Comments on: 24 Hours with Windows 7 http://quetwo.com/2009/01/11/24-hours-with-windows-7/ thouoghts on telecommunications, programming, education and technology Fri, 04 May 2012 05:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rick Mason http://quetwo.com/2009/01/11/24-hours-with-windows-7/#comment-393 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:57:26 +0000 http://quetwo.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/24-hours-with-windows-7/#comment-393 Thanks for the fairly thorough review. Were you able to get a judge on speed vs Win XP?

]]> By: Justin Carter http://quetwo.com/2009/01/11/24-hours-with-windows-7/#comment-391 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:22:19 +0000 http://quetwo.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/24-hours-with-windows-7/#comment-391 You can change the taskbar settings to enable window text and remove grouping, it’s on the first tab when you right click -> Properties on the taskbar. You can use small icons too if you want it to look more like the taskbar in previous versions of windows. I prefer the small icons and no grouping personally.

Also it’s only in this beta that they have disabled upgrading from XP. Officially, they’ve only said that the final decision on XP -> 7 upgrades hasn’t been made yet, but I’m sure they wouldn’t make the mistake of not providing that option when Windows 7 goes RTM.

The version of IE8 in Windows 7 Beta 1 is practically the same as the IE8 Beta 2 which has been out for quite a few months, with a few Windows 7 features thrown in like the taskbar previews and new context menu, so it’s *far* from complete. The IEBlog actually did a blog post about this yesterday :)

I haven’t had a chance to look at the network profiles yet, but I thought switching between pre-configured networks was being made a lot easier… The other option if you are always manually configuring IP addresses is to use the netsh command line utility, if you have to type out the IP each time because it’s not something you can pre-configure then it’s probably the fastest method.

As far as Betas go I think this is one of Microsofts most solid. Well, except for the MP3 hotfix that is required if you don’t want to lose half your music, oooops! Luckily Windows Update runs first thing (if you didn’t disable it during installation – always a bad idea, hah) :P

]]> By: Tom Ortega II http://quetwo.com/2009/01/11/24-hours-with-windows-7/#comment-390 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:21:34 +0000 http://quetwo.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/24-hours-with-windows-7/#comment-390 Nice post, Nick. Was wondering if I should give it a try, but thinking not for now. Maybe things will get better near release time. Be sure to do a follow up review then too. :)

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