Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

[CaptainKirk]

Re: Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

Here is the list from the other thread that was so rudely deleted before I could merge the two.

3d Chess
all windows live applications like mail and such
Crysis
Crysis Sandbox Editor
Crysis Warhead
CSS
EVGA Precision
Firefox
Fraps
Free Cell
Hearts
hjsplit
HL2 DoDS
Left 4 Dead (Source game but not really)
Monopoly
nero 7.2.3
Nvidia 185.20 Drivers
Objectdock
Pidgin
Sins of a solar empire
Solitare
Steam
TF2
Thunderbird
vcl 9.4
warsow
Winrar
World at War
World in Conflict
Xfire
Zune Software

[Shawn Zipay]

Re: Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

I just had my mind freaking BLOWN AWAY by Win7. I had originally installed the latest official drivers from Nvidia for Windows Vista on Win7. Then I read how it causes a lot of crashing and stuttering in Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3.

So I head back to nVidia's page and see that they have Win7 drivers and all I have to do is run Windows update. I did, expecting the usual crap of having to reboot... and nope.

The screen just flickered for a moment and it came back saying that the installation of the drivers was complete. Blew my mind.

I know they had planned for this feature to be in Vista, but to actually see it in action now after YEARS of having to reboot for updates and drivers is ... it's awesome.

[Hellsent 2.0]

Re: Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

I just had my mind freaking BLOWN AWAY by Win7. I had originally installed the latest official drivers from Nvidia for Windows Vista on Win7. Then I read how it causes a lot of crashing and stuttering in Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3.

So I head back to nVidia's page and see that they have Win7 drivers and all I have to do is run Windows update. I did, expecting the usual crap of having to reboot... and nope.

The screen just flickered for a moment and it came back saying that the installation of the drivers was complete. Blew my mind.

I know they had planned for this feature to be in Vista, but to actually see it in action now after YEARS of having to reboot for updates and drivers is ... it's awesome.

Duuuude! I just tried that! IMMENSE! I love this OS <3

I was having troubles updating my drivers before but now i just say update drivers for this hardware, and voila...done!

[AlecJ32]

Re: Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

I know they had planned for this feature to be in Vista, but to actually see it in action now after YEARS of having to reboot for updates and drivers is ... it's awesome.

Since pretty much anything you can do in Windows 7, you can do in Windows Vista, hopefully we'll see this feature come to Vista as well. If not, oh well.

[TheHeartSmasher]

Re: Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

Yep, it's kind of like Linux which I really like, less reboots and more fun.

[signa]

Re: Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

Windows7 secrets:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2009/01/12/the-bumper-list-of-windows-7-secrets.aspx

[TheEn|gma]

Re: Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

Hai I have a few to add to the list:

iTunes

Last.fm

CPU-Z

Winamp - Couldn't bring up some dialogs, notably the one to add music to your library

World in Conflict - Sporadic crashes

Ventrilo (3.04) - I kept getting "CreateCaptureBuffer failed HR=E_FAIL. An undetermined error occured" messages, when trying to test my mic. Will experminet shortly.

Coretemp

I'll add more as I play around with my programs and games :)

[AlecJ32]

Re: Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

Yep, it's kind of like Linux which I really like, less reboots and more fun.

If you ask me, it's less like Linux than Vista was, though.

[Namakan]

Re: Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

Hai I have a few to add to the list:

World in Conflict

iTunes

Last.fm

CPU-Z

Winamp - Couldn't bring up some dialogs, notably the one to add music to your library

Ventrilo (3.04) - I kept getting "CreateCaptureBuffer failed HR=E_FAIL. An undetermined error occured" messages, when trying to test my mic. Will experminet shortly.

Coretemp

I'll add more as I play around with my programs and games :)

Core temp works here

[TheEn|gma]

Re: Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

Core temp works here

Speak for yourself:

[Namakan]

Re: Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

Speak for yourself:

Running as admin will fix the "Driver failed to load"

Try real temp as well, I prefer its interface over core temp

[Rouglead]

Re: Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

OK i'm going to ask this here instead of making a new thread.

I already have windows 7 on my partition but i want to know if its a good idea to just upgrade vista to windows 7 instead of having it on my partition.

I have a lot of files on vista that i don't want taken away but i also really like windows 7. The only way i can use it is if i switch to my partition, then when i want to do something else i have to switch back to vista.

So, Can i update to windows 7 and still keep all my programs and files, then switch back to vista when the beta is over in august?

[CaptainKirk]

Re: Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

I've only dealt with partitions from linux, but can't you just mount the other partition from Win7? (not sure on how to do this.)

[Rouglead]

Re: Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

I've only dealt with partitions from linux, but can't you just mount the other partition from Win7? (not sure on how to do this.)

Well i got, no files i want on the windows 7 side, its the vista side i want to keep.

If i were to update vista to windows 7 would all my files and programs stay the same?

It looks like they would but I'm not 100% because it gives you a compatability before you upgrade.

[TheEn|gma]

Re: Windows 7 Build 7000 First Impressions

Haven't tried it personally (I desperatly needed to format) but there were options to upgrade from Vista, fairly sure it said you'd keep all your installs and files. Probably be better for you to wait around until Namakan gets on here as I think he upgraded from Vista.