Windows 7 beta 1 review
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversI’ve now had my hands on Windows 7 beta 1 build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 (the build that is widely expected to be made available to beta testers by Microsoft early in January) and have had some time to compose my thoughts and feelings about this latest release.
Beta 1 is very similar to M3 builds
The first thing that’s striking about Windows 7 beta 1 is how similar it is to the M3 builds that I’ve been using since October. In fact, put builds 6801 and 7000 beta 1 side-by-side and you might be hard pressed to spot the difference (especially if you activated the Blue Badge features). This means that if you’ve been following Windows 7 builds then when you get your hands on the beta you’ll be pretty familiar with the beta. The flip-side is that I’ve got fewer new things to show you!
It’s unusual not to be faced with heaps of new features with each build - it’s almost as though Microsoft had a plan for Windows 7 right from the start, baked these features into the early M3 build and have since been working on refining these features. This is an interesting approach that seems to have resulted in the best beta build of an OS from Microsoft that I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen a LOT of beta builds!). Wow!
Installation
Installing Windows 7 beta 1 is faster and simpler than installing Windows Vista or Windows XP on a system.
There are fewer steps to work through, the installation is overall much faster than for earlier Microsoft operating systems (I can get Windows 7 onto most systems in about 25 minutes, on a powerful system the install process will take less than 20 minutes), and there are fewer obstacles between the user and the OS once it’s installed (for example, gone is that annoying post-install performance test).
New taskbar
Oddly enough, the first thing that you’re likely to notice about Windows 7 is also the bit that I like the least. The new revamped taskbar is visually very interesting (and certainly a lot easier to use at higher screen resolutions that the Vista or XP taskbar), but it tries to do too much and as such comes across as kludgey and counter-intuitive. One failure is that it’s hard to tell the difference between apps that are running and shortcuts that have been pinned to the taskbar. It also incorporates the new Jump Lists feature which acts as a context-sensitive menu for applications. Problem is that there’s very little rhyme or reason to what to expect from Jump Lists, making them awkward to use in the real world.
Aero Snap
Aero Snap is a simple little feature that I find myself using all the time. This is a gestures driven method of organizing Windows. Drag a window to the top of the screen and the app is maximized. Drag it to the side and you get it to tile to one half of the screen. Drag the app away from the top of the screen to restore it. It’s a very handy feature indeed, especially for people who work with multiple applications.
Aero Peek
Ever wanted to see what was on your desktop without minimizing all your applications? Aero Peek is the feature for you. Mouse over the small area on the right-hand side of the taskbar and you get a glimpse of what’s on your desktop, allowing you to see shortcuts and gadgets. Aero Peek is of limited usefulness though since you can’t interact with anything on the desktop because as soon as you move the mouse off the Peek spot the applications all return.
Personalizations
If you like to customize your Windows experience then you’ll appreciate some of these changes. Not only does Windows 7 come with several ready-made themes that include specific background images, colors, sounds and screensavers, there are also themes that make use of a desktop slideshow to continually change the desktop image.
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Comments(15)
how do u remove that aero snap? its driving me nuts, i hate it
hkey_current_user\control panel\desktop
set dockmoving to 0
it s_uck! it is like testing vista all over again. this is just plain stupid. nothing
major with this either, just more crap and waste of time. you will see, windows xp will
last another couple years. people will go gaga on it and say it is the best os ever made
like vista noobs use to say. till they figure out it is a peace of crap. no wonder xp
still in service.
get stardock for crap sake. i mean seriously..that all it is..nothing really did change
beside removing all windows xp best features to making hard to wonder where everything
else is.
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personalizations
if you like to customize your windows
experience then you’ll appreciate some of these changes. not only does windows 7 come with
several ready-made themes that include specific background images, colors, sounds and
screensavers, there are also themes that make use of a desktop slideshow to continually
change the desktop image.
i have used vista since day one, and i think it's a great operating system. the one
thing about it though is that it always feeled incomplete. now that i have been using
windows 7, it feels like vista is finally at the point it should be.i firmly believe that
"7" is just "vista" finally feature complete, i personally believe that ms rushed
vista out the door half done. it meaning 7, is what vista should have been in the first
place. i think ms should own up to it and admit this to be a fact. 7 is really vista just
cleaned up and polished. if you look into 7's system32 you'll find that "imgeres.dll
and imgeressp1.dll" are in there the same as it is in vista sp1. this is not a new
operating system, it is vista part 2.
strange but when i left it alone for some time it fall asleep so hard i couldnwt wake it/
the screen stays closed/darkend
tried mouse/keyboard any thing.
i knew the
machine working but couldnt
get it to open the screen/
help
nat
vista half done? well they got a lot of people money...the f_uck them royally. now with
this one on the shelves....another nice 300 to 500 dollars again. so take vista and window
7 together...come up 800 to 1000 thousand dollars down the road.
wow...what a
fabulous window you deserve.
its crap and it is another pure money stealer.
then again some of you noob love it!
thumb up to microsoft..they
sure know how to money from noobs.
hey negative, i'm wondering do you use osx, or windows? i have 3 copies of vista and
paid for them all, and will pay for 7 when they release it! did you pay for what ever os
you use? by your demeanor i'm going to assume your one of those people who use linux, or
mac. this posting is about windows 7 and our reveiws of it.if you hate ms and windows so
passionately, please refrain from posting on "us noobs", website about windows. go back
to whatever rock you crawled out from and try not to come back until you grow up!
nat, go into the power options and set your scheme to high performance. that should
solve your problem!
i still cannot believe people are still talking about running xp.
7 looks and feels
great already and can only get better.
i know what you mean about install time too,
quicker than anything else including xp, and it had all my drivers. great!
tnks stonyi1 - ill try i have to install it again - image , a couple of minutes.
tnks again
windows 7 looks and plays nice..only prob is i cant get sound from rear speakers using
creative x-fi card. creative drivers are a pain.
do not try to burn a dvd with 7000 and if you upgraded from 6556 you cannot use live
picture viewer its causing error!
why not, please tell us, what happens? now that you've said that i wanna know, bro!
horrible effect of lights, is much better the vista button
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oh my god
By GABY on 30.12.2008 - 01:12