If so, is it better than Vista? And did you have to buy a new upgraded Microsoft Office with it?
Anyone using Windows 7
by MsDucky 18 Replies latest jw friends
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thetrueone
Yes its better and no you don't have to upgrade your office program, unless its very old.
Win 7 Home Premium is suitable for most home users. ( 32bit or 64bit ) 32bit being the most common version
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drwtsn32
Yes, it's the best Windows yet. However, it may not be worth upgrading an existing computer. Are you having problems with Vista?
Generally people just get a new Windows version when they purchase a new computer. Now if you are reformatting your system, you might decide to take that opportunity to upgrade.
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MsDucky
Yes, it's the best Windows yet. However, it may not be worth upgrading an existing computer. Are you having problems with Vista?
I have a computer with XP on it and one with Vista. The one with XP on it crashed the other day, and so, I had to do a system recovery/restore. I have no idea why it crashed? Anyway, it got me to wondering if I should upgrade both computers to Windows 7.
You're right about me when it comes to upgrading. I, usually, don't upgrade unless I HAVE to buy a new computer. But if Windows 7 is as easy to use as XP is than I'd be willing to forgo buying a new computer and just do the upgrades.
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Incognito
Windows 7 is now running on 3 of our 4 computers.
Our two laptops came originally equipped with Vista. I trialed the pre-release candidate of W7 on the slower laptop, which loads and runs W7 faster and with less security hassles than Vista. Full release versions of W7 Home Premium now run on both laptops.
The two desktops are older (2003) and have been running XP Pro. I just installed W7 on one with no apparent issues while the other similarly equipped (AMD 2400+) desktop machine I have yet to convert to W7.
W7 will run on older hardware that would never support Vista. You need at least a 1Gh processor and 1 GB of RAM, which even many low power net-books qualify.
W7 is also one of the first O/S releases where a high percentage of older machines are being converted over instead of being replaced.
All of the public apprehension and fear surrounding Vista is now non-existent with W7.
Often, people will await the release of SP-1 before adopting a new operating system. In the case of W7, there is no reason to wait as it has been the smoothest, least issue laden O/S release to date.
SP-1 to be released later this year, is only to be a roll-up of updates provided since release with no major fixes or revisions expected. Perhaps the large scale open public pre-release beta testing was the smartest thing Microsoft ever did.
Both Office 2003 and 2007 install and run on W7 with no issues.
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A.Fenderson
I was super-excited about Win 7. I downloaded the RC and ran it for months, it was nice. It's basically Vista with some minor changes, but admittedly better--when it works as it should.
I convinced my dad to purchase and install Win 7 64-bit OEM on a new build we did together for his personal use a few months ago, using all-new and current components. We had lots of random little issues with it, but the straw that broke the camel's back was that we could never get printing to work. We would try to print, and get an error message that the print spooler service was not running. Verified in the services app that it was not. Checked its dependencies, made sure they were all running, tried to start it: it wouldn't start. We even reinstalled the entire OS: print spooler still never ran automatically, and in fact would fail to start when manually told to do so, all dependencies running fine.
We gave up and bought fricking XP for that computer, and it's rock-solid though he's essentially wasting nearly a gig of RAM we paid for (and he hasn't yet let me configure a RAM drive to utilize it).
As for upgrading existing PCs: if they run Vista, it might be worth it to some people to upgrade. If it runs XP from the factory, it's probably old enough so that upgrading is really a bad idea--the hardware's too old to see any real performance gains, and it'll likely be a headache.
MsDucky: unless there's an app that you need to run that's not supported under XP, I'd strongly recommend against upgrading from XP.
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garyneal
I like Windows 7 and I will admit it loads faster than Vista. Obviously MS learned that loading all of those libraries took its toll on Vista.
Win 7 has some advanced Aero features that I like that are not present in Vista. Other than that, it is basically a cleaned up version of Vista to me.
I won't upgrade my home PC's to it due to the cost but I plan to get Win 7 64 on my next PC.
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drwtsn32
We would try to print, and get an error message that the print spooler service was not running.
Printer driver bug. There are no issues with the Win7 printing subsystem itself (nor any other Windows version I can recall). Sounds like the printer manufacturer had a crappy Win7 64-bit driver. You probably could have used an alternate/more generic driver or waited for the mfr to release a better driver.
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John Doe
I'm using 7. Love it. No problems. I wouldn't hesitate to upgrade. I never ran a pc with Vista. The bad press steered me away from it.
