TWRoO said:
tedsteriscool said:
Taskbar bothers me for chats. It's harder to flick between windows now. Also, I don't notice an improvement performance-wise from Vista (I have Vista on my desktop right now and 7 on my laptop).
Overall, this could have been another service pack. Unnecessary.
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Depends on your hardware.
Vista running on it's own though used up 1.4 GB of my RAM
Windows 7 used up 800MB
And how can it be harder to flick between windows? Use windows + tab, simple as anything... or for flicking between two open tabs you can use the old function (it's in XP) of alt+tab.
Or you can use the windows key plus various number buttons for programs that ar on your task bar... so for instance windows explorer is the first thing on my taskbar, so windows + 1 opens that, or if I have one open it will bring that window to the front, or if I have multiple windows explorer windows open I can cycle between them by pressing windows + 1 key all the time..... exactly the same thing for other stuff on your taskbar, so right now I have 2 firefox windows open, firefox is the second program on the taskbar so I can go directly to this one using windows + 2.... and to the next one by windows + 2 (twice)
(normally I would only have 1 FF window open though due to tabbed browsing, but the principle applies for all programs.... any that are not already pinned tothe taskbar will use the later numbers... so my taskbar currently has Windows Explorer, Firefox, MSWord and Excel pinned to it, but I have just opened MSN Messenger, which becomes the 5th program so windows + 5 will cycle through my messenger windows.
And I just checked messenger, it does seems to stay open for some reason... I remember before (in XP) it used to bring up a message that the program was still running even when you closed it, so it is probably something to do with that but it is a little irritating.... however there is a quick solution to closing messenger:
hold Windows + alt and press whichever number program it is in the taskbar (for me it is the 5th) then let go of all keys and press up, (which highlights the "close window") then enter.
There might me a setting in messenger that stops it staying open though, i'll check.
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Alternatively tedster... if you unpin all the programs from the taskbar it behaves in exactly the same way as it does in XP. (why you would want that I don't know, but if you prefer it)
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are you sure both are 32bit?.
because vista used 800mb (reallly uses 1.2gb because the cached memory) on my pc, 32bit, and my vaio 64bit used 1.4gb.
now, windows 7 32bit uses 700mb(really uses 1.1gb because the cache memory), vaio 64bit win 7 still around 1.4gb
both usage with cache are about 1.2gb pretty much the same, just now they added a FREE memory where they don't include the cached memory.
they just changed "FREE" and added a "usable" label.
still its pretty slow on a system without 2gb once u start to open apps.
