I'm seriously fed up with Vista, and yesterday I bought Win 7 64bit. Currently I run Vista Home Premium (32 bits).
Just wondered if anybody here have experience with CS3 in Win 7. I don't want to upgrade to CS4 if I don't have to.
I might also have to take a check at some other programs I use before I risk to do the installation.
Using Photoshop, Bridge, Epson large format printers, nothing else that really matters on that computer.
Just want to check before I make my system go down...

I have been running Win 7 64bit and CS3 and CS4 Photoshop for a couple of months now, NO problems at all. AND, I now have my Nikon scanner working where it never did in VIsta. I had to keep a XP Pro install going to scan. Something to do with driver.

Win 7 is WAY better than VIsta. Well worth the trip.

BIG TIP though, buy a new hard drive, very cheap right how and install 7 on a clean disk. That's the way I always do it with Windows. Buy a cheap $19 usb enclosure and put your existing Vista disk in it, then you can copy all your files over to the new disk after you install 7

No worries about Vista, I don't want to see it again!
I'll just check with Epson, and I'll wait over the week-end to know I have the support going in case something should go wrong.

I never had any problems running Nikon scan under Vista. It might have been a problem under initial installation, there was loads of problems. Then everything went ok after some updating. But, last week's updates wrecked Photoshop, had to set it back to work on large files.
I hope I don't have to see Vista again!

Well, you don't "have to". You can run 32 bit CS4 under 64 Bit win 7 as well. And then you can use the 32 Bit plugins. But you will of course not get the advantages being able of using larger internal memory.

Get a mac!

Nikon scan NEVER worked at all under Vista 64bit, even Nikon acknowledges that. Maybe, I should clarify: the program would run fine, it just wouldn't recognize the scanner. Something to do with the way the 64bit OS and the Nikon supplied driver didn't get along. The driver I am using under Win 7 64bit is the same, just the OS plays nice with it now.

No!

Yes!!!!

Or get a PC and a new lens, same money...

TRUE!

And take your better half out for dinner and a show....

Yes, will do that! Or close to that.. Buy a new disk, replace my C disk, and install 7 on it.

For the PC vs Mac discussion.. I'll stick to PC. I accept Mac is ok, and for the laptop, very well built, like the high end PC'c.. I understand a bit about PC and I don't want to spend time (and money) on learning about Mac. (so, you think there is no need to learn.. search the forums..).

I've not had problems with stability on PC since XP came, before I got that Vista crap, and actually Vista worked too until the latest updates. The main problem with Vista is use of memory. Otherwise it has been working flawlessly after the first updates.
I looked at Mac a few years ago, found it expensive, and not really delivering more. Then I searched Mac forums and actually found lots of posts about problems that looked very similar to the "typical PC problems" that I never had..
The trick is: Do not install all the crap you think you need, like the free software coming with magazines etc. Keep your system clean and you will have no problems.
Ok, one of my PC 's crashed. The harddrive crashed on a laptop I've had with me travelling for 3 years +, when living in Philippines and working in Norway. Going half-way around the world every 2 weeks or so. And I'm not careful with my gear. I can't really blame that on PC construction. Mac's have drives too.

That's my impression, too. Vista runs smooth on my actual PC as well as on an older machine. Never saw a bluescreen with Vista. All the programs run well, all hardware was recognized (with the exception of a stone old Epson scanner that meanwhile is replaced with a modern Canon type). I cannot understand the Vista 'bashing' at all.


Nothing to add here!

Regarding Win 7, I'm not sure about the advantages. Performance advantages are only minor, the other desktop surface related 'gimmicks' are not of interest for me. OK, RAM use is a bit more effective, that's a real improvement. But I have to compare these few little imporovements to the enormous work I have to do by installing Win 7 and then all the programs I use, all the different fine tuning on the program settings has to be done again, system fine tuning has to be done again etc. ... a work of some weeks until the system is like I want to have it. So I'm sorry, but I will skip Win 7 and do the next update step with Win 8 :-)

Peter

Yes because being fed up with all the frustrations with your PC, you need to go out a lot! :D

BTW anyone for ubuntu out there?

Sorry, Lars, I do not want to divert anyone's attention from the topic. So if anyone uses ubuntu, could you please start a thread? Thanks.

Why don't you? And get it in the headline..

the same useless and lame excuse that most mac users have. I'm sorry, this is so so so not true. I've been running Vista since it came out and never ever had an issue. Nor with XP before. I'm not saying they are perfect but I've never been fed up with them. The days of Windows 98, millenium are far behind fortunately.

If you said that you pay more because Mac's look nicer I'm 100% with you. I love their design and construction, they are truly unbeatable, but to pay almost double the price for the equivalent PC system, that's way more than I think it's reasonable, at least to my budget.
As Clyde said, I would rather buy a good PC and a new lens.

please show a way to me for run old programs in windows seven

Go to the folder containing the application, right click on the actual application icon, click Properties. Click on the Compatibility tab, click on "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" and choose the latest version of windows that actually ran your program.

It is done the way Clyde says, but doesn't always work so well.
Which programs are you truing to run?