Windows 7: Mojave My Ass

**Kamal** · January 20, 2009, 12:40:33 PM

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http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/20/windows-7-install-roundup/#continued

After resting up and settling into our post-CES golden desk chairs, team Engadget got busy at installing Windows 7 on pretty much anything they could find. Most installs went off without a hitch, and BSoDs were fairly few and far between. You can check out all our various first impressions after the break... the names aren't made up, but the stories are true.

**etincelles** · January 21, 2009, 12:26:48 AM

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**res0nat0r** · January 22, 2009, 07:56:29 PM

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http://i.gizmodo.com/5131933/giz-explains-why-the-windows-7-taskbar-beats-mac-os-xs-dock?skyline=true&s=i

Giz Explains: Why the Windows 7 Taskbar Beats Mac OS X's Dock

**Kamal** · January 23, 2009, 09:47:56 AM

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man all that hype about Windows 7 being quicker than XP and Vista....it wont happen until way into the future.

Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 show their multiprocessing mettle in our dual-core and quad-core performance tests

Regardless of how you slice the numbers, Windows 7 and Vista remain birds of a feather and clearly a very different species of animal from Windows XP. You can see this divergence in the overall execution path complexity for Windows 7. Like Vista, this new Windows chews up a lot more CPU cycles per transaction loop than XP -- from 39 to 68 percent more on dual-core and from 19 to 51 percent more on quad-core (the lower figures in each case representing the workflow workload, and the higher figures the database workload). Any illusions about Windows 7 somehow being leaner or more efficient than Vista can now be thrown out the window, right along with the infamous "new kernel" myth and related rumors and misconceptions.

**Simon Preston** · January 26, 2009, 04:50:58 AM

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Gonna have to disagree with that article. In my own real world tests Windows 7 is a lot faster, zippier and leaner than Vista. Even through a virtual machine with basic drivers. Would love to test it out on a proper thing.

**Kamal** · January 26, 2009, 09:41:15 AM

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I dont know how it stands up against XP but I have now installed Windows 7 on 2 different systems at home. My main laptop and my media center PC. Right off the bat, the things I have seen are

- Boot up times are wicked quick. As soon as I installed the beta, there were "Updates" ready to download and of course they needed a reboot. The system was back at the desktop in no time

- Low memory footprint. On my 2 GB laptop, on a bootup, with no apps running, when the system reached the desktop, the RAM meter indicated about 40% of the system RAM was in use. With Windows 7, it idles at 27% on the desktop.

- IE appears to be performing leaner than Firefox. When I boot up my laptop and fired IE, the Ram indicator stayed at 27%. I surfed around [ms] a bit, fired up additional Tabs, it did not budge past 27%. As soon as I opened up FF, it jumped to 31%. This was a clean install of FF with no add-ons and so the jump was rather surprising.

- Aero transitions definitely need a good video card. I was noticing some of the transitions weren't as "fluid" on my laptop but were great on my Desktop (which has an 8600GT).

- There are a few Bugs. For starts, IE is very unstable. If a page is loading and you try to reposition the window, screwed. Even Ctrl+Alt+Del // Task Manager // Kill IE is a pain. It just sits there, completely grayed out. The other bug I have noted so far is "Empty Recycle Bin" doesn't bring up the pop up confirmation box asking if you want to empty it. I've had to manually open the Recycle Bin, highlight all items and then delete it using the button in the window on the top.

- I'm just totally digging the the new task bar, themes (including the free ones available online). Very very cool

- Media Center interface has gotten a face lift for the better (at least I liked it). My wife wasn't a big fan of the larger font size of the Media Center Menu system. I also felt that the video decoders may have been tweaked for the better. Standard definition television broadcasts looked and worked better than those from Vista.

- The channel guide that appears at the bottom of the screen when watching TV looks great, not only does it show the standard info of whats playing on what channel, it now shows whats the upcoming show on the channel and whats playing on the immediate next channel as well.

These are just some of my observations right now, will post more later.

**Kamal** · January 27, 2009, 06:30:32 AM

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Noticed a second bug. Dont know what it is but for some reason my media center PC appears to be sucking CPU time like crazy. CPU fan is on a mission and I cant seem to pinpoint exactly what it is. Sometimes its the Windows Media Player network service, sometimes its Windows Media Center, other times its Windows Media Network Service. Its never all 3 together but just one of the services will take the place of the other when when I kill it through task manager. Really weird.

**Kamal** · January 27, 2009, 10:38:49 AM

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apparently this is how you burn ISO images in Windows 7, which is a HUGE plus, but I don't see the option when I right click an ISO image file. Perhaps its a newer beta release ?

EDIT: I installed Winrar and so the option actually got tucked away. After right clicking the img file and moving the mouse over "Open With" - see the option "Windows Disc Image Burner". So confirm Burning ISOs to CD/DVD is built into Windows 7.

**ganjamo** · January 27, 2009, 12:14:40 PM

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Im downloading the ISO atm and will install it asap. From what ive read it looks tons better than vista. Lets just hope they keep it up and dont f$ck it up in the end.

**Kamal** · February 2, 2009, 03:15:23 PM

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vista and everything else you wanted to know....pretty detailed list.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5136781/gizmodos-complete-windows-7-coverage?skyline=true&s=i

**Digger** · February 8, 2009, 04:49:57 PM

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im on windows 7 64bits looks fucking amazing mates...i first installed vista coz i had always been on xp so i just wanted to give it fast view get a score of 5.8 and then i reinstall windows 7 im using it gonna try a few proggys that i might need...im installing the upadtes so my MP3 dont get fuck or something...

**Digger** · February 9, 2009, 12:31:42 PM

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i just unistall it, read about a bug with the mp3 files and get freakout i just recently put vista ultimate on my pc and works like a charm, those animated wallpapers are freaking cool...

and had a score of 5.8 only my hardware had 5.8 everything else have 5.9

**TomTom** · February 9, 2009, 02:18:06 PM

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Do you have links to good and free animated wallpapers?

**Digger** · February 9, 2009, 07:55:43 PM

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i get them on the windows update dreamscene i think they are called..
rite now i have one on the woods with a waterfall that is pretty impresive im gonna put a screenshoot never thought on looking them on the web, gonna do a search later at home and let you know

**TomTom** · February 11, 2009, 01:28:52 PM

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Yeah I downloaded all Dream Scene files from the Microsoft page as well and I also use the waterfall on my PC..great desktop motive. I am more looking for some free underground art.

The cool ones I saw so far were commercially orientated so I hope for a scene of people sharing good ones for free.

Windows 7: Mojave My Ass

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