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Windows 7 thread!

Did a rough timing of both (counting, don't have a stop-watch), vista booted and opened the first app in about 31 seconds, 7 took 33. I don't know what's up w/ mine then.
 
Can 7 make use of more cores at boot or something?
 
Mine takes forever to boot too
Overall, I'm not happy with 7. I'm gonna wait for SP1 before I buy, I'm sure it's gonna be good then.
 
alexp999 said:
Can 7 make use of more cores at boot or something?
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That may be it, although vista can use 4 I think so (there's an option to have vista use all your cores on start-up)..... Vista has a lot more on it too, I boot about 50 processes at idle, all my apps, ect. It's also heavily tweaked and optimized though (regedits, boot tweaks, ect.). 7 is a fresh install, like 30 processes.

ShadowFold said:
Mine takes forever to boot too
Overall, I'm not happy with 7. I'm gonna wait for SP1 before I buy, I'm sure it's gonna be good then.
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Yeah I think SP1 is always a good time to go for a Windows product. I'll probably just get it when I can get it for cheap. :D
 
off topic: hey guys, I love that "live topic" feature that you got in this forum :)...brilliant.
 
Logos said:
off topic: hey guys, I love that "live topic" feature that you got in this forum :)...brilliant.
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A powerful wizzard roams these parts.......
 
You can make use of more cores in vista in msconfig then go to boot tabs not sure about 7.
 
Even though with that msconfig one when i tried it all it did was disable a core. :shadedshu
 
afaik, that msconfig thing is only good for reducing cores available to the OS, not increasing them :(
 
Ive had a mate who said it worked for him.
 
OK back, my msconfig was set to one core by default at boot time; I set it to two, didn't notice any improvement when booting. I honestly didn't know about this feature as I've run Vista on an old P4, and installed 7 almost directly on the machine I got now only recently. Only used Vista very shortly on it.

edit: the number of cores was actually not visibly set at all in msconfig by default. So maybe it was actually already set on 2.
 
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Like i said it didnt work for me as noticed in both the sidebar gadget and gpuz reported one core instead of two.
 
Triprift said:
Like i said it didnt work for me as noticed in both the sidebar gadget and gpuz reported one core instead of two.
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you mean after changing the setting in msconfig and rebooting, and once in Windows, you've noticed only one core was on ?
 
Yep had to go back into msconfig and change back to before to get it to go back.
 
yeah 'cause I checked the gadget after I read your post and I still got my two cores running.
 
my version (7077) is booting fast as the xp

i forget .. no dual boot problem like with vista
 
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The volume control on my keyboard doesn't work while I'm in game some times. I have a Saitek Eclipse.
 
I've had no issues with Windows 7 except for my on-board sound card going bad causing BSOD's but at the time I thought it was just Windows 7 causing the issues. With a replacement card and Build 7068, I've had no issues at all. Even my Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer card sounds really well with the beta Creative Win 7 drivers. I'm liking Windows 7 the more I use it, awesome OS IMO.
 
Why do people still insist on going to msconfig and choose how many cores they have?! Its only gonna make your computer slower and gets you loads of problems in the long run. Vista and 7 and what ever comes after those, are made for multi cores - they can identify more cores with no problem. Its only for those that HAVE a problem, where like, the computer is only reporting 1 core, even tho its a dual core.

The thing that should make Win7 boot faster, is cause of the new way of initializing drivers and services. They added multi core execution of drivers and made it so services not needed at bootup arent startet until you actualy hit windows.
 
So can you still load ATI and Nvidia drivers on 7? I just bought a 8800GTS and I'm getting a 4850X2 soon.. Might as well have the 8800 fold and when ever something that uses PhysX comes out I can use that.
 
ShadowFold said:
So can you still load ATI and Nvidia drivers on 7? I just bought a 8800GTS and I'm getting a 4850X2 soon.. Might as well have the 8800 fold and when ever something that uses PhysX comes out I can use that.
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i installed PhysX_9.04.08_9.09.0408_SystemSoftware.exe on my Windows 7 32bit and it's fine, i havn't been have an error yet :D
 
I meant both of them running at the same time. Obviously running one or the other works, I know older builds allowed for what I'm wondering. I guess I'll have to test it out when I get my 8800GTS.
 
I had to extend my display onto my 9600GT for physx, so that bug still isnt fixed (NVIDIAs fault), but no experience of both drivers.

It should work fine, 7 is based on a whole new WDDM.
 
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