So, about 2-3 weeks ago my quad-core/8 gigs of ram beast of a machine at home running Vista 64 started BSOD'ing completely randomly. I noticed a lot of windows updates were rolling out, but it got bad enough that it prompted me to re-install. It's hard doing development when you're completely stressed out over a silly machine. It was never consistent either, but I couldn't prove that it was windows update. Running memtest, my computer passed with flying colors.

I have Windows 7 on Pre-order, but wouldn't you know it, the one day I decide to give Windows 7 a shot, Microsoft had already pulled the RC. Friend of mine had the Microsoft Action pack and gave me the ISO (sans serial number), because I just wanted to install it and see if my machine was stable again. I installed Windows 7 last night and I have to say, wow. I'm impressed! It was seriously fast. All my BSOD issues have gone away, my computer can be put to sleep again without issues. If you're running Vista and you're running into issues, take a look at the windows updates and hunt down which one is causing issues. For now, I'm going to keep extending my 30 day trial (you can do this 3 times) until my real copy of Windows 7 comes along.

Before any of you come along and say, "get a mac..." *ahem*Snow Lepoard*ahem* :P

Ben Koshy wrote on 09/02/09 10:54 AM

Cool! I got my Windows 7 running the same way on a i7 Quad Core (8 cores in Windows 7) 2.8Ghz w/ 12 GB of ram. I installed the Virtual PC RC Candidate to build a virtual development test machine; but scrapped it instead for VMWare Server which is working great. The main reason i scrapped VPC is that it only supported 32-bit guests and VMWare supports 64-bit! I'll be installing my CF tools over the next few days but like you, I am blown away how quick and responsive everything is from the networking, to the explorer. Good luck! :D

Paul Kukiel wrote on 09/02/09 1:16 PM

I also an running Windows 7 ( have been since the early Betas ). Its great so much quicker then Vista. One of the best things was not having to install additional drivers ( Dell XPS 1530 ). I have 4g of ram and goign from 32 bit Vista to 64bit Windows 7 was just amazing. As with Ben I also run VMware and I can run 2 VM's and still run CF8 and 9 locally and ColdFusionBuilder and FlexBuilder all at the same time. I'd still love to get 8g of ram though.

Paul Kukiel wrote on 09/02/09 3:21 PM

I forgot to add Rob Parkhill made a ColdFusion Theme pack for Windows 7 I'm using it its nice: http://agfusion.blogspot.com/2009/08/coldfusion-win7-themepack.html

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