Author Topic: Vista VS Win7 (Read 409 times)

Everis · « **on:** March 01, 2010, 07:55:53 PM »

After 2 years with my Vista desktop, I have a laptop with win7 on it. Which was purchased just after win7 was released. So sometime in October 2009.

I am probably one of the only people on this planet that loves Vista.. and I am not sure if I even like win7, let alone love it.

I have had Vista crash on me.. umm well, Vista has never crashed on me, no blue screen of death, nothing. And I treat it like a underfed work horse. Right now I don't have half the stuff running on it that I usually do and its at 77 processes, 30% CPU usage and 66% physical memory
Even FireFox is running lower then normal, at about 640,00K.

The only thing that has happened on my Vista, is that FireFox has frozen, two times, and both times it was running at almost 1,000,000 K. It actually surprised me when it did crash, and my roomate was amazed that I finally did it.

The other problem I have, and I know its not just a Vista problem, because roomie has it happen on his XP machine. But sometimes, after using my headset and I go to switch on my speakers, no sound will come out of them. It got so frustrating I ended up doing the first reinstall since buying the vista. But its happening again and with it happening on roomies as well, I wonder wtf update for M$ does it.

Anyway, win7 seems like it is backwards to me with some things. Plus, they removed the sidebar, and the calendar and who knows what else. I am finding it a bit harder to navigate then Vista.
Its shiny and pretty, but to me it seems like they stripped down some things so that they could fix other things and add other things to make graphic hungry people happy.

It seems slower then my vista, even though it has more ram, and better ram at that, when I am running office and firefox, plus other things I always use.

I do like shake and peek though, those are kinda cool, specially if your a person that opens many things up and save stuff to your desktop.

I need to start feeling the love for this bloody thing, as I am not taking my desktop to the UK.

Anyone else feeling the same, or do you all love win7?

If you love it, tell me why, help me feel the love.
What cool features does it have that you do not know how you lived without it on other OS.

I also need to thank the evil one again for the calendar find. That will help those loving feelings come along.

Everis

bigguy · « **Reply #1 on:** March 01, 2010, 08:10:26 PM »

W7 should run faster on your machine not slower. That's a bit weird. The sidebar was one of the things slowing Vista down at bootup. I suspect this is why they took it out and now have the gadgets stuck to the desktop, which I like better as you can move them anywhere you want. For me it was the speed that came with it. Unlike Vista W7 ran away with my PC's and laptop. All the flashy graphics work is nice but not a necessity.

It is a bit hard to get used to but all in all it is just Vista reworked a bit. Not really a brand new O/S IMHO.

Everis · « **Reply #2 on:** March 01, 2010, 08:45:30 PM »

Thats how I picture it, as a stripped of my favourite things, slightly backwards Vista.

I don't know why it seems slower to me, but it does. Maybe its not running slower, and maybe it is, because of something I have yet to find the Toshiba has on there.

I hope its not the Toshiba thingy that is kinda like a sidebar, but runs on the bottom when popped up. I can place gadget kinda things on it, and notes. My desktop is a mess most of the time, due to saving on it and startup icons, so gadgets just placed on it, would drive me crazy. I would also have to be shaking everytime I wanted to check anything in my gadgets. or show desktop.

What features do you like about it?

bigguy · « **Reply #3 on:** March 01, 2010, 08:50:46 PM »

They have simplified things a great deal as far as I am concerned. Back in the day when you wanted to do anything with networking there was a great deal of crap you had to go through. I don't know how long you have been using computers but I remember Dos 6.2 and Win 3.1. So I guess one of the features I like is the simplicity of it all now. That's not to say that it doesn't have it's problems but what O/S that MS put out didn't, lol. I like the start menu and the hover feature so all you have to do is leave your mouse on something and it changes to that folder.

The speed of it of course is great and the thing I found was I installed Vista and W7 on the same systems and W7 always came out faster and easier to install. Faster performance, less blue screens and simpler...I know there is more features I like but I am brain blocked right now.

Everis · « **Reply #4 on:** March 01, 2010, 09:29:38 PM »

I remember having to learn dos in grade 7, so a few years ago lol
win 3.1 I think was the one I really started to use them.

I don't like the way the start menu now does the side thing, I have always just typed in what I wanted and it popped up, now I have to make sure i don't click a side thing.

I do like the extra hover stuff and wish vista had that and shake and peek.

As for my speed issues with it, I am starting to wonder if it aint something that is a toshiba addon, that I need to find and bin. or disable. who knows.

As for blue screens, *knocks on wood* but I have never had one on the vista, xp yes and others I am pretty sure of as well.

bigguy · « **Reply #5 on:** March 01, 2010, 09:33:18 PM »

Toshiba add-on. You mean stuff from the disk you got with the laptop like drivers and such.

Everis · « **Reply #6 on:** March 02, 2010, 12:08:48 AM »

You know how every company adds on their own stuff. Toshiba has a lot of stuff, facial recognition software, something like the sidebar but kinda cooler and probably a resource hog because I like it. Just a bunch of extra crap usually that they think would be handy.
That sort of thing. I would turn on the laptop and give a list of things, but I should call it a night, I do have school in the morning *sigh* lol

bigguy · « **Reply #7 on:** March 02, 2010, 12:16:14 AM »

Check to see what is in the start up folder in the start menu...or go to the start menu and type msconfig and then go to the startup tab. There you can see what all starts with win7 at start up.

Everis · « **Reply #8 on:** March 02, 2010, 08:43:41 AM »

oh good idea. I am so used to using my vista and have it all sorted, and am just trying to get used to what is on the win7 I have been not turning things off yet, but just poking around with it on and off. Doing what I need with it, like word documents and excel. Guess I really should just pull the plug on my vista and force myself to use the laptop, as I am hoping to be leaving in the next couple months with it. Would really suck if I get over there and can hardly use the thing and go thru withdrawal for my Vista

Everis