Comments on: Two weeks on Windows 7 RC

By: PAT Testing

PAT Testing — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:39:50 +0000

I’ve been basically unhappy with Vista – because it’s quite slow and cumbersome to use on my Dual Core Laptop. The visual features are great, but they just slow everything down. I did recently build a Quad Cord PC desktop, and put vista business basic on that, and it is much better. I haven’t tried Windows 7 yet, but I just hope that it will retain the visual appeal of Vista, but run more smoothly (and boot up quicker!)
Surely not too much to ask?

By: Nick!

Nick! — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:18:35 +0000

“My biggest issue was that Bitlocker on Windows 7 didnÃ¢â¬â¢t properly backup itÃ¢â¬â¢s Bitlocker Key and TPM to Active Directory”

I had this same issue in our environment. Vista backs up just fine. I wonder if there’s some new schema for 7, but you’d think it would log an error either way (and it didn’t)

By: Lukas Beeler

Lukas Beeler — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:13:35 +0000

Kevin, there are rather few differences between 7 and Vista. Except maybe for the marketing: People think Vista is “bad” and Windows 7 is “good” – while they’re both equally good.

Koos, I’m not that familiar with USMT, so i have no idea what might cause the error you described.

By: Koos Ottes

Koos Ottes — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:11:09 +0000

Thanks for the batchfile I was looking for on internet.
Only I got an error by migrating from XP to W7. By loadstate I got error windows 32 api with loadstate returncode 71. The migration was not executed then. Do you know which Api ist ment?

By: Kevin Houston

Kevin Houston — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:21:28 +0000

I started using Windows 7 recently in a virtual machine and I haven’t seen any “wow” factors. Just looks like Vista to me. Perhaps I need to get it on a 64bit machine like you are doing.