phew!!!! nice fresh install of win 7 ultimate

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24 October 2009, 09:08 AM

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phew!!!! nice fresh install of win 7 ultimate

decided to bite the bullet. reformat and reinstalled a nice copy of win 7 ultimate over my old RC copy. all smooth going. up and running again, updates installed. well happy. boot time for my old 4600+ dual core is surprisingly fast. how long before it slows down i wonder

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24 October 2009, 10:55 AM

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Right up until Win7 SP1

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24 October 2009, 11:55 AM

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Why did you buy Ultimate?

(asking as I had Vista Ultimate, but apart from languages I couldn't see any difference between W7 Professional and Ultimate)

Steve

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24 October 2009, 02:34 PM

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intalling mine now

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24 October 2009, 04:02 PM

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Why did you buy Ultimate?

(asking as I had Vista Ultimate, but apart from languages I couldn't see any difference between W7 Professional and Ultimate)

Steve

Not answering your question 'cos I aint Biginky - but here's a comparison between all the SKUs which seems fairly succinct to me.

Seems Ultimate has bitlocker and some other stuff but not really home computer type software.

Dave

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25 October 2009, 01:04 AM

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ive had it a while now and still very good

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25 October 2009, 03:21 PM

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Just bought a netbook with win 7 installed, looks good to me

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25 October 2009, 06:58 PM

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I've got Win7 Home Premium on three rigs, after playing with the beta, and I can honestly say that it's better than Vista. But then being kicked in the head is better than Vista. But it's still ****ing annoying though, in too many ways to go into. The habit of hiding all the useful stuff at the bottom of seven levels of drill-down menus is annoying enough, but then sticking a shortcut in plain view which doesn't actually do anything has driven me wild since the ****-wits who wrote Vista thought it would be a good idea.

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25 October 2009, 08:44 PM

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A few complaints on the interweb about things slowing down a LOT as time goes by. Like boot time being the same but then you log in and wait 15/20 mins for a desktop. Anyone here seen that?

Dave

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26 October 2009, 12:49 AM

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I've been using it for 3 months (if not more than that actually) and I haven't seen any slowdown.

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26 October 2009, 08:10 AM

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Quote:

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A few complaints on the interweb about things slowing down a LOT as time goes by. Like boot time being the same but then you log in and wait 15/20 mins for a desktop. Anyone here seen that?

Dave

I've been running the RC for months and still as fast as when I installed it.

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26 October 2009, 10:38 AM

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I'v been running windows 7 enterprise for a while now and its still fast.
Boot time is unreal - I can be out of standby and logged in within seconds

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28 October 2009, 03:40 PM

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Thats what impressed me the most I gotta say

Waiting for my old desktop to boot up with XP is horrible now compared to my win 7 lappy

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28 October 2009, 09:31 PM

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Quote:

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I'v been running windows 7 enterprise for a while now and its still fast.
Boot time is unreal - I can be out of standby and logged in within seconds

lol standby isn't a cold boot or anything like it. Unless u mean powered off? However if your PC boots 7 from power off in seconds then you must be running a Cray cpu

But yes 7 is alot faster than Vista in all cases.