Windows 7 will dominate?

So what's all this Windows 7 hype? Will the next OS be better than Windows Vista, I would agree Windows Vista did scare a few loyal Microsoft fans away to Apple, or just stick to Windows XP, so rumor has it that the life of Windows XP will end in the year 2011, so where will they go next? I'm sure Vista is not an option, maybe they will up using a Mac, I think the success of Windows 7 is very important to Microsoft. So what do they have up their sleeve?

I never get a chance to download and try it out when it was available for download, another great move for users to try it out and install on a wide variety of system, so when problem arise, Microsoft knows and will fix it, so far it's been all good.

Here's how the startup looks like in the Beta and RC version, look like Vista

One of the big difference is the quick launch, pointing at it will give you a preview.

There's a lot of new features which I didn't get in, but what is it so different from Vista? Back in the day of Windows 98 moving to Windows XP, a system upgrade is necessary, and from Windows Xp to Windows Vista another system upgrade is recommended, I would say a 2GB RAm would be ample to experience Windows Aero and such, so do you need an upgrade for Windows 7? That would suck now would it?

People were sayin that Windows 7 works very well on netbooks, a smaller version of a notebook, it probably won't mean much, it's a modern device anyway but not as powerful as a notebook, some people have been reviewing and testing Windows 7 to see how fast it works on some application and games, which all seems good so far with the next generation of DirectX; DirectX 11, of course you don't require to upgrade your graphics card, DirectX 9 and 10 and 10.1 will still work with it, thank god.

But I believe testing how slow it can go is also has a strong point, what I meant is can a slower system run Windows 7, since it can run on a netbook, I guess people is curious to find out. And it's true, some people get it to run on a Pentium II system with 96MB-128MB RAM, that's right.

Here's the screen for a user running it on his Pentium II 96MB system

Here's the screen for a user running it on his Pentium II 128MB system

So if you have Pentium II with 128MB RAM, you can't even run Windows XP let alone Windows Vista, but you can run Windows 7? now that's one strong point, Microsoft did a good job in this area. Now everyone can use Windows 7 without upgrading their system like Windows Vista required. Read more »

Multiple Core Tips

Nowadays seems like everyone at least has a dual core processor by now, well....not all but most of you do. Dual Core processors such as the AMD Athlon X2 and Intel's Core 2 Duo are the mainstream choice now and most applications and games are developed to take full advantage of dual processing power, it's a huge advantage over a single core, there's nothing you need to do to use your dual core on those stuff, is either you have it or you don't, but there's some other small things you can tweak to take advantage of your dual core, you have it why not use it, here's a simple one you can do to speed up boot up time.

I heard people complainin' why would their dual core processor boot up speed is the same as a single core computer, well most of you don't know that Windows didn't actually use 2 cores to boot up windows, I guess there's an unnecessary thought to it, like i said before, if you have dual core, USE IT! Fortunately window OS allow such option. I'll use Windows XP as an example, note for Vista users at the end.

1. On Windows XP, hold Windows Key + R, or click Start, then Run, to bring up the following:


2. type msconfig then Enter.

3. You'll see somethin' similar to this:


4. Click on BOOT.INI found on top of the available tabs. Then click Advanced Options.. shown below.


5. Here you'll see a few options, the one we'll using is /NUMPROC, so select it and you will have the option to choose how many processors to use, choose 2 if you have dual core of course hehe. 3 or 4 cores will be available if you have more than 2 cores.


6. Click OK twice then choose whether you want to Restart now or later.

For Windows Vista users, the process is similar through steps 1-4, after that steps, you'll see somethin like this, obviously that's just an example for people are using Quad Cores (4 cores) like AMD Athlon X4 and Intel Core 2 Quad, I believe it will work with tri core processor like AMD Phenom II X3 as well, just select the appropriate number of cores for your processor.


NOTE: Once restarted you may be notified of some changes which was made in msconfig, tick the check box on the lower left corner and then OK, so it won't appear everytime you boot Windows


Whether you'll see any improvement or not is up to you to decide whether to use this tip or not, i'll just leave it like that even if there's no improvement, no harm done :)
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