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#1 by Shon R. Edwards on April 3, 2010 - 1:16 am
I can’t get wireless Internet any more since installing Win 7 (I spent $400 to get wirelss Internet with XP with Netgear s/w and h/w for several computers, each one of them costing $100 for a card and the accompanying s/w at CircuitCity). I’m ready to erase it and go back to XP. It’s not that much faster at all. I notice no difference in speed with anything. It’s not that much space-saving. If anything it takes more. The learning curve is HUGE and Ultimate doesn’t even have the some of the same helpful features that XP has. The first discs I stuck in the drive to install were XP programs but Win 7 rejected them hands down, all of them. I’ve been working on it at least 48 hrs. now and so far only have the o/s installed and a couple of programs that work. I’ve been on the phone with Dell for hours and Microsoft for hours and have been reading Microsoft tutorials and downloading patches and virtual and XP mode software all day. So much for compatibility mode. Save your money and stick with XP. If you want to buy my copy of Win 7, it will probably be on Amazon this week for $150. There are enough people who seem to love it. Probably computer experts who don’t have a hard drive to lose or h/w and s/w to replace. Those who seem to hate it are those with the same types of problems I’ve had with it. Very disappointed.
I finally got a call from Microsoft, who had to escalate my problem clear up to the top somewhere. They couldn’t get XP mode installed on my machine. After they finally did it, it installed some programs, but most of them didn’t work. It won’t install even HP printer drivers, so you can’t print. I tried to install a DVD/CD burning software in XP Mode, but it won’t burn to any of my 3 burners. It creates and saves an image on the HD somewhere. Fully half of my programs don’t work in XP Mode or directly on the Windows 7 o/s. Am I supposed to cough up 1 or 2 grand to update all my s/w? Probably so. Huge hassle. Huge. I’ve never been this frustrated with anything in my life.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by A. Mcpherson on April 3, 2010 - 3:10 am
Just downloaded Windows 7. It works a little faster than Vista, but not by a whole lot. There is definitely a learning curve if you are coming from XP. It looks almost EXACTLY like Vista, which is why I don’t understand the hype.
Someone told me that if you rewrite your hard drive with Windows 7 it will take up much less space than Vista. For some reason this is not true. After doing a re-write I still have 180GB of hard drive space left out of 320GB which is ridiculus since I have only the Operating System on the hard drive and a Windows.old Folder(most of which I deleted).
I initally was going to do an upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. However, I had problems Ugrading my computer from Vista to 7, so I did a rewrite. I knew that it would erase everything I had previously, but I figured I could re-install all of my drivers. WRONG. I have an HP Pavillion Special Edition Entertainment Notebook. HP’s are very user friendly. I can go on the website and reload any drivers for my specific computer. For some reason none of the drivers I’ve tried are loading well on Windows 7. NONE! I’m very frustrated because HP has very unique features, for example I can start my computer sort of like a PS3 just by swiping my finger instead of pushing a button. I cannot do that now after downloading Windows 7. I’ve tried both to download these drivers from what’s left of my hard drive and both at HP’s website and no luck. Not even my Web Cam driver will install. Sort of frustrated with my first hours of Windows 7. Windows 7 has turned what was a very interactive computer into an empty shell.
If you have a regular desktop computer with no special features, then a complete re-write may be the best bet. However, if you have a specialized PC try an upgrade. If you don’t want to risk an upgrade then SAVE YOUR MONEY and stick with Vista.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by J. B. Loehr on April 3, 2010 - 5:31 am
Apparenty a number of people are being paid for their reviews.
Windows 7 is fine but boot up is 2-3 times longer than with XP, resume from hibernate is much longer and opening programs takes longer. Some simple programs don’t work well under Windows 7 unless I install XP emulator, which makes me wonder I would bother to upgrade from XP (I had vista on a new laptop that I upgraded). The emulator is 500 MB by the way, so that negates any space advantage Windows 7 offers.
If you have Vista and use it professionally, 7 is better. If you have vista and use the computer for internet applications, e-mail, entertainment, don’t bother upgrading. If you have XP, be happy that you currently have the best Windows operating system to date and save your money.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Kong Wei Chow on April 3, 2010 - 6:14 am
Windows 7 another hype! Gimmick! Don’t even get it! This OS program from
Microsoft is total junk. Got the Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate full version. Installed it on a Dell Dimension 4300 desktop computer with 1 gig of memory, 500 hard gig hard drive, Nvidia Geforce 6800 AGP graphic card. After finishing doing a total new installation of Windows 7. The screen boots up with a nice colorful Windows logo. Wow! I’m amazed! Next thing you know. You don’t hear anything. I am saying what the hell is going on? There is no sound coming from my creative sound blaster card. This was working fine under Windows XP Media Center. I went and check under the devices and notice that my Creative Lab sound card, eternet card, and PCI card dosen’t support Windows 7. Now I am pretty mad. Because I would have to go out through ever freaking websites and find these drivers whether they exist or not. Microsoft should have put these drivers into the OS instead of leaving them
out. Now I’ve got to wait for another version of this crap Windows 7 OS to come out to fix all the drives that are missing. This program looks nice and cool with all new interfaces. Sad to say a bit hard to navigate. I am currently using Windows XP Media Center which is stable and the best OS that I’ve got for my money. I wish they would upgrade the XP OS program or work around XP to make a better interface OS than this piece of junk which is not XP compatible. The only one example I can
give you is Scarface The World Is Yours. I installed the program. Would not installed or play. Not workable under Windows 7. Windows 7 is a piece of junk
until another version comes out to fix the drivers issue. By the way. I can not
wait and see to get my hands on Google’s Android Operating System for the PC. Hope Google’s Android Operating System destory Windows 7. Because I am getting sick and tired of Microsoft gimmick of saying you have to upgrade this or that. Waste time
and money for a product you don’t even need to upgrade. Hope this is the last
Windows OS you’ll see from these crooks!
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by R. Bremer on April 3, 2010 - 7:05 am
I believed the hype from Microsoft that Windows 7 was ‘better’ or ‘fixed’, ‘more stable’ … whatever, so I bought it. First it is sooooo different from XP that it is difficult to navigate. I had to search the internet for instructions to do the simplest of tasks.
I’ve been running 7 for about 3 or 4 months. I get a blue screen of death about every week or two. The most recent example was yesterday morning. I started to upload a youtube video, went away to have breakfast and came back to a blue screen of death. It’s not like I was doing anything complicated, just one IE window open and one upload happening. I’m so disappointed.
Speaking of Internet Explorer, it crashes more than in XP. It just stops working, dims, shows that it’s thinking and won’t let you do anything for minutes. A company that can not even get a web browser to work right has no business selling an operating system. It’s time to upgrade to Firefox.
XP is pretty good. I use that at work everyday. I bought a laptop with Vista. That sucked soooooo bad that I ditched Vista completely and installed Ubuntu. I’ve had no problems with Ubuntu. I’m going to upgrade to Ubuntu on my desktop(the one with Windows 7 on it now). I will also never be purchasing another Microsoft product, hardware or software. I can’t financially support a company that charges for such crappy products.
Ubuntu and Firefox are where it’s at.
Rating: 1 / 5