I’ve been playing around with the new build for a little bit now, and I can say that it runs much more smoother than build 7000. Infact, I find Windows 7 nice and easy to use, and seems a little bit more shiny than OS X. Moving around the file system is still a pain in the ass, and a few panels are still colored the nice old grey from XP. The search features are great. Nearly as fast as spotlight, however when you search for a program it doesn’t automatically highlight the program, which would save some keystrokes or mouse clicks. I wish that programs would act more like OS X, in the sense that you can close all the Windows, but the program will still stay running and remain in the dock (read: taskbar). They are still using that dreaded Program Files folder, and between the registry and the local settings folder, the backend is still a mess. The UAC doesn’t bug you as much as Vista, yet I still don’t think Microsoft has fully understood the purpose of it, unlike the OS X version.
It’s a shame that Windows has tried to make all programs backward compatible for so long. The amount of hacks required to achieve this, yet remain secure is huge.
. Simplest method is to create a LVM volume. My ietd.conf looked like this.