Why migrate to Windows 7?

[canadiancowboy]

Hi.

I just did a migration from Windows Vista (32-bit) to Windows 7
(32-bit). I'm backing out of Windows 7 by restoring my hard drive
contents from backup7. I ran Windows 7 for about six hours, and most of
the software worked okay. I ran into some problems with my monitor
display, when running some games (such as Command and Conquer 3), which
is why I am backing out.

What I am wondering is WHY should someone migrate to Windows 7? What
BENEFITS does it offer? I couldn't see anything other than some nice eye
candy. Maybe if I did more VIDEO work (eg watched movies or TV) on my
computer, Windows 7 might provide some tangible benefit to me. I have
found some of the changes to be annoying. For example, there is no
'classic view' in the Control Panel any more.

Can anyone offer some reasons why one should migrate to Windows 7? I'll
probably try doing a migration again, once I've check all my device
drivers to see if any of them need updates.

Thank you for your attention,
Canadian Cowboy.

 

[ray]

Hi.

I just did a migration from Windows Vista (32-bit) to Windows 7
(32-bit). I'm backing out of Windows 7 by restoring my hard drive
contents from backup7. I ran Windows 7 for about six hours, and most of
the software worked okay. I ran into some problems with my monitor
display, when running some games (such as Command and Conquer 3), which
is why I am backing out.

What I am wondering is WHY should someone migrate to Windows 7? What
BENEFITS does it offer? I couldn't see anything other than some nice eye
candy. Maybe if I did more VIDEO work (eg watched movies or TV) on my
computer, Windows 7 might provide some tangible benefit to me. I have
found some of the changes to be annoying. For example, there is no
'classic view' in the Control Panel any more.

Can anyone offer some reasons why one should migrate to Windows 7? I'll
probably try doing a migration again, once I've check all my device
drivers to see if any of them need updates.

Thank you for your attention,
Canadian Cowboy.

There are no overriding reasons. From what I've been able to ascertain,
win7 is what MS might have delivered if they had taken another two years
to complete vista. If you have service packs up to date, there is little
difference.

 

[grylion]

If we did not go forward or sideways we would still be living in caves. (or
still using win 95)

 

[ray]

If we did not go forward or sideways we would still be living in caves.
(or still using win 95)

That's true. IMHO win7 is 'sideways' rather than 'ahead'.

 

[Drew]

I am not saying which is better or worse as I run both. I do find that win7
runs better on older and weaker systems than vista. I also prefer the new
UAC over vista's. On my particular system I do notice a slight performance
increase on some programs , major increases on others and no difference on
still others (running quad core q6600 and 8gigs of ram). graphically I
prefer win7 and have gotten used to the new way things work and prefer it. I
have found that I actually get a little lost coming back to vista after a
month or so. I have been running win7 since early in the rc and nary a
problem with it, but then again I ran vista from the first day and never had
a problem with it either. There are a lot of trolls out there that will tell
you that if vista works for you then you must be the only one because
according to them the entire world has problems with vista. I can only go
with what my experience has been which is nothing but good. This is a custom
built (local) machine with at the time absolute top end parts (and no
bulls**t crapware installed) My wife's computer is a HP IQ804 touch screen
with a good processor and 4gigs of ram (but with as usual store bought
crapware onboard) running vista and occasionally there are minor hiccups
with it. Hers is a prime reason why I will remove vista and install win7 on
it instead. I believe it will run smoother with win 7 than with vista and
everything I have read says win 7 makes touch screen that much better. I am
probably rambling but just posting my view of why one might want to switch.

Finally I say if vista works for you than stick with it as people have done
with XP !! Hell people are still running 95 out there ! However if you find
that vista is a little boggy on borderline hardware then by all means try
win 7 you might find it to be your vista in the distance!..

just my 3 cents.

 

[Jef Roe]

That's true. IMHO win7 is 'sideways' rather than 'ahead'.

I tried the Beta 7 before full release and thought it looked and ran quickly
and smoothly..on my old Dell M60.

I recently purchased a new notebook, Dell 1525, which came with Vista Home
Premium which I has been fully patched with all updates and its really nice.
I cant see any difference in either. I had absolutely no problems in loading
and syncing the Vista machine in my primarily XP network. As said previously
I think Vista with, all its updates, is Win 7

 

[Canuck57]

Hi.

I just did a migration from Windows Vista (32-bit) to Windows 7
(32-bit). I'm backing out of Windows 7 by restoring my hard drive
contents from backup7. I ran Windows 7 for about six hours, and most of
the software worked okay. I ran into some problems with my monitor
display, when running some games (such as Command and Conquer 3), which
is why I am backing out.

What I am wondering is WHY should someone migrate to Windows 7? What
BENEFITS does it offer? I couldn't see anything other than some nice eye
candy. Maybe if I did more VIDEO work (eg watched movies or TV) on my
computer, Windows 7 might provide some tangible benefit to me. I have
found some of the changes to be annoying. For example, there is no
'classic view' in the Control Panel any more.

Can anyone offer some reasons why one should migrate to Windows 7? I'll
probably try doing a migration again, once I've check all my device
drivers to see if any of them need updates.

Thank you for your attention,
Canadian Cowboy.

Me, I swaped out the drives. Recovered Vista then upgrade/replace.

After some testing, benchmarking of copy disk-disk and disk-net and
seeing a few new bugs even for Vista have crept in, I aborted upgrading
and returned the disk as data space.

About the only good part is they didn't included all that Live crap.
And just when you get used to Vista's menu, Win 7 changes it again. For
the most part, the same OS as Vista with more rough edges.

 

[Van Chocstraw]

Hi.

I just did a migration from Windows Vista (32-bit) to Windows 7
(32-bit). I'm backing out of Windows 7 by restoring my hard drive
contents from backup7. I ran Windows 7 for about six hours, and most of
the software worked okay. I ran into some problems with my monitor
display, when running some games (such as Command and Conquer 3), which
is why I am backing out.

What I am wondering is WHY should someone migrate to Windows 7? What
BENEFITS does it offer? I couldn't see anything other than some nice eye
candy. Maybe if I did more VIDEO work (eg watched movies or TV) on my
computer, Windows 7 might provide some tangible benefit to me. I have
found some of the changes to be annoying. For example, there is no
'classic view' in the Control Panel any more.

Can anyone offer some reasons why one should migrate to Windows 7? I'll
probably try doing a migration again, once I've check all my device
drivers to see if any of them need updates.

Thank you for your attention,
Canadian Cowboy.

Windows7 is a piece of crap. I have a dual boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu
9.10 on my Compaq presario CQ50 with 4 gig if ram and a 500 meg hd.
Windows 7 reboots the machine several times while booting up and
sometime I just give up. Even start up repair that wants to run can't
fully boot up without rebooting the machine.
Ubuntu boots all the time, first time, every time.
That makes Windows 7 a fukking piece of $hit in my book. It's a pathetic
piece of crap.

 

[Gordon]

Windows7 is a piece of crap. I have a dual boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu
9.10 on my Compaq presario CQ50 with 4 gig if ram and a 500 meg hd.
Windows 7 reboots the machine several times while booting up and sometime
I just give up. Even start up repair that wants to run can't fully boot up
without rebooting the machine.
Ubuntu boots all the time, first time, every time.
That makes Windows 7 a fukking piece of $hit in my book. It's a pathetic
piece of crap.

Well you are in a fairly small minority then. I too have Ubuntu 9.10 and Win
7 in a dual-boot on my Toshiba Satellite - 2GB RAM only. Never had any
trouble booting into either...

 

[C]

Windows7 is a piece of crap. I have a dual boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu
9.10 on my Compaq presario CQ50 with 4 gig if ram and a 500 meg hd.

Perhaps you need a hard drive that's a tad larger

C

 

[Bob I]

Windows7 is a piece of crap. I have a dual boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu
9.10 on my Compaq presario CQ50 with 4 gig if ram and a 500 meg hd.
Windows 7 reboots the machine several times while booting up and
sometime I just give up. Even start up repair that wants to run can't
fully boot up without rebooting the machine.
Ubuntu boots all the time, first time, every time.
That makes Windows 7 a fukking piece of $hit in my book. It's a pathetic
piece of crap.

And the reason everybody elses works fine is? Think you need to figure
out what the issue is with YOUR hardware.

 

[Van Chocstraw]

And the reason everybody elses works fine is? Think you need to figure
out what the issue is with YOUR hardware.

Vista didn't complain. Windows 7 beta didn't complain. Must be the
fukking final release.

 

[Chris Sidener]

Vista didn't complain. Windows 7 beta didn't complain. Must be the fukking
final release.

sigh...

 

[ray]

And the reason everybody elses works fine is? Think you need to figure
out what the issue is with YOUR hardware.

Geez - that's the argument that's usually proposed for Linux. MS is
supposed to 'just work' - you mean it doesn't?

 

[felmon]

Vista didn't complain. Windows 7 beta didn't complain. Must be the
fukking final release.

how did you install Windows (or Ubuntu)?

I had Windows 7 on a hard-drive and resized it to make room for Debian.
it seems Windows has to be treated very carefully in the resizing because
of the location of various 'immovable' files so I let the Windows re-
sizer do that work (after turning off 'restore points'; I didn't bother
with the page file since I was satisfied with the results of the re-
sizing).

I once resized a partition of Windows Vista using gparted and couldn't
boot into Vista at all. chkdsk or scandisk, whatever it's called, doesn't
help at that point.

what was your situation? did you start with Windows 7 and re-size it or
something else?

it does sound like your Windows setup is somehow corrupted.

Felmon

 

[Greg]

Windows7 is a piece of crap. I have a dual boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu
9.10 on my Compaq presario CQ50 with 4 gig if ram and a 500 meg hd.
Windows 7 reboots the machine several times while booting up and sometime
I just give up.

Had pc running for ages with a xp pro / ubuntu dual boot config.. Then
recently repartitioned and installed new windows 7 pro / Ubuntu 9.10 dual
boot setup.

Ended up that one of the partitions had bad sectors. and wouldn't boot win 7
properly. Ran manufacturers hdd test utility and confirmed that the hdd had
several bad sectors, so need to be replaced.

 

[felmon]

Ended up that one of the partitions had bad sectors. and wouldn't boot
win 7 properly. Ran manufacturers hdd test utility and confirmed that
the hdd had several bad sectors, so need to be replaced.

may I ask what kind of hard-drive that is and how old?

Felmon