Vista to Windows 7. Will I notice the difference?

[Robert W]

I'm picking up a new PC later this week and, like every new PC on the market, it's running Windows 7. As I've not used a PC w/ Windows 7 on it yet, I was wondering if there are any pronounced differences between it and Vista (my current OS)?

Also, anyone who's running Windows 7 w/ Reaper, any problems?

 

[kev]

Night and day. Its an uncrippled version of vista

 

[derfbonker]

W7 and reaper 64bit here. No big probs. A few minor bugs in the beginning, but they seemed to have fixed them in the last few Reaper updates. It was probably partially my fault too, because i was new to both W7 and Reaper.

 

[Damian B]

7 is much better than Vista.

I made the jump from XP to 7 and to be honest I have less driver issues with my Profire 2626 using 7.

 

[ThatGuitarGuy]

It won't suck.

 

[Torniojaws]

I have some problems with 64-bit Win7 with 64-bit Reaper on my laptop. The playback has many dropouts quite often - the sound stops for 100 ms and then continues exactly where it stopped. Strangely, this doesn't happen on my desktop PC, also with 64-bit Win7. On both systems, I have used the same interface (Fireface 400 into TI chipset), so it's quite mysterious. On the same laptop, I could run Vista 64-bit and Reaper 64 without any problems, using the same interface

 

[Robert W]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm getting a new desktop in a couple of days, as my old laptop is just getting too old to use any more.

 

[poidaobi]

Really made no difference to me.

 

[hoehlentroll]

It won't suck.

that's exactly what I wanted to say

 

[P-E]

It's like Vista, in lighter, better, faster. Not that big a difference if you had a powerful computer, tbh.

 

[ParsonsMatt]

Windows 7 runs so much better than Vista, and even noticeably better than XP. Definitely a worthy upgrade.

 

[ThatGuitarGuy]

that's exactly what I wanted to say

It's so true though haha.

I have Windows 7 Ultimate, and it's awesome. I've never felt like I really liked Windows until I got W7. XP was fine, but it wasn't anything special. Vista gave me a major headache when I was trying to fix my friends computer. It is ridiculous how many loops you have to go through just to EDIT A FILENAME. Their admin privileges setup is a major pain.

W7 has some pretty neat things here and there too. I tend to find things here and there that I'm like "oh wow! Good idea Windows. Bravo!"

 

[Torniojaws]

W7 has some pretty neat things here and there too. I tend to find things here and there that I'm like "oh wow! Good idea Windows. Bravo!"

Yeah, like when renaming files, it automatically re-arranges the files and moves your cursor focus to the newly renamed file - making renaming a lot of files a fucking pain in the ass uke:

And also, when you run a partition (Win + R | C: | "Pr..." for Program Files | "Stei..." for Steinberg), the default focus is on the damn Arrange by Name, so when you want to quickly browse to a subfolder, you have to wait for Windows to cache it AND first click away from the Arrange by... focus uke: Otherwise instead of opening the first subfolder, it re-arranges the root folder in reverse alphabetical order when you press enter, instead of opening the subfolder

Oh and try to edit the hosts file with notepad, and then save it...

 

[John_C]

Oh and try to edit the hosts file with notepad, and then save it...

+1 this one pisses me off no end