Microsoft Windows 7 discussion

[PacificOcean]

Noob alert!

Couple of questions - I am running Vista and have never had a problems with it, it's a tad slow when booting up and what not but computers have been like that since 3.1

Is worth upgrading if I have never had any issues with Vista? (I mainly use the computer for internet surfing), but it's sodding irritating the amount of times Vista keeps asking me to reboot to install upgrades.

When upgrading does it keep all my programmes that I do use or do I have to reinstall everything?

 

[Beanburger]

Noob alert!

Couple of questions - I am running Vista and have never had a problems with it, it's a tad slow when booting up and what not but computers have been like that since 3.1

Is worth upgrading if I have never had any issues with Vista? (I mainly use the computer for internet surfing), but it's sodding irritating the amount of times Vista keeps asking me to reboot to install upgrades.

Not worth the effort. Don't bother upgrading.

 

[grit]

but it's sodding irritating the amount of times Vista keeps asking me to reboot to install upgrades.

Thats not unique to Vista, sorry.

 

[Sunray]

Noob alert!

Couple of questions - I am running Vista and have never had a problems with it, it's a tad slow when booting up and what not but computers have been like that since 3.1

Is worth upgrading if I have never had any issues with Vista? (I mainly use the computer for internet surfing), but it's sodding irritating the amount of times Vista keeps asking me to reboot to install upgrades.

When upgrading does it keep all my programmes that I do use or do I have to reinstall everything?

Did you know that with Vista they removed a stack of reasons for the need of an update.

Its not the OS that causes the problem its MS updating critical components that forces reboot.

There is only one OS I know that you can replace system drivers while its still running and in production. Its called QNX.

 

[ovaltina]

After lots of faffing around and accidentally deleting everything I've finally got Win 7 working on my elderly Thinkpad x31 (1.4 ghz processor, 80gb hdd and 1gb memory) and it's bumbling along as happily as XP every did. It automatically downloaded a couple of updates from Lenovo and I had to do a bit of searching and manually install the display driver to stop it reverting to standard VGA (no good for watching videos) but now it's working fine, but with no Aero.