camp.cool007
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About a week ago, I downloaded the Windows 7 Evaluation from Microsoft. I have a Compaq Presario 3015 Laptop. I have Windows XP Service Pack 3, 2.39 GHz processor, 524MB of ram, a 56GB hard drive, no 2.0 usb drives, exc. (My mind escapes me for any other specs, but contact me if you'd like to know more).
I installed Vista when it first came out, and it was awful. It had extremely slow boot speeds, hardly any of my programs/hardware were compatible with it, it was difficult to do pretty much anything, well, you all know the rest. After a few weeks I decided screw vista and switched back to xp.
When the thought of installing Win 7 on my laptop occured, I almost didn't do it. Vista was terrible, Win 7 would be a nightmare, right? This time around I did a dual boot instead of installing over xp like I did when I installed vista. A) because the evaluation version is unreliable after March 2010 and B) more importantly, my computer couldn't even handle vista, how could it handle Win 7?
My first time booting up Win 7 was amazing! It actually didn't take a full half hour, and it was very quick loading the startup programs. I was really impressed with all the new features (Maybe not new, but pretty cool). The task bar looks really good, there are multiple themes to chose, and everything is easily accessible.
Since this was an evaluation, I didn't figure many of my programs would work. But I was wrong again. Almost each one I installed went through the installation process with no problems. I have a pc card network card, and the latest possible operating system that supported it was xp, but I plugged it in, and the new hardware thing popped up and installed it right away.
I did however, have one program that refused to work. I started looking for the program compatibility wizard, when a window opened that wanted to automatically fix the program. Why not? So I allowed it and sure enough, it ran it with all of the correct settings.
The control panel is redone, but it is so much easier to access advanced options.
Since this is evaluation, not many people have tried to mess with it. So my offer to you is that if you want me to test advanced features to check if they still work, let me know. I've tested basic features, but nothing too extreme.
I installed Vista when it first came out, and it was awful. It had extremely slow boot speeds, hardly any of my programs/hardware were compatible with it, it was difficult to do pretty much anything, well, you all know the rest. After a few weeks I decided screw vista and switched back to xp.
When the thought of installing Win 7 on my laptop occured, I almost didn't do it. Vista was terrible, Win 7 would be a nightmare, right? This time around I did a dual boot instead of installing over xp like I did when I installed vista. A) because the evaluation version is unreliable after March 2010 and B) more importantly, my computer couldn't even handle vista, how could it handle Win 7?
My first time booting up Win 7 was amazing! It actually didn't take a full half hour, and it was very quick loading the startup programs. I was really impressed with all the new features (Maybe not new, but pretty cool). The task bar looks really good, there are multiple themes to chose, and everything is easily accessible.
Since this was an evaluation, I didn't figure many of my programs would work. But I was wrong again. Almost each one I installed went through the installation process with no problems. I have a pc card network card, and the latest possible operating system that supported it was xp, but I plugged it in, and the new hardware thing popped up and installed it right away.
I did however, have one program that refused to work. I started looking for the program compatibility wizard, when a window opened that wanted to automatically fix the program. Why not? So I allowed it and sure enough, it ran it with all of the correct settings.
The control panel is redone, but it is so much easier to access advanced options.
Since this is evaluation, not many people have tried to mess with it. So my offer to you is that if you want me to test advanced features to check if they still work, let me know. I've tested basic features, but nothing too extreme.
