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[joe90gt]

wow - didn't realise i was going to provoke this much response! - anyhoo been running 7 for a few days now and remain impressed especially on speed, fires up in seconds whereas vista used to take minutes (same pc don't forget), and with vista the HD and light was for ever ticking so you were never sure it was up to even after looking in task manager, 7 just fires up and the HD stops ticking, job done.
I realy liked XP which is why vista was so disappointing, 7 seems like XP but even nicer to use.

[Deathrow]

That's how I see 7 too, an improvement on XP.

Vista was just a horrible accident of an operating system.

To throw The IT Crowd in to the mix again:

vB14ey7uO1s

[minili]

Lisa, you should upgrade to 7, then your machine will be even better .

Spend money on something I have no need for? Meh

I have a 7 laptop and Vista PC, I genuinely don't think they are far different (the lappy is nearly new and therefore faster to boot up, but otherwise much less powerful), the PC has always been good spec and would have been that good on any OS, I didn't spend more on it to run Vista, it's how I wanted it

I know Vista power-hogs but it's not an issue if you spend money where you should do on a system in the first place. I am a gamer so I bought decent parts when I built the PC and have only found on the newest games I can't run them on 100% top settings, on an 18 month old PC graphics card is my bottleneck, no DX11

Buying an OS to replace one which causes me no problems whatsoever seems like a waste, much rather put it towards replacing something worthwhile

[Scallywag630]

Used to love Windows 2000 pro....from the comments here I'll upgrade from Vista to 7

[joe90gt]

lisa - it realy is worth it, my pc is the same spec as it was in vista and 7 is so much faster and smoother - if your cool with vista then thats cool but i think upgrading to 7 is the same as upping your grafix, i was going to up my card but don't need to now.
however the discalimer is, everyones pc is different - bit like the mini really, so there is no guarentee 7 will work better on everyones , just prolly will tho - what do you game?

[davidv]

I used to like Windows 2000 Server more than Pro. Easy to get Freeware for.Have been happy with Vista.
Do you all use 64-bit for games?

[Deathrow]

I use 64-bit and don't have any issue gaming.

Never had an issue with anything actually.

[davidv]

They told me at the shop 64 bit best glad it was good advice the cost went up.I am no good at games but bought a couple of them to just try with the P.C Purchase.One extra i bought was a :Pure AV HDMI Audio Video Cable by Belkin.It does not fit my P.C and cost loads any gamers need one post on friends.

[minilester]

... such a strange bunch you's lot...

i have XP on all my pc's and i dont get problems.. it boots up real fast and ive cut out all the crap that i dont like until im running the bare minimum and it is fast and very responsive.

..if it aint broke... modify it til it is!!!!! lol (this applys to minis too...)

[davidv]

Yes above i used to also fix things till they break.Top Moral to share.I still have an XP Media p.c. Somewhere but had problems with the System .With all the free updates it worked better and just so many.It has only a single Pro. and Air cooled still a good old box.Locals could buy it cheap.

[Deathrow]

Gaming wise, 64-bit won't be offering any benefit at the moment. This is because most games are still written for 32-bit operating systems so the newer operating systems can only run them in 32-bit mode.

It's irritating because the 32-bit systems are holding the rest of the tech back. If they had dumped 32-bit operating systems years ago like they should have done, we'd probably have developers writing much more software for 64-bit systems, which is when we'd see the performance benefit.

If you're interested to see how many applications you have installed are actually 64-bit, navigate to C:\Program Files and compare it's contents with C:\Program Files (x86), everything in Program Files (x86) is only 32-bit and everything in the regular Program Files is 64-bit.