http://www.webjassi.com Making The Way... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:33:08 +0000 en hourly 1 Making The Way... Web Jassi no Making The Way... http://www.webjassi.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.webjassi.com http://www.webjassi.com/2009/09/windows-7-beats-vista-woes/ http://www.webjassi.com/2009/09/windows-7-beats-vista-woes/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:57:00 +0000 Jassi http://www.webjassi.com/?p=653 http://www.webjassi.com/2009/09/windows-7-beats-vista-woes/feed/ 8 Aero effects,beta,desktop,effects,installation,operating,operating system,performance,review,system,windows,windows 7 Sorry folks for such a long gap, i went for a job interview ,while returning i got all soaked in monsoon rain, had a hell of viral, i just felf better so i though its about time to get back here also. Getting back to business:- With so many MS - - Win... Sorry folks for such a long gap, i went for a job interview ,while returning i got all soaked in monsoon rain, had a hell of viral, i just felf better so i though its about time to get back here also. Getting back to business:- With so many MS Windows 7 user comments and news reaching my ears, i just could not control my self from test-driving it my self, in the start i also thought M$ claims that Windows 7 can jump start in 1GB Memory and around 2 Ghz of processor with a good graphics card. so i thought of testing it on my lappy. So i tested M$ Windows 7 on this Machine. * 14.1" WXGA Screen * Nvidia Geforce 6150 GO * Nvidia Chipset (I guess MCP 51 or something like that) * AMD Turion MK-36 (2 Ghz Processor [SINGLE CORE]) * 512 MB x 2 [1 GB] DDR2 RAM Here by in short i am using Compaq Presario v3225 AU (V3000 Series) Laptop. Installation The installation is just as similar to M$ Windows Vista. It took me about 30 mins to install it, without any hassles. The First Run At first i thought it was going to take Vista like painful bootup time, but it didn't. As i saw the boot screen is something which Microsoft never attempted before, for this they thought really out of the BOX. at first when the boot screen appears it says "Starting Windows". after a moment 4 dots come flying from background, and form the windows logo, it almost appears that it is flaming. Logon Windows 7 logon is comparatively faster than its predecessor, M$ has skipped the shiny windows logo before the logon screen, rest every thing seems similar to what Windows Vista was. Desktop Icon Size: Similar to Windows Vista, if you are going to look for the famous sidebar, its better don't; cuz you will not find any search bar in this version, instead M$ decided to remove sidebar, and put gadgets in the desktop. Taskbar has a drastic change, if we hover mouse pointer over the start button it shines as if aura lights were coming out of it. Instead of tabs of programs running, it now has a button just containing a icon. the fixed icon on the taskbar also serve as quicklaunch and tab buttons, by default prefixed buttons are: Internet Explorer 8, Windows Explorer, Windows Media Player 12. On the other hand, the notification area has been somewhat changed, clocked reformatted and lastly shw desktop button(which is very slim button.), Windows media player toolbar has been removed. Effects It also has Aero effects, 3d Flip, but effects have been put to use in this version of windows, they can be seen in action for minimize, maximize,restore actions. visual preview can be used to control windows media player now. Start Menu It is somewhat as same as windows Vista but with minor changes and improvements. Performance and handling It has been improved very drastically, programs are now much more dependable, it does not have requirements problems, and is very comfortable to work on. I tried to launch Corel Draw x4, Photoshop CS3, Dreamweaver CD3 and 5 instances of firefox at same time while using Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional on 1GB of Memory without much of a problem. After that i thought to put it to real test, i decided to play HD 1080 Movie on it. It did play the movie but with a little hesitations. Directx 11 handles the needs of most extreme gamers, to be honest, i think after Windows XP Windows 7 has much-much better game support. Drivers Windows Vista Drivers can work, some of the drivers can create problems but that can be overcome'd with. So no big issues. Release Windows 7 is set to be released around October 22, 2009. Web Jassi no 4:20