Windows 7 really is excellent (and just a little fucked)
I haven’t posted in a while… why? Because I’ve upgraded most of my computers to Windows 7 and the positive buzz on Windows 7 is justified. Features like Aero Snap and Aero Peek plus the new Taskbar are useful and productivity boosting. I haven’t really noticed the battery life improvement (rumored at 20% for notebooks), but do see a faster boot time. There is a “can’t have your cake and eat it too” caveat on boot time – it appears stuff not loaded during book gets loaded… later and can slow down other apps initial launch (Outlook 2007 starts up much slower right after booting into Windows – I suspect due to pre-reqs not loaded in the shortened Windows 7 boot process that are loaded on demand with Outlook 2007).
It was a relief, for the tone of this blog, to have something slightly fucked about Windows 7 appear… after a Windows Update the following error message appeared:
Windows 7 Update Error
Ah the infamous “Code 80070020 Windows Update encountered an unknown error” error. And is that really an “unknown error” if the definition of 80070020 is “unknown error”? That’s beside the point.
It appears the problem is with updating the NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT device driver (a tasty 108 MB update). Alas – until this point Windows 7’s track record with device drivers had been so clean. It was too good to be true.
Windows is, after all, still Windows and therefore slightly fucked.
December 28, 2009 at 6:43 pm
windows 7 SUCKS I have wasted 5 hours trying to get my belkin wireles adpt. to work. belkin downloads didn’t even help. Thanks for another shitty product Bill. I beleved all the crap WHAT A FOOL I AM.