danneth

cheers, still got another 4gb of ram on its way to me and just got another 200mhz out of each cpu must stop now

BM08

Its an expensive hobby

Alex_86

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win 7, best since win 2000

and xp fans, dont really cant see what you can only do in xp, and cant do in win7??
or vista for that sake... please explaine to me=)

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...tibility-mode/
http://www.theeldergeek.com/use_compatibility_mode.htm

danneth

a hobby i thought i had given up years ago

CF20

Exactly, Nail head

Jim Galbally

im intereted to know what people are saying it cant do that XP did?

i am not aware of any feature removal

have you seen "xp mode"?

also what hardware cant you get to work? im assuming the problem is yur manufacturer isnt making x64 drivers for the hardware? have you looked properly anytihng made in recent years has x64 drivers!

ECU Monitor Enthusiast

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Save the cost of upgrading unecessarily just to have the latest thing

Dannn

I see the cunt had raise his head again....

How are we Simon ?

Still a lieing / delusional fuckwit ?

BM08

You should take your issues to the correct room/persons, not bring it up in someones thread

BM08

Wrong, i had a problem with my xfi sound card and 5.1 speaker setup, i downloaded the lastest win7 drivers/software, it all works fine except the sound coming out of the rear speakers was out of sync to the fronts/centre, by about 2 seconds so the sound was crap.
Works perfectly in xp.

2nd my graphics card fan kept spinning to full speed sounding like a hair dryer everytime i open a picture file or video, again this did not happen in xp.
And its not like its because win7 has more eye candy because it only happened when i opened pic/video files.............
Drivers were correct/lastest.

Cant be bothered searching the net for fixes to problems that should not be there, and was not there in xp.

Adrian

I had no issues with it. Just went back to XP on the netbook before the beta licence expired.

New machine will be running 7 when it arrives.

danneth

the audio out of sync can be solved by clicking one button its just an option in the mixer

im going to guess you have an nvidia card???

CF20

windows 7 is ok if your on the internet or playing games that were made in the last few years, but not really that great if your into editing software, hex editors, and its completely useless for anything car related like programing ecu's live mapping if thats your thing i would stick with xp

BM08

What option was it?

And yeah its an nvidia card

danneth

depends what MB your running or what sound card? i use realtek so i just go into control panel into the realtek and its there but i didnt have the problem anyway,

as for the nvidia card seen a few posts about it very random they seemed to cure it with different drivers

CF20

theres lots you can do with XP if your using 7 just for its looks


Windows XP SP3 Dark Edition v7

Dar-rst

i want to get W7 im using vista at the moment and its soooo slow its bad and i keep hitting the laptop thinking it will hurry it up

cheeky dog

Soon as my sis put windows 7 on my laptop its efing slowed down big time. Internet is as slow as the dial up days

BM08

Strange, win7 seems to run faster or similar to xp for most

Red16

Not tried Windows 7 yet, my mates buying it soon so i'll have a play on his computer before i do anything.

Nobody said you did

Lambchop

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My W7 arrived this aft, well i assume thats whats in the parcel but havent opened it. I'm scared that i'll need a geek level above my current limit

Rick Astley

Nope.

Backup your files, whack the cd in the drive and reboot!! Should auto install over Vista. (Although I've never done 7 over Vista so Im not 100%)

Mr S1

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the dogs dangles, I love mine. I've also got Windows 7 on my laptop and it seems OK, but I use it very 'basically'.

danneth

the mac is around %30 slowers then xp and windows 7 so ill cross that off the list personally

The Rapid 1

Never bothered "upgrading" to Vista, so still on Xp.
IF was to go to W7 does it not give you an option to install on the same PC as Xp and have it as a dual boot, so as to get used to it for one, and two make sure it can do everything I want.
Seem to remember you could do this with Xp over something else but had to install it on another partition.
AND if it is possible can you install 64 bit W7 and leave my Xp as 32 bit ?

Steve

Lambchop

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cheers dude. i dont like the "backup" bit as it makes me think it'll all get wiped

i did open the letter this am and yes it's my W7 lol

Chris69

windows 7 does have the dual boot feature- i would never do dual boot on a single partition though, always best to do it on seperate ones.
I was running windows 7 and xp as dual boot for a good 3/4 months before i just backed up, wiped clean and now just have windows 7

I can't answer the second bit as both my versions where 32bit but i don't see why it wouldn't work as they are seperate installations- i couldn't be sure though there may be some issues having 32 and 64bit on a dual boot config.

cozmeister

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Now there's a considered and well balanced argument.

I'm still using the Windows 7 RC1, which is as slow as arseholes on my Dell XPS Core2 Duo @ 1.5Ghz with 2GB of memory. It is however, a million times better than the Vista Business that was on the same system out of the factory. Even the X64 edition of Windows 7 (or NT6.1 to give it a proper name) runs better than 32 bit Vista. Windows NT has classically run better with more memory and SCSI disks - until you've got those, you won't be getting the full benefit of NT's potential.

My main system as it is runs XP with a SATA hard disk. And despite the processor having an extra core, and having 2GB of memory installed, it's not nearly as responsive as it used to be when I had a cached (32MB) Ultra 160 SCSI controller with a Seagate Cheetah running the show.

Windows 7 is, however, still playing catchup with the Mac, the same as it's been doing since 1984.

My MacMini Core2Duo 1.83 with 1GB of memory is so much more usable than the Windows 7 and better able to multi-task, simply because the Apple OS is better able to make use of the resources it has.

I would always tell anyone that's fed up with Windows, and is unsure of whether to upgrade to 7 or not, that they'll just get the same problems they already have within 12 months of upgrading, and that they should try a Mac - go to an Apple Store and try one of the demo machines.