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briskfalcon16 said:She isn't a friend... she's a girlfriend; 7 is a massive pain in the neck. If I have to choose, I'll go with the original (Vista) and just optimize it myself...
dustyranger4 said:I find myself missing Windows XP. I tried installing Vista, but ended up rolling back to XP. Honestly, I feel like I’ll have to go back to XP again soon. The Control Panel in this version is a complete mess, and don't even get me started on how disorganized the file management is. While Windows Media Player is slightly better, I still find myself reaching for VLC just to get things done. Even the taskbar is restrictive—you can't pin everything you actually want there. The system behavior is unpredictable, too. It constantly drops into sleep mode and wakes up acting completely erratic. It’s frozen on me several times already. Like every other version of Windows, it feels noticeably sluggish after being installed for a while. It also boots up much slower than Windows XP Home. The worst part? The constant interruptions. "Would you like to send an error report?" followed by endless prompts asking for permission to do one thing or another. And Internet Explorer is its own special kind of disaster—clunky, awkward, and prone to crashing constantly. When it does crash, it asks if you want to return to the previous page, but clicking that usually just triggers another crash. To top it all off, the built-in mail agent is gone. Now you're forced to download something like Live Mail from the web, which is a cluttered nightmare that crashes all the time. Sometimes it sends emails, sometimes it doesn't; sometimes the screen just freezes entirely.
All things considered, Vista is just a glorified facelift that doesn't perform half as well as Windows XP. If you're still running XP, my advice is simple: don't bother upgrading to 7. They claim you won't need to hunt for drivers, but that’s a half-truth at best; in practice, you'll be hunting them down for most of your hardware anyway. Even on high-end rigs, the UI stutters—windows start "cloning" themselves like some kind of slow-motion glitch if you have a heavy program running. It's a mess. It feels like they tried to cherry-pick features from other operating systems and ended up failing to get any of it right.
Eric Wilson75 said:Just to wrap this up: should I go with the 64-bit version if I can, or stick to 32-bit?
krszas;24104504 said:Terry Booth45 said:Here’s an observation of mine... ever since I’ve had this laptop, it’s been running a 32-bit OS on a 64-bit processor, and my temperatures used to spike
How am I supposed to figure out how many bits my processor actually has? It's a Pentium (R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 2.50 GHz. How do I know which version of Windows 7 to install?
Just download this tool and you'll see http://download.cnet.com/Everest-Ult...-10499291.html ... and I'm certain it's 64-bit... 100%
Thomas Hernandez21 said:Not really... 🙂
Scott Thomas4 said:Don't kid yourself, Vista was a disaster; it only became remotely usable right at the end. A week is a long time to suffer. Regardless, it's still a fact that the best Windows OS is Windows XP.
Ubuntu rocks. Honestly, I made the switch to Macintosh this year, even though my wife nagged me about the price tag. I left her with Windows 7, thinking I'd be done dealing with them forever. And here we are—she’s already complaining and asking for help with something. But I’m not touching that trash just to be stubborn. I don't have the patience left. Windows is for the young. 😁
darkviper7 said:Yeah, right. You're looking at 7100 while the final build is actually 7600. 😬
dustytrucker6 said:You can't expect everything to run smoothly when you're messing with an RC version that’s still riddled with bugs. Just get the final release.
Thomas Hernandez21 said:For those interested, here is another experiment 😁 an old rig from 2001:
Pentium 3 1GHz
512MB PC133
40GB hard drive
GeForce MX400 64
FIC FA15T motherboard
I stripped it down to Tiny7 and it runs. It’s far from smooth, but what can you do? 🤣 The graphics card is a pain because there are no drivers, though I managed to force it by manually installing the ones meant for Windows XP (the install wizard complains about the OS version and quits, but if you point Device Manager to the folder where the wizard extracted everything, it works). Audio is the same story; it functions, but requires some manual coaxing. 🙂
Is it pleasant to use? Not exactly. 🤮
William Lee45 said:Why do I need 20 GB of free space just to upgrade to Windows 7? I only have 10 GB available. Can I expand my C drive using some software to run the upgrade, and then shrink it back down once everything is finished?
muppet1111 said:Forgive my lack of etiquette for posting in the wrong subforum, but beyond what was already mentioned, I have a genuine question: can I actually run Windows 7 on this machine, and if so, will it perform decently? Thanks...
Keith Bennett38 said:If you just run an upgrade over your current installation, nothing major should break. You can give it a shot.
Just don't go formatting everything like driftingmarlin70 suggested. 😬
Have you tried a system restore to a point a few days back when things were actually running smoothly?
Terry Booth45 said:So, I'm giving this another shot...
Keith Bennett38 said:Give this a shot; might actually work.
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...3-599d983ad9ff
