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Resolution is set to 1600 x 900 - have recently gotten warning messages to reset the resolution
Windows7 Pro
I never removed a vid card.
When you mentioned you "Shed" the video card, to me it meant you got rid of it. Also, with all the hardware you got into this computer, is it a new-build or did you replace the components (new motherboard, processor, etc) in the old XP computer? If you replaced the components in the old computer, I hope you also replaced the old power supply with one that's rated at least 400 Watts, 500 watts with the video card, which I assume is a late model PCI-Express.
When you mentioned you "Shed" the video card, to me it meant you got rid of it. Also, with all the hardware you got into this computer, is it a new-build or did you replace the components (new motherboard, processor, etc) in the old XP computer? If you replaced the components in the old computer, I hope you also replaced the old power supply with one that's rated at least 400 Watts, 500 watts with the video card, which I assume is a late model PCI-Express.
Just sayin' I think that the Windows 7 updates from the past 30-60 days made all of my Win 7 computers, desktop / laptop / Home / Pro start up much slower. The CPUs range from a 3.0GHz socket 478 P4 oldie through mobile Core2 Duo & 1st gen mobile i3 and i5 up to Sandy Bridge i5 3.something GHz. They all are slower starting up now.
Aside from my healthy criticisms, I will have to say that Windows 7 seems more secure to outside threats.
When blocking browsed sites (even when video players are hosted elsewhere) it seems to be more solid whereas things would get through XP even when updates were applied.
Whether this is due to greater integration with eset or not, is a riddle to me.
Try changing your Power Profile to "High Performance" from the default "Balanced" to see if it makes any difference (Start/Control Panel/System and Security/Power Profiles. XP doesn't have this setting and it throttles the CPU quite a bit for power saving if it thinks you don't need the processing power at that moment. I noticed on my Phenom II X4 machine it made even browsing a bit sluggish, although my Intel i5-4690k can have it on Balanced with no noticeable effect.
Other than that I don't really know. You may have a piece of hardware with a driver that's slow to load in Win7 (for the long boot time you were mentioning). Maybe some non-Windows process running in the background on startup that's bogging things down. All things being equal I didn't notice anything slower about going from XP to Win 7. My startups were definitely faster and the wireless adapter on the PC that uses it was much quicker to connect.
Just sayin' I think that the Windows 7 updates from the past 30-60 days made all of my Win 7 computers, desktop / laptop / Home / Pro start up much slower.
I support 40 Windows 7 machines and not one has been so afflicted.
I liked windows 7 it was stable and faster than xp. I rember my xp machine duo core. it took forever to boot up hell I could goto the kitchen and make dinner and go back to my office and the darn thing would still be loading up. and it took an hour to convert and burn a 2 hour homemade video. slow. I liked my windows 7 pc it was faster and windows 7 seemed solid and stable!!
Another thing I really miss about XP was the access to the file system, for making manual backups.
That file tree was hands down better. Everything was clear, easier to find.
But at the same time, I was using an other version of Office, which let me go directly into a pst for backup. For Outlook anyway.
Why they didn't pass this onto Win7 is a quandery.
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. and it took an hour to convert and burn a 2 hour homemade video
. slow. I liked my windows 7 pc it was faster and windows 7 seemed solid and stable!!
