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[zoomy942]

love it on my workstation and my tablet PC. feels quick, works great, everything is fast and stabel - even with all my different work apps i have to use. impressive.

[GitDat]

I don't like how you can't just shove the mouse to the upper right corner on a Maximized window and click the X. Now you have to "find" the X because there is now a space

[GitDat]

Is there any way to narrow the Taskbar? And is there any way to turn off the preview on minimized windows?

[Sazar]

Originally Posted by GitDat

Is there any way to narrow the Taskbar? And is there any way to turn off the preview on minimized windows?

You can choose to auto-hide the taskbar but not sure about making it thinner.

Also, to turn Aero Peek off, you can disable it from your properties for your taskbar/start menu.

Right-click on your windows start thinger and then select properties and uncheck Aero Peek. Now, I could also completely be misunderstanding you

[GitDat]

Originally Posted by Sazar

You can choose to auto-hide the taskbar but not sure about making it thinner.

Also, to turn Aero Peek off, you can disable it from your properties for your taskbar/start menu.

Right-click on your windows start thinger and then select properties and uncheck Aero Peek. Now, I could also completely be misunderstanding you

I just tried turning off the Aero Peek but it doesn't effect the minimized windows preview Maybe you can't turn it off yet.

[Yaboze]

Well, I bit the bullet and upgraded my Vista SP2 x64 system that was an old bloated build from last year. It took over an hour and a half.

I had no real issues, except it seemed to have messed up my profile with my settings, but I logged off and it seemed to have fixed it. After the first boot when you sign in, it was fine. I then installed the Nvidia and Creative drivers and restarted, it was then, as it was logging me in I heard an error sound and when it logged in, everything was default and it said it was unable to find the profile and it showed some path. Aero wasn't even on, it was in the Windows 2000 UI. Weird. I logged off and back on and everything was back (icons, Aero, etc).

My system scored a 5.9, same as before, but this time the 5.9 was in my HD only, the rest was 7.3 for Proc and RAM (Q9650 and 4GB) and 6.4 for Aero/Games (G200). Highest cap is 7.9 this time.

There were a few Windows Updates, mainly for IE8.

Seems to boot up and shut down faster, but not by much. Overall, it feels snappier. Games seem to run the same. My memory usage is lower and my processes are about 10 less than I had in Vista x64 SP2. I didn't do a clean install because I am going to do that when it's RTM and I didn't want to do it twice.

I am now comfortable knowing my system is supported and runs Windows 7 very well. I can't wait for RTM and then I will do a clean install.

[nekrosoft13]

Originally Posted by Yaboze

Well, I bit the bullet and upgraded my Vista SP2 x64 system that was an old bloated build from last year. It took over an hour and a half.

I had no real issues, except it seemed to have messed up my profile with my settings, but I logged off and it seemed to have fixed it. After the first boot when you sign in, it was fine. I then installed the Nvidia and Creative drivers and restarted, it was then, as it was logging me in I heard an error sound and when it logged in, everything was default and it said it was unable to find the profile and it showed some path. Aero wasn't even on, it was in the Windows 2000 UI. Weird. I logged off and back on and everything was back (icons, Aero, etc).

My system scored a 5.9, same as before, but this time the 5.9 was in my HD only, the rest was 7.3 for Proc and RAM (Q9650 and 4GB) and 6.4 for Aero/Games (G200). Highest cap is 7.9 this time.

There were a few Windows Updates, mainly for IE8.

Seems to boot up and shut down faster, but not by much. Overall, it feels snappier. Games seem to run the same. My memory usage is lower and my processes are about 10 less than I had in Vista x64 SP2. I didn't do a clean install because I am going to do that when it's RTM and I didn't want to do it twice.

I am now comfortable knowing my system is supported and runs Windows 7 very well. I can't wait for RTM and then I will do a clean install.

that mean someting in your profile is corrupt. sometimes it can fix it self, or revert to slightly older back-up local user registry. sometimes it will go away, or it might keep happening.

[Sazar]

Originally Posted by GitDat

I just tried turning off the Aero Peek but it doesn't effect the minimized windows preview Maybe you can't turn it off yet.

Oh kay, I get what you're saying

Go to your display/performance options for visual settings and adjust it from there. It is one of the settings there I believe.

Sorry, I thought you were talking about a different thing earlier

[Blacklash]

If you want an easy way to reduce the taskbar size just select use small icons under properties. I auto hide mine too.

[GitDat]

Originally Posted by Blacklash

If you want an easy way to reduce the taskbar size just select use small icons under properties. I auto hide mine too.

Ah, small icons did it Thanks. That's one down. Not having the X in the upper right corner (ALL the way) anymore is definitely a bigger drag.

[GitDat]

Originally Posted by Sazar

Oh kay, I get what you're saying

Go to your display/performance options for visual settings and adjust it from there. It is one of the settings there I believe.

Sorry, I thought you were talking about a different thing earlier

I tried going through them one by one but can't seem to find a setting for it. There is a setting for it in Vista but I don't see it on 7 anymore.

[LordJuanlo]

I have been running it for two days, so far so good, it feels much smoother than Vista, disk trashing on boot and after exiting games is greatly reduced (and I had a quite fresh installation of Vista, 1 month old). Games work perfectly, installed Steam, tried some Left 4 Dead, LOTRO (DX10), Bioshock and everything works perfectly. ATI has done a great work on 7 drivers, and my Asus Xonar works perfectly too (this one with Vista drivers), DS3D emulations works, and so does Dolby Headphone. Ideazon Fang keypad works well too, my custom profiles carried from Vista with no problems.

As you can see on my signature, Windows 7 RC x64 is now my main OS, still won't wipe the Vista partition just to have a backup OS if something goes wrong