I've seen it. Much much more stable than Vista, but it still has all those Windows problems. My prediction is a corporate flop, although personal users will still use it because they don't know what a registry is. |
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Just in case anyone wanted to try it out. They just made the almost completed version of 7 available to the public for free until 2010. |
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I've seen it. Much much more stable than Vista, but it still has all those Windows problems. My prediction is a corporate flop, although personal users will still use it because they don't know what a registry is. |
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Just a heads up, |
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Or parallel/dual boot from a OS with a format that Windows can't read. I assume Windows 7 still can't read ext* or OSX journaled? |
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No |
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Huh? I've already been using it for like a month. |
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The latest NOD32 works in 7, which is what I use. Any that work in Vista should either work in 7, or have 7 version out quick, as they kept almost perfect Vista compatibility. |
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I'm not as knowledgeable about computer software as some may be here, but from my personal experience if you don't try to screw with anything big Vista runs fine. I'm currently typing from a system that has an almost two year old copy of Vista (with customized skins and sounds and a load of programs installed), current uptime is close to 300 hours, and it's running perfectly fine. |
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That what I think aswell, Umbrasquall. My system is perfectly stable aswell. A program might crash or freeze every now and then (rare), but it's not like I get 5 blue screens of death a day. |
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It's not that Windows registry gets corrupted, it's that Windows doesn't remove things from it... EVER. It gets cluttered and fragmented, so Windows slows the fuck down. *Nix store things in pconfig files, they get removed, loaded, and added when needed and since they are files on a *Nix system, they never ever get fragmented. |
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Things get deleted every time you uninstall a program. Also, why does "cluttered registry" even matter? It doesn't slow down your PC or take up any extra hard drive space. You can even run something like CCleaner every few months if you're that OCD about your registry. |
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Even though you may not have noticed, thousands of queries are made to your registry every time you just click. If you have a large registry, programs have to look through a hell lot of queries to find the key they're looking for, and the tree structure of the registry only relieves this problem slightly. |
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I know registry is accessed often, but cleaning it does not give you a noticeable speed increase on your computer. It probably hasn't since Windows 98. |
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"Your PC will automatically and anonymously send our engineers the information they need to verify the fixes and changes they made based on the Windows 7 Beta tests." |
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the thing that annoys me, is the windows registry makes programs non-portable between installs |
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No, I didn't. I'm betting you're right. First MS makes the mistake of granting backward compatibility to XP users, giving companies no incentive for developing Windows 7 software. Next MS gives transparency a whole new meaning by having the OS use your network behind your back, without you even noticing. Then there's the auto-shutdowns. I wonder what's next... |
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Last edited by dsr; 05-07-2009 at 01:00 AM.
No, it doesn't. Uninstalling a program may take out the extension registers and a few other things, but the bulk of the registry entries are still there. Uninstall Firefox, then do a registry search for Firefox, you will come up with many many entries. That's not nearly as big of a problem though as certain other things. Sometimes files create registry entries for some reason or another (icon changes, Open With... preferences) those never get deleted. |
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Going to try installing this at the weekend |
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Been using windows 7 RC for the last 3 days now. It didn't have a partition resize option during the installation, so I booted into Gparted and attempted a resize (I know, a very bad idea with NTFS). Anyhoo..... kaboom. |
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I've read this in a few reviews |
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