22nd October - W7 Day

[steve.ledger]

Here it is

[bcire68]

And, are we happy with it? I am usually an early adopter but I have stayed with XP because of the problems with Vista.

Eric

[covoxer]

Same as Eric here.

[MarciaB]

Same, so I'm curious

[Scotty]

Hope this post is updated with the results of W7...migration...as to compatiabilities with 32 bit and the 64bit systems..
JmG

[stlewis]

Some of us in the UK had it a day or so early.

My first PC to go over is a three year old Sony VGN-S4HP/B laptop running XP. I have upgraded it to 2GB memory but it is a bit tight on disk space. The difficulties with it were the display driver and a Freecom DVB-T usb stick. I have ended up with a beta driver for the display but it seems to be ok now. It starts briskly and Xtreme looks fine. If you have Norton Internet Security 2009, download the trial of 2010 and enter your 2009 licence no; it will then run till the end of that period. Generally W7 is nice and chatty - herlping spot problems and finding updates. Very impressed. 32 bit BTW

Three more machines to go... All Dell desktops. The oldest (4 years old) has been running the RC version of WIndows 7 just fine.

[steve.ledger]

I've been running W7 beta and then RC (32bit and 64bit - dual boot) on the TOSHIBA laptop most of the year. Never had a single problem. Even installed Xara X1.
I won'g get around to installing W7 Pro on this PC quite yet, I don't expect any problems.

[gwpriester]

I have had very few problems with Vista actually.

I will migrate to W7 first of the year.

[Christine Farrelly]

Received my copy on 21st so installed it then - a day early. upgrade took 4-5 hours, but the speed difference is amazing. Only problem I had was that when it finished I had lost a whole load of desktop icons. took nearly as much time finding the programs on my hard drives and putting the icons back as the upgrade.

I'll let you know if I have any other problems. No crashes so far....

Christine

[covoxer]

No, no, no. Well, yes it is faster than Vista, but no - it's still slower than XP.