MS Windows 7

[DBAlex]

@all

Posting this from inside Windows 7 Public Beta running inside VirtualBox! It's pretty good actually, RAM usage is 316MB here ... (So were back to XP amounts of RAM usage)

Installed Firefox and Windows Live Messenger...

Heres a few screenshots:

http://img34.picoodle.com/img/img34/3/1/11/f_Win7MemUsagm_bbf6bbe.jpg

(Link due to large image size)



Also, I did have a picture with the Windows Classic theme but i've lost it, but Windows Classic is still there (I was worried MS would completely remove it...)

Startup is quite slow but i'm pretty sure thats because i'm using a VM. To install I set 800MB as the RAM size but now it's installed i've reduced that to 512MB and it runs very comfortably... it's definitely an improvement on Vista, i'm sure on real hardware with Aero enabled its even better.

Now I better stop, giving MS too much praise isn't healthy.  ;-)

[DBAlex]

Also IMHO they sort of ruined the taskbar... when you "pin" items to the taskbar when you launch them they launch at that point, so if you want to launch another instance of the app you either have to go to the start menu, the desktop, or the application window (E.g. File -> New) Whereas before (In all previous versions of Windows) you just clicked the Quick Launch icon again.

I know its supposed to be a new way of launching programs in Windows 7, i'm just not sure its the right one.

I think it going to lead to alot of shortcuts on the desktop, or excessive use of the inbuilt search (Which I admit is good)

Alex.

[DBAlex]

@adolescent
Ok, Cool... I just like the way the old taskbar worked...

Also have you noticed this with the new taskbar: if you click on an window title from the taskbar and there is more than one instance then clicking it doesn't minimise (XP and Vista DO do this even when applications are "Grouped")...

Hope that can be changed too, I am used to clicking on window titles in the taskbar to minimize/restore windows.

and, @bloodline, 15 mins to find the Command Line?!?!?!?@@@!@!@!@!@

PEBKAC "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair".  :lol:  :-P (Hehe, just kidding)

[DBAlex]

@uncharted

Yes but not everyone wants it to work like that...

 :-(

[DBAlex]

@adolescent

Also I've noticed on systems where aero isn't available (such as my VirtualBox install at the moment) Windows Classic is much faster to use (just like on Vista).

Glad MS didn't get rid of it all together (I heard from somewhere that it wouldn't be included)

And thanks for the two tips, useful. But I don't mean "group minimise" I just mean clicking an app in the taskbar and it showing its windows in a vertical list and you selecting one (left clicking once) -- in XP and Vista the default action is to minimize or restore the application depending on it's current state. On Windows 7 it just selects that Window.

What I really mean is, clicking one of these 4 in XP/Vista restores/minimizes the window depening on its current state. In Windows 7 it doesn't and thats inconsistent.

I'm guessing that will throw a lot of people.

It will certainly slow down my usage of Windows until I get used to it...

[DBAlex]

@Pyromania

Do you know of any VM system for Windows where Aero works in Windows 7?

[DBAlex]

@Pyromania

You don't need DX10 for Aero, just 9.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Aero#Requirements