Windows 7 not so desirable?
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From: land of the clanger
Hmmmmmm, My pre-ordered shrink-wrapped windows 7 has arrived by snail mail this morning, since the invoice stated quite categorically that it would not be dispatched until the 21st, the Royal Mail obviously has a time machine. 
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From: where ever i wake up!!!!
Received mine from PC world on 19/10/09 I thought it odd as have lots of emails from them stating that it would not ship until 21st and then take up to 7 days to arrive! I guess the forth coming postal strike may have had something to do with early arrival?
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From: Walton on the Naze Essex.
Just saw this while checking the news headlines. I hadn't spotted the little button at bottom right. I wonder how many trillion other things I haven't found yet.
BBC NEWS | Technology | A look at what's new in Windows 7
BBC NEWS | Technology | A look at what's new in Windows 7
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From: land of the clanger
I guess the forth coming postal strike may have had something to do with early arrival?
So much for not auto installing Internet exploder, it did (V8) but gives you a link to FireFox in the favourites list
Clean install totally painless although there were one or two pregnant pauses where nowt appeared to happen but over all no problems whatsoever
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From: Chez Sprog
Next August as GG says.
What will happen is you will lose your wallpaper in favour of a black background & a reminder every hour to come in no 7, your time is up. It will otherwise work as normal, so no need to panic, you will still be able to carry on and/or get all your data off as required.
What will happen is you will lose your wallpaper in favour of a black background & a reminder every hour to come in no 7, your time is up. It will otherwise work as normal, so no need to panic, you will still be able to carry on and/or get all your data off as required.
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From: Deepest Oxfordshire
Happy birthday, Windows 7!
Well, it's here now...
I have been running Win 7 RC for several months. I should add that never before have I been tempted so early by a new offering from Microsoft - previously I have done what others here are advocating and waited a year or so. Two things made the difference this time: the first was the Vista bloatware on my Dell (I have wanted XP Pro on the machine when I bought it earlier this year, but they would only supply Vista Ultimate, due to compatibility (i.e. Windows Media Center [sic]) with its bundled Hauppauge DVB-T TV card. The second was the fact that I had recently passed on my old PC to my daughter and so, for the first time, had a non-critical testbed to try it out on.
I needn't have worried. It puts Vista in the shade, and although I've never run XP on my Dell, I reckon that it would give that a run for its money speed-wise. Yes, the interface is pretty much Vista (with some tweaks) but then the interface was the only thing about Vista that I liked - I'd run XP for years using the Windows Classic interface because I couldn't for the life of me see the point of those fat title bars and I hated the dayglo green Start button.
If you're wavering, I recommend that you give 7 a try. As the press is saying, Microsoft really needs to get this launch right following the (shall we say?) 'suboptimal' uptake of Vista. I think they just might have done that.
Incoming...
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I have been running Win 7 RC for several months. I should add that never before have I been tempted so early by a new offering from Microsoft - previously I have done what others here are advocating and waited a year or so. Two things made the difference this time: the first was the Vista bloatware on my Dell (I have wanted XP Pro on the machine when I bought it earlier this year, but they would only supply Vista Ultimate, due to compatibility (i.e. Windows Media Center [sic]) with its bundled Hauppauge DVB-T TV card. The second was the fact that I had recently passed on my old PC to my daughter and so, for the first time, had a non-critical testbed to try it out on.
I needn't have worried. It puts Vista in the shade, and although I've never run XP on my Dell, I reckon that it would give that a run for its money speed-wise. Yes, the interface is pretty much Vista (with some tweaks) but then the interface was the only thing about Vista that I liked - I'd run XP for years using the Windows Classic interface because I couldn't for the life of me see the point of those fat title bars and I hated the dayglo green Start button.
If you're wavering, I recommend that you give 7 a try. As the press is saying, Microsoft really needs to get this launch right following the (shall we say?) 'suboptimal' uptake of Vista. I think they just might have done that.
Incoming...
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From: UK Midlands
Thought it might help to add my experience of Win 7.
Upgraded from Vista home premium to W7 home premium with a downloaded copy.
Went on no problems and nearly all the programmes worked. However - the scanner did not work (HP 3010) and I had to talk to HP to get a solution. Win 7 comes with IE 8 built in. This has a glitch (for me) that does not allow opening a link, say from a pprune thread. Have tried many suggestions from Google but no go.
Opera and Firefox all OK.
Another problem. I downloaded Chrome. Then uninstalled it! It left another glitch that prevented me from opening a link from any of the office 2007 applications. Googling found me a solution to that problem.
It still looks like Vista though
MC
Upgraded from Vista home premium to W7 home premium with a downloaded copy.
Went on no problems and nearly all the programmes worked. However - the scanner did not work (HP 3010) and I had to talk to HP to get a solution. Win 7 comes with IE 8 built in. This has a glitch (for me) that does not allow opening a link, say from a pprune thread. Have tried many suggestions from Google but no go.
Opera and Firefox all OK.
Another problem. I downloaded Chrome. Then uninstalled it! It left another glitch that prevented me from opening a link from any of the office 2007 applications. Googling found me a solution to that problem.
It still looks like Vista though
MC
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I installed it on the desktop last week, and had no problems. I'd been running the Win 7 RC so knew what to expect from it.
The only difference that I see is that I no longer have the "Remote Desktop Server" on the desktop, which is a slight pain. I'll be looking for a suitable free VNC viewer to go on there, I think.
I'm in the middle of swapping the laptop to Win 7 HP now - or rather, the laptop is. I've just left it to get on with it.
The only difference that I see is that I no longer have the "Remote Desktop Server" on the desktop, which is a slight pain. I'll be looking for a suitable free VNC viewer to go on there, I think.
I'm in the middle of swapping the laptop to Win 7 HP now - or rather, the laptop is. I've just left it to get on with it.
