With OneCare out of action I needed an Anti Virus solution. Things have come on in the last month or so with Kapersky, Norton and AVG all having updated their products to support Windows 7. AVG’s link takes you to their commercial product page. AVG Free works just fine though 
Doing a defrag of my C:, it was 10% fragmented. One of my biggest bugbears about Vista was that you couldn’t tell how fragmented a drive was, once you started a defrag there was no way to tell what was going on.
I know there were problems with the defragmenter in XP and the status updates weren’t always accurate, it was always nice to have an overall picture though. Windows 7 brings this back, to a point. It will now tell you how fragmented a drive is and show you the % completion when defragging. It’s now showing me as consolidating. Pass 1 54% consolidated.
Startup seems fairly quick, aside from iTunes not autostarting when I plug my iPhone in, everything seems to be running okay.
Oh, and Media Centre works a treat, installed the K-Lite Codec Pack and it was playing avi’s that the 360 refused to play before (in video library and in MCE).
So far so good. Will continue to test on this laptop with a view to a fresh install on the PC upstairs (it’s overdue anyway), if that goes okay and Sue wants to try it out I’ll update her machine. Possibly a clean install on there as it’s been a while. Then again she has a load of data that I can’t be arsed moving across. It might have to be an upgrade :p
