but after a while I've found out how to navigate around the way I used to almost as fast. I just hate when they remove functionality for 'prettiness'.

 

[fillup]

I loved Vista 64bit. It was fast and 100% rock stable for over a year that I used it. When Windows 7 beta came out I downloaded it and dual booted. After a week I stopped booting into Vista. Since then, Windows 7 has been my main OS. For me, the new features alone are reason enough to switch to Windows 7. The new taskbar is great.

 

[johnhoh]

I was about to sell and replace my early dual core (not core 2 duo) laptop which has xp sp3 on it and 1GB of ram, and decided instead to increase it to 4GB of ram and then do a clean install of win7 on it.

Glad I did - its very quick, every driver was properly installed at the first boot up (when has that ever happened?), and the power management is better, which effectively extended my battery life. Hard to say enough good things about this OS. I

 

[1Bowtie]

I dual booted for a year, went to XP the other day just to take one last look and found out it had been 3 months since i was there last. It's Win 7 Home Pre all the way now, clean install and lovin it

Smitty

 

[JMH]

Hi JMH nice to see you visiting the dark side ,

Back OT

All I would say is Don't buy windows 7 because it's new, buy it because it's better - for you.

I personally think it's a benefit to me and it helps my workflow, and so I use it.

If someone else has a Vista or XP install that is working for them I see no reason to update just for the sake of it

Hi Nigel,
Your comments taken on board.
It's a catch 22 situation. If you don't have Win 7 you will never know.
Current Vista Ultimate 64 - bit has never given an ounce of trouble.
To participate meaningfully in SF it would seem logical to at least have the OS.