Windows 7 - User experiences?

**Hwy101** · 06 February 2009, 12:15 AM

Originally Posted by neodeist

According to this, XP users will be allowed to upgrade but with a clean install, whereas Vista users will be able to install over the top.

Yeah, the 'thrill' of digging out all my program disk to re-install them... <sigh>

**handrawn** · 06 February 2009, 09:04 AM

I would always do a clean install where possible

Likelyhood some things will not work with the new operating system - I would rather then, that they had not been in the installation in the first place....

**BONES** · 02 March 2009, 02:58 AM

Originally Posted by jyoung

Bill, does it look like a better product than Vista. I am still using XP Pro and I hope Windows 7 is more "user friendly" than Vista.

That's a loaded question. I think Vista is a huge step up from XP. Win7 doesn't seem like the same leap ahead, more of a consolidation of all the good stuff introduced in Vista. If you find Vista unfriendly, you probably won't like Win7 either, as it is very similar overall. I think it is amazingly good, to the point that I just bought a new laptop, a Dell M4400, and I will be using Win7 with it, assuming I can get all my applications to install and run. So far Xara is the only one that has given me any grief but I just found out how to sort that out. I still haven't tried Combustion, 3DS Max, Maya or Toxik yet though, and Autodesk stuff has a habit of being very finicky about OSs.

**Soquili** · 02 March 2009, 02:08 PM

I agree Bones.

Windows XP is version 5 and Vista is version 6. Guess what version Windows 7 shows in System Information.

Nope it is not version 7.

It is version 6.1...only a minor update to Vista.

**BONES** · 03 March 2009, 03:03 AM

That's fairly typical of beta versions, though. I wouldn't read too much into it.
I've now got Maya and Toxik running on Win7 and I am more and more impressed with it, although sadly I will have to revert to using a Win98 graphical look as a problem left-over from Vista does not seem to be fixed. It doesn't pass window themes to child windows and I use a couple of audio applications that have lots of little windows open in them and it's just unworkable for me. It's a shame because both Vista and Win7 look awesome and I love the Aero stuff.

**JerryL5** · 03 March 2009, 06:21 PM

As a test, I installed the old trial version of Illustrator 8.
Windows 7 asked a couple questions, and then it installed
and ran perfectly. It looks like MS may have got it right
this time.

**nortonz** · 10 March 2009, 04:00 PM

I was running Windows 7 build 7000, and it has a few bugs yet,, but updated to build 7048 RC1. It is a bit more stable, but I noticed Xara Etreme 4 will not run now. It ran fine in Build 7000. Its a bit frustrating to say the least. as I use it all the time. When I try to start it I get a message the it stopped running and needs to close. it never comes up at all. Anyone else run in to this?

Michael

**steve.ledger** · 14 May 2009, 01:19 AM

Anyone installing W7 RC 64bit finding that Google Chrome doesn't work can fix it like this:

Run Google Chrome on Windows 7 64 bit Version

1. Right Click on Google Chrome Icon
2. Add –in-process-plugins after chrome.exe in Target field.