Is there any reason why Vista users should upgrade to Windows 7?

Started by Monoriu, November 25, 2009, 02:34:35 AM

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derspiess

#45
November 27, 2009, 09:40:36 PM
Quote from: Slargos on November 27, 2009, 03:02:30 PM
Yeah, and reinstalling all your gadgets and programs and doodads and porncollection and customizing all the settings, that too is done in under 2 hours?

ALLOW ME TO SNORT INCREDULOUSLY.

Yeah, uh, you wouldn't have to do any of that with an upgrade install.  The only things you'd need to customize are the new Win7 features, and you can do that as you go.
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#46
November 27, 2009, 10:54:27 PM
The upgrade is pretty painless if its Vista 32 to 7 32.

XP to 7 is still pretty painless until you realize you didn't back your shit up.
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Scipio

#47
November 28, 2009, 08:02:14 AM
Win 7 is great for handling networking issues.  It totally took care of my Vista 64 home beast desktop's inability to print to the network printer.
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Josquius

#48
November 28, 2009, 04:22:44 PM
Any verdict on my question?
7: Actually good (better than XP) or just less bad than Vista?

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Darth Wagtaros

#49
November 28, 2009, 09:03:53 PM
Well, when they move to a file system similar to Sun's ZFS it will be stellar.
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Barrister

#50
November 28, 2009, 09:14:55 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on November 28, 2009, 09:03:53 PM
Well, when they move to a file system similar to Sun's ZFS it will be stellar.

NTFS is petty solid. :huh:
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#51
November 28, 2009, 09:32:18 PM
Was half joking.

I'm not going to rush to move to Seven for my systems at work.  I might do so for my laptops, they are given out to faculty and see heavy use.  Seven seems pretty solid for laptops.
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Razgovory

#52
November 29, 2009, 07:14:50 PM
I'm thinking of making the jump from Vista to Windows 7 as well, but I just bought fucking Vista.  I'm not keen on shelling out another chunk of cash.  Though I admit I don't care for Vista as much as I liked XP (which I thought was great.  I had ME before).
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#53
November 30, 2009, 04:28:33 PM
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DontSayBanana

#54
November 30, 2009, 05:55:43 PM
I would say 7 is a worthwhile upgrade, and I didn't even have quite the issues with Vista that everyone else claims to have had.  I'm probably going to be screamed down by the "M$ISTEHDEVILAPPELRULZ!!1!1!" crowd, though.
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Iormlund

#55
December 01, 2009, 04:39:59 PM
I've only used one Vista computer (not one of mine). It is increeeedibly slow. It takes like 30 secs to fire up IE or Firefox. It really gets me on my nerves. It's not an old or shitty system, either. It's clean and the only software installed consists of a firewall, an antivirus, Skype, Mozilla and the crap that came preinstalled.

DontSayBanana

#56
December 02, 2009, 12:42:02 AM
Quote from: Iormlund on December 01, 2009, 04:39:59 PM
I've only used one Vista computer (not one of mine). It is increeeedibly slow. It takes like 30 secs to fire up IE or Firefox. It really gets me on my nerves. It's not an old or shitty system, either. It's clean and the only software installed consists of a firewall, an antivirus, Skype, Mozilla and the crap that came preinstalled.

ATI, nVidia, or some IGP?  For some reason, ATI's Catalyst Control Center bogs things down horribly, I've noticed.  Also, some of that "bloatware" can really slow down a startup (particularly "photo managers" like Adobe Album Starter Edition or HP PhotoSmart).

IE's load time is ridiculous.  Firefox's used to be pretty good, but something in the period between 3.5.2 and 3.5.3 made it slow way down.  Once I put 3.5.5 on Windows 7, though, it almost went back to the speed it had before the mysterious startup lag.
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