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Opinions wanted on Windows 7

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sandar

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My PC has become unstable recently and I am going to replace the hard drive. The hard drive is now the oldest part of my system, being the only part not yet upgraded. I would like to know whether it would be best to install Windows 7 or re-install my old XP Home.

I think it would be best to look ahead and go for the newer OS, but with all of the furore over Vista, I am being a bit cautious.

If I decide to install Windows 7, do I:

Buy Windows 7 or Windows upgrade from XP to 7? I think I favour the former.
Are there any particular problem running FS9 in Windows 7?

One final question, has anyone used Open Office, if so is it any good? I need an office program, but MS Office ???? is quite expensive and I have to watch the pennies now.
 
sandar said:
My PC has become unstable recently and I am going to replace the hard drive. The hard drive is now the oldest part of my system, being the only part not yet upgraded. I would like to know whether it would be best to install Windows 7 or re-install my old XP Home.

I think it would be best to look ahead and go for the newer OS, but with all of the furore over Vista, I am being a bit cautious.

If I decide to install Windows 7, do I:

Buy Windows 7 or Windows upgrade from XP to 7? I think I favour the former.
Are there any particular problem running FS9 in Windows 7?

One final question, has anyone used Open Office, if so is it any good? I need an office program, but MS Office ???? is quite expensive and I have to watch the pennies now.
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Well i would say going to Win 7 is a good idea, mostly becuse of the fact that it dose move a little faster and its newer and more upto date but also.. more and more newer programs are ment to be run by it and vista.
it dose look a little better to. yes its kinda weird to get used to but there are enough simplification to it that you can probaly get used to it with in 1 month... i am sure you will look back at XP and wonder how it even made it lol..

Open office is more or less ezactly like MS office ecept that is Free... it can go from MS office to OO and visa versa as long as you save to the right file formats.. OO can save to MS office 97/XP/2000 witch ever MS office from 97 on up can open..
my best advice is to DL it and try it out.
 
I'm going to take the easy/short way out and agree with RyanJames on both points. I have had win7 a month now, and like it very much. I too skipped over vista and went from xp to win7, no complaints, all positive.

I also use Open Office, no complaints there. Sorry to be boring :sleep: :)
 
BladeRun said:
I'm going to take the easy/short way out and agree with RyanJames on both points. I have had win7 a month now, and like it very much. I too skipped over vista and went from xp to win7, no complaints, all positive.

I also use Open Office, no complaints there. Sorry to be boring :sleep: :)
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Boring's good, boring usually mean no problems. I can live with boring :wavey:
 
Thanks for that Ryan, more or less agrees with what I have already discovered. I need confirmation. :salute:
 
ananda said:
Unfortunately one can only update to W7 from Vista.
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But you can do a clean install from XP to W7.

I really don't like W7 that much. It isn't any better than Vista to me. It actually crashes more than my Vista 64 did. That being said, I don't have any desire to go back to Vista.

I guess that's why I'm using Linux as I type this... :mixedsmi:
 
I have Win 7 on two machines..

I think I still perfew XP Pro SP3 for all oround everything


Both my Win 7 seem to lag behing XP on opening apps and browsing the net.
 
I updated from Vista64 to W7 64 and all applications were carried over, even FS9 and FSX :jump:

I prefer W7 to Vista but I still do development on my XP machine.

George
 
My experience with W7 on my Desktop Gaming PC has been good with the beta and RC versions.

My experience wth loading RC on a laptop I had a few months ago was a no go. There were no video drivers for that laptop. I opted to stay with Xp home.

My personal recommendation is to stay with XP until you upgrade your whole PC. XP is solid on your machine W7 might not be.

I also would avoid purchasing the upgrade version. The system builder version is about $50 cheaper than the upgrade version which is only availible in the Retail version.

All upgrades go better with complete clean installs anyway.
 
I'm running Windows 7 on this machine, and Open Office 3.1 as well. I like both. Open Office has a couple of quirks, like when you open a new instance of an application, it appears behind the other windows on the desk top for some annoying reason :)isadizzy:). But for free, I can put up with that...
 
I have 4 computers right now,I ran Vista for 18 months with little problem.I ran windows 7 on an HP desktop with a 1.2 celeron and 1 gig of ram and it ran fine,I have it on 2 laptops and have only had one small problem with this laptop.Windows explorer will stop responding every once in a while.No such problem on the other laptop.

A windows 7 quirk...you can't manually rearrange folders or files in a folder,it won't let you.I feel this will be fixed later as a lot of people don't like it.It will run everything back to CFS 1 but if you want to run CFS 1 see the thread in the forum on joysticks.

I run open office on both of my laptops and it works well,if it's free,it's me.Windows 7 is visually very nice and you will have to get used to it from XP as it does things a bit differently.It boots up very fast and is easier on resources then Vista.I have had no other problems with it.
 
I helped buy my daughter an ASUS laptop with W7 on it. It had a 2 week no-questions-asked return policy so she worked hard to get used to the W7 coming from XP. She ended up keeping it saying the W7 was OK once you got used to it. It seemed hobbled with features that made no sense, like they were thought up and bundled just to up the feature numbers. But she was able to customize (shut off) enough of them to make things more sensible. I figure in a year or so MS might respond with a service pack to address some of those annoying things and make W7 more friendly from the get-go.
Don't know how it does with gaming though. But a good point was made here that things are being made to work with W7 now so we will all end up going off in that suit eventually.
 
I have gone thru 5 laptops in the past 2 years,still have 2 of them.When they are new they have tons of useless crap on them in the form of programs,etc that are bundled in.

When I get a new one,or in the case of my desktops older computers,I go thru them and clean all of that stuff up.Turn off certain things and then go from there.Have had Vista for quite a while windows 7 is more user friendly and runs much better on less of a computer.

Xp is a good program,I have it on the 2 old desktops but you have to remember it was a serious dog out of the gate with a lot of teething problems back in the day.It really depends on what you are willing to settle for,compared to Windows 7, XP looks prehistoric.
 
I ran ME, first computer I ever owned, and didn't mind it even tho many thought it was crap. XP came along and there was trouble with that. MS fixed it pretty well with 3 service packs. Being forced to go with XP, which I dreaded, I've come to love it. Vista was/is crap to many, but some have overcome that. Now W7. Looks to me like W7 is a "pay for" service pack for Vista, and still isn't up to par with the polished XP.

I'm still going to wait until I'm either forced to go to W7, or MS decides to polish it with service packs. XP runs so smooth I can't see making the switch right now. And I know everthing I have will run on it..... I don't have to run anything in a "compatability mode". Out of the box and boom, it's up and running. To me that's what counts.... ease of use and no headaches. Just my
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That's the nice thing about Windows 7,I haven't had to fool around with compatability mode yet.It seems to just run everything.:USA-flag:
 
What's almost spooky with W7 is the absence of weekly updates. On XP you have tons of security updates each week, on W7 none (after the initial updates).
This ought to be a good omen, right? :engel016:
 
FWIW, W7 is the first O/S I've come across that runs almost as good as the hype.
Two programmes incompatible so far, but that's a 64bit v 32bit matter.
There a few odd quirks like desktop icons going out to lunch and coming back a day later and the interface navigation can be a bit strange after XP but if you run in 'Classic' aka 'bare bones' desktop it's no drama.

Neither my elderly scanner or printer work, good excuse to shop around for some shiny new hardware and the old XP system is running as a back so the Flash Drives are getting a workout.

It is not as smooth as XP Pro SP3 32 bit but beats XP Pro 64 bit hands down.
Can't comment re Vista as I never bothered with it.
No doubt W7 will receive a polish some time this year but it has more things that are positive than negative IMHO.

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