*Official * Windows 7 Thread

Windows 7 is great, there are a few things I have had issues with it, the one I'm trying to work out is with my WMP, it will look up the album songs and it will find the album art but it will only apply the songs and not the art. It drives me up a wall when my music collection is missing the art.
 
Irishwhistle said:
Works fine here. :)
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It may just be my laptop (haven't tried it on my desktop yet), but I can't see anything when it's in full screen - it's black. Second, if I have it restored down, it freezes when I select "play DVD". And even when I try to play a DVD in media player, it freezes.

I have to keep reminding myself that it is a beta after all. :)
 
Well after having used Windows 7 on my laptop for the past 3 hours here is my take on it.
1. the "Superbar" exceeded my expectations. I was expecting it to be what amounted to a taskbar merged with an OSX dock but it was far from it. A huge reason I stay with Windows is that I can see everything I have opened and all my stats (battery, network status, time, date) all with one glance down. The superbar does not hinder this, it actually is nice. At the moment I am copying about 9GBs of music from my PC to this Laptop and it actually shows the progress bar inside the icon so I don't even have to keep an eye of the "Copying..." window. Also, I find myself using things that I normally just disabled in Vista, like the windows preview.

2. As for eye candy and visuals, it is basically a re-vamped Vista style. I love the built-in ability to have an image slideshow as your wallpaper, very nice. When searching using the start menu, the right hand side gets out of your way to allow room for long titles.

3. All the features that are supposed to make things easier actually perform their duties well. Dragging windows to the top maximizes (you can also drag the window while maximized). Dragging to the sides lets to organize windows (great for transferring files). Peek works great.

4. All my drivers from Vista installed fine with no trouble. Performance has been great, very snappy but I will test its limits in the coming weeks when I install all of the programs I previously had on this laptop, yeah, I reformatted my laptop to use a Beta OS, I intend on using it correctly by submitting feedback, I have already made about 5 feedback reports for suggestions that could make little things easier (so far just minor nit-picks).

As for some little things I've only seen and haven't toyed around with, I can see loads of uses for the Libraries feature. I think these Libraries was actually what was supposed to be in Vista as the "virtual folders" thing. Pinning bookmarks or frequently visited places to your app icons in the superbar is an excellent idea that I haven't seen before.
 
I have trouble downloading: it stops after downloading about 200 mb and there's no way I can make it continue the download. Firefox says that it's complete, but it's not. How can I download it?
 
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