{"id":302,"date":"2009-01-14T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrius.kozeniauskas.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2009-01-14T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T12:20:08","slug":"windows-7-first-impression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/2009\/01\/14\/windows-7-first-impression\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 first impression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone probably knows about Windows 7 beta release to public. Because I&#8217;ve read\u00a0some good reviews of it I thought I&#8217;ll give it a try. I am using both Vista and XP. As most of the public I prefer XP over Vista. The only reason why i use Vista is because it will take half a day to reinstall my laptop and put all the needed stuff and still most likely will forget something.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now lets get back to Windows 7.<br \/>\nI am using HP Compaq nc6400 as my testing laptop with 3 GB of Ram.<br \/>\nThe setup was smooth and I would say quick. I only had to install 2 drivers manually for finger print reader and SD card reader. I&#8217;ve downloaded Vista drivers from HP website and they worked fine.<br \/>\nI liked the wireless configuration wizard as it was really straight forward.<br \/>\nProbably the best thing about Windows 7 beta is the performance. NC6400 is a standard business laptop with integrated Intel graphics card with no dedicated memory. But it is fully usable with Aero enabled which was not the case onVista.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-303\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2009\/01\/w7.jpg\" alt=\"w7\" width=\"560\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are some nice visible changes in task bar. Now you can see in the task bar the download progress.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2009\/01\/w7_21.jpg\" alt=\"w7_21\" width=\"243\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Also you can have a quick look what is running. Just moving mouse on the icon in the task bar.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/files\/2009\/01\/w7_1.png\" alt=\"w7_1\" width=\"559\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UAC is much less annoying compared to Vista.<br \/>\nAlso it looks like MS is bringing some features back. The first one I&#8217;ve noticed is that you can drag and drop files into Command Prompt.<\/p>\n<p>The only problem that i was having is the Internet Explorer. It did not displayed some pages correctly or it was crashing when I was trying to edit\u00a0this blog. But these problems are fixed by pressing Compatibility View button in IE.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep using Windows 7 and see what else I can discover. At the moment I&#8217;ve joined it to the domain and install Office 2007 SP1 which is working just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone probably knows about Windows 7 beta release to public. Because I&#8217;ve read\u00a0some good reviews of it I thought I&#8217;ll give it a try. I am using both Vista and XP. As most of the public I prefer XP over Vista. The only reason why i use Vista is because it will take half a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}