I upgraded my home PC to Windows 7 this week. Vista was giving me issues (what else is new), so I decided to do the Windows 7 upgrade sooner rather than later. I don’t usually adopt a new OS this quickly, but given I was on Vista it seemed like a good idea.
The upgrade process was pretty simple, and other than a few annoying items (having to deauthorize the computer in iTunes prior to the upgrade, and having to deinstall ATI drivers) it was mostly painless. The upgrade did take several hours for me, as I do have a good amount of data (around 130GB).
I had to reinstall Roxio Easy Media Creator suite afterwards to get rid of an annoying messages about the Roxio Cine Player Media Decoder being missing. Also, the screen seems odd. The resolution setting is set the same as it was under Vista at 1440×900, but it looks like it has an odd aspect ratio. I was hoping to install new ATI drivers, but it appears Gateway has NO drivers at all for Windows 7 yet (see screenshot below).
No Windows 7 Drivers
So far the upgrade has been fine other than the look of the screen. New features are nice, I like the sticky and the fact that sleep mode works, peeking at the desktop, and the photo support for the desktop background and screensaver, but I like stability and reliability even better. Time will tell if Windows 7 delivers, but so far so good.
