The installation was very smooth and quick. I simply dropped the DVD in and answered a few questions. I decided to go for a clean install as I keep all my documents on another drive and it was easy to do. The only glitch in the install is I wanted to change my drive partitions during the install sequence (something you have been able to do in Windows since NT) but Microsoft have remove the ability to delete/create partitions. It let me format my old OS but not delete the partition.
Once installed Windows 7 is (as reviewed) very good. It seems to be fast to boot (and shutdown). I was a bit concerned about compatibility of some of the key programmes I use (as they don't say they are Window 7 compatible). So far it seems
- Kaspersky Internet Security 2010
- Carbonite
- Evernote
All work without issues on Windows 7.
I have unfortunately seen a couple of crashes since installing - once when using user switching, it totally locked up the PC and I had to turn the power off. It couldn't even bring up task manager to let me stop things.
The other thing I have noticed is Media Player seems better. I have a TV that supports DLNA and it never worked properly with Vista. However with Windows 7 it automatically 'just worked'. If I have my PC on I can view and use by photo's, videos and music from my TV.
In general it seems to be a marked improvement from Vista. The UI is more responsive and it seems a lot smoother.
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Have you tried to restore anything using carbonite yet?
It seems the Explorer integration in Windows 7 is not yet working.
You can restore files with the right-click context menu, but the "Carbonite Backup Drive" is unusable.
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