Scriptionary Blog » Windows 7 http://blog.scriptionary.com The informal yet informational sub-site Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:21:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Windows 7: The First 7 Days http://blog.scriptionary.com/2009/08/14/windows-7-the-first-7-days/ http://blog.scriptionary.com/2009/08/14/windows-7-the-first-7-days/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:39:51 +0000 Eddy Luten http://blog.scriptionary.com/?p=263 Windows 7 Ultimate Box ShotSo today marks the first week of Windows 7 RTM usage and I have to say that I like it. As I said before, Vista’s gaming performance was sub par but it looks like Windows 7 has picked up the slack.

It simply seems like the same system performs better with Windows 7, it’s definitely not simply a Vista update/Service Pack. And I’m happy to report that Fallout 3 (for the players) works OK on Windows 7 although there is the occasional crash and Alt-Tabbing is out of the question it seems.

Another very good thing thing I’ve noticed is the lack of UAC pop-ups, the only ones I’ve seen are when I try to run downloaded software – which is the same as in Windows XP.

Maybe in the long run some quirks will show up but for now I’m a happy camper indeed.

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Although I’ve been disappointed with Vista’s gaming performance, everything else has been smooth sailing. In fact a bunch of features that are apparently introduced in Windows 7 (Start Search), were already available in Vista.

Anyway, I’ll soon find out if the Windows 7 talk is all hype or if there’s some truth to the claims I’ve been hearing.

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