I recently installed Windows 7 onto my main computer so that I could take a look-see at the new features that we are all about to be blessed with, well if Microsoft have their way we will ;)

The installation went smoothly and quickly, something that Microsoft have been working on no doubt. Installation was at least as fast as Vista, maybe even faster. I didn’t bother to time it, who has the time to do that?. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Windows 7 recognises dual monitor setups during the installation, and both my monitors were correctly set to maximum resolution and color depth, and also the monitors were correctly extended. This normally has been a manual operation once Windows has been installed, but now it would seem that I have one less step whenever I setup a new installation of Windows 7. Thanks Microsoft!

However, my jubilation was short lived when Windows 7 decided to alter the monitor settings, for no apparent reason, and decided to set monitor 2 as the main monitor, and to set the resolution back to the minimum of 1024 x 768. Strange thing is, it left monitor 1 alone, except for now making it the extended monitor. My desktop icons also disappearred temporarily, and only reappeared after I had straightened out the monitor configuration. That was also short lived as the configuration again went curfluey (that’s a word?) and reset itself again. Same deal, monitor 2 was now the main monitor and the resolution was back to 1024 x 768 with monitor 1 as the extended monitor. I reset the monitor configuration again and since then it has been reasonably stable. I might add that at this point in time I had installed a fair amount of third party software, so maybe that had something to do with the mysterious behaviour of Windows 7.

Now, whenever the system resumes from a sleep condition, I have to click once on each monitor before the screen will refresh and become readable. Not Good! but then this is only a beta version and hopefully these sorts of bugs will be ironed out before the software is released.

The New Features:

I will talk about some of the new features later, in a new post so stay tuned folks…..