Windows 7 part 1

Now that I have an official release version of Windows 7 I decided to install it on one of my notebooks and give it a try.

The notebook I am using is an HP nc6320 with 2GB of RAM and an Intel T7200 2.0GHz CPU.

First the install. In typical fashion the installation of the Windows operating system is very straight forward and easy to perform. Activation of my code was straight forward and went off without a hitch. After applying the updates, everything I needed to have up and running was, including all of the buttons on the keyboard except the presentation key, which really isn't critical for me on this notebook.

Performance feels as good on this base install as it does on a base install of XP on this same box. The web browsing experience is about the same as with XP/IE8 and the basic plugins such as Silverlight, Flash, and Adobe reader installed without any problems.

I'll examine application compatibility, security settings, etc... in following posts, but for now it's doing the job.