Windows 7 User Submissions

Windows 7

by Matthew Tayler
(Demotte Indiana)

I installed windows 7 and it installed perfect (on a computer only supported by windows vista might i add).

I expected some issues with driver, like when i upgraded to vista on on of my pcs, but in some cases 7 supported them even better. I have had a very pleasant experience.

I have had a few issues

This particular issue may be tied to HP and not to this operating system but i had issues with making "bluetooth" work successfully all the time. A lot of times I had to re-install it just to make it work correctly.

The program "LiteShow 2" made for wireless projecting (Xp only software) and it works but some features are disabled for lack of driver support

I do a lot of very simple video editing, and I noticed that you don't have "Movie maker" in Windows 7, and I couldn't install the Windows Vista version. The only version I could install as version 2.6 which isn't nearly as productive as newer versions

A couple of suggestions

Increase the ability to adjust the size of the icons on the taskbar, i believe the regular size is too big and takes up to much taskbar room, and when they are small they are spaced way to much and the height is too small.

In paint the default format for saving is PNG which is not widely used I personally would change it to JPG

For the record my system specs are

Hp DV4

amd athlon 64 bit 2.0
ati 1300
3gb of ram