Rate your Windows 7 upgrade experience
Last weekend we ran a casual, unscientific poll asking what your plans were for Windows 7. It closed Monday morning, but because of the overwhelming response, we decided to reopen it until today. Out of the 13,108 readers who voted, 59 percent (7,669) of you said that you were going to upgrade from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7.
So, for those of you who are upgrading an older version of Windows to Windows 7 this weekend, we'd like you to rank your experience for us in a new poll posted below. Please share both your horror stories and your tales of easy installation in the comments. The new poll will close Monday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time.
The remaining results from previous poll were mostly unsurprising. Fourteen percent, or 1,856 voters, said that they were planning on buying a new computer with Windows 7 already installed. Slightly more of you, 2,146 respondents (16 percent), said they had no plans to change computers or upgrade at the moment. A small but not insignificant percentage, 865 voters, said that they were going to switch to a Mac or a Linux computer.
After we reopened the poll on Monday afternoon, we added two questions by popular demand. Less than one percent of voters said they were going to switch from a Mac or Linux computer to Windows 7, while 454 people (3 percent) said that they already had a Mac or Linux computer and were planning on also using Windows 7.
What these numbers confirmed is that a majority of current Windows users will be upgrading current systems, meaning that most people not only believe that their hardware can adequately run Windows 7, but also that they can comfortably perform the upgrade themselves. However, sizable minorities will either be buying Windows 7 fresh or ignoring it entirely, while a tiny group will be using it as an excuse to abandon ship.
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But serious dude, a RAID 0 array can be set up with as many drives as you like, as long as there's more than one. They don't even have to be the same size nor speed, because the array will adapt to the smallest and slowest disc in the array, meaning that bigger drives will be reduced to the size of the smallest one and use the same speed as the slowest disc.
And, by the way, what's wrong with the K-Mart in Tennessee?
JJ
So come on M-soft do better.
Since Dell dropped support for my laptop just a few months after Vista came out, Back then I had to look around to find an Audio and Video driver that would work with my XPS GEN 2. MS has since a long time ago aquire an Audio driver for Vista download, but that driver does not allow the Sub-Woofer in my laptop to work, so I use the old Vista driver. 1 other driver not available was for my Mouse Pad, again I blame Dell for thism, But I found one that work.
So in total, ONLY 1 DRIVER, the mouse pad driver was not available.
Therefore for me it was ot a hassle, I really like having a clean installation, so I did a clean install.
My CPU utilization is better, under Vista with a sincle CPU, Vista would take quite a few seconds to release cpu cycles when doing intensive applications. Even IE would max the cpu since I have every secion information wipe out. NOW NO ISSUES WHAT SO EVER.
Everything has been working fine, once I finish setting Windows 7 the way I like it, I created an IMAGE - I HIGHLY RECOMEND ALL TO DO THIS.
Even though I tested both Beta and RC, I am still amazed at how well a 5 year old laptop is doing.
I will be updating 5 for pc's soon belonging to my family and other for friends.
I am giving some LOV to this new operating system from Microsoft.
Geo
My overall experience with using Windows 7 is very good, better than XP, smoother, faster, cooler, and more modern look. I highly recommend it. Run the Advisor, have a USB Hard Drive available and go for it if advisor doesn't have too many hiccups. Good luck!!!
When dismounting all but the OS drive, start-up is between 25 seconds and 1 minute faster than with all drives connected, but still twice as slow as my little HP dc7600 sff, hitting the road in 25 seconds flat running on XP-Pro SP2.
Seems Win7 does a thorough system check before/while booting.
Main machine runs an E8400 core duo on an ASUS P5K-E with 4x1GB Kingston HyperX PC8500@1066MHz with an ASUS EN8800GTS 512-TOP VGA card. The HP runs on a socket775 P4@3.2Ghz with 2x2GB Kingston PC6500@667MHz and a cuddly Gigabyte GeForce 8400GS, with a 80GB &200GB Seagate SATA HD
Everything was rigged in about 2 hours. Only thing I had to backup were some firefox settings, my PST files and Photoshop/PhotoImpact profiles. All the rest is spread over different drives.
All in all, I'm pretty satisfied with Windows 7. So far, no hassles with drivers, except for my HP Scanjet 4670 vp, which refuses to work under its own sowftware. The latter isn't supported any longer by HP, so I had to hook it up to my HP dc7600...
JJ
Never pre-order from Best Buy.
run, well. ) I just wish the Task bar would look stylish - not a big change there. My current PC is a
Intel Core 2 Quad Processor at 2.40 GHz with 4GB of Ram. It is much smoother and feel abit more faster, running applications ( but I don't see it on, from booting up, ( took 30 seconds ) to finish.
As long as it reliable and stable and more user friendly features to use, then I am fine with that. Changes in : Paint, Wordpad, Calculator ( which i liked ) ( Shake Shake feature, Jump lists, Cornering windows - side by side ) fun to use. They took off the 3D Flip window switcher button ( My favorite ). Now, you had to press Window button + tab, to use it ,,o...well.. Also, now you can put your Sidebar widget, anywhere on the desktop ( :
I haven't test, playing any of my games, so i don't know the performance of it, just yet. Windows 7 is using the Directx 11,, which should run much more smoother on games. I love this OS over my apple computer, running on Snow Leopard, which i don't use offten.
I did wish they're interface on Windows 7, would look more 3D " Type" - a forum of a cube interface, would be cool,,switching around. I have been using all version of windows from 3.11, 95, 98, 2000, Me, XP, and Vista, and I couldn't be happier to use this version, too. Make sure you get a good anti virus program to protected your computer ( i use Kaspersky Anti Virus 2010 ) works great, very smooth. Ok, wish you guys enjoy, using Windows 7 . " I'M A PC "
Hope Dell doesnt take forever with that shipment :-P
Upgrade adviser says my five year old laptop (now running Vista ultimate student version)) will handle Win 7 except I won't get Aero (as with Vista).
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Looking thru your prior post history it's amazing how you've had a convienient worst case experience for all sorts of technology. You've had Dell's fail, Mac's fail, ipods fail, Slingbox failed you, even your Sirius XM service has failed you. Either you have the absolute worst luck ever or you're full of BS.
It took 1:45 and went very well. The machine definately seems a bit quicker and I have had no problems in two days.
you'll be upset to know that on my test machine, which is 4 years old, with 2 GB of SD Ram and 2400 Mhz processor, 6200 nVidia gfx Windows 7 RC1 was installed on 25 May till 23 Oct .
during that time i only turnd off my PC for once. downloaded Stargate SG1 season1-season 10 "about 30 GB"
downloaded more than 120 movie ..
and i always watch..burn and delete .
i am a gamer ..so warcraft 3 and battle for middle earth are always opend .. and since i am a designer , photoshop cs3 and illustrator cs3 are always opend also ..
and i can assure you , during that time and till i installed the retail. my windows 7 speed/performence stayed the same as the day i installed it on 25 May .
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by slubilliken31
October 24, 2009 4:26 PM PDT
- I bought the 64 bit home premium with the student discount and online download. I figured 30 bucks for windows 7, might as well give it a try. Everything goes smoothly in the installation process, until its about 90% done. It is transferring files and then I get the "blue screen of death" for a few seconds, it automatically shuts down the computer, restarts and says they could not install...so then it restores vista. this has happened 5 times. called windows 7 IT support, and after two hours...all they could do was tell me to hit the install button and collect my name, phone number, and email address 8 times with 8 different people...and promise to call me back sunday morning. I have an athlon dual core processor 4850e, 2.5 ghz, 4gb ram, and 64 bit vista service pack 1 right now. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEAS ON WHAT IS WRONG????!!!!
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by lugnut64x
October 25, 2009 9:45 AM PDT
- Can you give your computer model, as with what graphic cards and internal parts? More info helps.
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by aussietech
October 26, 2009 5:43 AM PDT
- At least your student version installed :S It seems a lot of peoples, including mine, downloaded incomplete or corrupted files that wont unpack & if they do work you have to do a work around involving an ISO program you download from MS and run through command prompt. Fortunately I opted to purchase the backup media and have them send me the DVD's as it looks much better than vista, has just left a bit of a sour taste initially
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by jheinikel
October 26, 2009 1:36 PM PDT
- You bought a 64bit OS and the 64bit installer is not compatible with your 32bit processor. Next time buy the 32bit version and you wont have a problem.
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Showing 1 of 5 pages (142 Comments)and all of my friends upgraded just fine, which makes me even more frustrated