What Are Your Current Impressions of Windows 7?
Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing
So it’s been many months since Windows 7 was released to the public, and during my travels on the web, I have seen praise from so many people about how they are enjoying Windows 7. Some of these are even coming from Mac users which really should tell you something.
My experience has exceeded my initial expectations, and I enjoy using Windows 7 every single day. Performance has been outstanding on my main rig, which is obviously quite powerful, but I can say the same thing for my Acer Netbook which I also have Win7 installed on.
Obviously I run quite a few games and applications, and haven’t had one single issue with one, including older applications. On the customization side, having apps like Fences, ObjectDock, and WindowBlinds make the desktop experience that much better – especially in terms of organization.
Now that many of you have had quite a bit of time to use Windows 7, what are your current impressions so far?
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Reply #43 Friday, April 2, 2010 4:50 AM
Good luck finding programs which will run on 64 bit XP 
Reply #44 Friday, April 2, 2010 4:53 AM
Oh, and another annoying thing -
Much like Vista, W7 turns off drives not in use. But unlike Vista I haven't found a way to stop it doing it yet.
This means when I try to start a game (installed on a separate drive) I get a blank menu for 5+ seconds until the drive wakes up. Very annoying 
Reply #45 Friday, April 2, 2010 5:21 AM
Fuzzy, could that be simply a power management setting?
Reply #46 Friday, April 2, 2010 7:18 AM
well as a die hard vista fan i have to admit i am smitten by windows7, apart from all those annoying folders in documents lol
Reply #47 Friday, April 2, 2010 8:02 AM
I hate the way windows 7 does not remember the positions of explorer windows, duel screen I like to open my documents folder and have them appear where I left them and then open my pictures folder and have them appear where I left them the last time I closed them. fortunately a great utility called ShellFolderFix saved the day, now I love windows 7.
Reply #48 Friday, April 2, 2010 8:04 AM
forgot to put a link to the utility for those die hard organized desktop fanatics like me:
Also the community arnt half bad at helping with windows 7 issues
Reply #50 Friday, April 2, 2010 9:33 AM
sounds like a bios problem. Or dying PSU
Reply #51 Friday, April 2, 2010 10:26 AM
windows7 is fantastic, except rightclick does not work.
Reply #52 Friday, April 2, 2010 5:28 PM
Reply #53 Friday, April 2, 2010 6:11 PM
Absolutely the best Windows edition ever! I haven't had any problems with it at all, which is a first for me! I would never go back, especially to Vista! No, no, no!!!
Reply #54 Friday, April 2, 2010 7:03 PM
Hi Jafo,
I hear you about getting into the task manager. Those of us who've been out there awhile are so used to cntrl, alt, delete that is second nature to us. However, I have sort of retrained me to right click on the task bar and select it there. Still, ever now and then I still hit cntrl, alt. delete. 
Someone mentioned that the pinned taskbar icons bug them. It bugged me too but there is an easy fix available at How to Geek: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/add-the-quick-launch-bar-to-the-taskbar-in-windows-7/I Now I have my Quick Launch back so I'm a happy camper.
For those who hate the Start Button, rumor has it that Windows 8 will do away with it. So far I've only read a couple of articles on it because it's still early in the development process. The Start button works for me because I have no icons on my desktop. My computer works "magically" via a programmable keyboard. I even hide the taskbar sometimes so I can fully enjoy the great wallpapers I find here. 
Reply #55 Friday, April 2, 2010 7:23 PM
Runs faster. 
As a detriment to skinning overall... its a complete and utter bastard. 
Reply #56 Friday, April 2, 2010 8:51 PM
It does work on -some- W7 systems. On most systems (mainly 64 bit) though, it nukes Windows Exploder.
I can get it to work on my W7, but only right after it's installed, and only untill I reboot. After that it keeps on nuking Exploder.
A -significant- reason for why I haven't switched W7.
Reply #57 Saturday, April 3, 2010 3:43 AM
I'm confused. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit and everything runs fine. Plenty of programs to choose from. Was XP 64 bit different in some way?
I've never had any drives turn off. Are you referring to if there are multiple hard drives Windows will turn off those drives?
Any links to share?
By the way I like the defualt look of 7. I turned off the transparency and made the taskbar use small icons while changing the taskbar to all black. I like the way Windows 7 handles my day to day tasks.
Reply #58 Saturday, April 3, 2010 4:01 AM
Not sure if this will do it for ya since currently I just have one multi-partitioned HD on the system, but try...
Control Panel>Performance Information and Tools. You'll see "Adjust power settings" on the left. Then go to change plan settings. From there hit "Change advanced power settings" and you should get a treed window. Select hard disk and change the "Turn off after XX minutes" to what you like.
Kind of little maze to go through to find it. Think I originally got there by accident 
Reply #59 Saturday, April 3, 2010 5:53 AM
It's not power settings. If you have extra drives, Windows turns them off if they are not in use. When you try to access them you have to wait until they start up. I can't remember where it is but in Vista you could tell a drive to not turn off when not in use. Maybe it's because I hade Vista Ultimate and this is W7 Home Premium.
Anyway, I might have gotten round it. I've just installed mst Defrag which constantly monitors drives and that might be keeping them awake.
Reply #60 Saturday, April 3, 2010 7:27 AM
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Reply #41 Friday, April 2, 2010 3:21 AM
I use W7 because Vista is worse and XP won't let me use more than 2Gb RAM
If you were using the 64 bit version of XP it should let you use more than 2 GB of memory.
I was running 3gb on XP 32bit.