Windows 7 RC, my impressions so far

[Timmah!]

FJ-Warez said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:

FJ-Warez said:

Timmah! said:

 

My XP machine HAS been running for 7 years (24/7/365 without issue), I've never had a virus, it runs better than when I bought it and it's NEVER been reinstalled. Period. That's because I know how to keep it running that way.

How did you do that?

In this day and age, I have no idea how people still get virus'

I mean, I'm about as hardcore a porn downloader as you can get, and I'd be shocked if I ever got a virus.

Use noscript, and use common sense, and you are immune from any security issue. Nitpick solved.

My question was more about the performance rather than virus :P

So far we know that the speed (read and write) of the HDDs degrades with the time, Xp loves to put a lot of crap in the registry, and a lot of temp files...

We use CCleaner and TuneUp Utilities, but still, the PCs gets slow with a couple of months of heavy use (We are a bunch of devs, so no viruzes, downloaders, torrents or crap like that, just IDE tools), so yeah, I'm sorry but I can't believe this part "it runs better than when I bought it and it's NEVER been reinstalled", I would like to but I used the same tools and I am not a newbie with this...

I'm not a dev, so I'm not installing tons of software over and over. It runs Office, Firefox, and just a few other things. Used multiple times a day, but not for something as intensive as development. Defragged automatically every week. I keep at least 50%+ free hard disk space. Runs faster than when I bought it b/c I removed all the HP bloatware that came with it.

EDIT: I guess I should correct myself, this 7 year old computer WAS running XP until last month when I installed Windows 7 RC on it. It ran XP for 7 years without a reinstall and was fast until the day I upgraded to 7. I'm so used to talking about how long it's run XP without issue, that I forgot I had installed 7 on it! Anyway, that doesn't change the fact that it ran so well for so long!