Windows 7: First Impressions

23 October, 2009 - 07:05 AM - 5 Comments

So yesterday I bought a Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Full Version and I formatted one of my drives, and discared my two older drives (7gb and 20gb respectively). I could not perform an upgrade because I only had about 130mb of free space on my “Boot disk” and I really needed to consolidate to using my two SATA drives (160GB and 1TB).

So after backing everything up (I just copied everything from all 3 drives to my 1TB hard drive) I formatted the 160GB drive with Windows 7 setup and then re-installed a fresh Windows 7 copy.

This was my very first look at Windows 7 and I decided to install the 64bit version since I am using Athlon 64 processors (older ones, but they are still 64bit).

Some of the things you notice right off the bat with Windows 7:

Taskbar is transparent and you can drag your folders under your taskbar and below your screen

Taskbar features smaller “image” icons of your open applications, hovering over them gives you a preview for less clutter

System tray much easier to configure and less cluttered

Sticky Notes built into OS by default (for creating noticable task lists and notes you can paste on your desktop)

Here is a list of Tested Applications:

Google Chrome
Firefox 3
Thunderbird 2
Winamp 3.55
Tweetdeck
Paint.NET
7Zip 64 bit (free zip/rar file manager)
Foxit Reader (best free PDF reader)
Camtasia Studio 6 (screen cast software)
MagicJack

Summary:

If you are going to Windows 7 from XP note that you have to do a fresh install, there is no upgrade option for Windows XP to Windows 7, for Vista users you can do an in place upgrade which makes it a little simpler but I never thing upgrades are as clean as a fresh install. My initial impressions are that Windows 7 appears faster, every window opens faster but it really has noticeably better internet performance compared to Vista thanks to the TCP stack limitations being removed that were in Windows Vista.

So far the operating system is clean, nothing I installed whether it was a 32bit or 64bit application has had a problem yet, and I have about 12 applications left to install. I am very pleased with the Operating System so far.

-Dragon Blogger

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Madhu

After a very long time some thing good to say about Microsoft.
A few days back I upgraded from Windows Vista to Windows 7 Ultimate (thank god I did that).
It works fine and I love the features, then I realized that may be we were blaming Microsoft for all the wrong reasons.
How many people use MAC? May be 5% ok let us give 10% what about the rest 90% who use windows.
Will you know if their are any issue with Lombogani Car, you will not, because no one you know owns a Lombogani , that dose not make the car prefect , the same thing with MAC or any other OS.
Imagine that when you upgrade to Windows 7 from Windows Vista and login as Guest to check and all youâ€™re personal files are gone. What would have done, sued Microsoft, and company would gone bankrupt with all the law suits.
But look at MAC OS 10.6 Snow Leopard, you upgrade, you login as guest and bingo all your files are gone, how convenient, but did you hear about it, mostly no, because no one you know uses MAC.
Thank god we have Windows, which is not the best, but at least not the worst.

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bbrian017

I meant on your yellow sticky things to do list, vote for other bloggers daily!
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Great review Justin, I was part of the beta program but had issues with my sound and I have such a love for music I had to drop out and go back to vista. Iâ€™m pretty excited to give this version a try. Thanks for the review Iâ€™m happy to see itâ€™s working for you.

Oh and donâ€™t forget to add to your stick visit blogengage and vote for other bloggers.
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dragonblogger

Will do, isn't that one of the ones in my sidebar? Also, I have a Creative Soundblaster X-Fi sound card and worked out of box with latest creative drivers.

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