[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi....

[Huskrrrr]

Thanks for the post, I’m contemplating the switch to 7.

[ShadowAce]

[Alex Murphy]

In fact, Win7 has been surprisingly good in the few hours that I have played with it. For most veteran Windows users, the changes are subtle and mainly intuitive. You may not notice many of them, in fact; I recommend going through the “Discover Windows 7″ videos to get an idea of how they have changed the behavior of windows and app-switching. The system is undeniably faster, especially in the boot sequence, and thus far has thrown no error messages. The User Account Control on Vista got so annoying that I wound up turning it off, but I’m leaving it enabled on Win7, as it seems much less intrusive. It’s also scalable, unlike the on-or-off choice in Vista, but I’m leaving it at the recommended level.

Ping for later

[Congressman Billybob]

I've been mostly satisfied with WindowsXP and based on the technical news, I stayed away from Vista like the plague. However, I have recently read that there is no way to update directly from XP to 7.

Is that true? (Sniff.)

Congressman Billybob

Don't Tread On Me (9/12 photo and poster"

"A Slimy Man, on a Slimy Network"

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

bookmark for home

[Blueflag]

I heartily recommend Wondows 7. Been using Windows 7 RC (release candidate) for 4 months. Compared to XP and anything Vista it’s great.

MS tried to make networking ‘easier’ and mangled it, again, with “homegroup” ... but nothing you can’t overcome in an hour.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Great timing! Just stepped away from laptop while files are backing up. Browsing on my phone now. :-(
55 yr old eyes using a phone screen & keypad designed for 18 yr old eyes.

MS has an offer for students with a .edu address. The professional version can be purchased for 29.99. It is called the Ultimate Steal (I think). I just found out about it a few days ago. We took advatage of it for my son. Can’t look up the link on my phone—sorry.

[jessduntno]

I used that PC mover when I went from 2000 to XP Pro and it worked like a charm...don’t think I’ll be going to 7 until they have at least 2 service packs, though...unless they completely end support on XP...which I doubt will happen for a while yet...

[Dubya]

bump

[Chinito]

I haven’t read anything about driver compatibility. I am concerned with installing WIN7 on my older XP machine and none of the XP drivers working. Anybody had any experience with XP drivers not working with WIN7? Thanks!

[eddie willers]

I had pre-ordered a copy from Best Buy back when they had a $50 deal last July.

Came today and my upgrade went surprisingly smooth. (With one exception).

Though I had removed ZoneAlarm quite some time ago, some untraceable parts remained and Win7 refused to go further until I took it out. It was not in Add/Remove nor on the All Program tree. No trace could I find but Win7 said it was still there nonetheless!

I Googled and found a link to a ZoneAlarm removal tool which did the trick.

I upgraded from Vista and am shocked that my browser links remained (Firefox, no less!), my cookies were intact and I could just click my normal link to here and made this post without even having to log on.

I’m sure I’ve got a lot of jiggering to do, but so far so good.