akash3656 i am really guessing that you are living in india right now....it is quite true.....vista got screwed here really....people who had never used it said its crap...."bcoz some one ...mostly their freindly neighbourhood computer chap told them that......
Erm.... firstly, i guess i should have been clear from the beginning. I'm an indian but not from India, born and brought up in Malaysia. I guess same thing happened to Malaysia too except now people
SLOWLY are beginning to understand that 7 is the way to go.
Yes I agree Windows 7 is good if your computer is circa >2007
In fact(using it right now on gaming rig and my mum's atom ION HTPC).
Trust me, neither did I like Vista due to some random bug that causes shutdown to be about >5mins.... its fixed in 7.
Even nowadays, a fully patched Vista still gives me some 'crashes'.
Win7 used to be a major pain and junk but I tried the SP1beta and now are seriously considering it as 2nd or main OS of choice.
I can finally play games on Win7 SP1beta in full screen that would not have run or ran crappy on win7 no SP windowed mode only.
IE9beta is one of the few things turning my ideas about win7 as compared to my favorite now pathetically slow Firefox "GCC4.5.* poor coding / optimization Mozilla bug".
MS win update drivers is becoming more stable and almost usable so no need for AMD CCC + some bloatware that comes with it unless serious about gaming then will only do Manufacturers drivers only.
MS is seriously cleaning up their act with Win7 SP1beta.
What still gets me is the missing "explorer" option and IE9beta missing menu bar + a few irritating 100 clicks to get to tcp-ip to set static ip or trying to translate XP related easy to find and fix options / problems in WIN7 SP1beta.
Why I need to use UWT or other programs to get WIN7 usable + disable all the Ultimate bloatware and other slow pc down software is beyond comprehension.
Server 2008R2 with classic explorer / classic control panel / classic desktop / classic start menu would have been much better than Win7 but that would not happen or a classic xp look and feel theme might not happen for win7 either and it is so extremely needed now.
The inbuilt spy on us Win7 / Vista feature still concerns me as any moron can hack and steal your info via this while XP is unsafe by default and you can put something decent that works in place to make it more secure.
Can not yet partially secure or make win7 more secure that your trashcan outside your house that any fool can rummage trough.
Win7 SP1beta major issues with some anti virus programs and SSD drives like Comodo CIS or no antivirus and just OCZ SSD performance in general.
Your problem seems unique in a sense.. but i guess not everyone has a trouble free rig.... and Ati drivers have been wonky for me too.
Only 10.3-10.5a and 10.8 and 10.9 works... rest all shutters.
and yes the UI is a FUBAR, basic TCP/IP takes many clicks....
but I have been living with ribbon UI and like IE9's UI...
I guess its about taste here.
And Firefox:its a fail software.... i used it since ver 2, since ver 3 they have been slow, slow, and slower....... slow cold startup, slow loading script heavy pages where IE does better, excessive Page file usage (causes lags here also) to reduce RAM usage in benchmarks.
Using chrome with a couple of addons, feel MUCH better, granted chrome uses more RAM, but at least doesn't slow down the OS with Page File usage....
I will say the IE team hopefully will make Firefox team wake up...
Just wondering, what spy feature in 7/Vista are you talking about?....
WAT? Windows Update? or what?