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Old November 17th 09, 03:41 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Canuck57[_5_]
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RustY © wrote:

I've been told that 7 is a limited version of windos for laptops. Is anyone
running anything bigger on it [successfully].


Doesn't include a mail program if that is what you mean. You can
download the flaky "Live Mail" junk, but I prefer Thunderbird.

Win 7 is Vista regurgitated. Same performance isues but they did
improve the Aero a little by removing the smoothness and frame rates.
Appears faster but is chunky. But if you benchmark disk and network
copies, same issues as Vista.

The gadget bar has changed, some resolutions cause overlap and spacing
is more like the desktop. A step backwards in my opinion.

Certainly not worth $$ to upgrade. In fact I reverted back to Vista.

AMD X4 9750, ATI 4350, 8GB RAM, 750GB and 1TB drives. Didn't waste my
time putting it on a similarly equiped Q6600.
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Old November 17th 09, 08:56 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Gordon
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"Canuck57" wrote in message
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Win 7 is Vista regurgitated. Same performance isues


Actually not. Certainly not here on the same hardware that I ran Vista on.
One thing I have noticed - the undocumented, unacknowledged "feature" that
Vista has/had, of randomly dropping the wireless internet connection (not
the WLAN, just the Internet), has been fixed in 7...

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Old November 20th 09, 03:49 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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hi guys

I recently imaged my vista home prem. x32 and formatted and installed win 7
pro. It took me 3 tries to finally get it to work well. I have a Dell
Inspiron E1705 laptop I am working with and win 7 pro had no support for
the ATI mobility radeon x1400 video adapter. So I figured I would try one
of the MS built in drivers for ATI cards as it was assigning only a
standard VGA driver. So after some research and seeing what may be working
for others, I manually updated the device and tried 2 drivers, both
actually worked fine and was stable for me. The first was just the radeon
x1300 driver ( no mobility, but the desktop version) and then I tried the
x1600 and that is what I have been using.

Nice system, according to Dell the inspiron e1705 was not compatible, but I
got it to work fine after fighting with the video issues. I originally
tried the Dell vista ati driver and it worked, but on reboot screen went
black and had to shutdown several times. After the third format and
install, I figured out the video issue and the radeon x1600 (desktop driver
I assume) is working well. Base score on performance gives me a 3.6 which
is fine with me. I also ran direct x diagnostics (dxdiag.exe in system32
folder) and it showed no problems with the display.

I thought this to be kind of funny that this driver is working for me, but
I would not advise this for anyone else. my experience may not be good for
someone else depending on their system. Many are having display issues and
this is how I got mine working. Ati (amd) are not bothering with "older"
cards to update their drivers, but supposedly MS has one on their update
server, but as long as this is working, I will not chance using MS driver.
Hopefully I will find the proper driver down the road somewhere after this
has been out for awhile. I am a computer tech for about 11 years now and
always advise folks to wait for at least 6 months to a year before
upgrading. I do not advise "upgrades", as that is asking for trouble but
some folks prefer that as it is usually less expensive. clean installs are
best if you can do it, as long as you save your necessary data. I do
believe you can do clean full installs using the upgrade version according
to windows secrets newsletter.

So far I really like the memory management, it is far better than Vista
was. I am learning how to get into the system and customize and tweak, but
so far I am impressed with the stability and performance, although in some
cases it is a bit slower than Vista, most though it is on par. I still have
to shake my head at the sheer size of both Vista and win 7...my install was
clean, and it came in around 8 GB without additional software installed, so
I trimmed some size by putting the pagefile on another partition, I image
drives/partitions regularly for backups, so I shut off "system restore"
feature. Got it down to around 6.5 GB before I installed AV and a few other
programs. It will be awhile before some companies get their apps coded for
win 7, but many vista and older apps work just fine so far other than
firewalls. be careful with firewall software, I do advise getting a good
software firewall, but it can cause havoc if not totally compatible with
win 7, just a warning.

Working well, hope this helps someone who is having any issues with display
cards. i think this will do much better than Vista did, although I did not
have any major problems with vista other than it was such a memory hog lol.

all my best
Jim
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In article ,
says...

I've been told that 7 is a limited version of windos for laptops. Is anyone
running anything bigger on it [successfully].


I'm having good results running Win 7 on a 5 year old
Dell desktop. Better than Vista I would say although I
had no major problems with Vista either.

Win 7 installed with no effort from me. It is a bit
slower to load than I would like but as I said this is
an older machine, 3 ghz processor with 2 gb ram. I'm
using Win 7 Pro.

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Old November 20th 09, 02:48 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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In article , jimmywin7
says...
I have a Dell
Inspiron E1705 laptop I am working with and win 7 pro had no support for
the ATI mobility radeon x1400 video adapter.


You should have installed the Windows XP video card driver, Win 7
permits it and it's worked fine on my laptop that doesn't have native
Vista/Win 7 video card drivers.

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