Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

[Shawn Zipay]

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How do you change it to act like Vista?

Right click on the taskbar > properties. It's one of the options there. I don't have my VM up right now or I'd be more specific. But it has to do with how things are grouped. I believe the second (of three) options in the drop down menu is what it does for Vista. Group only when out of room on taskbar or something like that.

[=98=]

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Please, elucidate...and this is what we were talking about.

My impression so far is that Win7, while attempting to steer the misguided direction of Vista back int the realm of acceptance, still falls short on the performance level. It does not make any great gains in anything. WinXP still holds it's own, and that is amazing for an 8 year old OS.

That's nice.

I found one bug which is quite funny. Win7 sidebar turns off when UAC is set to disabled!

[Shawn Zipay]

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That's nice.

I found one bug which is quite funny. Win7 sidebar turns off when UAC is set to disabled!

I've noticed that disabling UAC does a bit more than that sometimes. I actually don't mind UAC now that it has multiple levels of annoyance.

[AlecJ32]

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I've noticed that disabling UAC does a bit more than that sometimes. I actually don't mind UAC now that it has multiple levels of annoyance.

I didn't mind it at all, personally. Now I think it's a bit better, since it still provides protection without annoying users who don't want to be promped when making system changes.

This is pure comedy gold....in the other post where you want to argue with me, you challenged me with the insinuation that I have not used Vista or Win7....and here you are, admitting that you haven't used it.

Or maybe I made that post prior to installing the beta?

Here is why your argument fails.

Microsoft and it's operating systems are ENTERPRISE centric....at least they were up to Vista. Home users were an aftermarket and an after thought. The OS was designed for business use....which made it highly efficient and customizable. It just so happened that it was a great and solid platform for gaming...which greatly catered to the aftermarket, the home user.

With Vista, they reversed course and it failed...that's why business never adopted Vista....and they may not adopt Win7 if it can't outperform XP Pro. Why would I need to update my workstations that run Office just fine when it might force a hardware upgrade as well? Economic times are tough. Businesses will take the path of least resistance.

What does this have to do with anything? Also, you have yet to make any compelling argument of any form that Windows Vista and Windows 7 aren't faster.

I won't come out and say you are flat out wrong because that would diminish the reasons why we are here...I just tend to think that you need to open up to the bigger picture which will provide you with much more clarity.

This looks to me like you're gasping for air, and have no real counter-argument for anything I've said.

So, unless you can put forth any constructive or technical arguments/claims, you're really only back-pedaling here.

Stop making baseless claims that aren't rooted in reality. The discussion is relevant. You and others wish to make Win7 to be the savior of MS, my wisdom and experience tells me to proceed slowly. You haven't even had the OS in your hands for a week yet....and all of a sudden you know all of it's innards? Instead of emotional reactions, how about a deliberate dissection of the OS so that we (the consumers) can make educated statements about it. Comparisons to Vista and XP are not only necessary, they are critical to the analysis.

Glad to hear FRAPS is working.

We haven't had Windows 7 in our hands for more than a couple days, but we've had Windows Vista for as much as a couple years (Some of us), and already know that it's superior to Windows XP through first hand experience. Initial first impressions with Windows 7's beta already point to a similar experience.

[|D|-Jaws]

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I didn't mind it at all, personally. Now I think it's a bit better, since it still provides protection without annoying users who don't want to be promped when making system changes.



Or maybe I made that post prior to installing the beta?



What does this have to do with anything? Also, you have yet to make any compelling argument of any form that Windows Vista and Windows 7 aren't faster.



This looks to me like you're gasping for air, and have no real counter-argument for anything I've said.

So, unless you can put forth any constructive or technical arguments/claims, you're really only back-pedaling here.



We haven't had Windows 7 in our hands for more than a couple days, but we've had Windows Vista for as much as a couple years (Some of us), and already know that it's superior to Windows XP through first hand experience. Initial first impressions with Windows 7's beta already point to a similar experience.

I pretty much have ignored everything in your post and will continue to do so until you post benchmarks proving that Win7 has a significant performance gain over WinXP.

Qualify your remarks and stop trolling. You haven't responded to my previous posts. So unless you can backpedal yourself up to where you were last countered....and continue the discussion from there using logic instead of emotions, the convo ends here.

Win7 has NEGLIGIBLE performance gain over WinXP. I don't know why on earth that is so offensive to you. Why are you trying to sell Win7 for MS? What stake do you have in it?

[=98=]

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I pretty much have ignored everything in your post and will continue to do so until you post benchmarks proving that Win7 has a significant performance gain over WinXP.

Qualify your remarks and stop trolling. You haven't responded to my previous posts. So unless you can backpedal yourself up to where you were last countered....and continue the discussion from there using logic instead of emotions, the convo ends here.

Win7 has NEGLIGIBLE performance gain over WinXP. I don't know why on earth that is so offensive to you. Why are you trying to sell Win7 for MS? What stake do you have in it?

Good points, well presented.

Anyway, on to more important matters, how do i make the icons smaller?

[theminx]

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How do you change it to act like Vista?

i dont see that u can..stick with it alex it will start to burn in..its pretty nice how it all work..aside from the fact i feel like they are trying to keep me on the left side of the fregin screen all the time with the wana be dell quick bar thingy lol so..

[AlecJ32]

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I pretty much have ignored everything in your post and will continue to do so until you post benchmarks proving that Win7 has a significant performance gain over WinXP.

Qualify your remarks and stop trolling. You haven't responded to my previous posts. So unless you can backpedal yourself up to where you were last countered....and continue the discussion from there using logic instead of emotions, the convo ends here.

Win7 has NEGLIGIBLE performance gain over WinXP. I don't know why on earth that is so offensive to you. Why are you trying to sell Win7 for MS? What stake do you have in it?

If you're sure.

Good points, well presented.

Anyway, on to more important matters, how do i make the icons smaller?

Which icons? The ones on the taskbar or the desktop icons?

[Shawn Zipay]

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Good points, well presented.

Anyway, on to more important matters, how do i make the icons smaller?

Taskbar icons are made smaller in the same place I mentioned that you can make the Taskbar function like in Vista. I believe it's a checkbox option.

[Hellsent 2.0]

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Hmm where can i get MSN that works with Win7? Mine doesnt..It wont login for me...

[theminx]

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That's nice.

I found one bug which is quite funny. Win7 sidebar turns off when UAC is set to disabled!

i seen the same bug lol

[Namakan]

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I've always used Pidgin

[AlecJ32]

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Did anybody else's Windows Experience Index go UP? My memory went down to 5.4, but my lowest score, my CPU, went up from 5.0 to 5.4.

[theminx]

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Did anybody else's Windows Experience Index go UP? My memory went down to 5.4, but my lowest score, my CPU, went up from 5.0 to 5.4.

not sure but..

[Shawn Zipay]

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It's probably because they measure things differently in 7. Just a guess at that though. Plus it goes up to 7.9 so they might've spread out the scores from before.