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After running windows 7 and even dual booting with xp I still find Xp faster. I have windows 7 tweaked pretty well. Now windows 7 does seem faster on the net for browsing. Depending how many "Fixes" Microsoft comes out with It and how it affects O.S.  would not surprise me to see the masses back to Xp.

 What do you guys and gals think??

dude my bro and i went to a pawn shop that just opened the place is like a damn Walmart and we bought an acer aspire 5610z 5 from 2007 it had a 1.60GHz Intel Pentium dual core and 1GB of ram it said it came with windows vista but what do you know we booted it up and found windows 7 home premium not beta. We bought the computer at a price of $265 and by our surprise it was crazy fast.
weird thing is windows 7 full version arrived the day before .

I will keep Xp on the slave just in case. Really working with windows 7 to see what I can do. Think I have it tweaked as I am gonna. Be careful tweaking this thing. To much and it gets Slow. In short. Leave the services alone. Bad Idea!!

 Found a work around for a few problems. I had Icon Issues. Thats all better now. Got it to shutdown being slow fixed, Added I think its called Verbose or something like that. Shows in text  whats shutting down and starting up. Nice for trouble shooting. So I got a nice jump on what some of problems are and the work around to fix it. The slow shutdown and Icon issues drove me crazy. Will keep a clean updated copy back up. When time allows tear into windows 7 just like I did with Xp. Find all the "O crap time to reload" buttons. Who knows maybe we can get a sticky to post some tips and tricks as we learn them?

You mean shutting down unneccessary sevices? So its different than Vista after all.


I'd talk to any mod on that one. Now would be a great time to start that one. But make 'sure' it works first. Hate to hear "well that was a load of crap" stuff. 

I get it for free since I am a CIS major  . I get free access to MSDNAA, which has Windows 7 Pro free of charge.  


If only I knew about this whenever I went to Windows 7! I had to reinstall everything because you can't upgrade from Vista Home Premium to 7 Pro.(I was probably better off doing a clean install anyway though)

just as a note, i have been playing with windows 7 also, and to create a backup i used a spare hard drive and used a program called "Drive image XML"  its freeware and it made a full drive to drive backup for me. so if something happens i can pop in the other hard drive and carry on

definately, you can even compress a backup of your drive to a dvd..but to do the good compression i cancelled because it kept going from 14 to 21 hours left...i was like...ehhh no.....but the drive to drive backup was about 25 minutes long...and i backed up 28.8GB of used space on my harddrive to a 40GB laptop drive (since im on my new laptop) and it works great, i already tried it.

I will say the switch from xp to windows 7 has really taught me allot. I have always been a backup everything kinda guy. Found a program that backs up the browsers. http://www.favbrowser.com/backup/  its free and the program is called fav backup. Odd thing with opera is when you back it up or restore make sure at the bottom you pick opera as the profile, It offers just the keyboard settings and others.

 As with any backup I always always say TEST IT first. Example with opera. I backed it up with the program. I then Found the location of it. Backed that up to a folder on the desktop. Deleted operas profile folder. Opend opera made sure it was gone. Ran the Program to restore it and all is well.

 A silly program I loved called winroll just does not work well on WIndows 7 I did find this I use all the time. http://www.hyperionics.com/files/index.asp I use it for the roll the window out of the way. Sometimes I use the pin to keep the window on top.

 Just never forget. Keep your important stuff burned to disk just in case.

 Oh If your looking for some new wallpaper I found this site I really like it.  http://wall.alphacoders.com/