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Title: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: zx2slow on November 07, 2009, 08:05:33 PM: So I guess I'm pretty AR about my computer. I have been using windows XP 64Bit for some time now. I am feeling a little overwhelmed with migrating from XP (I have been using it since launch forever ago) to 7, what kind of utilities are you people finding super useful?

On a vanilla install of Windows 7 x64 ultimate I will install:
Drivers, nForce and what not
AVG free
Office 2007
Adobe Acrobat (2009? whatevers new)
Sun VirtualBox, Gotta have a Ubuntu and XP64 VM running

Should I add any more utilities to my list?
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: decepticon on November 07, 2009, 11:04:20 PM: RocketDock FTW. (To replace the missing toolbars at the top of my screen.)
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: Petch on November 09, 2009, 01:41:12 PM: I found myself not craving any OS addon apps after I got use to the built in features in Win7.

Decepticon, what other features does RocketDock give you that the new Win7 taskbar doesn't have?
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: decepticon on November 09, 2009, 06:07:40 PM: The ability to have a toolbar at the top of my screen.
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: triggerhappy on November 10, 2009, 01:14:29 AM: The switch really shouldn't be too awful. Drivers support is exponentially better than XP. Most hardware will probably work immediately after install. However, you'll definitely want to get the latest driver from nVidia or ATI.

If anything, I hope you have another hard drive or partition to back up whatever files you want to keep since you're going to have to completely format the disk (there's no upgrade option between XP and 7).

As far as applications go, I really haven't found anything major that I could use on XP that I can't run on 7. I was a bit disappointed that a couple utilities like Hyper-Terminal and telnet are now not included but that really isnt an issue for most users. Even if it were, it's nothing that PuTTY doesn't do.
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: The Shoctor on November 10, 2009, 09:22:01 AM: Quote from: triggerhappy on November 10, 2009, 01:14:29 AM
I was a bit disappointed that a couple utilities like Hyper-Terminal and telnet are now not included but that really isnt an issue for most users.

Telnet sure is included. You just need to choose to install it. But for Telnet BBSes I use mtel. There is a copy of it stickied in this forum.

Full ANSI Color BBS Telnet Client (http://www.fites.net/forums/index.php/topic,5124.0.html)
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: triggerhappy on November 10, 2009, 07:24:56 PM: I guess you learn something every day :) ! I don't think I've looked at the "Turn Windows features on or off" menu since I installed (I usually only bother when it's a Windows Server installation and I must).
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: Five Aces on November 11, 2009, 03:00:59 PM: Hey big D...you wouldn't need combofix if you "Stop all the downloading"

GI Joe PSA - Computer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eA3XCvrK90#)
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: decepticon on November 11, 2009, 06:05:04 PM: Actually, I downloaded and put it on a thumb drive....working on a clients computer.
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: vincegun on November 11, 2009, 10:47:35 PM: Hey, thanks for that rocketdock comment. I did a little looking up on a whim (totally bored tonight) and saw that it does what Objectdock does, but is totally free. I'm totally replacing OD with it.
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: Five Aces on November 12, 2009, 08:01:07 AM: Quote from: decepticon on November 11, 2009, 06:05:04 PM
Actually, I downloaded and put it on a thumb drive....working on a clients computer.

Just messing, Malwarebytes is the shight, BTW.

And if you're using combo or rouge fixes you might wanna keep a winsock repair tool on there too. I found sometimes using them like cleaning with bleach.
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: decepticon on November 12, 2009, 08:08:40 AM: Yes, and bleach kills EVERYTHING!!!! I do use MWB, this particular machine had a nasty rouge on it.
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: Broken on November 12, 2009, 02:55:44 PM: ewww pc herpes!
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: sully! on November 12, 2009, 03:48:24 PM: rouge = red
rogue = a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2236/2214610089_315c0094df_o.jpg)

That is all.
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: decepticon on November 12, 2009, 07:14:21 PM: Spellcheck wouldn't have worked....that's just me being a moron.
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: zx2slow on November 16, 2009, 12:01:43 AM: Migrated to windows seven, other than waiting for steam to download/patch everything its been pretty painless.

My only gripes are the ugly blue boot/shutdown screens, I had finally killed them all in XP. The start menu/task bar is going to take some getting used to as well. Now I gotta figure out how everything works and ill be set.
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: Agent4054 on November 16, 2009, 12:28:25 AM: The new task bar has increased my workflow efficiency by a lot. Quicklaunch is entirely useless, with the introduction of task bar pinning. Middle clicks create new instances, task bar reordering, ctrl-shift-click run the programs in admin mode, and a whole load of other efficiency hotkeys. Great stuff.
Title: Re: Migrating to windows 7... Help.
Post by: zx2slow on November 16, 2009, 01:01:04 AM: I got the desktop icons shrunk and I am digging the pin to taskbar thing now, the start menu needs some tome to get used to.

Gotta bench, hopefully ripbot will give me a few more FPS when transcoding 1080p.