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HI All,

Well my PC just did its auto update to Vista Service Pck 2 on Thursday night.

Now have some nice little add ons like bluetooth capability, blue ray burner and snipping tool from what i can see.

The snipping tool is very cool, its pretty much a cut and past device but i can cut anything on the screen and past it anywhere, kinda like my own pair of scissors on the PC. I know it has been done somewhere before, but there have been times when i have done a screen grab (alt+prt screen) when i have only wanted a small section of that actual screen grab, so this works great for it.

Any one else using SP2? just wanting to see if any negatives or positivves with it. Other than the new apps it all seems pretty good.

Also looked at some of the 3dmark scores and the forums and it appears that SP2 makes the scores ever so slightly less....

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Well to be honest i read a couple of reviews saying that it was meant to use less resources etc, but nothing really confirmed. Other than me saying....well to be honest... no difference at all, for example, writing this with no other apps open other than coretemp and rivatuner plus 2 ie pages it is idling at 48%ram usage. CPU usage though is next to nothing at 2%

So no major resource differences, if anything more to be honest.

Vista has kind of grown on me, or is it jsut that i have put up with it for so long that anything slightly new i get over excited about?

Anyway to answer your question, wait for Windows 7. much better reviews on it so far, plus in the long run you would prob have to upgrade to it later anyway.

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I've been running Vista SP2 for a while now (I think for about 2 months). I beleive it has done some improvements in the backend of windows but still not noticable.

I have to agee with you 25GTT. Vista has grown on me aswell...I've even getting use to cancel/allow message (bizzare) but I guess it's just me warming up to Windows 7 and giving that a blast

has anyone here using Windows 7 (well at least the beta)

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I've gotta rebuild for 7 when i cbf'd, so next few weeks.

Heaps better than Vista from all reports of people i know running it now for 3 months or so.

Mainly in the Media Centre department, much more optimised, no crashes, hardware conflicts etc and this is all on a RC copy... so official should be very good

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has anyone here using Windows 7 (well at least the beta)

Running windows 7 RC on my laptop atm.

So far I'm impressed by the fact that auto update manage to find drivers for my video chip while Nvidia site couldn't get it right (mobile 9500GS).

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Running a MSDN copy of Windows 7 at work for testing purposes.

So far so good - definately faster. I feel they took the good bits from Vista nd XP and put it into one package.

Installed Windows 7 on some pretty average laptops which struggled under Vista - Mobile AMD64 with 2GB RAM - Windows 7 is definately a winner.

Only issue I had with Windows 7 was video drivers not installing properly therefore no "Aero" or nice graphics - it says it is installed fine - but device manager sees the video card as a generic item - ended up having to manually install the drivers which seems to work.

But in saying this - Hopefully Windows 7 remains as fast as it is on the official build.

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  • 2 weeks later...

been runnin win7 rc since about may on my main home pc..still runnin xp3 on my old comp cause it cant handle 7 yet...

have not had 1 issue with it at all..all drivers updated instantly and has never crashed..actually had problems when i tried to load drivers from disk...so dont bother with disks now...still unhappy about no blu-ray support.. but im sure there will be decent codecs too fix this soon as its released...but seriously dont think blu-ray is worth the hassle anyways...

tried various versions of vista and was never happy...

Win7 FTW.....

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