Thanks for experiences John. DriveImage XML is a good price (free) and easy to extract files "out of".
Geoff From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: Wednesday, 26 May 2010 12:54 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: Re: [DUG-Offtopic] Windows 7 Upgrade HD image means I did a hard disk complete image, in case it went to custard and I could then just return the computer to as it was on Vista. (In my case I used Drive snapshot http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/ which I have used for many years over various OS - always done what I need, and cheaper than Acronis which usually gets the best reviews. Norton Ghost is much the same thing.) Summary of upgrade: -I would have preferred to go to 64bit Windows 7 (benchmarks show 64 bit is generally a bit faster on the same hardware), but it means a reinstall of everything and some things that came with the laptop would have been lost. So I took the lazy upgrade path which means everything should reappear in Windows 7. -Upgrade took 7 hours. between starting upgrade and next step (entering licence). Most of that was scanning all files and working what it needed to import, and importing programs and settings.....it said there were 800,000 settings/programs etc to import. Considering setting up the last laptop took 20+ hours of installing everything this was acceptable. I did not bother cleaning up all the stuff I had installed, just left it there. -At the end of that everything is present. Imported Windows Mail into Windows Live Mail - it pretty much did that automatically too. -So far everything working, most things are definitely faster, and everything runs. -Even areas I might have expected problems - eg BDE appeared in the control panel and runs, the Firebird service is already running. -D2007 works fine - in fact faster and cleaner. On Vista used to get windows moving around on the screen when a project opened, as it figured out where the docking windows went, same on running a program as the window setup alters for the debug setup. On Windows 7, it all paints cleanly and does not flicker around the screen, so maybe that was a Vista/Windows problem that cleaned up in Windows 7. (The first time I tried a compile I got worried as the compile window appeared, froze and the title changed to "Compile (not responding)". Then after my heart sank suddenly the window unfroze and the program launched, much quicker than I expected under Vista - since then its been behaving normally). -Windows Live Mail looks to be similar but better than Windows Mail (Vista). -So far only things missing are: -No list of wireless networks past used. -no sent email - it does not import that. Because Windows Mail is not on Windows 7, I can't get to look at my past "sent items" folder. I am hoping I won't need to..... -I noticed there is a difference with Windows 7 and Delphi program icons in the task bar - one of my programs taskbar icon used to change programmatically to reflect its state, and no longer does. I might ask about that on the Delphi list. -As a summary of how the PC is performing, I am currently running much of the grunty stuff I have all at once: -D2007, large-ish project open, -Firefox 3.7 148 tabs -Chrome 2 tabs -VMWare workstation 6 with XP virtual machine running -Open Office Write and Calc docs open -Mail and a few others too. CPU running at around 5%, and memory for all the above is between 2.0 and 2.2GB (I have 4GB installed). (Mind you I have a an extension (Bartab) applied to Firefox to keep the CPU low on inactive tabs- normally Flash somewhere in many of the tabs would be eating much more CPU). So far I am pretty happy! John Hi, what is meant by: Done a HD image first, Thank you, Charlie _____ _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org..nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic <http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic> Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
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