I’ve got Windows 7 Professional 64 bit on my desktop and copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit on my laptop. I’m pretty happy so far, the plug and play works quite well, with a couple of noticable exceptions.
First off is my Wireless Laser Desktop 3000 keyboard, which I’m not using to type this because the damn thing is missing keystrokes, which it never did when I was running XP. Top that off with none of the fancy extra keys work running under Windows 7. Yes, I did to Microsoft and downloaded the latest drivers, which are listed as Windows 7 compatible. Annoyance factor is high here, even more so because it is bloody Microsoft hardware.
The second is my Microtek scanner. It’s a few years old and is still in great shape. Microtek support claims it will work if you jump though the right hoops in the right order during install. I haven’ t tried their latest series of hoops yet.
Third is my Bose Companion 5 speakers. I love these things. Great sound, but every time Windows 7 finds something it doesn’t like and asks me if it’s OK to run, not only does the screen dim, but it kills the sound! I have to power cycle the Bose system to get my sound back. My work around has to been to hook my iPhone up to the speakers and play the music loaded on that. A bit of bummer since it is a subset of the music loaded on my desktop.
I’ve got a few old games that won’t run under Window 7 (64 bit) either, but I don’t play them that often anyway. I’ve got an old desktop that was running a RC version of Win7 that I should scrub and load XP on to deal with stray stuff like that.
Filed under: Microsoft, Operating Systems, Windows7 | Tagged: glitches, Microsoft, Operating System, Windows7 |
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