Windows 7 is sexy!

[The Fake Shemp]

I feel like my PC can multi task where it couldn't before - if that makes any sense.  I told Prole it used to hang on a lot of stuff, but a clean install of Win 7 is what the doctor ordered.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I wish the animations on the taskbar preview stuff were just a little quicker (or you could configure it -- maybe there's a registry setting or something?).  They're not horrible now, but I feel they slow me down a bit.

[Reb]

On the RC, my taskbar disappears sometimes, it leaves me with only the Start button. Pretty annoying.

[MCD]

On the RC, my taskbar disappears sometimes, it leaves me with only the Start button. Pretty annoying.

happens with me with the taskbar previews, have to restart to fix it.

[Reb]

On the RC, my taskbar disappears sometimes, it leaves me with only the Start button. Pretty annoying.

happens with me with the taskbar previews, have to restart to fix it.

I think it mostly happens after the screen saver, which doesn't work either. Sometimes it magically reappears again.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Now that you mention it, I've seen weird taskbar behavior too with the thing getting "unlocked" (so it's not always on top) spontaneously and having to re-lock it manually.  I don't think this started happening until recently, maybe it's a side effect of some update or some software installation/configuration?

happens with me with the taskbar previews, have to restart to fix it.

I think I've seen this before -- isn't it just Aero that dies for some reason?  You can just restart Aero from the control panel, you don't have to reboot the whole system.

[MCD]

I will try that the next time it happens.

thanks man.

[recursivelyenumerable]

The control panel selection is called "Find and fix problems with transparency and other visual effects", btw.  searching for Aero apparently calls it up

[MCD]

I saw that once via the action center in the beta build.

edit: just ran the windows performance score and taskbar previews got fucked, finding problem with aero didn't help so my guess is that this is related to ati beta drivers.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Yeah, I had weird (and jarring) glitching with the previews too until they pushed out an update to my video drivers.

[MCD]

just installed ati 9.7, hopefully problem goes away.

[BlueTsunami]

The only issue I've run into is something about the file structure being corrupt. It happened as I was unpacking Photoshop CS4 for installing. This setup I've got going now hasn't given me any issues though.

[MCD]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7

[recursivelyenumerable]

I have to say that I tried the handwriting recognition in W7 and it's fucking amazing.  It can read my writing better than 90% of human beings can.  It's also totally useless to me of course since I don't have a Tablet PC, but hey.

[The Fake Shemp]

This is a much better browsing and operating experience than Vista.