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21st October 2009, 7:01pm
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#1 | | Moment Ruiner
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| Windows 7
..gets released later on. anyone else getting it? i'll admit i dont really know much about it, but i only upgraded to vista last month, and in doing so, i get a free upgrade to 7 on launch day 
Hurrah
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21st October 2009, 7:04pm
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#2 | | Aurė enteluva Gallery SuperMod
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| Re: Windows 7
Been running it for about 3 months now, no problems at all, my laptop is still running the RC though, main machine has the full version,
I never had any major issues with Vista either though.
Advice for people upgrading - go for the 64 bit version, there's no good reason not to these days.
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21st October 2009, 7:06pm
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#3 | | John Ringo
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| Re: Windows 7
I can't be arsed dual booting or wiping this HD, can pirated Vista's be upgraded in any way? | 
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21st October 2009, 7:08pm
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| Re: Windows 7
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Originally Posted by Dyno  I can't be arsed dual booting or wiping this HD, can pirated Vista's be upgraded in any way? | Depends entirely on the methods used to pirate it, I'd say 'no' though.
If your papping a new OS on a clean format is always the best way to go about it. | |
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21st October 2009, 7:23pm
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#5 | | Modified
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| Re: Windows 7
Been using it since the RC, been running the RTM since it was released on MSDN a couple of months back, absolutely love it.
I refused to touch Vista with a bargepole, so was very glad to get a change from XP!
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21st October 2009, 7:26pm
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| Re: Windows 7
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Originally Posted by doogie Been using it since the RC, been running the RTM since it was released on MSDN a couple of months back, absolutely love it.
I refused to touch Vista with a bargepole, so was very glad to get a change from XP! | 'its not xp' seemed to be most people gripe with Vista in the first place. I had XP crash on me loads of times, only happened once with vista ever.
But 7 is a lot more streamlined, and a lot snappier, for want of a better term. | |
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21st October 2009, 7:50pm
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#7 | | Boats and Hoes
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| Re: Windows 7
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Originally Posted by Shannow 'its not xp' seemed to be most people gripe with Vista in the first place. I had XP crash on me loads of times, only happened once with vista ever.
But 7 is a lot more streamlined, and a lot snappier, for want of a better term. | Same here, never had a problem with Vista. Gonna build a new machine at crimbo and will prolly upgrade to Windows 7 then.
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21st October 2009, 8:19pm
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#8 | | Decaying Moderator
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| Re: Windows 7
i've been running it on my gaming rig since RC2 i think. seems nice and nippy, but on that machine it would be. not noticed any major issues, but the machine isn't used for much past booting up, loading a game, then shutting down later. | |
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21st October 2009, 8:30pm
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#9 | | its all funkytastic
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| Re: Windows 7
For the people who have tried it..does it have the compatability issues like vista had? Will items (like printers/cameras ect) for XP,vista work with it? or do you have to download patches n stuff?
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21st October 2009, 10:11pm
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#10 | | Moment Ruiner
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21st October 2009, 10:14pm
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| Re: Windows 7
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Originally Posted by Shannow 'its not xp' seemed to be most people gripe with Vista in the first place. I had XP crash on me loads of times, only happened once with vista ever.
But 7 is a lot more streamlined, and a lot snappier, for want of a better term. | I grew a bored of XP for a bit, so much so that I bought a Macbook rather than go to vista!
But then I got so fed up with that, I sold it and went back to XP.... XP wasn't that bad after all, LOL!
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21st October 2009, 10:33pm
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| Re: Windows 7
None that I've encountered, but then I had none with vista either, other than for a wireless adapter I had that dell ddn't bother making a vista driver for.
I hate using xp now, the 2 machines in work have it and it jsut feels so unintuitive now.
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21st October 2009, 10:36pm
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#13 | | moot moot
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| Re: Windows 7
Been running it since it popped up on MSDN, not had any problems with it and can run everything I want at the same time which was my problem with Vista (would blue screen with 1 WoW open).
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21st October 2009, 10:50pm
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| Re: Windows 7
I don't think that counts as a bug. | |
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21st October 2009, 10:54pm
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#15 | | moot moot
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| Re: Windows 7
Vista was much too RAM intensive and use to crash if I had too many processes running, the risk of crashing increased when running games like WoW!
Not had any such problems with Windows 7 (Y)
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