Windows 7

[Rik]

[Ted]

I'll second that!

[Rik]

That's very kind of you, Ted, I now feel it's all been worthwhile. I'd like to thank my agent, my manager, my personal trainer...

[Ted]

That's very kind of you, Ted, I now feel it's all been worthwhile. I'd like to thank my agent, my manager, my personal trainer...

I think if i had your personal trainer, i'd be asking for my money back!

[Rik]

So true.

[Ted]

So true.

  but! 

[Sebby]

I've now installed the 32-bit version and things seem much better. I installed Avast in the 64-bit version, so that could have been the problem (on some forums, that's what most people said they were using, which is why I installed it).

Anyway, after installing the 32-bit version, I found this page, and then installed Kaspersky for Windows 7 (90 trial, which is good enough for now).

You must install this Windows 7 update as soon as you've installed Windows to prevent your MP3 collection being corrupted (64-bit update here)!

Now that things are working properly, I'm liking Windows 7 more. I'll report back in a few days.

[john]

That's very kind of you, Ted, I now feel it's all been worthwhile. I'd like to thank my agent, my manager, my personal trainer...

Here's just the thing for your personal trainer Rik 

[Simon]

Now that things are working properly, I'm liking Windows 7 more. I'll report back in a few days.

Indeed, keep us posted, Seb, although I think I'll be chickening out for now. 

[Sebby]

That's the decision I should have made, Simon.

[zappaDPJ]

I suppose having described Vista as 'rancid' I'd better explain myself with a few examples. I have Vista on four computers, 2 PCs and 2 laptops.

My gaming computer is something that couldn't be bought off the shelf. It's a water cooled quad core, over-clocked to 3.8GHz with 4GB of 2000MHz rated RAM and an HD 4870 x2 graphics card. If I run a non-windowed graphics intensive application or game and use the Windows key to minimise, that PC can take up to 90 seconds to return to a desktop running Aero or 1-2 seconds using Windows XP PRO. Even with Aero switched off it can take up to 30 seconds before the PC becomes usable.

Explorer will regularly freeze on all 4 systems when browsing the net. In general the only way to shut Explorer down at that point is to key to the Task Manager. Occasionally if left long enough an error message will pop up proclaiming that Explorer has stopped responding and is searching for a solution. The solution is always the same, the browser window disappears with no indication of what actually occurred.

I bought my daughter a well specified laptop for Xmas and spent the entire afternoon fixing all the problems that cropped up when Vista tried to initialise for the first time. Having fed in various bits of requested data, Vista proceeded to produce countless DOS boxes full of initialization errors and never actually made it to the desktop. When I finally got it to work I set it up for wireless networking and within a couple of hours it spontaneously rebooted to install an update without warning. My fault entirely as I'd forgotten to switch off auto updates but there should have been a warning. As a result an hour or two of typing was lost and that particular update appeared to be the start of the non responding browser issues I've had across all four systems.

Vista on my work's PC won't boot at all without an empty USB drive inserted and when I installed it on the laptop I use for work the battery life went from around 3-5 hours to around 2. This is entirely due to the insane amount of hard drive churning that occurs every time I so much look at the infernal machine.

These are just a few of the problems I've encountered with Vista although there are many more. It also annoys me intensely that I can't run different backgrounds on a dual monitor system or delete a particular file when running as an administrator with UAC turned off but my biggest gripe is that it'll turn a state of the art super computer into a non-responsive pile of junk the minute you try and do something slightly hardware intensive. I like the look and general feel of Vista but it's just not viable in a heavy duty situation.

I'm afraid I'm sticking with rancid but I live in hope that Windows 7 will turn out to be what Vista should have been in the first place 

[Rik]

Here's just the thing for your personal trainer Rik 

It's not my feet which are the problem, John. 

[Noreen]

Posters on American forum are saying that SUPERAntiSpyware crashes Windows 7.

[Rik]

I'm not surprised, it's probably going to take a while to get security apps playing nicely.

[Sebby]

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I'm afraid I'm sticking with rancid but I live in hope that Windows 7 will turn out to be what Vista should have been in the first place 

My experience of Vista hasn't been quite as bad, but the constant hard drive churning sounds very familiar, as does the general lack of responsiveness. What puzzles me, though, is why some users don't seem to have these problems. Many of them say it's because they have a high spec machine, but your situation is proof that it's not always the answer.

[Noreen]

There's an update for Windows 7.

Install this update to resolve live and recorded TV issues in Windows Media Center, recorded TV playback issues in Windows Media Player, and MP3 file corruption issues in Windows. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows 7 Pre-Release License Terms.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A754008B-D574-4E39-B4BA-67B859A242B7&displaylang=en

[Sebby]

That's the one I posted in reply #81, Noreen.

[Noreen]

Sorry, Sebby.

[Rik]

It's OK, better twice than never.

[Sebby]

Indeed, especially given that your whole MP3 collection could be corrupted if you don't install it!

[Noreen]

Hopefully this hasn't already been posted. http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2009/01/12/the-bumper-list-of-windows-7-secrets.aspx

[Rik]

Who's counting.  

[Steve]

One piece of information,which is goods news to me is the command prompt option in Vista, browse to a directory graphically and then shift and right click gives you an option to open command prompt here

[Noreen]

 

[kinmel]

One piece of information,which is goods news to me is the command prompt option in Vista, browse to a directory graphically and then shift and right click gives you an option to open command prompt here

This facility was available as a Microsoft WinXP Powertoy until it was removed as Vista was released.

You an still get it and safely install it in WinXP from HERE, I occasionally find it useful