Taking the plunge into win 7

[Mike Parr]

Well I'll see you shortly as I've just started a windows 7 install fingers crossed

[Mike Parr]

Re: Taking the plunge into win 7

Hi all can anyone tell me if you can delete the Windows.old file when you have put win7 on
cheers

[Ian]

Re: Taking the plunge into win 7

Hi all can anyone tell me if you can delete the Windows.old file when you have put win7 on
cheers

That contains all the stuff (your docs, etc.) that was on your previous installation. So once you are sure you have copied everything you need across, then you can deleted it.

Ian

[Mike Parr]

Re: Taking the plunge into win 7

Cheers Ian ................Its huge ive got all i need just doing final checks

[Mike Parr]

Re: Taking the plunge into win 7

Well we been running for a few hours now on this pc and all seems fine

[ekkl]

Re: Taking the plunge into win 7

What do you think of 7??

[Mike Parr]

Re: Taking the plunge into win 7

I've had a couple of problems with IE8 so I've put safari on apart from that its quicker than xp and quite pleasant to use

[Guest]

Re: Taking the plunge into win 7

Hi Mike
I have been using Win 7 for about two months now and after using Vista on a laptop I think this is great and a lot easier to find things an your way around. It simply grows on you the more you use it. I do get an application freezing and 'Not responding' showing occasionally but I put that down to either some quirk in my setup or my impatience for things to happen quicker. However its usually easy to get out of with Ctrl,Alt,Del to bring up the Task Manager with which you can kill off the application which is not responding.

[Mike Parr]

Re: Taking the plunge into win 7

One thing I have noticed is that the forum and galleries button on here locks IE8 but not on Safari 4.
After another glitch this morning when my Bios decided to swap my drives around after an update to a controller I decided to Install the 64 Bit version which seems ok at the moment.

[Ian]

Re: Taking the plunge into win 7

One thing I have noticed is that the forum and galleries button on here locks IE8 but not on Safari 4.
After another glitch this morning when my Bios decided to swap my drives around after an update to a controller I decided to Install the 64 Bit version which seems ok at the moment.

I have has similar reports, but it never crashes with us; which makes it very frustrating as we can't simulate the problem.

Ian

[Mike Parr]

Re: Taking the plunge into win 7

Still tweaking just found out there is Nikon nef support in 64bit but found a work around for quick veiwing.

[devilgas]

Re: Taking the plunge into win 7

have been using the 64 bit version for a month or so now. much faster than XP and have managed to get everything that was on XP working with 7, so all good. only problem i was getting was when the OS went into power saving mode, it occasionally wouldn't come back out cleanly and hung. i think this is probs due to the 64 bit graphics drivers (nvidia GT 240) being relatively green. other than having to hunt for certain things (why do they change the location of admin / management stuff on every release of an OS?) it's been a good swap out.

as for windows.old - not sure as i bought a new hard drive for the install. if i need stuff off the old drive, then i just use a HD to usb adaptor.

[ash]

Re: Taking the plunge into win 7

Ohh dear, can I ask why? was your pc malfunctioning in any way? Was you asking it to do something that it could not perform?
I don't really wan't to waste my breathe, Im at the end of my tether with this!
WHAT ARE YOU UPGRADING FOR

[ash]

Re: Taking the plunge into win 7

Ok I feel guilty now, Its just that I no alot of people thats upgraded to windows 7 and are having problems, but it always seems to be that they upgraded for the sake of upgrading, if its not broken, dont try and fix it! As a rule Ive never upgraded my windows for at least a year after the new release, I dont no why its just me. Im typing this on a vista machine and have no intention on upgrading to 7 in the near future, why would I, this does everything I want it to do.
Signing off,
Grumpy old Ash

[Patrick]

Re: Taking the plunge into win 7

Ok I feel guilty now, Its just that I no alot of people thats upgraded to windows 7 and are having problems, but it always seems to be that they upgraded for the sake of upgrading, if its not broken, dont try and fix it! As a rule Ive never upgraded my windows for at least a year after the new release, I dont no why its just me. Im typing this on a vista machine and have no intention on upgrading to 7 in the near future, why would I, this does everything I want it to do.
Signing off,
Grumpy old Ash

Well Ash I upgraded within 4 weeks off release, I liked Vista but Windows 7 is far better. I have had no problems of any kind.
Now I have the iMac I am running 7 on my laptop much quicker than Vista. I also run it on my net-book, it runs quite well.

I have to say that since getting the iMac running Snow Leopard, boot up times with any Windows system seems like an age, less junk running in the background. The iMac boots in 30 seconds ready to go, and that includes Photoshop as I have it setup to start with boot up.

Patrick