Is Win7 just Vista SP2?
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From: DevilsPGD on 17 Jan 2010 02:03 In message <019ad871$0$14940$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com> IMHO(a)nowhere.com was claimed to have wrote: >To me, the more important question is what can you do with WIN 7 that you could not do with XP. > >Things I like about WIN7. > >1.It has drive imaging built into it. THIS IS THE ONLY NEW FEATURE of any use to me. Vista had similar imaging. >2.I like that I can right click on a icon on the quick liance any start another instance of the >same program. Middle click is faster. >Things I don't like about WIN 7. > >1. Taking away the Show Desktop icon in Quick Launch. Yeah it's wat the hell over in the right >most part of the the task bar, but after years of it being in the Quick Launch, It's just not >natural. You can recreate the old icon if it's more comfortable to you. >3. I very much dislike the start menu in WIN7 compared to XP. > >5. Windows search is worthless IMO These two go together... As a keyboard user, I very much enjoy being able to launch nearly anything by touching a single key and typing a few letters of what I want. I don't think I ever used XP's search functionality, preferring external tools, but having used Vista and W7, I find it painful to go back. >4. I very much hate how explore looks and feels in WIN. When I dragging files from one location >to another 20% of the time I drop them in the wrong folder in WIN7. I completely turne of Areo >andset my computer to "Best performance" to get back as close to the fell look of W2K/XP that I >can. Aero generally gives you better performance, not worse, at least in cases where you have a dedicated video card. Turning off transparency will boost performance, turning off aero completely puts all of the display interactions back in the hands of your CPU and RAM, rather than GPU and it's own RAM. >6. No way to set some prgrams to run as administator. SO it;s either disable UAC or deal with >the aggravation. This really isn't true, you can set programs to always run as administrator by modifying the shortcut. You can set UAC to elevate automatically or not, depending on your comfort and trust level. >IMO, I think XP is going to stay mainstream until purchasing a new pc. This is generally the case, upgrades are apparently in the 10%-15% range, with virtually all OS sales being attributed to new machine purchases.
From: PC Guy on 17 Jan 2010 09:16 DevilsPGD wrote: > Windows 7 is the next version of Windows, it's an evolutionary > step forward from Vista Um ya. I guess that explains why they chose to give Seven the numerical designation of "6.1", just ahead of Vista, instead of giving it an actual "7.0" which you would expect for an "evolutionary step forward". > The kernel has changed, but Windows 7's kernel is fundamentally > similar to Vista. Woa, what happened to "evolutionary change" ??? Now we're back to "fundamentally similar" ???
From: fred on 17 Jan 2010 10:08 <snip> >>6. No way to set some prgrams to run as administator. SO it;s either disable UAC or deal with >>the aggravation. >This really isn't true, you can set programs to always run as >administrator by modifying the shortcut. No, this is true. There are some programs I have encounered that even after doing that I still get prompted. It's a common complaint abour WIN7.
From: DevilsPGD on 17 Jan 2010 14:39 In message <00c4744d$0$8084$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com> fred(a)gmail.com was claimed to have wrote: ><snip> >>>6. No way to set some prgrams to run as administator. SO it;s either disable UAC or deal with >>>the aggravation. > >>This really isn't true, you can set programs to always run as >>administrator by modifying the shortcut. > >No, this is true. There are some programs I have encounered that even after doing that I still >get prompted. It's a common complaint abour WIN7. Setting the "Run as administrator" option ensures that aforementioned applications always run as an administrator, nothing more. Controlling whether or not you're prompted before administrative tokens are applied is another setting entirely. Both settings together help address this scenario.
From: TVeblen on 17 Jan 2010 15:49
On 1/17/2010 10:08 AM, fred(a)gmail.com wrote: > <snip> >>> 6. No way to set some prgrams to run as administator. SO it;s either disable UAC or deal with >>> the aggravation. > >> This really isn't true, you can set programs to always run as >> administrator by modifying the shortcut. > > No, this is true. There are some programs I have encounered that even after doing that I still > get prompted. It's a common complaint abour WIN7. > See here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11949-elevated-program-shortcut-without-uac-prompt-create.html |