Windows 7 - anyone else think its crap?
 

When it works it's GREAT, but its so full of bugs I can't stand it. Programs taking 30+ seconds to open, crashes, slows down for no reason and is slowing me down.

Anyone else have a bad experience with it?

been using it for over a year now and it rocks, no issues whatsoever.

No problems on my end.

Crashes often, blue screens just like XP and Vista.

Odd. What version are you running and what do you use it for?

My machine is mostly for video, but even the simple tasks slow it down sometimes. However, when it does run right, it hauls serious ass when rendering.

I have not had one program crash since installing it.. I haven't even rebooted it once.

Running Ultimate here on a core2duo and it doesn't take long to do anything.

I had an editor destroy 2 windows 7 machines last week, so NO
And it seems to be really BAD at working with massive volume over networks....as in when working directly on SAN's etc

Must be you. What are your system specs

windows 7 home premium 64 bit, 920 i7 6gb ram.

video editing/rendering, photoshop, several adobe products running at once.

The only people who have problems with it should be wearing helmets when leaving the house and have their mittens sewn to their sleeves.

You just gave me a fantastic idea for the next xmass gift :1orglaugh

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
i7 860 @ 2.80 GHz
8 GM Ram

I have a ASUS motherboard and 2 ASUS graphics cards set up for Crossfire. Like I said, when it works, it is amazing, but the amount of stalls, hangs, and slow performance is wearing me down. I know it shouldn't run like this but I lack the tech know how to fix it.

I've also made a lot of tweaks I've read about on the Windows 7 forum to speed it up and make it perform better. Nothing helped.

Cursed at birth. :1orglaugh

no problems here, if your machine is getting the dreaded blue screen then you have a problem - regular bios updates, turning off unused services and general spring cleaning every month or two should keep you in shape - slow launching software is due to software or hardware conflicts 9 times out of 10 - use task manager to disable things and see if it improves.

works fine for me here :)

I only have issues with adobe software... all else is fine

I did lose an eye when I was a kid because I stuck a fork in it.

check the voltage of your power suply and use a power conditioner. minute drops fuck everything up and you are in a 3rd world country etc...

No blue screen thank God.

I'll try shutting off more things running in the background, maybe one of them is causing a conflict.

i don't visit dirty sites, everything runs great

lol sorry, no pun)

I won't use it unless I have to...

I have 750w power supply. Yea, we have crazy power fluctuations here sometimes.

I've been using it for a few months on a new machine I put together for video editing and it works great. I like it at least as much as XP. Haven't used Vista ... knew I wanted stay as far away from it as possible.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh
Probably find one or more of the tweaks have introduced a bit of instability
You need a voltage regulator/stabiliser really.

Not really, just needs a good UPS that monitors and handles power.

you alone on that one brotha

I've been running it for a month now and it has never crashed once. Once I got past some of the security things, it's great.

I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit and my system is no where near as good as yours and I don't have these issues. Something is definitely wrong and it's not windows 7.

I agree. Sounds like a hardware issue. The last machine I built had some weird crashes happening. I had to go in to the BIOS and adjust memory timings and voltages and it hasn't crashed once since.

Definitely sounds like hardware issues. I've been running Ultimate and have had no problems at all. Which specific ASUS board and video card?

i have 2,5Stone 4GB mem tool, so win7 works just fine. Excpet motherfukin video that still is noizy. MACz FTW!

XP all the way

XP was fine in it's day, but 7 is better. When you switch you'll see.

I got a new desktop and laptop about a month ago. Went from older WinXP machines to new Win7 64bit pro with i7 920 processors.. 9gb of ram in the desktop, 6 in the laptop. No problem at all with the desktop..runs great and so much faster. The laptop has had some problems here and there with totally locking up, but I think it's something my older son had done with it (dang warcraft, etc)..cleaned up alot of unnecessary stuff and I've only had it hang once, but I was trying to mess with network settings at the same time I was trying to remote access the desktop. Other lock ups were very random prior to that and not from one set thing.

No blue screens at all... no slow loading programs, etc.

Time for a reformat, or at the very least, defrag that sumbitch!

Did you do an upgrade?

Honestly, I only buy an operating system with a new computer. I've never had an upgrade work that well. You are better just starting from scratch.

Win7 works fine for me now. Only problem I had was that it wouldnt start back up after it went to sleep, so now I have it set to never sleep!

Control panel>System>Advanced System Settings>Perfomance (settings tab)>Advanced tab>tick Background services. If your machine is loading .EXE's at 30+ seconds, this may help.

no problems here, i just hate the new file explorer and would love the one from XP back

I have 5 (+1 laptop) Win 7 machines, rendering thousands of animation frames and being abused on a regular basis by a variety of software, including After Effects, Softimage and Vegas video, plus a few games. I've been running some new CUDA vid card renderers also and I rarely have a problem --- and if I do, I'd be more likely to blame it on the individual softwares.

It's been a terrific product so far.

No issues here. I don't do much more than develop applications with Visual Studio and SQL Server and browse the web but it works flawlessly. I haven't had a BSOD with it ever. It's rare for an application to crash but if it does it's FF and the same thing happens on XP Pro, so *shrug*

it doesnt let you move files around in a folder, it automatically snaps them into a grid which is FUCKING ANNOYING!!!!

but other than that its good

That actually helped speed up some programs opening. THANK YOU. :thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

it's been pretty good for me

I think it works well for me, but I need more RAM... only running win7-64bit with 2 gigs ram.

I need 4.

So far no big problems with win7 (64bit, 4gig ram), but I've mentioned some slowdowns while running 3D applications. Guess it's caused by the HDD (Notebook).
Anyone made some experiences with the free Microsoft Essentials AntiVir software?

In all seriousness, there are some older apps that can cause 7 to crap out for speed and response. You just need to make sure to set them to run in compatability mode and it clears up the problem. Adobe Fireworks CS3 would be one example of an app that can cause my system to lag. I switched it over to compat. mode and it cleared that up.

I am assuming you're doing some editing and such on this PC, it isn't just your BS surf porn and read emails machine. Check your graphics related programs, almost guaranteed its one of them causing the problem sitting in memory.

had a box that crashed all the time, changed the ram, reinstalled the os... new HD and vid card... finally sold the parts off...and started oveer.. the guy I sold the stuff to told me the power supply was putting out low volts. that's probably your issue. $.02

Runs stable for me. No issues whatshowever.

How much power did you have and what did the buyer upgrade it to?

I wasn't able to get 1000w at the time I bought the machine without having it shipped in. Maybe it's worth a shot.