tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26574843.post6744537914147733878..comments2009-02-08T16:27:09.048+01:00Aad 't Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566387683675598847noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26574843.post-24762438993867239292009-02-08T16:27:00.000+01:002009-02-08T16:27:00.000+01:00I have been running Windows 7 for 3 weeks. I have to say it feels more comfortable than Vista and Windows Server 2008. I biggest issue I ran into was getting BSOD's when copying large files off a network drive (something I rarely ever do). The culprit was AVG 8.0 Pro. I was receiving the BSOD with tdx.sys. Ended up uninstalled AVG and installed EEST instead. So far no BSOD's. I also disliked IE8. It was incredibly slow opening websites. Occassionally IE8 would crash. Other times I would click something and it would become non responsive for minutes. Finally, some websites looked horrendous - even in compatibility mode.<BR/><BR/>All in all, I like Win7 - though I didn't have issues with Vista until some wireless driver issues causing BSODs.Steve Pietrekhttp://stevepietrek.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26574843.post-32408711502956158112009-02-06T15:45:00.000+01:002009-02-06T15:45:00.000+01:00Hey Werner,<BR/><BR/>To prevent the reboot after one hour: keep on working instead of drinking coffee ;-)<BR/><BR/>MarcoMarcohttp://www.marcovandijk.nlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26574843.post-51653205870230854612009-02-05T22:06:00.000+01:002009-02-05T22:06:00.000+01:00I'm also running Windows 7 now for almost one month (not on a laptop, but on my home PC). I didn't upgrade my Vista installation, like you did, but did a fresh install on a new partition. Installation went quite fast and smooth and the 1st time I started, Windows 7 was fast as hell! But, after some time starting up slowed down. Perhaps because I installed some devices (like eSata drive). Shutting down Windows 7 still goes fast though. Vista took ages after a while...<BR/><BR/>I also added Office 2007, but I didn't experience the same issues you mention though. It runs fine and Outlook closes normally.<BR/><BR/>Even installing a Windows 7 beta device driver for my Creative X-Fi sound card works immediately and I didn't see any blue screen yet (yes, this time Creative is fast with their driver. Probably learned from the last time when they came a few months too late with it after Windows Vista arrived...).<BR/><BR/>The only odd thing I noticed is that one (or more) of my local hard drives (I got 4) goes into sleep mode after some time (you can hear the click). This is normally not a problem, until you start e.g. the Windows Explorer which tries to access all connected drives and has to start it up again. It's like Windows 7 is freezes completely for some seconds... Weird...<BR/>Perhaps it's because of wrong power settings, but I didn't change that from the beginning, so...<BR/><BR/>What I like is that you can move the Windows Gadgets arround, but... why would you need this??<BR/><BR/>What you didn't mention are the accelarators, which I think is a good new feature. Like e.g. marking a piece of text on a webpage, right mouse click on it and e.g. directly start a Google search with that text. This saves time!<BR/><BR/>Something else that I noticed is that my Windows 7 system reboots (at least once) when you leave it running for some time (let's say one hour) doing nothing. I haven't figured out yet how this is caused and what I do to prevent it.<BR/><BR/>-- Werner.Werner van der Meerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13241961744290157141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26574843.post-13490993634746521462009-02-05T21:02:00.000+01:002009-02-05T21:02:00.000+01:00Ronald<BR/><BR/>Press 'Shift' when clicking the icon in the taskbar.... or right-mouse click and you see a menu item in the jump list (yes that is how Microsoft calls it)<BR/><BR/>-AadAad 't Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566387683675598847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26574843.post-45001341218880662652009-02-05T21:00:00.000+01:002009-02-05T21:00:00.000+01:00Fully agree on this post with one comment...I still haven't figured out how to start a second instance of a pinned task bar application. Like a new IE instance or windows explorer. Please shine a lightRonald Voetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01899266490150816323noreply@blogger.com