Comments on: Is Windows XP Better than Windows 7? A User’s Perspective

By: taboo

taboo — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:51:19 +0000

I agree with him, my cousin uses windows 7 professional and it is slower than ever and it takes hours to open just one game! My windows xp professional is much more faster than his and can run game faster.

By: BlackGhost

BlackGhost — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:38:10 +0000

Hey! come on guys, Win7 isnt half bad either. i changed from XP to 7 and didnt really have much of a problem and got used to it in just less than a week, its faster and looks gorgeous, back when i was using XP i got lots of hardware and software issues. seven has a better response, i dont get incompatibility issues in later games, you can always use compatibility mode anyway.

By: Phantom

Phantom — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:50:56 +0000

Just install XP, bro…

By: Phantom

Phantom — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:46:16 +0000

I have a Lenovo G560 bloated with Windows 7 and bloatware preloaded onto it, and God it was slow as hell. Shit, even my Core 2 Duo with XP beat it in almost everything ( COMPLETELY excluding gaming performance because my Core 2 Duo uses integrated graphics. Jeez.) And I found out sometime that I can dual boot my laptop. I installed 7 and XP freaking denied to install onto it. Found out that my SATA controller had to be on compatible, with Windows XP unfortunately having poor support for SATA drives. Solved that. Bam. Windows XP is freaking faster. It is also more serious than 7.

WINDOWS XP FOREVER!

By: Phantom

Phantom — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:42:04 +0000

I have a Lenovo G560 with a shitty i3 processor and I was running on Windows 7. God, I so missed the old interface of Windows XP. Found out then that

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:08:20 +0000

But dude I3 processor is so slow for windows 7 at least you need an i5

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:13:23 +0000

I like Windows XP better then Windows 7.

My desktop with Intel 4 processor runs on XP while my Dell Inspiron 14R laptop with Intel i3 has Windows 7 and being a daily active computer user I find Windows XP better then Windows 7.

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:49:15 +0000

Hey Michi, what did you think when you were submitting all those comments under different names and email addresses, just to support your original comment? That I wouldn’t notice? Do you realize how pathetic it is to simulate people in agreement with you? (I guess when you talk about sad people, you know what you’re talking about.)

Too bad for you I have means to detect cheating attempts like yours. Of course I blocked all your other fake comments. And I published you first one only to expose your fatuity.

I may not write much here these days, but this blog is still moderated.

BTW, I do own all kinds of high-end computers and devices, also with Win7 on, and I still rant that Win7 lacks XP’s snappiness.

By: Michi

Michi — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:15:10 +0000

Jeez, people like XP better is because some people can’t afford Windows 7. To make them feel better they just talk sad about windows 7 and feel better with Xp… Sad people these days…

By: Serp

Serp — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:09:54 +0000

I decided to purchase an SSD and switch over to Windows 7, as it’s been long enough for MS to work out whatever bugs are in 7. I went all out and got the SP1 Ultimate X64 edition of Win7.

The first thing that I noticed is that even with more RAM and the SSD it really isn’t that much faster, I don’t think most people will notice the (small if at all) speed increase. In fact, in many ways XP is actually quite a bit faster.

I believe Win7 is poorly coded.

Also compatibility problems really show up in Win7. Microsoft’s own MS Office 2007 has quite a few issues even on installation for Windows 7. I gave up on that and just used openoffice, it may be the last time I get an MS Office product.

I have a total score of 7.5 on the Windows experience index, with the sub components ranging from 7.5 to 7.8. XP performed a bit better even in 32 bit with less than half the RAM available and the main bottleneck was the HDD, 7 is optimized for SSDs and that was my main reason to get it. Now I think maybe XP would have been okay to stay with.

I’m having trouble running games like Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas with mods. I haven’t re-installed all my old games yet. The Wireless on Win7 seems a bit less reliable and use efficiency is lowered because it requires more clicks to fix issues with it. Skyrim does work, perhaps because it is a newer game, and the other 2 I believe were released before Win7, or before it became widely adopted (if it even is now). This is not a problem XP had, as most older programs and games did, and still do, work on XP.

Win7 is solid for people that are using a pre-built system or don’t have much experience with computers. However if you build your own systems and did your own WinXP troubleshooting, Win7 will probably bring more problems for you rather than a real increase in performance.