My Windows 7 upgrade in emoticons

Looks like it went relatively well then. ;)
 
My experience although I didn't do an upgrade I did a fresh install.
I've never been keen on the upgrade path.

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The emoticon sequence is a little "tongue in cheek" but I am far from impressed. I went from 32bit Vista to 64bit Win 7 on a one year old core2 duo machine. The startup/shutdown is no quicker, it is if anything less stable than Vista and my external archive drive went bang in the process so I am not a happy bunny. For the first time I am seriously considering going Apple Mac when I change this PC.
 
I am surprised it let you upgrade to 64-bit from 32-bit, I thought a fresh install was required for this upgrade path.
I decided to perfrom an upgrade first to see how it goes and if the system is no quicker I would format and install from scratch.
The upgrade did take a little while to complete but the transformation on my laptop is just amazing. I cannot recommend enough to those people that use Vista that you upgrade ASAP.
 
DonnaM said:
For the first time I am seriously considering going Apple Mac when I change this PC.
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That's what I did after a bad experience with a new Dell XPS last year, contant hangs, crashes etc., so I moved to a Mac Pro a few months ago...
For me, the move from PC to Mac was... :thinking: :help: :| :) :love: :banana: :geek: .
 
Rob Wright said:
I am surprised it let you upgrade to 64-bit from 32-bit, I thought a fresh install was required for this upgrade path.
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neil_g said:
to be honest id never concider upgrading from 32 to 64 bit OS, id always clean install.
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Sorry for the confusion, I used the word "Upgrade" generically. I did a clean install. After much fiddling with drivers, services and startup programmes I now have an acceptable system but the weekend was a little fraught.
 
I thought 64 bit was still a wilderness for drivers and applications so 32 bit was a much safer and less hair pulling?
 
DonnaM said:
:thinking: :shake: :bonk: :'( :cuckoo: :annoyed: :sulk: :coat: :beer: :puke:
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:lol:

Surely a quick reference to your avatar would have sufficed Donna... :naughty:






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neil_g said:
I had to remove ATI Catalyst (I have an ATI Radeon card) and just leave the driver, remove my Eizo screen manager utility so now I am sRGB for everything, take any reference to MS Money out of the services/loaded programmes and I have stopped Windows Firewall & Defender all together (I have a 3rd party security suite). Now I have a tolerable system.



Venomator said:

Surely a quick reference to your avatar would have sufficed Donna... :naughty:
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:bat: Remember, Chimps can be carnivorous, snake meat is not off the menu! :razz:
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DonnaM said:
I had to remove ATI Catalyst (I have an ATI Radeon card) and just leave the driver, remove my Eizo screen manager utility so now I am sRGB for everything, take any reference to MS Money out of the services/loaded programmes and I have stopped Windows Firewall & Defender all together (I have a 3rd party security suite). Now I have a tolerable system.
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i had a few teething issues with the catalyst on the RC and had a bit of a choppy blu-ray playback issue, to be honest i stuck with the windows supplied driver on the RTM version and its been perfect.

is your screen manager listed as W7 compatible? did you try running it in compatibility mode? likewise for MS money.

did you have issues with windows firewall/defender or did you just stop them as you had 3rd party apps?
 
Sorry to hear that Donna :( Despite my first reservations for yet another OS I bit the bullet. Fresh install, one day in and I am impressed, not so much for the Eye Candy but the fact that compared to XP, mine does run quicker and smoother. I had no problems with drivers other than the usual Creative card :lol::lol: had no sound whatsoever on the system and the original install disc would not recognise the OS, one manual download cured that.
 
I did a fresh install on my work laptop and had problems with the Intel Graphic drivers which windows upgraded to once I had done the install. In the end I had to roll back the driver. The problem I had was in Terminal Server Remote desktop, the keyboard would not work and the mouse would only work once (click on something and that was it you could not click on anything else).
I went to the Intel web site to get the latest drivers but when I tried to install them Windows complained and would not let me install.

Once I rolled back the drivers (to the ones that come with the install) the Remote desktop was OK.


Tim
 
neil_g said:
is your screen manager listed as W7 compatible? did you try running it in compatibility mode? likewise for MS money.

did you have issues with windows firewall/defender or did you just stop them as you had 3rd party apps?
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The screen manager was allegedly "Vista compatible" and TBH I am still not sure that it was causing a problem but there were issues with it. MS Money was interfering with IE 8 rather than the OS. I use Firefox normally so that was not the issue but it caused problems if I tried Windows Update manually as that needs to be done in IE8. The Windows Defender/Firewall was the first thing I stopped as I have had issues with that in the past under Vista.

I suppose now that I have something that is moderately stable (but slow to start) I should try putting back things like Firewall/Defender and see what happens.
 
Installed two copies today, fresh install both and one problem with my Abit Airpace wifi drivers on one machine was solved in five minutes using google, another problem with BitDefender firewall has not yet been resolved but it doesn't affect the running of the machine at all. All in all two very quick and painless installs.
 
I put another 1Tb drive in my PC on Saturday, transferred my pics, backups etc. to it, then wondered what to do with my now "spare" 500Gb backup drive.

So I disconnected my win XP64 drive then spent the rest of Saturday and most of Sunday doing a new install of Win7 on the 500Gb drive.

I had real problems with User Account Control telling me how I could not assign drivers to MY machine that weren't signed etc. etc.

UAC was then threatened with a big hammer and, after a reboot, all was well and things installed fine.

I too have a Radeon graphics card and I thought the ATI Catalyst had loaded but I don't see it here now?

MS Money 2000 went on no bother after getting the backups sorted.

The only bother I had was with Lightroom and sorting out the right drives and folders for my pics.
Lightroom definitely works faster than it did on XP64, no idea why but makes me a happy bunny.

Everything is now up and running really well. The startup is so fast it beats my router startup and shutdown is very quick too.

I have just finished configuring Windows Media Centre. This would never work with my tuner with the XP Media OS but it works a dream now.

I am using the Windows firewall but had to add a few progs to allow them to work OK.
 
You can turn UAC off in W7 without it bugging you about it forever more.
 
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I too have upgraded this weekend.... From Vista to XP!

Love it! Does everything I need with no fuss and very fast on a modern machine.

Chris
 
Installed 7 Ultimate today - installed and works like a dream!! Impressed that it got my extended desktop (tv) installed and working all by itself!!

Now im just installing all the programs I use lol
 
after reviewing windows 7 for our work systems, i have to say i have never come accross a microsoft OS that was so nice to install.

they done something right for once :)
 
I installed W7 64 Home Premium on my Dell lappy and like it loads. Vista was a nightmare and I was dual booting with XP.
Like it so much I may even delete the XP partition, maybe. :thinking:
 
I'm sitting back and waiting for a bit. Took advantage of the £30 student offer but I'll wait for any issues/ driver problems to get resolved first.

I don't honestly see a reason to move from my stable XP yet, but £30 for a windows licence was too good an offer to remove.
 
If you believe Microsoft, you will be thinking that Windows 7 is Vista, how it should have been. I’ve been looking at the reviews of Windows 7 and they are mixed. Microsoft hasn’t hyped W7 as it did with vista, anyone remember all the PR MSoft give to Vista!, No, they put mega money into the launch. This time Msoft are using users to promote W7 sales, they claimed to have listen and responded.
If you go back to the launch of XP , it was not the most stable of operating systems, replacing the dreaded ME. It has taken MSoft many years of updates to get XP working and even now some IT buffs don’t think its completely right.
I would give W7 a bit time for real users to use and comment on it, let Msoft put out a few updates and I’m sure it will make a good replace for Xp. There are some substantial improvements over XP, but only time will tell if they are actually of any use to the ordinary user (that’s me)
One option is to dual boot your PC’s, that’s what I am doing. I bypassed Vista and going directly to W7. This will allow you to keep your current OS and have a look at W7.

With Compliments

The Borg
 
theborg said:
I would give W7 a bit time for real users to use and comment on it, let Msoft put out a few updates and I’m sure it will make a good replace for Xp.
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im a real user, im using it on my work machine where i IT support a medium sized businiess and have been since august with the release of the RTM. to be honest W7 (at least for us on the 6 machines we (IT - we figured that we'd break it if anyone!) are running) is as stable as XP now.

i think MS listened to users through beta and RC versions and have released a version that is extrememly stable. sure some people are having driver issues but thats a hardware vendor issue.

we've already decided that W7 will be replacing XP in our LAN. in fact we received our volume licencing discs today.. :D
 
I installed W7 a couple of days ago and must say i am really liking it.

My PC came with vista installed but i hated it so it was gone within a week, XP is a great OS but i have had variuos driver issues, i was dreading what the issues might be with W7 but to my suprise there were none and all my drivers work:)
 
in a move that is completely strange for our IT departments globally, we've approved 2008 R2 and 7 for installation.

weird.
 
Well my Windows 7 experience lasted 9 minutes before I got a blue screen of death! Just running updates now :)

Running Windows 7 professional costing £39 as a student :)
 
Once you go mac, you never go back.

Vista and then Windows7 RC have left me pretty disillusioned with MS to be honest. My windows desktop lies there unused nowadays. There always seems to be something going wrong that spoils any enjoyment in using it.
 
W7 runs brilliantlyfast and smooth :D Just one problem Bonjour service from Apple :thinking: Disable problem sorted!
 
I installed Windows 7 on my laptop last night. Was so easy and quick.

Had to do a clean install as had the release candidate version on it. The installation created for me a version called windows.old on my hard drive. Doing a clean install meant all my internet favourites had gone. Using my grey cells I managed to work out how to get all my internet favourites from windows.old on to Windows 7 and they're all back again! Well done brain you do surprise me sometime!!!!

Now for the desktop!
 
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