13 Kasım 2008 Perşembe

Windows 7 Preview

UAC... 'User account control'... Whenever I do a clean install of Vista, I immediately turned this off. It seems that a lot of other users do to, and Microsoft has addressed this issue. In Windows 7 you now have a slider bar that lets you choose your level of protection. (Similar to internet explorer level of protection) There is a level...
"I don’t want to be prompt whenever I change a windows settings, but i do if a 3rd party application wants to".
This is a good addition to W7.



Side bar -It’s gone. W7 still lets you put little gadgets on your desktop, but there is no longer a sidebar stuck there. You can have one or two gadgets on your desktop, and not take up that valuable few extra KB of memory to load a whole side bar.

Performance -Well... it's what we all want to see, unfortunately I have noticed very little. It does boot up faster, but for me this was never an issue. I don't mind a 2 min boot up, but what I would really like to see is performance after the fact. Applications smoother and faster to load, gaming performance also. MS says that...

"We are going through a lot of pains to address this issue. Initialising fewer processes, and running them in parallel"

This means that W7 will initialise fewer 'startup' services and process than previous versions of windows. When starting wireless or network applications, the service was initialised and while this happened the application was also started. In a core2 system or equivalent this is not a problem, but if you dont have this, then it will take longer to start this application than XP/ Vista. (not sure that this is a big issue, as in 2 years most users will have at least a core2 processor)

Memory management - Each window you open in XP or Vista, requires more memory than the previous one. So... W7 has been changed so that each window you open will use the same amount of memory. Nice.

No bundled software - You will need to download them from the web. i.e. windows mail, windows writer (wordpad), moviemaker etc.
Paint does come with W7, and has a little GUI (Graphic User Interface) face lift. Calculator is also there with a face lift.

Over all it does seem MS is trying to address the issues that the public has. Interesting to see what the final release will be able to do.

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