I have Windows 7 ultimate x86 installed on 2 machines (my old Tyan workstation and a 1 1/2 year old Sony laptop)
I started optimizing it right after the install, disabled a bunch of services that aren't needed, turned off UAC, turned off most the eye candy crap, etc.
My old Tyan likes Windows 7 and it installed almost all of the motherboard drivers natively.
Both machines needed drivers installed.
It likes to create a bunch of frivolous files (it is a Windows operating system after all...) and the hard drive is reading/writing for little while after booting to the desktop (no big deal)
Opening the task scheduler is fun. There you will find a bunch of microsneak phone home activity.
It is the RTM of what Vista was supposed to be as I consider Vista to be a public beta (a public beta that people had to pay for to use)
Last edited by Snoopy; 11-22-2009 at 01:12 AM.
Xclio CS-528 case
Tyan K8W S2885 motherboard
2x Opteron 270's (dual core)
4gb PC3200 DDR400 ECC RAM
BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra OC AGP
2x 74gb WD Raptors SATA RAID'ed (O.S.)
2x 250gb Maxtor SATA RAID'ed (Storage)
1x 400gb SATA Standalone (backup)
2x 18" Gateway LCD's
Audigy 2 Sound card
5.1 Creative Labs speakers
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