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tswelectronics
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 15 Jul 2009 : 12:24:08
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Hi, will EasyPC work on Windows 7? I am thinking of buying the upgrade to get away from Vista as quickly as possible. Not sure if all my software will work or not. So, if I install Windows 7 64bit version anyone know if EasyPC will work?
Thanks
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remi
United Kingdom
101 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jul 2009 : 10:46:41
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| if it works on vista it should as well in 7 |
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DavidM
United Kingdom
458 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jul 2009 : 14:32:32
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The new V13 release has been tested on the pre-release edition of Windows 7, with no issues found that are particular to that version of Windows. We will adopt Windows 7 as an official fully supported platform as soon as possible after the public release in October.
So while we cannot guarantee that everything will be 100% right from day one, we recognise that the uptake of Windows 7 is likely to happen quite quickly and will work with you to resolve any issues you might find. |
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tswelectronics
United Kingdom
88 Posts |
Posted - 17 Jul 2009 : 00:43:54
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Thanks for the replies.
So to clarify it will not make any difference if I am running Windows 7 32bit of 64bit?
I am so desparate to get rid of Vista that I have pre-ordered Windows 7. I use Linux but need windows for such apps as Easy PC. This is the first time I have bought a Microsoft package on its own. The computers have usually come with an operating system. My laptop came with Vista and I really can't wait to see the back of it. I just hope Windows 7 is as good and stable as it sounds.
I wonder how many other people are going to upgrade out of dire need to rid their life of Vista.
Trev
Oh, when do we find out what features are in V13?
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tswelectronics
United Kingdom
88 Posts |
Posted - 17 Jul 2009 : 00:45:32
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Originally posted by tswelectronics
Thanks for the replies.
So to clarify it will not make any difference if I am running Windows 7 32bit of 64bit?
I am so desparate to get rid of Vista that I have pre-ordered Windows 7. I use Linux but need windows for such apps as Easy PC. This is the first time I have bought a Microsoft package on its own. The computers have usually come with an operating system. My laptop came with Vista and I really can't wait to see the back of it. I just hope Windows 7 is as good and stable as it sounds.
I wonder how many other people are going to upgrade out of dire need to rid their life of Vista.
Trev
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DavidM
United Kingdom
458 Posts |
Posted - 17 Jul 2009 : 10:33:54
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All our tests have shown that 32 and 64 bit should be the same as far as Easy-PC is concerned. Some of our developers use 64-bit (admittedly XP64 as we tend to avoid Vista for 'real work') so the code is being exercised in both.
As for what is in version 13, it has now been released so you can find all the details on our web site.
http://www.numberone.com/easy_pc_v13.asp
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remi
United Kingdom
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Posted - 17 Jul 2009 : 10:59:53
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| Honnestly if you didnt like vista I guess you wont like 7 either because they are so similar! |
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tswelectronics
United Kingdom
88 Posts |
Posted - 17 Jul 2009 : 12:12:18
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No, I liked the look and feel to Vista. I just did not like my taskbar crashing everytime I click on it. I did not like Vista using 1 gig of memory to sit there thinking what to do when i press right click sometimes. Software just locks up. I have windows media player locking up on me a bit. The live mail programme also is a bit fakey looking for mail sometimes...maybe this is their software but I would expect Miscosoft's software to work with Microsoft's os
I do not believe a dual core 2gig laptop with 2gig of memory should be crippled by an OS. I used Linux as well and that was using half the memory and was doing a great job. There are just a few apps I need windows for. Its not like I was driving the software hard either. Vista has just always been ropey. Maybe its my laptop...I do not know.
So, I like the new features of Windows 7 and I hopefully am going to get an OS that compliments the hardware rather than cripples it. I doubt all my troubles will be over but I am happy to spend £45 to at least try and get away from the instability of Vista. |
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Benno
Netherlands
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Posted - 18 Jul 2009 : 16:18:28
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Trev,
I think it is better to spend a bit of money on more memory. 2G simply is not enough to run Vista properly.
I now run Vista Ultimate 64 bits on my new box and apart from Firefox crashing occasionally (they do not have 64 bit version yet) all I tested runs stable. I did not save on memory, so I have 12G in my system, what is very nice for a developer if you use a number of Virtual systems on the same PC.
If you run 64 bit vista on your laptop, why not start with putting in the max memory your laptop can carry. It will be a small investment and even helps on older windows versions like XP. |
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Peter Johnson
United Kingdom
498 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jul 2009 : 14:00:37
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| I don't have the details, but I have had reports from a few users that they've managed to get Easy-PC running under Linux using Wine. |
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tswelectronics
United Kingdom
88 Posts |
Posted - 20 Jul 2009 : 23:52:18
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Hi Benno. I have monitored the memory usage. It has 1Gig sitting there doing nothing. I do not think memory is the problem. If it takes over 2 gigs of memory to perform a right click on the desktop or taskbar then I think we are all in trouble. I mean going for the Start menu could be fatal, 8¬P
I may be naive but I think that if I pay for software it should work. I appreciate bigfixes, etc but when the core system does not perform very well then that is just bad. Windows 7 says it runs fine on 1 gig and perfers 2 gigs of memory. I am not going to buy any more memory for my laptop just yet. I have ordered Windows 7 so lets see if that puts my little world back in order.
Peter, interesting stuff about wine. I have used EasyPC under vmware on an xp installation and that works pretty well. 3D stuff is a no-go but that was expected.
Trev
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olga
United Kingdom
107 Posts |
Posted - 23 Jul 2009 : 12:42:56
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Originally posted by Peter Johnson
I don't have the details, but I have had reports from a few users that they've managed to get Easy-PC running under Linux using Wine.
Since I do most of my work with EPC at work on a Windoze machine, I haven't had much need to try to use it under Wine, but I did give it a go to see what happened!
The only thing that seems to be flakey is the printing - it seems to get the scaling wrong, IIRC, although it was a while ago I tried this!
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