Thread: Is It Worth It?

In a number of unrelated forums I have noticed in 'tech help' that people who have done the change to '7' are experiencing problems of varying magnitude from 'how do I' to 'help! this or that does not work'?

So my question is simple, is it worth it?

The problem with Mickeysoft seems to be a non learning curve reissue of old problems, they simply have not done enough work on beta versions to allow for every concievable error, either in theory or in practice. Every version of windows has had its problems. As I recall, the only version of windows that I personally never had a problem with (apart from my personal screwing up) was windows 3.1.1 in the days of computers having massive 8MB RAM and 100mb HDD's.

Every version has within weeks, patch 1,2,3,4,5,6 ........................ security upgrades a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h etc.

Maybe I should wait 12 or so months until Windows 7.1.0 or Windows 8 arrives?

Your assuming then that "Windows 8" will not have the problems of "Windows 7"

I run 4 computers here ... 2 desktops with XP sp3. My main machine running Vista & a laptop running Win7.

You are kind of correct each type has certain problems and a learning curve that the user has to go through. The main problem is people upgrade from (Say) XP to Win7 (Or even Vista) then curse and swear at microsoft because their 5 year old printer will no longer work or a 6 year old game is not compatible.

XP to Vista was a big change in the operating system, in my view a lot of people who upgraded didn`t give Vista a chance because of the difference and the fact that they would have to buy new hardware. Also for some reason MS dummed down Vista to make it run on the most basic of machines, but with a bit of tweaking by the user it can be quite good.

As an example ... Vista is set to use one processor when booting, therefore a nice new Quad core machine seems to take forever to boot, but you can change the settings to use all 4 processors (As you say it is a learning curve ... Everybody tweaked XP to suit thenselves .. but didn`t seem so keen to do the same in Vista ...WHY?)

The move from Vista to Win 7 is a bit easier ... to me Win 7 is really just Vista sp3 but MS renamed it Win 7 because of poor reaction from people who didn`t take the time to explore Vista. However regardless, using a newer OS is always going to take a little time to get used to wheather you get it now or in two years time.

On my quad core, how would I tell it to use all processors for boot up?

Click "Start" type msconfig in the search box ... in msconfig select "Boot" then "Advanced options"

top left of the next screen is a box that tells you how many processers your computer uses to boot up.

If is set at 1 (Standard option) click the arrow at the side and select 4 (Easy as that

"Is It Worth It? "
Yes. Vista is a good OS only if you bothered to tweek it to your liking. Most PC users only want it to work and couldn't give two hoots about tweeking. That's why XP and Win 7 are more popular.
Installed Win 7 on an XP machine (clean install) and was a doddle. If you're thinking of 'upgrading' from Vista I'd strongly suggest to do a clean install after backing up your docs etc. rather than an upgrade.
Still, I miss defender's ability to manage startup programs as in Vista.
Each to their own.