[digioz]

I got my copy of Windows 7 on Wednesday. I love the user interface and overall layout, but it caused a lot of driver and device compatibility issues which has been causing my applications to randomly freeze while doing things as simple as browsing the web, watching videos, writing documents and even switching between windows explorer windows! My Radeon X600 Video Card also had some issues which took me half a day to resolve (it was preventing me from going on Second Life or other Graphic intensive type activities). And my PC is a duel core machine with 2 GB of Ram, so its not really that old. Plus the fact that I did a fresh install since Windows XP didn't upgrade to Windows 7 directly.

I really hope that I can finally resolve all the issues and keep the OS from freezing left and right because I really like it overall. Otherwise I am switching to Mac for good and NEVER buy a Windows OS again! This is the last chance I am willing to give Microsoft to come up with a decent OS. Lets face it, not everyone has the money to buy a brand new PC every 2 years just to be able to run a decent Windows OS that doesn't have a million compatibility issues!!!

Pete

[End User]

Originally Posted by digioz

I really hope that I can finally resolve all the issues and keep the OS from freezing left and right because I really like it overall. Otherwise I am switching to Mac for good and NEVER buy a Windows OS again! This is the last chance I am willing to give Microsoft to come up with a decent OS.

*cough*Linux*cough*

Seriously, you ought to consider Ubuntu.

If I didn't have to view my code through the eyes of Windows users, I'd have already switched. I'm just waiting until the VM apps are stable enough to let me run WinXP in a virtual machine window, and then I'll be done with Microsoft.

[Nico]

I have an nVIDIA card, and all drivers are 100% compatible so far. I didn't even have to search for my CDs or anything, I got all necessary drivers directly though Windows Update. Everything is VERY smooth and fast.

[therocket954]

Definitely agreed.... I just updated my laptop with the latest Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala". It's fantastic... ridiculously fast bootup / shutdown... and if you're used to Windows.. Ubuntu will be a good Linux distro to ease into, especially for a tech-savvy guy like yourself

However Pete, have you tried installing a Windows 7 driver for the video card? I'm just guessing but it sounds like you might be running a driver that Windows 7 chose for you... which works, but given the situation, I would recommend to try and manually install a driver for it. (Possibly Windows 7 chose a Win Vista driver because ATI hasn't updated the driver yet?) I remember running the release candidate, I had to do that with my nVidia 9800GT video card. (Had black out issues).

[digioz]

I do have an older version of Ubuntu that I run when I do PHP / MySQL coding. However for all my .NET Development I have to have some sort of a Windows OS to run on the side as well.

I finally managed to resolvemy Driver conflicts enough to prevent my Windows 7 Installation from freezing left and right, and now it is actually quite smooth and fast. I am impressed! There are however a number of errors still poping up some of which worry me a bit. Here is an example of a Kernel Error Event I am still getting over and over again despite upgrading to the latest so called Windows 7 Compatible Intel Driver:

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-EventTracing/Admin
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-EventTracing
Date: 10/31/2009 4:27:05 PM
Event ID: 2
Task Category: Session
Level: Error
Keywords: Session
User: SYSTEM
Computer: XXXXXX
Description:
Session "Circular Kernel Context Logger" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000035
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-EventTracing" Guid="{XXXXX}" />
<EventID>2</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>2</Task>
<Opcode>12</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000010</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-10-31T21:27:05.262420600Z" />
<EventRecordID>86</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="64" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-EventTracing/Admin</Channel>
<Computer>XXXX</Computer>
<Security UserID="XXXXXX" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="SessionName">Circular Kernel Context Logger</Data>
<Data Name="FileName">
</Data>
<Data Name="ErrorCode">3221225525</Data>
<Data Name="LoggingMode">268436608</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Being that it is a Kernel Error I am a bit worried about this one, although it no longer freezes up the PC. If anyone knows anything about this one or has any suggestions let me know!

Pete

[ethan.hunt]

The new Window 7 is Classic
its graphics are good
many more things i like in window 7 like
you log off still you can listen to songs
running online
where as in older versions
songs went on pause

[digioz]

Originally Posted by BurkeFour

It's so much better than Vista--all the good stuff from Vista, and they got rid of all of stupid annoyances. One gripe is that my machine seems to lock up frequently with 7...don't know if it's OS-related or not.

I had that exact problem and it turned out to be because of my Graphics Card and Chipset Drivers.

Pete

[UnrealEd]

It's not bad windows 7, but I have some issues that I don't like at all:

1. Whenever I boot my laptop from standby, I get a window explorer has crashed and that I need to restart it
2. When I try to access my computer manager to start/end/restart a session, or to check my hardware status, I get an error saying there's no HDD in my laptop. If i try to continue, the same error appears, if I say cancel, it appears, when I click ok, it re-appears. And when I finally end the process (through task manager), I get a blue screen of death
3. For no obvious reason what so ever my wireless network adapter loses his DNS setting every once and a while (I set all my IP's manually)

Those are the errors that annoy me a lot, there are some smaller ones, but a lot of them are software bugs and not windows bugs.

In general I think it looks really nice, and works rather good (only had it for 6 months now, so I don't know what it will do in a year).


I'm using Ubuntu on my dinosaur-pc (9 years old), and ran smoothly the first year, but now everything seems to be falling apart. It takes forever to load, some applications freeze my desktop, my graphics are all messed up (i got lines of different contrast all over my screen, and it's not my rgaphics card, cause other accounts on the pc don't have that issue), etc...
I also hate the hundreds of updates you get every day. I'm not a Linux man, I'm very new to it, so I have no idea what the purpose of all those updates are. Do you really have to install them all? Are they really that necessary?

To me Linux is an ideal work platform, it's perfect for development, it's great for server stuff, it has a sweet command line but if you want to do some designing/gaming and such, you'll get a cheap knock-off of a windows program, and you get stuck (just my opinion).

[Nico]

The issues you listed are not directly related to Windows 7. I've been running Windows 7 on my laptop for a long time now, and never experienced anything like that.

Anyway, I've made my Hackintosh my primary computer now! Haven't used Windows for a while (except at work).

[drsim]

it is fast and use very less resources.