So it’s been many months since Windows 7 was released to the public, and during my travels on the web, I have seen praise from so many people about how they are enjoying Windows 7. Some of these are even coming from Mac users which really should tell you something.
My experience has exceeded my initial expectations, and I enjoy using Windows 7 every single day. Performance has been outstanding on my main rig, which is obviously quite powerful, but I can say the same thing for my Acer Netbook which I also have Win7 installed on.
Obviously I run quite a few games and applications, and haven’t had one single issue with one, including older applications. On the customization side, having apps like Fences, ObjectDock, and WindowBlinds make the desktop experience that much better – especially in terms of organization.
Now that many of you have had quite a bit of time to use Windows 7, what are your current impressions so far?
windows7 is fantastic, except rightclick does not work.
Absolutely the best Windows edition ever! I haven't had any problems with it at all, which is a first for me! I would never go back, especially to Vista! No, no, no!!!
Hi Jafo,
I hear you about getting into the task manager. Those of us who've been out there awhile are so used to cntrl, alt, delete that is second nature to us. However, I have sort of retrained me to right click on the task bar and select it there. Still, ever now and then I still hit cntrl, alt. delete.
Someone mentioned that the pinned taskbar icons bug them. It bugged me too but there is an easy fix available at How to Geek: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/add-the-quick-launch-bar-to-the-taskbar-in-windows-7/I Now I have my Quick Launch back so I'm a happy camper.
For those who hate the Start Button, rumor has it that Windows 8 will do away with it. So far I've only read a couple of articles on it because it's still early in the development process. The Start button works for me because I have no icons on my desktop. My computer works "magically" via a programmable keyboard. I even hide the taskbar sometimes so I can fully enjoy the great wallpapers I find here.
Runs faster.
As a detriment to skinning overall... its a complete and utter bastard.
It does work on -some- W7 systems. On most systems (mainly 64 bit) though, it nukes Windows Exploder.I can get it to work on my W7, but only right after it's installed, and only untill I reboot. After that it keeps on nuking Exploder.
A -significant- reason for why I haven't switched W7.
I'm confused. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit and everything runs fine. Plenty of programs to choose from. Was XP 64 bit different in some way?
I've never had any drives turn off. Are you referring to if there are multiple hard drives Windows will turn off those drives?
Any links to share?
By the way I like the defualt look of 7. I turned off the transparency and made the taskbar use small icons while changing the taskbar to all black. I like the way Windows 7 handles my day to day tasks.
Not sure if this will do it for ya since currently I just have one multi-partitioned HD on the system, but try...
Control Panel>Performance Information and Tools. You'll see "Adjust power settings" on the left. Then go to change plan settings. From there hit "Change advanced power settings" and you should get a treed window. Select hard disk and change the "Turn off after XX minutes" to what you like.
Kind of little maze to go through to find it. Think I originally got there by accident
It's not power settings. If you have extra drives, Windows turns them off if they are not in use. When you try to access them you have to wait until they start up. I can't remember where it is but in Vista you could tell a drive to not turn off when not in use. Maybe it's because I hade Vista Ultimate and this is W7 Home Premium.
Anyway, I might have gotten round it. I've just installed mst Defrag which constantly monitors drives and that might be keeping them awake.
Fuzzy,
There's 2 things that covers drives that you might be having trouble with. One is powering down and the other is showing empty drives.
Powering down is in Advanced power setting.
Showing empty drives is in folder options under the view tab.
Open windows explorer, Alt + F to bring up the menu, choose tools, folder options. Click on the view tab and uncheck "Hide empty drives in the Computer folder".
I just ordered Windows 7 last week, but it still hasn't come yet.
I've been really looking forward to see how it runs on my PC.
The Hawk likes Windows 7, However, he feels that Microsoft should have named it Windows BlackHawk
Audiafox is unsure of how to reply to the Hawk regarding that oddly narcissitic grammar tense and suggestion.
Blame MS...they claim Windows 7 was MY idea ....
Well it was, wasn't it?.... MY idea. When Win 7 was still in beta, I remember reading the forums on MS' Win 7 page and seeing that several user ideas/suggestions were being adopted/considered.
Thing is, without doubt, Win 7 is by far the best OS MS has ever produced. I have been using it since the public beta and have been extremely happy with its performance, reliability and ease of use.
One thing that annoys me, however, is having to have public folders on a single user machine, having stuff I installed as Administrator assign portions of itself to a public folder. There are no other users on my machine... nor will there ever be, so the public folder is totally unnecessary.... superfluous, except that some software devs insist on putting stuff in there. For mine, all Windows installations should be single user by default, with the option to add other users IF required.
Is it me or has anyone noticed that it does seem to take Win7 a while to shutdown in comparison to XP(never used Vista). While I know the focus(in ads and such) has been on startup and coming out of hibernation speeds, which it does seem to do a tick faster than XP, but the shutdown takes about twice as long with basically the same amount of third party stuff running. Usually it's something not noticed, but I am one to stay in the room till I hear it totally shutdown just in case so I notice it regularly.
Foe me 7 shuts down just as quick as other OS I have used.
Win 7 shuts down almost instantly for me... vista took at least a minute
I think I found my issue with the shutdown speed. My Asus probe doesn't like to play nice and shutdown when told to. Sometimes it throws up the force shutdown dialogue. If i shut it down ahead of time Win7 shutsdown quite a bit quicker.
i will be getting it for my new computer shame they didn't make vista to be useful oh well at least they gave us somthing well worth it, hopfuly there won't be another vista or xp 64 anytime soon, apple seems to like failing as well on something new and useless aka ipad.
microsoft are not as good as apple with phones ipods but they do have more software and games, people seem to be not that smart on microsoft the platforms since viruses are mainly made for that.
it will be a while before they can replace xp entirely with win 7.
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