Windows 7 - A Visual Tour ** PIC INTENSIVE **

Got my latest update build of Windows 7, so i thought i would take everyone ( who's interested ) on a visual tour of some of the changes to look forward too...

Spec of my testing computer..

P4 3.0Ghz
1Gb ram
160 SATA Hard Dive
Soundmax integrated Audio
Intel Integrated NIC
On Board Video

Install Time

Clean / Fresh install on to a blank unformatted hard drive.

The whole process from powering on my computer, to having the desktop available to me, 21.5 minutes....thats a full install of Widows 7 Ultimate Edition.

Boot Time

Boot time from pressing power button to deskop ready - 8.3 seconds ( Windows Vista time - 17 seconds, Windows XP time 15 seconds )


Desktop




System




Start Menu




My Computer




Aero Interface




Control Panel




Device Manager




Network Control Panel




Display Properties




Display Auto Slideshow





User Files




Widows Alerts




Backup Centre




Biometric Centre




Credential Management




PowerShell

Text Based Version



GUI Version




Internet Explorer 8










Gadgets



Floating gadgets ( gadgets can now be placed anywhere you like on the desktop )




Solution Centre




Media Player 12





Task List




I hope you tech folks who follow microsoft development enjoy this...

Its based on the same kernal as Vista, however the footprint on resources has been dramaticlly reduced..Its VERY fast all round...copying files to dvd, across the network or to pen drives, installing apps.. IMPRESSED

Drivers...Well, this hardware is about 3 years old, everything besides the sound card got their drivers installed out of the box..Just downloaded SoundMax Drivers from Dell, installed without issue, works fine.... IMPRESSED

If i take a look back to when i as working on the development builds of Windows Vista, before it went to Beta, i was only kinda impressed....However, with Windows 7, I AM VERY IMPRESSED....Concidering were testing development builds, and you can do a fresh install of it, and only have to download sound card drivers, thats pretty impressive....Back with Vista, i had to download sound, video, network and the base motherboard driver package.... IMPRESSED

It was origonaly conceived that it would be 2009...however, as Microsoft have introduced a new internal "quality bar" system ( a more intensive testing of builds and compatibility ), it may even be, early 2010....that will be within keeping of the 3 years time span...There is no deffinitive answer to this yet..

** As a side note, for those who visit torrent sites, do not bother to download the builds which are available...the one floating round is very unstable as its an early dev build and most features are locked away from sight.. **

LOL....Excuzzeme.....read what i said....its NOT a resource hog....lol

and yes, it work very well for a dev build....

Its based on the same kernal as Vista, however the footprint on resources has been dramaticlly reduced..Its VERY fast all round...copying files to dvd, across the network or to pen drives, installing apps.. IMPRESSED

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The Zigman said:

WINDOWS 7?

where are windows 1-6?
Did I miss something?

I scrapped vista for XP sp3...
This looks like it might be worthwhile, pending any software compatibility issues..

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Windows 7 is the internal name for it...no idea what the name of it will be when its released....not experienced any compatibility issues with it with all the software i commonly use....so far....

H3D said:

I agree...did you see nikos specs? I'm surprised he can even run windows on that machine! :rofl:

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LOL...I run Vista Ultimate on my home computer....thats just a semperon 1.8ghz and 1gb ram....runs absolutly fine....