Windws 7 upgrade DOH!!

[smoq]

I decided to try this new system on our desktop, we (me and my girlfriend) are now poorer by over $200 (we bought full retail version of windows 7 home premium). the thing's expensive, but it's worth it IMO.

The installation took not more than 45 minutes of my life (I've chosen 64 bit version, but full version comes with two disks, 32 bit and 64bit) with just 2 interruptions and no errors of any kind.. I wanted to keep my data from old desktop in xp I had before and even that I needed to format system partition, windows 7 copied all the important files from old windows! Big plus for that.
Second thing that made me liking the new system is that after installation, windows automatically found and installed all the drivers with no problem! Printer, tablet pen, camera, external disk, usb wi-fi antenna, router, sound card, all worked right from the beginning. That;s a second big plus for microsoft.
The new UI is similar to what you've seen in vista, except the new aero function and new taskbar, which is truly great. You can "pin" any application to it and that saves a lot of space on the desktop.
It was impossible for me to pair vista system with my xbox 360, but now, when I turned on my xbox, windows 7 found it immediately, installed all necessary drivers and now I can watch movies, music and pictures on my tv thanks to windows media center.
Home network finally got fixed and it's so easy to transfer files and share media with my laptop now. Of course, stupid Vista on the laptop won't let windows 7 share it's files thru home network, so I have no problem accessing files from my desktop's disks on the laptop, while I can't see any files from the laptop on my desktop. Vista truly sucks and I am thinking of upgrading to w7 on the laptop in the nearest future.
Overall, the new windows 7 is worth the upgrade IMO. It's fast, it isn't annoying like vista (forget stupid warnings popping every time you try to install, copy or change something, now it's all hidden in he right corner of your desktop) and user-friendly, just like xp used to be.
I hope that review will help those of you considering switch to new windows. What I don't like about new windows is pricing, especially the upgrade version. If I'd like to switch from crappy windows vista on my laptop to new windows 7 home, I have to pay $119 + tax. I think upgrades should be cheaper, like $69 or something like that.

[Wasserpest]

FYI you can buy the "Family Pack" for around $130 at various places. Good deal if you have multiple computers.

Sorry I wont reply to this thread no more it seems you reply to what others talk about or others dont like what you replied you get warned to be banned. I will just stay off this site for good.

[smoq]

Originally Posted by Wasserpest

FYI you can buy the "Family Pack" for around $130 at various places. Good deal if you have multiple computers.

Yes, I saw that, but they're upgrades only. The problem is that one of my computer didn't have legit windows before while the other one has vista.

[skiboarder72]

thanks for posting smoq, I'm gonna have to check this out!

[fshfanatic]

I am running windows 7 64bit and it is frigging sweet. It is on a quad core AMD with 8G of ram..

[Strick]

Originally Posted by Wasserpest

Why not clean install? I would never upgrade an OS. Even if you theoretically save time, clean install is the way to go for me.

^This^

Unfortunately...

[Wasserpest]

Figured out the reason for the lockups... MS Security Essentials and ZoneAlarm do NOT get along in Windows 7. It's one or the other at the moment. Just a tip for those who think about using these programs.

[Scorpion]

Originally Posted by smooththg69

Get a Mac Book Pro then put windows 7 on that.

Yeah baby. Now you are talking.

[smoq]

Originally Posted by skiboarder72

thanks for posting smoq, I'm gonna have to check this out!

No problem buddy.
Anyway, I have it for more than a week and I still like it, which is quite a surprise for a microsoft product Well, it's not perfect, but it's microsoft's biggest step in delivering what consumers, not they, want. The nicest things so far for me are ability to choose a photos folder as a desktop background (it changes wallpaper every couple of minutes which you can adjust of course) and easiness of getting updates for drivers and software. Basically, windows inform you discretely that there are new version of drivers and let you choose which one you'd like to install.
And it didn't crash for me yet

[conduct]

Originally Posted by Wasserpest

Figured out the reason for the lockups... MS Security Essentials and ZoneAlarm do NOT get along in Windows 7. It's one or the other at the moment. Just a tip for those who think about using these programs.

Very interesting

Well for the IT person Symantec Endpoint Protect works great on getting updates from the internal server running SEPM but if they are out of the network the SEP try to get update from Symantec web site and fails.

[lhscouchmonster]

windows 7 upgrade worked flawlessly. my desktop icons were even in the same exact places.

dont worry about uninstalling incompatable programs. just roll with the punches once you upgrade. the reason you need to reboot during the beginning of the upgrade for system changes is because windows will download a patch to the upgrade process (i downloaded my version and still needed the patch 3 minutes after i was done downloading).