Getting prepped to drop XP entirely on my home machines. A little scary, but maintaining both XP and 7 is silly.
XP is a better overall experience. Light, smooth, fast. 7 does a few things better. 7 is much better at working with huge folders. In xp, just opening a folder with 20,000 files in it is a recipe for disaster. 7 handles that no problem. Similarly with deleting said folders. 7’s handling of copying is pretty good too (how it makes the ‘copy over’ or ‘keep backups’ options nice and clear is nice).
7 Drivers are still a bit of a pita. My laptop PCMCIA port confuses the hell out of 7. So… no eSata, firewire or flash card reader for the laptop (I can still use an assy usb card reader, but the pcmcia one was so much better…).
I finally found a good replacement for Winkey (doesn’t work under 64 bit windows 7), called Clavier+. It does all kinds of great stuff that winkey didn’t do, and it has a nice simple .ini file, so I can save off my settings.
Slowly getting happier with 7. I just wish the interface was a little more solid and immediate, and that there were functional drivers for all my hardware.
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Yo, have you got a Win 7 recommended setup?
On my beefy workstation I just leave all the aero crap on and it’s fine. on the laptop I turn off most of aero.
On both I turn off indexing of everything except the start menu.
In explorer I turn off all ‘grouping’ (open explorer window, hit alt key, view->grouping and select (none)). Also turn off the silly navigation and preview panes with (organize->layout).
Still gotta do regedit -> current user -> control panel ->desktop -> menu show delay -> 0
Maybe a couple of other things but not much. The default is really pretty good.
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