Posts by Jonathan Newman47

Windows 9 v8.3.6.0 Micro

Gerald Carter5 said:I jumped from Windows Vista over to the Windows 7 beta, and honestly, everything is running smooth as silk. The OS is a massive step up from Vista. I’m loving it so far—it feels noticeably snappier, and I’m genuinely looking forward to the final release.

Look, can someone actually explain what you mean by "improvement" over Vista? So far, nobody has given a single concrete reason why Windows 7 is supposedly better than Vista.

It seems like it's just GoGs777 and me who think there haven't been any groundbreaking changes compared to Vista.

Joshua Long said:Has anyone actually installed Nero yet? If so, which version are you running?

Look, the eighth version works just fine.

Frank White75 said:My memory usage sits at 900 MB while I'm just idling in Windows Vista 🤷 div>

It’s not about what you’re actually doing; it’s about all the junk you've got installed.

Are you running some budget laptop that came pre-loaded with Windows Vista? If so, you’re probably dealing with a mountain of bloatware that serves zero purpose but eats up your RAM.

Noah Miller6 said:I’m on the same page as Mike and the rest of the crew.
I installed build 6956 about three weeks back and honestly, I’m impressed. Every single driver works flawlessly, and when it comes to raw speed, the OS feels right up there with Windows XP—which basically means it's twice as fast as Windows Vista.

Can anyone actually elaborate on this? Because I’m just not seeing it.

I put in the Build 7000 light version, and memory usage sits at 380 MB. Even with a few small programs running, I’m only hitting 450 MB.

To me, this feels way more like Vista than anything resembling XP.

Drivers are solid; everything worked out of the box.

If you ask me, this is just Vista with some fancy new visual effects thrown in.

I’m not a fan of how they messed with all the standard stuff we’re already used to.

One thing I did notice, though, is that I’m missing the paste option in the right-click menu.

wiredtiger10 said:Stick with Windows XP for another 5 or 6 years, then maybe move to Vista.

Moving from Windows XP to Vista is like trading in a stallion for a donkey.

In two years, half the software out there won't even run on Windows XP anymore.

Look, go ahead and try to install Nero Burning ROM on Windows XP. While you're sitting there waiting for it to actually boot up, I'll have already burned my DVD on Vista, grabbed a coffee, and watched half a movie.

I remember one time I was putting together an old rig—Pentium III, 128 MB of RAM—and I tried to throw Windows 98 on it. What a disaster. Media Player wouldn't work without DirectX 9, and even if it did, the graphics card couldn't handle it. Every video player I installed looked like a snowstorm on the screen. In the end, I just slapped Windows XP on it, and even with a measly 128 MB of RAM, it ran like a total wreck.

It wasn't that long ago that everyone was trashing Windows XP and acting like Windows 98 was the holy grail. We all swore we’d never touch Windows XP, but we forgot how much of a headache those modem drivers and other glitches were pretty damn fast. We bought new modems, added more RAM, or just upgraded to new PCs and moved straight to Windows XP.

And I guarantee you, nobody ever went back.