We started here to migrate our workstations to Windows 7 RTM since the day the images were available via MSDN. Now I’ve done the last one, the notebook of my wife, and we’re having all our computers on RTM right now.

I’ve worked with Windows 7 since the Beta, and now I have my system configured with it, I must say I’m very happy with it. My computer is fast, responsive, even with all the (almost) 7 million pixels I’m looking at every day. I’ve made some adjustments to the defaults, which makes Windows 7 even better to work with (for me at least.)

This is a typical snapshot of my taskbar, and as you can see, it’s height is a bit different. I did this by creating a folder, which holds the shortcuts in the upper row, and only the programs I use most frequently are pinned to the taskbar itself. This way I can easily start an application that I don’t have pinned and I still can use the jump lists for the software that provides this feature.

My biggest disappointment of Windows 7 is Aero Snap, so I’ve disabled this. On the multi-monitor area there’s still a lot of room for improvement in the Windows operating system. Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 is nice, just too bad that seamless apps on multimon has (very) limited support.

The installation works fine, driver problems seem to be getting slowly a thing of the past and compatibility with Vista Apps & Drivers is also perfect. Also the other (somewhat less powerful) PCs and even my wife’s Aspire One, have no problem with Windows 7.

My advice: Move to Windows 7 as soon as you can, there’s no need to wait for SP1.

Thursday, September 17, 2009 9:34:42 PM (Pacific SA Standard Time, UTC-04:00)      Comments [0]