August 15th, 2009Just Repaved to Windows 7 RTM
I like this term I keep hearing (repaved) which means that I’ve wiped out all the information on my computer and reinstalled the operating system. The interesting thing about the term is that there actually is a term. As a software guy, one of the fears I have is that problems that I might create in my code will so common that they will get a name. That is, is there anyone out there that does not know the term “Blue Screen of Death”. If it did not happen so often, it would not have a name.
Well, seems to me that the reason we talk about repaving is because we have to do it so much.
So, why did I repave? I had to because I was running Windows 7 RC and my Lenovo W500 started getting pretty sick with it. Finally, it got to the point that it would boot off my docking station but not on it’s own.
So far, things are working well with RTM. It feels cleaner, and maybe even a little faster.
August 16th, 2009 at 10:24 am
I’m about to do the same thing. Downloading the image from MSDN right now, in fact.
Did you run into any oddities? Did you have to go looking in odd places for any of the drivers, or did Win7 just figure it all out? (I’d expect to have to get at least a few off the Vista list at Lenovo.)
August 16th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Did not download 1 driver and everything seems to work well. My guess is a lot of windows engineers from Microsoft use Lenovo w500’s so they probably made it work themselves.
-Peter
August 16th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
OK, I’m done. One serial device shows up uninstalled in device manager. Otherwise, everything looks fine.
And it’s already solved one problem with an external monitor that couldn’t get its horizontal offset right with Vista.