Comments on: Windows 7 improved window management using the keyboard (hotkeys)

By: Subhankar

Subhankar — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:56:25 +0000

Windows 7 is no doubt the best so far that Microsoft has produced. It is fast, easy to use, compatible with all software (so far), loaded with useful tools(like snipping tool, Network Monitoring..etc ).
Good newz for XP lovers… they can make Windows 7 look and run like Windows XP with the help of Virtualisation. All you need to do is download and install XP Mode from the following link:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx

but the only thing that bugs me out is the price….. Windows 7 ultimate so expensive to afford!!

By: Psalm7326

Psalm7326 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:23:06 +0000

Bookmarked this! I’m keeping several of these articles for when I finally get Windows 7.

I’m planning to learn the majority of these shortcuts. “Shortcut” is a golden word to me when it comes to computing. Thanks, TechSpot!

By: Melaney

Melaney — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:12:01 +0000

Oh! I forgot to mention that AVG 9 works brilliantly with my Win 7. Its much faster than 8.5 with XP. Don’t know who to thank for that.

Just make sure to set exceptions for your favorite programs in your anti virus and firewall options. That cleared up my sluggishness immensely.

By: Melaney

Melaney — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:02:36 +0000

Windows 7 is awesome! I’m running the official release (Ultimate, 32bit) version from an XP clean install. It’s faster, lighter, feature rich, and runs all of my old software and hardware just great.

I did have to wrestle a bit with getting the right drivers installed and configured. I also had a big battle with it’s UAC file security locking me out of everything. But a reinstall set to Home networking instead of Public networking fixed most of that. (MY COMPUTER, DAMMIT! You can’t tell me what to do.)

As far as the drivers, everything actually worked out of the box after one Microsoft update. However, I am a freak about having my system optimized, and always do a lot of research to find the BEST drivers for my devices. Typically, Microsoft’s were the best but worked better using the new configuration .ini file from another source.

To do this I would install the new vendor’s drivers, restart my system, then, in device manger, Roll Back the drivers. This leaves the new options, activated by the custom ini file, available for you to tweak an play with. (You might need to fiddle with the new hardware options BEFORE rolling back to get Windows to save save them.) This is what happened with my Nvidia graphics and Broadcom wireless drivers. They work so much better now than in XP! I’m a happy camper.

I am a old-school Microsoft basher, but have recently seen the light and been redeemed — or was it Microsoft that sought redemption? Anyway…!

By: remote control software

remote control software — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:54:52 +0000

Since the release of Windows 7, all I have heard is mass amounts of criticism. I was told that the release of this software was pushed up, but I will not believe that Windows has that many flaws. I have not seen or tried the software yet, but I have been an avid Windows user for years. I can’t speak from personal use, but I would assume that this list from the write-up would definitely come in handy.

By: NCSmallbusinessbroker

NCSmallbusinessbroker — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:21:52 +0000

Great! I think youngsters of India would enjoy it very much.

By: Cogwheel

Cogwheel — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:02:06 +0000

Bookmarked. :)

In win7 RC, there’s also Win+Shift+Up/Down to vertically maximize/restore the window.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:51:54 +0000

Well, I’m running my current version of Kaspersky (2008) on Windows 7 and it works fine. The version of Kaspersy that is available to beta test on Windows 7 does NOT allow me to install Adobe Acrobat Reader at all. It causes the installer to bomb out!

In any case, I have yet to find any incompatabilities with Windows 7 and the applications I run. Now, is it more responsive than Vista? It’s kind of hard to tell. Yeah, it boots faster, but then I haven’t installed EVERY piece of software that I currently have installed in Vista. I don’t find it slower than Vista and so far, even some pretty intensive games work just as good under Windows 7 as they did in Vista. I won’t say I see a significant speed increase.

Once thing I did notice was that under Vista, my Experience Rating was 4.5 because Vista stated my memory (PC3200) was rated at 4.5. However, under Windows 7, it rated it at 4.9.

My other ratings (CPU, gaming graphics, etc) are the same under Vista and Windows 7, so I’m not sure what is going on with the rating of the memory.

But overall, Windows 7 seems to run pretty well. Still not sure if it’s worth an upgrade or not.

By: FM3

FM3 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:43:43 +0000

I wish that win 7 better than vista

By: Jerry Baxter

Jerry Baxter — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:05:10 +0000

Im running Avast 4.8 pro (trial) – no issues at all – also using Spam Bully in Outlook with no issues – Super Anti Spyware program crashed my set up though.