Windows 7 snagging thread.
Well, I got my hot little hands on the final retail version of Windows 7 Ultimate & built it on Saturday, so having had every beta build from 6596 to 7729, here's a couple of observations.
It's actually slightly slower than any of the beta's that I've had, discernibly so. My guess is that Ms have bloated it out with features & that eats into the performance. I've turned off a bunch of features & services I don't require, but then again, I did that with the betas' so build for build, a slight decrease in performance.
My media centre extender (Linksys dma2100) finally works as advertised - prior versions would not recognise the music library, so hurrah for that.
There is an irritation with Windows consistently querying whether software installed correctly or not - a dialog pops up around 1 in 2 times when I add an application, but a minor irritation at worst.
I'm back on the update trail, so far it's been on my box for four days & has wanted to add something like fifteen updates just for the os alone, although the driver updates have been welcome & as with previous versions of 7, nearly every driver was installed on first use.
I like it, we're gonna be friends, but as ever, not quite the finished article.