Comments on: Day 2 of the Windows 7 beta download

By: Pinay Love Advice ·

Pinay Love Advice · — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:21:31 +0000

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By: rylee

rylee — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:32:25 +0000

its not the windows xp dog, ITS ROVER FORM MICROSOFT BOB!!

By: Zaxx

Zaxx — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:05:48 +0000

I must say that Windows 7 Ultimate (The version that I’m running now) is the Best windows Version that has been released in quite a while

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:57:01 +0000

Ben, sounds like you got a bum hand, My vista boots quick, and has next to no problem with networking. I simply open up the laptop, and boom, its connected. As for boot speed, mabey 3 minutes from completely powered down with battery disconected to fully logged in.

System Specs for comparison.
Dell XPS M1530
C2D t5800 (2ghz)
4 Gig Ram 667mhz or 800, not sure
500gb SATA 3.0Gb/s at 5400rpm
Geforce 8600 gt
Class N Internal Wireless
Bluetooth

Thats all that realy matter for this

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:12:20 +0000

I actually would not like the wi-fi automatically connect thing. I like to be in control of things, something that Apple does not provide its users. Such assumptions by the device can lead to trouble very quickly.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:34:19 +0000

I love the guy up there that is going to wait until windows 7 sp1. Those are the type of people who shouldn’t even own a computer.

Computers are flawed and so are the people who write software for them (like me). SP1 doesn’t mean anything so get over it. Windows 7 is like SP3 of Vista with a great taskbar. I personally love the new taskbar. It forces me to be more organized.

It is a quick launch bar and task manager all in one. I would have to say that is the single best reason to move to Windows 7.

A lot of people complain about memory usage since vista:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html explains why this is very well. The memory is now more of a cache, allowing programs to run much faster.

By: shawn

shawn — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:17:58 +0000

i might just have to buy a copy of this when it comes out i already wiped vista off my machine and don’t know if ill even reinstall it when the beta expires

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:13:56 +0000

Oh PS. I hope that W7 will have DX10 like vista.
Thats the only reason I have vista.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:11:44 +0000

I enjoy the beta. Though 9 GIGS OF INSTALATION that a new recod for M$.
Im using.
Intel Core 2 Duo Q6600@ 4.6Ghz
(1) 9800GT@700Mhz
500 Gig Sata
2 Gigs Dual Channel OCZ Ram @1600Mhz
Its running perfect boot time is some where between that of Xp and Vista, Not anyting bad though.

By: jake

jake — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:27:46 +0000

yes xp is faster than windows 7 but bloody hell windows 7 is faster than vista and more stable even in its beta stage.
@joel: the reason for it not picking up your resolution is becasue it is a beta that doesnt have the right driver for your gfx card or monitor. when i installed it on my laptop it didnt have the driver from my gfx card so it ran at 1280×786 which is kinda low for my laptop and aero didn work becasue there wasn’t the right driver so i conected it to the net and got the right driver then my resolution poped back up to what it was running in vista and aero turned on adn my windows experience index jumped to 4.0.

drivers that didnt get detected on install:
nvidia graphics card
fingerprint scaner
a few other things like web cam

i can say im going to try and avoid going back to windows vista, vista is a slow peice of shit

the only major problem i am having is the sidebar is not opening anymore no matter what i do it will not open :(