My review of Windows 7 beta

Hello all hope u are fine  
Well i finally Downloaded windows 7 Beta and i installed it here is my opinion on it. 

Boot time: 
WINDOWS 7 Beta boot faster than my VISTA SP1 64bit which is a good thing,i hope the final version will be even faster. 

User Interface: 
When the windows came up i realized that it looks pretty well like VISTA with some changes 

1_New task bar: a really fantastic feature,you can see your open apps and easily switch between them 

2_Windows rate has changed. 


In VISTA the max rate was 5.9 but in Windows 7 its 7.9. 
I found an strange issue with this though.When i ran it,i see i got 2.9 for my Hard disk which was odd,so i did a google search and found that u have to go to device manager and choose your HDD and then go to its properties and Uncheck Enable Write Caching on Drive. 

3_Gadgets: 
Windows 7 doesnt have a side bar like Windows VISTA,but it has gadgets and you can put them anywhere u like. 
Again i found an issue with this too,when i disabled UAC,i found that the gadgets doesn't come up,i again did a google search and found that you have to tweak something in regedit and i fixed it but it was still a little buggy. 

4_Gaming performance: 
I ran Crysis warhead and FarCry 2 with the same settings i used in VISTA,and i got lower FPS in Windows 7 Beta. 
In CRYSIS WARHEAD the difference wasn't much,maybe about 5 FPS. 
But in FarCry2 it was about 10-15 FPS decrease. 
Also PunkBuster isn't supported on Windows 7 Beta which won't let you play online games. 

5_Installing Drivers and softwares. 
I installed Catalyst 8.12 beta for Windows 7 from ATI site and it ran with no problems. 
But when i wanted to install my motherboards driver from its DVD,i got an error that it doesn't support this OS,so i ran it through the trouble shooting application and managed to install it. 

For softwares i tried Photoshop CS4 extended and again when i clicked to install it,it said that my OS isnt supported but it let me continue installing it.When the installing finished i opened it and because i wanted to test it,i opened a picture and clicked on "Radial Blur"(A filter in PhotoShop) and i got the "PhotoShop Stopped working" error and it closed. 


So overall i liked this OS,its still beta thats why i had some issues,i hope things will get better when the final version releases.