I love Windows 7, anybody else? :)

Just thought I would share it Installed 64 bit home premium and it took about 90 mins to install everything and get everything to perfection. Very happy. Have to say it beats XP my old time fav.

Anyone else

 

Yep, I love it as well.

 

Yes, i love it a lot, mad i didnt upgrade earlier. Love the snap feature and the task bar is amazing..

 

I love Windows period. Long live Microsoft!!

:salute:
:clicks heels:

 

Lol easy easy my little arian follower
Indeed why not, long live microsoftus maximus

 

Quick, question i got windows 7 professional, how do i encrypt files?

 

I like Windows 7 a lot. I really prefer using it to Vista or XP.

Now I just wish my school would switch to Windows 7 now...

 

No idea

 

Bitlocker?

 

True. If XP hadn't decided to lock me out at the welcome screen then I would still be ignorant of the goodness of win 7

 

Gotta love the snap, especially on smaller screens. The half-screen snap is awesome when moving quantities of files around. More convenient than the add-ons that accomplish the grid-task, like Acer's GridVista.

Overall, it's just so freaking pretty... And my Ultimate 64 is 11.15 GB installed with a ton of apps installed. Schweeet... (IIRC, it was 7-8 freshly installed).

 

i also love windows 7 , what made me love 7 more and more that i hated vista more and more with its weired bugs a bad performance

 

Right click, select properties, click the advanced button, check "encrypt file."

I give credit where credit is due.

People forget Microsoft's motto way back in the day: "A computer on every desktop in every home running Microsoft." Say that 20 years ago and you would of looked like a retard. Think about the drive and passion they put forth and the current fruits of their labor. Few companies can compare.

Any other company with those results would be hailed as visionary role models (think of Google's motto).

 

i think you can encrypt files using bit locker which is i think is only available in the ultimate edition , some one correct me if i am wrong

 

Ughh, NTFS encryption has been available long before Bitlocker.

 

@surfasb
so i tried ur method it worked , but i wanna know how it works , what if i reinstalled windows will i gain access to the file?( it didn't ask me for password or anything it just encrypted it and the file name turned green )

 

If you reinstalled windows, you would lose access to the file.

Each file is encrypted using a private key tied to the specific user account. This private key needs to be copied if you are to reinstall windows and reaccess your previous encrypted files. In which case, if you forget your password, your encrypted files would be forever lost if you don't back the private key.

To backup your private key, go to control panel and hit F3. In the search box type "file encryption". Use the wizard to backup your private key to an external drive.

 

I love windows 7 as well. It works just as good as MS Dos Shell 3.1, 95, 95b, 98, 98SE, 2000, XP, XP x64 Vista x64.

Crap I'm getting old!

 

But not as well as Windows ME?

 

Ah, ME. I was one of the few people without problems. Mostly ME got a bad rap thanks to the rapid ease malware would infect IE 5.

 

I don't love Windows 7, I just use it so I will just say it is usable.

 

The Superbar was a lovely addition for Tablet Users. Too bad few applications are optimized for tablets.

 

I'll be happier once everyone else starts using it and I don't have to fix another XP based computer.

 

Yep installs much faster than XP with more out of box drivers, easy to format.

 

I love windows 7, and I hope the next operating system is just as good/better.

 

I adore Windows 7! Absolutely fantastic OS to use!

 

I can't say in love but definately enfactuated, at least until the next OS release........... :yes:

 

I will just say I am much happier with Windows 7 than I have been with some past OS.

 

For now it is not so good as XP. XP had more failures but none that needed a reboot. In W7 i am getting more hard crashes. It is more fancy than XP and have some good interface ideas but not enough to be "great", for me it is only "ok".

 

I am a recent convert to 7 Home Premium from XP (I bypassed Vista entirely), and while the first few days took some getting used to, I can now definitively say that I love it. Much faster startup time, taskbar is ingenious and cleaned up everything from my desktop...plus I love the hover/preview, programs load super fast, no driver issues...it's just awesome.

 

Also tis great that the upgrade edition allows full install from a fresh re-format. Saves money

 

I installed Windows 7 Professional x64 back in December, and I'll never look back. Don't get me wrong, I liked Vista, and it worked great on my system, but that just means 7 is that much better on the same system.

Lots of the little weird bugs from Vista are gone, and I get a strong sense of security and stability with 7, which may just be a placebo effect, but I digress .

 

I don't like how they gutted the windowing system. There is functionality that had been around since Windows 95 that they simply yanked out, which is causing me a lot of inconvenience.

 

My biggest gripe about Windows right now is from my Tablet perspective. Place elements along the edge of the screen is great for a mouse. It makes it a pain for a tablet user as the digitizer is most inaccurate along the bezel. I was glad when they made the taskbar taller to alleviate this issue. Close button is still a pain to get to though. I find right clicking the taskbar icons easier than trying to reach all the way to the corner.

Ah, the pains of a tablet user....
We need our own special interest group.

 

What about the soccermoms with their Pentium 4's and 512MB RAM machines? I think they'll still have XP for a fair amount of time yet.

 

All they need is internet.

 

Yes, deep maddening luv...:yes: :yes:
I will luv it even more when I get my replacement SXPS 1640 (for my XPS 1530), and get Win 7 Ultimate reinstalled on it....and then it will be a huge: WahOOT!

Sariously, glad yours is working out so well for you..

I like how everything just "flows" with Win 7.....well for me it does!!


Cin...

 

oddly 10 mins back after booting up I had driver crash after driver crash leading to no sound and then no internet and then not even letting me shut down..I know odd. Forced restart and checked everything and nothing is wrong at all, kinda puzzled but I guess there are still a few bugs lurking about, it is a new OS after all.

Still love it so far

 

Ah, if only the old monopolistic Microsoft was still running the PC industry. Imagine where we would be now.

Think about the 90's. Software development moved at a breakneck pace. We went from text editors to WYSIWYG editors with spell and grammar check.

Look at the past decade. We went from WYSIWYG editors with spell check and grammar check to........ WYSIWYG editors with spell check and grammar check. Meh.

In the 90s, we went from a command line interface to an OS that had a built in MP3 player and web browser.

In the last decade, we went from an OS that had a built in MP3 player and web browser to ........ an OS that had a built in MP3 player and web browser. Meh.


Seriously, they need to make Microsoft a monopoly again.

 

Time for a virus that kills these types of machines

 

Well Win 7 isn't really any different from my slightly tweaked Vista SP2 actually - I still don't like the taskbar and continue to prefer Objectdock. It isn't much faster, and after a few weeks without a restart, it is taking up the same amount of RAM that Vista used to. It took me about 3 weeks to get my fingerprint reader working, then another couple of weeks to get my fn key screen dimmer/brightener working. It ain't perfect yet, but when SP1 comes out it might be...

 

I renounce my former post - Windows 7 drops a point in my opinion now. At this point, Vista is now the more stable OS out of the two.

 

Just because you had a driver issue?

 

I think Win7 is o.k. Some slight improvements, some things I'm not so sure about, but I may get used to them. Taskbar is a mixed bag. I wonder which ones of Vista's "weird little bugs" you found fixed.

A pet peeve of mine, the desktop personalization section, seems to have gotten even worse than it was before. You know, when you want to customize your fonts for titlebars, icons, menus, etc, you still end up in the ten-year-old Windows 2000 dialog for that (which got stuck into a completely illogical place, too; "Open classic appearance properties for more color options"??? Sheesh...).

Worse, there's some subtle idiosyncrasies in how changes actually get applied (such as, for mysterious reasons, actual Window metrics coming out different for different users, despite identical settings ). In addition, since that part of the desktop personalization is clearly not at all integrated with the newer layers for that purpose, weird interferences may occur if you change your fonts, and then make changes to your theme. Overall that area has been a complete mess since Vista, and it's gotten worse with Win7. Why in all the world Microsoft's team couldn't figure out how to integrate these cutsomizations with the rest of the personalization features is beyond me. It's not like they didn't have more than a decade's worth of time. And it's not like wanting to customize your desktop fonts is such an unusual idea, either...

Yeah, lot's of idiocy out there. You know, people should really thank their lucky stars that it's Microsoft still dominating the personal computing industry. If we had Steve Jobs at the helm, we'd be screwed...

P.S.: And don't get me started about Google...

 

I love W7 but then again I loved XP and Vista too. The only flaw I've found so far that really bothers me is not being able to move my files and folders around to where I want them in the My Pictures folder.

 

Windows 7 is like freaking magic. I can count like a half dozen times where I'm fiddling with things try to get them to work (for example a VPN connection) and windows 7 is all "Well fine fellow, let me help you with that" and through whatever incantation or goat's blood a microsoft employee called upon, it works. Actually pretty much all the magic is centered around the networking in windows 7, I'm a little beyond a (I hate this phrase)...poweruser, but it still surprises me.

 

I love Windows 7, it's so much fun to use. It's making me be on my computer longer than I normally would under XP.

 

Here's a MS fanboy at it's best. We should thank our lucky stars that MS is still dominating the PC industry? Brother, stop drinking the kool-aid. For me, W7 is way overrated and has received more hype than deserved. It's just a service pack to Vista. Still gotta deal with that frustrating Registry maintenance and those .dlls and let's not go down the street to that new mess of a Control Panel. In other words, it's STILL Windows.

 

What benefit would the world have by having Microsoft be a monopoly? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? You actually support that? Right, I guess we don't need choices, Windows 7 does it all, we don't need choices, MS Office does it all, we don't need choices, Xbox is the end all. Put down the MS Kool-aid.

In terms of my avatar and sig, the avatar is from years of Windows experience which is why I'm not singing the holy praises of some blind W7 fans here. I don't even own an iBook G3. That Mac is what 10 years old? It was sarcasm, it was being compared jokingly to an i7. You guys are calling me a fanboy? I can't even have a Mac in my sig and visit the Windows forum without the elitist comments from Mac haters?

 

:laugh: "MS Fanboy"? Me? Kiddo, have you even read just my own post in this very thread? You know, son, I have been around the block for way too long to be a fanboy for anything, and long enough to look at things from a fairly objective point of view. You may be interested to know that I was using Unix/Linux machines for many years, exclusively. Those were times when Windows was simply not viable for my purposes, for many reasons. You were probably still in diapers then...

Whether or not it is overrated would depend on who's doing the rating, I guess, but your second sentence is true, essentially. A little bit of lip gloss and shoe shine here and there, some nips and tucks, otherwise, yes, Win7 is really Vista 1.1. So what?

Do you have any idea at all what you are talking about? "Frustrating registry maintenance"? What in the world is that supposed to be?

Then there's some oblique reference to ".dlls" above. Care to elaborate? Do you feel there's anything wrong with them? Are you advocating statically linked executables? Or what?

Finally, feel free to "go down the street to that new mess of a Control Panel". We are on the edges of our seats here.

Finally, do not hold back on your suggestions/examples as to how to improve these "issues" you feel you have identified. I would advise you, however, to make sure you actually do know what you are talking about. You don't want to appear as a clueless fanboy, now, don't you?