Windows 7 also seems much faster and smoother then XP, and the new features are a plus. Random backgrounds, changing of colors, and it is very easy to use. o and UAC and windows updates, i can finally turn it off without a fuss. The new taskbar makes my life easy too, thumbnail previews of open windows helps a lot with multi taking. All in all im actually impressed, and nothing has broken, yet. Even games get better FPS. WOW used to get 30-40 FPS, (max settings) now i get 40-50FPS.. nice 10FPS improvement. i’ll take it.

Media center works with out a hitch too, (well not for my streaming OGM files but i’ll work on that) But for anything local, using CCCP will allow you to watch any video file in WMP or media center. if u dont want media center then VLC works wonders. Being able to easily watch anything i have on my PC on my xbox 360 without a 3rd party server makes me very happy.

something that bothered me though was i once again had to find a way to get my PSD and AI thumbnail previews back. Simple solution, Install this: MysticThumbs. Beautiful program, and all you have to do after install is restart or end and start explorer.exe in task manager. Very fast, almost instantly getting a preview for my 200MB+ poster Sized photoshop files.

so, with all that said, i am impressed that M$ finally made a new OS that doesn’t break everything. everything just, works.