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Is Windows 7 stable

Dec 6, 2009 2:17AM PST

Stable is a system that starts and runs consistently over time without change.

This has not been my experience with Window 7. It does change over time. though some of this change has been good because of performance increases (speed) over time it still appears consistent. Anyone else noticing this?

Over all I am satisfied with Windows 7 it seems to work well for the most part but this inconsistency concerns me as it may lead to problems down the road.

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(NT) typo correction : still appears consistent
Dec 6, 2009 2:20AM PST
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hmmm
Dec 6, 2009 2:22AM PST

I made that change and it did not appear, go figure. This web page is running crappy and was yesterday too. Time to reboot it.

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Seems fine to me
Dec 6, 2009 2:27AM PST

Seems fine to me. I run it on my primary desktop, which only gets shut down in rare circumstances. Either I'm going to be gone for over 24 hours, I'm rewiring my electronics, or I'm rebooting because of patch tuesday.

Performance IS supposed to improve somewhat over time, and then level out. That's a function of the predictive cache program which tries to analyze your behavior and predict what you're going to do, so it can start loading it into memory beforehand.

Other than that, it's as consistent as any other version of Windows I've used since 3.1.

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To meet this requirement.
Dec 6, 2009 3:20AM PST

You'll have to use a system that is not current.

Go with systems over a decade old such as MacOS (not OSX), DOS, the DOS based Windows, as well as ATT UNIX flavors.

For you, you'll have to ignore any OS that most of us would use.
Bob