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Windows 7 thread!

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Pre-Beta LOVE it no issues, and installs quick launch without me having to hack it out.

PM me for the torrent link to all that wants it:) DVD has 64 or 32 on it
 
Whats have you done to get that start menu :twitch:
 
That's my fav build Mussels

6801
 
wasnt 7000 the public beta? so this ones OLDER?
 
Yeah what so special about keeping 6801 :confused:
 
Mussels said:
wasnt 7000 the public beta? so this ones OLDER?
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Yes this is older")

This one is faster, and more drivers work with it from 2k/2003/xp/vista/2008. Which means that I hit less compatibility issues with it. Also quick launch is also still in it. There is also no damn key it just installs, along with 64 and 32bit on one DVD.
 
looks like XP + vista conversion pack to me ;)...

edit: forget what I said, lol, I just noticed the taskar is indeed Win7
 
Logos said:
looks like XP + vista conversion pack to me ;)
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Naw it's the alpha-build. You may think it's a conversion, but it's not:)
 
Does google chrome not work in 7? It won't display any pages for me.
 
farlex85 said:
Does google chrome not work in 7? It won't display any pages for me.
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it does work, if you slightly modify the shortcut that launches it:
-in-process-plugins should be added to the target line. But if you download the beta, you don't need to do that.
 
Logos said:
it does work, if you slightly modify the shortcut that launches it:
-in-process-plugins should be added to the target line. But if you download the beta, you don't need to do that.
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Nice, thanks, I almost tried the beta but posted here instead. :laugh:


I'm liking 7077, prettier and seems a bit less buggy. They've added sounds for everything which is a tad annoying though. UAC still doesn't work right. Still can't see any percievable speed difference from vista. But it's definitely prettier.
 
7077 does have quite a few visual perks over 7000 that I've seen. I found both 7000 and 7077 to be slower than Vista honestly. Next time I reinstall I will probably go back to Vista.
 
Really? I have found Windows 7, so much quicker than Vista at pretty much everything. Hlaf the boot time easy.
 
alexp999 said:
Really? I have found Windows 7, so much quicker than Vista at pretty much everything. Hlaf the boot time easy.
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Boot time is nearly identical for me. Somehow I think the pretty color swirl for 7 throws people off, it may seem quicker than the drab bar moving across the screen. Application speed seems pretty much the same for me too, but really I don't see how much faster most things can work, vista's pretty quick. Perhaps it depends on hardware though.
 
Win7 is a lot faster than Vista, it's factual , boot time, applications, everything ;) may be a driver issue can slow it down...
I'm on the beta (7000) and it's damned fast. Got some unexplained swapping to hard disk though; hoping it's due to a not so well managed memory in the beta...but that doesn't really make anything slow.

two other things I must complain about concerning Win7 (still talking about Win7/7000 OK, I won't upgrade to anything but the official RC when it's out): the defragmenter, when launched manually, is really lame (+10 passes + resource demanding), Vista's one was faster, and the copying of very small or very big files is damned slow, as slow as in Vista. Must run a third party utility to copy as fast as in XP.
 
When you start moving files from drives or CD's to the computer, 7 slows down to the point where you cant multitask. When I move movies/files from my server to my rig, I pretty much have to watch the progress bar in 7.. In Vista I can get on the internet, play a game with no hitch. It also freezes easily and frequently while opening programs and folders.
 
Only problems I have had with transfers is when there are a lot of small files and it looks like it hangs but it hasnt.

I can carry on as normal during transfers.
 
Logos said:
Win7 is a lot faster than Vista, it's factual , boot time, applications, everything ;) may be a driver issue can slow it down...
I'm on the beta (7000) and it's damned fast. Got some unexplained swapping to hard disk though; hoping it's due to a not so well managed memory in the beta...but that doesn't really make anything slow.
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Perhaps my boot speed is b/c I have it dual-booted, so for the first part of the boot it uses Vistas bootloader. That's the only explanation I can come up w/ for why mine would be slower than everyone claiming it's super fast, unless everyone claiming that is placeboed (either are pretty likely to me). It isn't slow, it just isn't faster than vista (which is pretty fast). Also I guess I should say vista tweaked.
 
My Windows 7 is definetly faster than Vista without a doubt. I have turned Express Gate SSD off cus it can boot faster than that. :D
 
alexp999 said:
Only problems I have had with transfers is when there are a lot of small files and it looks like it hangs but it hasnt.

I can carry on as normal during transfers.
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that's exactly what I was saying. I already had that in Vista, and I wonder what they are waiting for to solve the problem; I don't even think MS sees that as an issue. It's a"feature", not a bug...would love to get some details about the feature one day :D

This said, you can use a tool like Teracopy:
http://www.codesector.com/teracopy

or even MS Synctoy, meant for syncing but very handy imo just to copy a bunch of files.

Both solutions are very fast.
 
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