About 2 weeks ago I switched to Windows 7 as I assumed at first impression was that win 7 is the good from Vista with some of the bad Vista fixed.
The navigation features are nice, I like the way that you can set up your favorite menu in computer which makes it easy to find you important folders fast. I like the way that my computer and my Network are in one place.
Windows found the drivers for most of my hardware on installation. Though some of the issues that I had with the 3 years ago in Vistas are the same but then they had the same solutions. The strangest problem I had was Win 7 used some generic drivers for my sound card and though every test I tried said that my sound was working I had no sound. The solution was to find out which sound card from the store where I bought it, I then contact the manufacture for the correct sound drivers. When I contacted the manufacturer they informed me that they did not have the driver for my sound card but suggested that I use the Vista drivers which worked, now I have sound. Another problem which came from the Vista days was something in my video card conflicts with my computer’s sleep capability, the problem being if I put my computer to sleep then it won’t wake up. My solution is the same as before which is to turn off the sleep capability on my computer. I still use the setting that turns off my screen after a short period (30 minutes).
Even though at first look one would recognize the windows look and feel there are subtle differences between the old XP and the new windows 7 which makes you know that window 7 ( and Vista) is not window XP and like vista before I like it.