So the summary of everything ive said is: Windows XP is boring,slow,ugly Windows 7 is fast,gorgeous,addicting. Anyone who says XP is better either has some issues with it which most people dont, or he hasnt used XP yet, or his system is too slow for windows 7 which is quite rare as my pc is slow but it runs win 7 amazingly.
Hey Lova-B0i! Now that you got this idiot proof Windows 7 everything works relatively decent which in your case is 4 times faster then XP — only because you had no idea how to install and use XP. XP x86 functioned wonderfully on both my Core2Quad system and acer aspire G. I evaluated 7 for a while but there is nothing that impresses me about it. XP does everything I need it to do and does it very well. We use XP exclusively at the office as well and it does not buckle or disappoint — its solid.
The guys who bad mouth about xp are the guys using computer for gaming only. Consider any software crash, disk management, take control and understand your PC. If you are the guys every time PC having problems, pay money let someone fix for you. I would not blame you prefer pretty interface win7 or win8. Because the pretty interface is all you need. I am pro, I feel lost control of my PC without knowing what running on it is very disturbing.
It is so sad I saw hardware companies ditch xp. If you understand your pc with xp you can do so much more than just throw in a recovery disk to solve your problem. Darkstar December 18, at pm That was a good point. I agree with him, my cousin uses windows 7 professional and it is slower than ever and it takes hours to open just one game! My windows xp professional is much more faster than his and can run game faster. I have a Lenovo G bloated with Windows 7 and bloatware preloaded onto it, and God it was slow as hell.
And I found out sometime that I can dual boot my laptop. I installed 7 and XP freaking denied to install onto it. Solved that. Windows XP is freaking faster. It is also more serious than 7. I have a Lenovo G with a shitty i3 processor and I was running on Windows 7. God, I so missed the old interface of Windows XP. Found out then that. To make them feel better they just talk sad about windows 7 and feel better with Xp… Sad people these days…. Hey Michi, what did you think when you were submitting all those comments under different names and email addresses, just to support your original comment?
Do you realize how pathetic it is to simulate people in agreement with you? Too bad for you I have means to detect cheating attempts like yours. Of course I blocked all your other fake comments. And I published you first one only to expose your fatuity. I have 4 laptops 3 are few years old and 1 is relatively new i have win xp pro and win 7 where i have read above to some good arguments i have to admit that win 7 is okay it is good for day to day use and fairly easy to navigate and to do what is needed however i prefer XP pro i have extensively looked over both OS to squeeze performance out of machines i am a performance junky and apart from the kernel memory problems in XP i would have to say it outperforms win7 hands down xp is faster and this is mainly because the fixes they made to solve the kernel memory problem in the new OS slows down any computer regardless of hardware when all you need to do to solve this problem in XP is close down the program you using and restart it.
More compatibility for hardware and programs and gives me a bit of nostalgia at the same time. I have my Windows XP x64 box running as fast or faster than a Windows Vista or Windows 7 box by far due to the tweaking program and various other things I have installed on it. Anyone remember when XP was released… the damn system was a nightmare till SP2. Darkstar, you make some very good points! The sad thing is, Win7 sucks by design : Its problem is not a clumsy implementation of good concepts like it was with XP.
Its problem is solid implementation of bad concepts. In fact, in many ways XP is actually quite a bit faster. Also compatibility problems really show up in Win7.
I gave up on that and just used openoffice, it may be the last time I get an MS Office product. I have a total score of 7. Now I think maybe XP would have been okay to stay with. The Wireless on Win7 seems a bit less reliable and use efficiency is lowered because it requires more clicks to fix issues with it.
Skyrim does work, perhaps because it is a newer game, and the other 2 I believe were released before Win7, or before it became widely adopted if it even is now. This is not a problem XP had, as most older programs and games did, and still do, work on XP. However if you build your own systems and did your own WinXP troubleshooting, Win7 will probably bring more problems for you rather than a real increase in performance. All you lot are wrong.
Windows xp is slow, boring, and a total waste of time. The interface is crap and it catches bugs easy.
Windows is fast, easy and amazing when it comes to games. It has a great inteface with fast shortcuts. And whoever likes vistor really really should get a new sort of mind. Windows 7 is the only original success in my personal opinion. I am using it, and some of my apps start much slower on a machine that has like 5x the power of my old XP machine. Thanks Micrsoft for being so freaking stupid. I find win7 in my case prox64 much more reliable than XP. Took me some time to adjust it, fix some really annoying things visuals, not responding problems while rendering etc.
I did some nice job in XP over the past few years, still have it on old PC at home. Before I switched to win7 I used XP x64 edition for audio production in studio, found it very stable and fast, no hardware or software compatibility problems… Now I am very happy with win7 on both my desktop in studio and laptop that I use at work.
As reply to Te Dude: you can easily customize taskbar the way you want in taskbar properties. An interface is meant to be the one thru which we must be able to access all the resources of any device, no matter how qualified you are or not. XP is one of the best example for the above statement. And i am a PC Technician. Because they know wat a user needs other than anything els.
I need a fk computer to work with — not to struggle with its os! Hey guys, I think windows xp is far better then 7. My pc used 2 run with windows 7 ultimate, it used 2 many ram on my pc then xp, xp uses a little, my games is running much faster after I installed xp professional. So I would rather consider using xp then 7. Far more convenient then any other OS, 2 go from windows 7 ultimate to windows xp was almost like an upgrade. Yeah right. Hmm, style?
Issues gone? Win 7 is something that belongs in the labs, not on the shelves. But overpriced proprietary stuff should be damn well tested before they start selling it! The only reason why I use Windows 7 is because everything is centered around it at the moment — games, device drivers, software…. Mainly the GUI. IMO, it makes text blurry and hard to read.
Yet you cannot disable it. Using the ClearType text tuner will turn it off for a few places in the OS, but in the others, no, why? Because it is hardcoded into the Aero theme. Whose idea was this, again? And the Start Menu? Dear god, I cringed when I saw that. Thankfully you can fix it with Classic Shell.
Try running that, it will tell you it is available only on Laptops. So, why the hell is it installed on my —Desktop— PC? It would have been a good idea if you could select which elements of Windows to install during installation… oh wait, that idea was implemented in Win98 SE.
Another feature that Microsoft improved removed. Time to find a good Linux distro. Windows 7 is bloated. XP puts 4 previews of pictures from folder, whole pictures are visible, so you can easily figure out what is inside a folder.
Windows 7: Explorer window with annoying section on left side, but without the easy to use button to go to parent folder. I would have to say yes, I still think XP is better than Win 7. They basically move everything around, renamed some of the features and add the annoying UAC. I miss XP already. It seems that all of you agree that xp takes big time. Once upon a time, there was an automobile company named Mazda. They had one of the best engineered, fastest, quietest, reliable sports cars in the world — it was called the RX7.
So they pitched the best system in the world in favor of a swankier, more engineered car. It did more things rather than doing the things it did, well.
Eventually, even the most dedicated Mazda RX7 fanboys gave up and moved on to different brands. Simple as that. Name a function. XP is better. Example — move an icon to a place on the desktop — it moves back at its earliest convenience. Dilbert was right about Microsoft, Inc.
You know, i have just started to use windows 7, and it is defenetley slower than windows xp. My laptop is a dell vostro with an intel centrino and 2 gb ram with gb hdd, and xp runs much better. Also i have noticed that i can not haver the windows media player runing while y play a simple game, like starcraft, because it laggs my game, in xp this did not happen.
On the bright side, i do have less problems than i did with xp. Less blue screens, it almost does not freeze, i do have a better netwok experience, it shuts down faster, although it does take more to start up, but you can speed it up with some programs, like tune up. The sad thing is that all new programs and games are comming out only for win 7, as well a new external and internal hardware.
I do like better xp, but 7 does makes a lot of thing easier, for the cost of performance though. Now I understand your problem guys.
Windows 7 would definitely run slower on older computers but if you buy a new computer with windows 7 pre-installed, you can say that 7 is much better and faster than xp or vista.
That is sooo not true, i installed a new amd motherboard and 8gb ram with nvidia geforce gtx graphiccs and i put in windows 7 it ran slow as hell, if i chose i would be going with xp. What a BS! From his comment below show he even do not know why computer run faster.
Your piece highlights succinctly and clarifies where this feeling comes from, and why the system is just so painful to use at times. XP, while not perfect, was the closest they ever came. Since Direct X 9. Win 7 is good and vista sucks. However, XP is best. This was a guest post, and I took it in good belief. Would you like to clarify? After-all, parents tend to be conservative and resist change. To the best of my belief, windows 7 is very compact and comes with a lot of functions that have been simplified to ease operation.
Stable in what? The simplicity and unchallenged advancement that windows 7 brings to its users puts windows XP to a lower level compared to the former. Sure was plain and lacked coming preloaded with everything. But it was stable. Its easy to see how much trouble it is for Microsoft to do anything right.
I am thinking it is purely an accident when they get something right. When I switched to XP bit, I was amazed at how much faster it is and it has served me well no matter what I throw at it.
But keep in mind, no Os is perfect. Part of what makes one run reliably is the person who uses it. If you are advanced at troubleshooting, you have no problems squeezing the most out of it. I made the switch to WIndows 7 Ultimate a month ago and have used it everyday, installing many programs and putting it to the test. First of all I must say that the security is a major annoyance. But it can be turned off. It has worked very well.
But three days ago I decided to restore my backup of XP 64 to see what I was missing. Talk about FAST!! I had almost forgotten how much faster XP is. But at the expense of true performance. It eats up RAM like an addiction that never quits. XP never did that. We believe in providing quality content to our readers. If you have any questions or concerns regarding any content published here, feel free to contact us using the Contact link below.
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Not really, most people using XP would be using the 32 bit version. In fact, both of my boxes that support 64 bit this is exactly what I did. That still makes it an unequal comparison. If you had any experience of XP x64 you wouldn't consider it a fair test at all.
I'll add to the mix ZDNet's results: blogs. Charles Charles 4 4 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Did you install all the old applications on the new one for a true apples-to-apples comparison? One thing that happens is that the old machine has extra junk on it clogging things up. The new machine has only the things you explicitly put on it.
Well, different machines were of course different.
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