Part of ~lance's adventure in Piniglarism

My work computer hasn’t been performing at tip top performance for a while now. The sound has been messed up and it wouldn’t let me (or an ACS employee or a Microsoft certified windows professional) install Internet Explorer 7. So I have been meaning to make a clean wipe of my hard drive and reinstall windows xp.
You may remember when I upgraded my laptop to vista and had to immediately “upgrade” back to xp. Since the newest release of windows is in beta testing, I thought I would test drive it out before putting a clean copy of XP back on.
I have only had Windows 7 on for half a day but it seems a lot faster. It seems to be free from 90% of the security clamps that plagued vista and seems to have a bunch of “copied” tweaks from other companies.
It came with Internet Explorer 8, which seemed faster and very user friendly.
I guess my only complaint after 5 hours is the tree system in windows explorer is like vista and not like XP. This is a big downer for me.
I will probably play with Windows 7 a little more this week and then get a fresh copy of XP back on.