I upgraded to 7 this past weekend. As much as I criticized Vista, one thing it never did for me was crash or hang. After I installed 7, using Acronis TrueImage to restore my data via external USB drive completely froze my PC dead on several occasions. I backed-up and restored data may times with Vista without ever having a problem. With 7, lockups galore when pushing the USB bus. I fixed my problem by getting an eSATA connector and jacking into that instead of USB. I don't see the perceived speedup of 7 as some users claim, but I do notice that Explorer isn't quite as twitchy, and the object tree doesn't snap around so much when I'm dragging stuff over. Other than that, it looks & works exactly like Vista. ANother side effect I'm not pleased with is the nVidia drivers that ship with 7 make my monitor randomly blank out for 1-2 seconds every couple of minutes. Very annoying but I can live with it. Didn't do it under Vista.
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