Personal Productivity: A Productivity Consultants’ Look at Windows 7 beta 7000
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Yes, I”m a geek.
But I think we all know that by now, right? 
I’ve been beta testing Windows 7 for about a week now. I installed last Saturday, as an upgrade, and did a fresh install on Wednesday. It is my only OS at the moment, I”m not running dual boot.
When I beta tested for Vista, I feel in love with Vista. All the quirks and issues that others seemed to have just didn’t effect me. Vista ran smoothly and still did up until I installed Windows 7.
Windows 7 is a big improvement upon the Vista codebase. It is VERY quick, and light on resources. I think that my clean install took about twenty minutes (yes, 20)! It is easy to configure and lightening fast. Take a look at the Task Manager screenshot below:
It also contains the eye candy that Vista has with the Aero effect. Glassy and transparent screen borders with endless options for color. What’s new in Windows 7 is that it now supports themes that can be downloaded to trick out your version of Windows 7. Take a look at the crisp graphics of my desktop in the picture below:
On the left you will see RocketDock and on the right Google Desktop Sidebar. The only issue that I have found with the Google Sidebar is that the new Gmail gadget does not work. It hangs while loading.
One other new thing to note is the tree view when you open or save a document.
The tree on the left is configurable, meaning that you can add your own hotlinks to it. The My Documents folder has been revamped to include the option of picking more than one folder to be linked to your My Documents library. “Library” meaning that more that just the My Document folder can be included within.
I liked Vista and I really like Windows 7. There are a plethora of other good updates and changes from Vista. For a more detailed review, go to the How-To Geek.
So have you tried Windows 7? What do you think? Tell me in the comments.
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I’ve never heard about Windows 7 before today but it seems great!
For my part, I have Vista on my other laptop and since the beginning, we have a lot of bug. But the appearance is really nice so, on my laptop with Windows XP, I have installed a Vista skin.
But this Windows 7 seems to be better than Vista.
Can’t wait for trying it. Nice article =)
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I’ve installed it on a trash Dell Inspiron laptop with 1GB of RAM, 40 GB HDD, probably 1.2 GHZ Intel Mobile processor…and it’s very fast. Even when you change the theme from the basic 7 theme to the Aero 7 theme, it’s still very quick and things are much simpler. Install took 20 minutes. Startup in 15-25 sec. Shutdown about the same time. Very smooth and fast…I like it!
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