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Nors · 07-09-2009, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by driftingrx5.7

man i keep putting it off i need to just get order it already..lol

Definitely. Its pretty cool. Way better than both XP and Vista.

Vypurr · 07-09-2009, 01:06 PM

Don't delete your pagefile! That would be catastrophic!

driftingrx5.7 · 07-09-2009, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Nors

Definitely. Its pretty cool. Way better than both XP and Vista.

yea i have the demo for it and i love it! i will get it for sure i just pre ordered it :D

Nors · 07-09-2009, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Vypurr

Don't delete your pagefile! That would be catastrophic!

Wasn't the pagefile it was old system restore files.

05 mazda6s · 08-03-2009, 12:30 PM

Just got a nice hp pavilion a few days ago that's eligible for the free upgrade. Only had to $13 for shipping for the upgrade kit!

Vypurr · 08-04-2009, 01:22 PM

Download the trial and see for yourself. I can tell you all day long that it's what Vista was intended to be, and what it should have been, but you really gotta try it to believe me!

Scapegoat · 08-04-2009, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by shortys10extreme

hows 7 gonna be compared to vista... god vista is horrible

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Originally Posted by Vypurr

Download the trial and see for yourself. I can tell you all day long that it's what Vista was intended to be, and what it should have been, but you really gotta try it to believe me!

indeed

Scapegoat · 10-24-2009, 10:29 PM

so, i got my windows 7 today. says it's an updater for vista. I assume there will be no issues registering the windows 7 on my machine with this? I also assume i can run the updater cd w/ no issues? i am running windows 7 rc. can anyone confirm there won't be a problem?

BigWhiteTodd · 10-24-2009, 11:25 PM

bought a comp cause i needed one and it has windows 7, its awesome so far lots of cooler extras.

sean3 · 10-24-2009, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Scapegoat

so, i got my windows 7 today. says it's an updater for vista. I assume there will be no issues registering the windows 7 on my machine with this? I also assume i can run the updater cd w/ no issues? i am running windows 7 rc. can anyone confirm there won't be a problem?

I bought into that student copy 30 dollar upgrade deal. Did a clean install. When I tried activating it told me that I can't use upgrade keys for clean installs

Fortunately the workaround is pretty simple...

http://community.winsupersite.com/bl...he-answer.aspx

lagos · 10-25-2009, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by sean3

I bought into that student copy 30 dollar upgrade deal. Did a clean install. When I tried activating it told me that I can't use upgrade keys for clean installs

Fortunately the workaround is pretty simple...

http://community.winsupersite.com/bl...he-answer.aspx

Oh is that student version supposed to be an upgrade only? I was under the impression that it was a full version for clean installs.

05GT · 10-25-2009, 04:16 AM

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Originally Posted by lagos

its vista2.
but keep in mind that xp sucked ass until service pack 2 came out, so this is a similar situation.

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Originally Posted by lagos

vista JUST came out. normally it would have been still in the normal microsoft product cycle, and the tweaks and fixes (minus the new taskbar) would have probably been done in a service pack like they were with XP. only reason they didnt do that is because vista has so much bad stigma associated with it, that they had to release a new product under a new name to help convince the masses their operating system was not junk (see mojave experiment).

xp sucked as bad as vista did when it came out. it was not compatible with a lot of things and had its own share of issues, however there was not bad press associated with it, so they just kept selling it and releasing service packs.

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Originally Posted by lagos

thats cause it IS vista2 (not that there is anything wrong with that). its based on the same kernel, with just a bunch of tweaks and bug fixes thrown ontop of a new taskbar and some wallpapers.
OSX doesnt hide the fact that all of its versions are just updates to the same os. thats why they are all called OSX (OS 10).

Calling it Vista2 is definitely not accurate nor does it make much sense. This is a significantly different OS. Yes, some visuals look the same as Vista, but that doesn't make it a Vista2.
Aside from the obvious features like the taskbar and organizational changes, this OS was written so that it can run on just about any computer, unlike Vista. W7 is very resource friendly. At my company, we have installed and tested it on 1Ghz fanless CPUs and it runs like a champ. Not happening with Vista.

Also, read some articles about W7 graphic enhancements and DWM.

I'd have to disagree about XP sucking when it 1st came out. Yeah it had it's problems, but just like Vista, 75% of the problems were because idiots who didn't meet the minimum requirements still felt the need to install the OS anyways, then they had problems, and bitched about it.

I ran Vista 32bit on one computer and X64 on my laptop since it 1st came out, and never had more then minor hiccups.

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Originally Posted by Scapegoat

i'm pretty sure there are a number of significant differences between vista and w7 beyond the visuals.
i'm pretty sure W7 is considerably more stable than previous windows os releases (or prereleases as the case is currently)

Yes it's very stable. Even in it's current release. I'm currently running a retail version of Ultimate and I have had absolutely NO issues.

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Originally Posted by james_ls

Is it anywhere as resource-friendly as it seems?

It's very resource friendly. See my comments above.

lagos · 10-25-2009, 06:47 AM

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Calling it Vista2 is definitely not accurate nor does it make much sense. This is a significantly different OS. Yes, some visuals look the same as Vista, but that doesn't make it a Vista2.
Aside from the obvious features like the taskbar and organizational changes, this OS was written so that it can run on just about any computer, unlike Vista. W7 is very resource friendly. At my company, we have installed and tested it on 1Ghz fanless CPUs and it runs like a champ. Not happening with Vista.

Its based on the same kernel(the heart of the os) and Aero interface as vista, except it has a lot of tweaks and bugfixes that are specific to windows 7. But the basic architecture is that of vista. Same way that windows xp is really based on windows 2000.
The fact that its more resource friendly comes from the tweaks that were done to the kernel. However instead of just offering those tweaks in a service pack, they made it into a whole new OS.

The reason why window7 is so good is because for once, they didn't try to rewrite the whole OS from the ground up, nor did they make any major changes. They just simply kept what they had and focused on optimizing it and fixing all the things that people complained about with vista.

Im not trying to imply that windows7 is the same OS as vista. Its not. One is bloated, and the other is tuned. However windows 7 is not a complete rewrite of major components of the operating system like vista originally was. Thats why all current vista drivers work perfectly with windows 7.

lagos · 10-25-2009, 06:15 PM

Well I found one thing that really sucks about windows7. The new Movie Maker. They tried to make it simpler and just ended up making it almost impossible to do anything with.

Scapegoat · 10-25-2009, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by sean3

I bought into that student copy 30 dollar upgrade deal. Did a clean install. When I tried activating it told me that I can't use upgrade keys for clean installs

Fortunately the workaround is pretty simple...

http://community.winsupersite.com/bl...he-answer.aspx

i don't think i need to run a clean install. i just want to register my windows 7 and get rid of the "windows 7 evaluation copy" text on the bottom right of the screen

lagos · 10-26-2009, 02:49 AM

Really good review of windows 7 that explains the history of the different windows versions...
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/rev...the-review.ars

c0nfl1kt · 10-26-2009, 02:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Scapegoat

i don't think i need to run a clean install. i just want to register my windows 7 and get rid of the "windows 7 evaluation copy" text on the bottom right of the screen

lol I got crakz if ya want ;)

lagos · 10-26-2009, 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by c0nfl1kt

lol I got crakz if ya want ;)

whats the popular one out these days thats known to work? The activator by sk?

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