Anyone else have a Near Flawless Experience after install?

Ok, so it's been almost a week now and I've had no real problems what so ever with Windows 7.

Only problems(very minor) I had was with some Gadgets I've tried to install, but since they were made for Vista, who cares. The other problem was I couldn't see my Vista partition, but that was easily fixed using disk management and assigning a letter to the Vista partition. So basically no real problems at all. Actually had less problems so far after a clean install with Windows 7 than on Vista & XP.

Besides what I mentioned, everything went smoothly. I have almost all the software I use on Vista & XP installed on Windows 7 and haven't experienced any compatibility issues or bugs yet. Linking to my Xbox 360 works flawless, I just had to get used to the slightly differ settings. I installed Mobile Device Center and it detected and synced my Treo Pro. Also had no Driver Issues, I only had to manually install the built in Web Cam driver. Windows detected everything else. Avast Free Edition is my antivirus.

I really like Windows 7, but IMO this is the equivalent of the difference from SP1 to SP2 on XP.

BTW I'm using a Gateway T-6836, and using the 64bit version of Windows 7.

 

no BSOD yet, so far so good. sleep is my only concern.. both in context and the literal sense

 

So far my only problems are:
- light on mute button won't work (I'm probably just missing a driver; and pressing it does actually mute the sound)
- steam won't install

Other than that it's been great and runs very smoothly on my laptop with aero enabled.

I'm using 32 bit windows 7
CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz
2.00 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400

 

Have not yet experienced the sleep problem that many are talking about, but I've only tried it several times. I don't use sleep. Now Hibernate is what I mainly use, and no problems there either.

 

Just graphics anomalies for me, but I've beat that horse to death by now...

 

I've used Windows 7 on my Wind for a couple of days and found that Daemon Tools and CCCP doesn't work with it.

 

Yup your right about Daemon Tools. I just tried it, the compatibility screen pops up and even though I click to move forward, it just installs and resets then installs and resets ....keeps going in circles without actually installing.

 

I've had zero problems so far. I did have one program that I tried to install not work. That was VZAccess Manager from Verizon Wireless, that connects my wireless card to the internet. Not a big deal though. I manually installed the drivers for the card, and use a plain old Windows Dial-up connection to connect it.

 

Klite Codec Pack windows 7 beta is like CCCP
http://www.codecguide.com/index.html

That is all

 

Yep, near perfect. Windows says my reliability is near 0 though, because my AC adapter keeps falling out

 

What? I've got Steam installed, hasn't messed up on me yet.

 

LOL ... You don't keep your battery in?

 

Yeah, I searched online and see that many other people have had no problems installing steam, but I am. Go figure.

 

No real issues on an upgrade from Vista...i'm doing a clean install right now in hopes that:

My sidebar gadget thingys don't work at all. No start, no nothing...they worked ifne on my last clean install.

Flash CS3 doesn't like me, all my .fla files I had previously...it says the mdocfile in em have been corrupted and they won't open when they work fine on my other computers.

I did a dual boot, then said screw it and upgraded my main Vista, and now I may do a clean install..I should just pick one and go with it

 

Why keep it in when it doesnt work?

 

turn on UAC and your gadgets will work. thats a bug in the beta.

 

Not me.. my LCD light won't on after hibernation. Had to restart the computer everytime when it does that.

Had problems with the sound driver but was fixed yesterday. WMP12 won't play any of my music.. so i just unpin it from my taskbar. Pinned Winamp in instead.

 

the only problem that i had was that i had to manually install the Display Driver

*fizzling sound comes from laptop back*

 

No problems here.

My dad's laptop which I put 7 on is acting a little strange (I can't say for sure why) but I suspect that I was a little to agressive undervolting. I'll change the settings and see if it improves.

I've had MS Word cause Windows to lockup twice and a couple of IE crashes, but it restarted IE and restored my tabs, so I can't complain.

Greg

 

No major issue so far...loving this OS so far. Only minor issue I am having is once in a while when I turn my notebook on my wallpaper disappeared. All I get is a blank screen (black). No idea why I am having this issue.

 

ON ym AW the experiece has been flawless, absolutely no problems at all, I also decided to check out the performance of Windows 7 on an older comp, and I lugged out a old Dell 4600 Desktop - Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz, 1GB RAM and a GeForce FX5200.

Note that the processor by my math is around 3 times slower than the recommended processor by MS (1.0GHz C2D). It works with all the Aero goodies turned on (and very fast as well I might add) and although it didn't beat XP in bootup time (it was pretty close though - 25 seconds XP and 29 seconds in Windows 7). Only performance issues on the slower machine is WMP12 is extremely sluggish at loading the library and list of songs (might have something to do with there being 13,000 of them lol). Sometimes WMP 12 crashes for no deicernable reason and Media Center doesn't run in a usable fashion at all. But the mere fact that Windows 7 BETA runs on a machine like that...

 

you have not registered it, it does this when windows thinks you have a pirate copy. go to Microsoft Technet and get an official key.

 

Minor issues only....Funny about Daemon..Doesn't work now but that is what I used in vista to install 7 as an upgrade.

 

When I had this back in November 2008 no issues.

 

Nearly flawless, not quite. The install itself was flawless, but since then I've got one Blue Screen of Death and Standby doesn't seem to be working - but that's no big deal since I just hibernate or turn off anyways. Compatibility is still worse than XP, but does seem to be much improved from Vista. Overall it's been decently good. More or less halfway between XP (excellent) and Vista (quite poor), which I suppose puts it around "average" or "about what would be expected".

Phritz, the requirement is a 1 GHz 32-bit processor. So your Pentium 4 is actually 3 times the requirement, not 1/3 the requirement. Always assume Pentium 4 in stated processor requirements unless it's explicitly stated otherwise. So that Win7 runs on your machine doesn't actually surprise me at all. RAM's a bit low, but otherwise I see no reason why it shouldn't run great (though it is nice to know the FX5200 does Aero quite well).

If you're dual-booting with XP or Vista, just install it on that OS and then open the steam.exe executable from Win7, and it'll work. That's what I've been doing - saves space over actually installing it on both XP and Win7. Don't know about installing it in Win7 since I haven't had to with this work-around.

Odd, CCCP works fine for me. Haven't tried Daemon tools yet, but I probably will at some point.

 

Pretty much flawless except for a low HD trasfer rate score on WEI as compared to my Vista score. The other values actually increased by a few 10ths.

Very nice OS in my opinion at this stage in its development. I will probably continue to dual boot with Vista as a secondary OS.

 

Steam installed fine for me as well. However, I did have a problem with MSI installers a few days back. Here's what Windows told me...

 

Here is my experience. To be honest, I'm not very pelased about certain stability issues that weren't present for me in Vista.

Pros:
- Improved sleep response, very snappy
- I enjoy the refined taskbar

Cons:
- Sometimes, when I download and save a file from my school's website on IE8 the download stalls at 99%. Then the window just hangs, refuses to end and I have to do a force shutdown.

- I right-click a program on the taskbar, then right-click the program shortcut and head to properties. If I close the window and repeat this process, explorer crashes upon right-clicking the program shortcut and again I have to force shutdown. Can someone try this to see if they experience the same problem?

- My bootup times are longer than in Vista. My only startup programs are NIS 2009, touchpad driver, Vista Battery Saver and RMClock. All of these startup on my Vista partition as well.

- SuperAntiSpyware gives me a BSOD when installing, SASkutil.sys causes the crash.

- Battery life seems slightly worse than Vista.

 

On mine, if it wasn't flawless then it's pretty darn close. And this is on a 2007 Macbook Pro.

Now I wish I can say the same thing about IE8. That thing is pretty far from ready IMO; keeps crashing, slow to load, freezes up quite often....etc...

 

Thanks MGS2392, that worked for me.

 

mmmm i download the iso file from Microsoft site, and I did registered the first day I installed it. the last couple of days it looks like my wallpaper is still there after reboot.

 

Oh, that's a surprise because Vista wouldn't run on this PC satisfactorily at all, so I assumed that software makers updated their GHz requirements to the Core 2 benchmark because well... the P4 is now pretty old (my rough math came from messing with work PC's at a small company I did hardware and software upg's - a C2D 1.6GHz "Pentium" was more than twice as fast as a 3GHz Pentium D (2 Pentium 4's glued together )

I think I still have an old Fujitsu laptop with a 1.1.GHz Pentium M III and 768MB RAM somewhere... now if Windows 7 runs on that I will be impressed... (I doubt an Intel GMA 830 will run Aero though lol)

Aero is surprisingly responsive, I find it a pity that that comp can't run Media Centre very well :S and Aero Flip 3D only struggles with 15 messenger windows

 

I don't quite follow. The right-click on taskbar makes sense, but what do you mean by "program shortcut and head to properties"? The program shortcut on the desktop? Or the program shortcut in Quick Launch? Is the program running at the beginning of this all? Sorry, I'm just not quite sure when the program is running/closed, and exactly how you're starting the program (going to properties certainly isn't starting/closing the program).

Once I know what exactly you want tested, I'll try it - give me some time though, I'm pretty busy of late. Wish I had more time to play around with the beta.

My guess is your old Fujitsu would run Win7 pretty well. It does well with 768 MB RAM (done that myself), and for not-too-intensive tasks a 600 MHz Core 2 Duo is plenty (about 1.1 GHz * 2 cores on Pentium 4 scales). I'm not well-versed in Pentium M relative to Pentium 4, but it'll probably run. I'm kind of surprised Vista did so poorly, but what can you say - it is Vista after all. Didn't run well for me, either, although for different reasons.

Surprised the 1.6 GHz Core 2 bested the Pentium D, though. I'd expect it to be twice as fast as a 3 GHz Pentium 4, but a Pentium D should be twice as fast as the P4 and close that gap. Then again, I've never tested a Pentium D myself to see if it does anywhere near that good in practice.

My experience just went down a bit - found out Microsoft Silverlight apparently doesn't work in Win7. After trying to install it with no luck in Opera 9.63, IE8, and Firefox 2.0.0.20, I eventually decided maybe it was Windows, rebooted into XP, installed it on IE6, and it worked perfectly. Go figure. Guess that's why it's still a beta. Glad I still have XP!

 

Apparently Windows 7 doesn't like Office 2007 so much.

 

From my experience there's a huge gap between P4 + P4D and the Core 2's (Note - Pentium Duo's are rebranded lower end Core 2's) so in my tests (A forensic grade sharpening filter in Photoshop CS2 - a sharpening can take up to a a minute) the 1.6GHz Pentium Duo blew 3GHz the Pentium D out of the water and not just in Photoshop (which utilises the multiple cores) but also in Vue 6 - a 3D landscape rendering program. That's usually how I benchmark processing power in RL apps, I have a saved render which I render in every comp I've installed Vue 6 on (It utilises all cores at aroun 90% efficiency):
(the landscape/terrain portion, clicky clicky for for BIG version)


Took around 2 and a half hours on my M17 (C2Q), 7 hours on the m9750 (C2D), 8 1/2 hours on the Pentium Duo, 15 hours on the 3GHz Pentium D, 23Hours on the Pentium 4 and a staggering 32 hours on my VAIO with a Pentium M 1.7GHz

note - It is a multicore app hence the big jumps from the Pentium 4HT to Pentium D and from the C2D to C2Q but it does show the performance differences between the Intel Processors - never got my hands on a Core Duo though

Silverlight works fine for me in IE8?

 

I had absolutely no problems with any MS software I tried. I have the highest version of Office 2007 and all the programs included works just fine. Also have no problem with Silverlight, MS Live messenger, Movie maker beta, or Windows Live Mail.

Still a shame about Daemon Tools, but has anyone try PowerISO yet? I might give that a try tomorrow.

 

I heard that too, first Paul Thurott mentioned it a while back. I must say though I have had no issues with Office 2007 Standard Edition so far. I mainly use Word and Outlook and very occasionally Excel and PowerPoint. Not a single issue so far.

IE8 OTOH.....just bad; very unstable and slow to launch.

 

Flawless install in 64-bit and 32-bit on the MSI GT725

 

Flawless experience thus far!

 

daemon tools doesn't work, use virtual clone drive instead (the beta version for win7). sleep/mute button works on my laptop. i'm playing games on here too (bioshock, cs).

flawless indeed

 

I've not had any issues with my install. The only thing I ran into is that there version of McAfee I have is not compatible with Windows 7. Other than that, no issue.

 

i have installed on 10 differnt computers (6 of them were the same ) never had a problem and had to install 1 driver MS is trying

 

7 computers so far for me. Only problem I have had to far is installing the beta catalyst control panel. Its supposed to be specifically for win 7

 

I have been using if for months now and not one issue.

 

near flawless here with one exception - somehow superantispyware refuses to bode along well and results a nice horrifying Bsod...it's a *.sys conflict as far as i have seen.

 

Well my windows 7 randomly freezes(have to restart). Core i7 920 OC 3.2GHZ 6GB DDR3 RAM Dual GtX 295 250GB SSD. I prefer windows vista better