Thread: I'm all Windows 7'd up

Trollslayer wrote: Hitting the windows key then typing in the first few characters of the programme I want is neat That is a cool feature - saves a lot of time!

i like Vista just fine. but even that was just an incremental change over XP. Windows hasn't had a really significant UI change in 15 years (and that's fine!).

arnold schwarzenegger was asked if he would upgrade to Windows 7. He said "I still love vista, baby!"

I'm still learning the tricks, this [ ^ ] site has quite a few. 64 bits means some complications but worth it for the long haul. Hitting the windows key then typing in the first few characters of the programme I want is neat.

Chris Losinger wrote: i like Vista just fine. but even that was just an incremental change over XP. Windows hasn't had a really significant UI change in 15 years (and that's fine!). Yeah am one of those "strange people" that like vista as well. have to agree about the incremental changes. I wish there was something actualy earth shattering coming out, or an ACTUAL upgrade. I remeber what it felt when 95 came out (was going...

Same thing here. I was actually very happy with Vista, but got a free copy of Weven and installed it on the home machine.

But what else does the average person see these days in new versions of an OS? Changes are either 1. New features that aren't explained well and hence aren't used and discussed 2. Fundamental improvements to the core OS that are effectively invisible to the user 3. Eye candy

1.21 Gigawatts wrote: I had Vista on my laptop and always defended it as I had never any problems (I must have been one of the lucky ones ). Actually, there were lots of "lucky ones", but no-one ever listened to them.