lacroupade
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Looking at the upgrade, as reviews say its much less resource-hungry (and twatty!) than Vista....just wondered if anyone had done it yet and what they thought?
Anyone gone Vista to Windows 7 yet?
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I've just gone from XP to 7 and it seem 'snappier' and found all my devices withoute having to install the drivers.
Only downside for me was it wouldn't let me do an upgrade, so I took the opportunity to only reinstall the junk I actually use.
Seem to be getting 'updates' to it every day at the moment - most for IE8 and Defender (or whatever it's called now).
Only downside for me was it wouldn't let me do an upgrade, so I took the opportunity to only reinstall the junk I actually use.
Seem to be getting 'updates' to it every day at the moment - most for IE8 and Defender (or whatever it's called now).
lacroupade
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PC World here I come then- thanks guys! 
I just ordered a laptop at work for one of our more computer savvy employees. It will be interesting to see how well it works as we completely skipped Vista as we have a few custom programs that simply would not work. On my home computer I went to Linux 2 years ago and will never to go back to Windows.
I'm thinking I'll install Vista on my gamer....but then that would just kill my intentions of getting a Mac Pro and installing windows 7 on that for games.
My gamer is old.
I know quite a few people who got to beta test Windows 7....the only complaint I heard was that it wasn't released yet :roll:
My gamer is old.
I know quite a few people who got to beta test Windows 7....the only complaint I heard was that it wasn't released yet :roll:
I've been running Windows 7 for ages now on RC1 (prerelease) and even that's been tonnes better than Vista.
On final release now and it's identical, snappier is a good word for it, my lil NC10 Netbook runs brilliantly on W7 but then when you switch to MacOSX even 7 looks a bit sluggish :thumbsdown:
If you missed out Vista and are still on XP, 100% do it.
On final release now and it's identical, snappier is a good word for it, my lil NC10 Netbook runs brilliantly on W7 but then when you switch to MacOSX even 7 looks a bit sluggish :thumbsdown:
If you missed out Vista and are still on XP, 100% do it.
I went from XP on my desktop direct to 7 RC2 in July, and I've been running the retail version since release (22nd Oct). Knowing the trouble others had with Vista I never bothered with it. Obviously that meant that it was a big jump from XP, but it didn't take long to get used to. 7's not as quick as XP, and it's a bit more dumb-user-friendly (a.k.a. obstructive to the informed user), but I'm generally pleased with it and the look is very pleasing. Only downsides are that I'm getting a lot of HDD thrashing, and non-signed programmes always ask for admin clearance before running, which is a bit of an ache for things like a temperature monitor that you run for most sessions. Oh, and the Media Player library is still a total joke; refreshes almost every log-in, and if you dare to delete the sample music, it doesn't delete the entries in the library. Oh no! They'll haunt you for the rest of your days!! But hopefully there'll be a fix for this soon.
Good man! I'm also an NC10 owner. Mine's currently running a dual boot with RC2 as the primary system and XP for resource-hungry activities (7 is just too hungry to run World of Warcraft smoothly!). However, once RC2 expires I don't think I'll get a retail version for the NC10, think I'll replace it with Linux.Andy said:
lacroupade
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Well I finally got round to installing the upgrade last night on an Acer laptop that was running Vista on 1Gb of RAM (too low!). First issue was that W7 needs 12.6Gb of free space on the C: drive, which I simply couldnt get (it only has a 60Gb HDD partitioned with 26 GB each on C: and D: plus 5Gb for OEM), so I had to do a full install which wiped my programs (I'd rescued my data of course trying to get the free space). Also took out my browser favourites which I can't recover in the usual way as the bookmarks.html file seems to now contain something else altogether!
But it runs MUCH faster, especially initial startup. Well worth doing, but just remember that, if you can't free up 12.6Gb of space on C:, you need to save your data, programs and bookmarks!
But it runs MUCH faster, especially initial startup. Well worth doing, but just remember that, if you can't free up 12.6Gb of space on C:, you need to save your data, programs and bookmarks!
I bought a dell desktop recently with the upgrade to windows 7 when out option, my disc is on its way now.
I also have an 2 NC10s with 2gb or ram and want/would like to install it onto these, just im not sure whether dell will sent an upgrade disk or full version...we will see.
anyone any idea ?
I also have an 2 NC10s with 2gb or ram and want/would like to install it onto these, just im not sure whether dell will sent an upgrade disk or full version...we will see.
anyone any idea ?
lacroupade
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Elliot said:
Doesn't make any difference as you can only use it the once.....they will almost certainly send you a single licence upgrade disk, not the full version. And to be pedantic, W7 is an upgrade anyway, not a new full version of OS.
To upgrade your other 2 machines you need either two more single upgrade packs at about £70 each, or the 'family' licence that lets you upgrade three machines for about £145.
