In both cases, the speed is at least double what it was under Vista—although Windows 8 and 10 are even faster to boot than Windows 7. Windows 7 can even run on some computers that ran Windows XP; this practice isn't recommended but it can work for some people with tight hardware budgets. This flexibility in hardware demands demonstrates how much leaner Microsoft made Windows 7.
Microsoft cut out a lot of the fat with Windows 7 by dropping programs that were included with Vista—programs the majority of us never used. Windows 7 is easier on the eyes than Vista. To take just two examples, both the Taskbar and the System Tray have been refined, making your desktop more efficient.
The System Tray , in particular, has been cleaned up. It doesn't string out dozens of icons across the bottom of your screen anymore and it's easy to customize how those icons are displayed. Windows 7 added a new, graphical way to see which devices are connected to your computer—and it includes your computer as a device, too.
It was smart of Microsoft to make it easy to find this information, and the images are helpful in identifying each device. No cryptic names or descriptions here. The printer device looks like a printer! Windows 7 is more stable than Vista. At its launch, given the massive under-the-hood re-engineering between Windows XP and Windows Vista, Vista had a nasty tendency to crash.
It wasn't until the first service pack a big package of bug fixes and other updates came out that the operating system stabilized. With that question in mind, we took two identical Lenovo ThinkPad Ts loaded with Windows Vista or Windows 7 and compared every facet relating to performance.
To make this article relevant to consumers, we picked two identical systems with factory images operating system installatons. One included the latest configuration of Windows Vista Business and the other Windows 7 Professional. These systems match even down to the most basic internal hardware. To compare the system performance of both machines, we created a level playing field by removing the same bloatware from each machine including AV software and gave each laptop the same custom power profile in the Lenovo power manager.
General Performance In the first section of the performance review, we compare daily activities of each system. This includes tasks such as boot times, shutdown time, sleep time, and wake from sleep time. These are activities the user has to sit through multiple times a day, meaning that a few seconds here or there really adds up over time.
Both systems were set to automatically log in, without a password prompt to delay the process. The timer was started either when the power button was pressed, or the appropriate button inside the operating system was clicked. For the power-on sequence the timer was stopped when the system was at the desktop, idle and waiting. We expected both machines were going to be quick with their relatively clean installs and SSDs, but coming in under 30 seconds was impressive for the Windows 7 system.
Shutdown time was equally impressive, with the Windows 7 configuration completely powered down in half the time over Vista.
Both were beaten by the speedy Windows 7, though. This proved true for our application tests as well. Once again, however, both were trounced by the newcomer. You might have spotted the theme here. Windows 7 delivered excellent results, beating or coming close to the performance of the lightweight XP in just about every category. It's quite remarkable given that this is an operating system still in beta.
When all the drivers are fully finished, we should see even better performance. But for even a fairly basic modern PC, Windows 7 delivers the best performance around. North America. Update : now read our full Windows 7 review. Windows 7's Start menu retains the two-column layout of its predecessors, with several functional changes:.
The user interface for font management has been overhauled. As with Windows Vista, the collection of installed fonts is shown in a Windows Explorer window, but fonts from the same font family appear as "stacks" instead of as individual icons. The Font dialog box[13] has also been updated to show previews of the font selection in the selection lists. There are two major new user interface components for device management in Windows 7, "Devices and Printers" and "Device Stage".
Both of these are integrated with Windows Explorer, and together provide a simplified view of what devices are connected to the computer, and what capabilities they support. Devices and Printers is a new Control Panel interface that is directly accessible from the Start menu. Unlike the Device Manager Control Panel applet, which is still present, the icons shown on the Devices and Printers screen is limited to components of the system that a non-expert user will recognize as plug-in devices.
For example, an external monitor connected to the system will be displayed as a device, but the internal monitor on a laptop will not. This new Control Panel applet also replaces the "Printers" window in Windows Vista; common printer operations such as setting the default printer, installing or removing printers, and configuring properties such as paper size are done through this control panel.
Device Stage provides a centralized location for an externally-connected multi-function device to present its functionality to the user.
When a device such as a portable music player is connected to the system, the device appears as an icon on the task bar, as well as in Windows Explorer. Opening the icon presents a window that displays actions relevant to that device.
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