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Microsoft's latest OS is barely even two months olds, yet early adopters have given Windows 7 the thumbs up.

We look at why they're happy and any issues they've got.
Windows 7 isn't even two months old yet. Most of the people who will eventually use it haven't gotten around to trying it yet; those that have are still settling in.
And the Windows 7 experience will change rapidly as remaining bugs are squashed, missing drivers arrive, and compatibility glitches are ironed out. Even so, it's not too early to start gauging what real people think of Windows Vista's replacement.
So are Windows users better off today than they were a few weeks ago, back in the Vista era? We decided to ask the our readers.
Starting on November 16, respected Technology blog Technologizer surveyed its readers (and Twitter followers) about their experiences with Windows 7.
The goal: to do a reality check on the mostly favourable initial reviews of the new OS.
The 550+ Windows 7 early adopters who took the survey mostly echo the positive response that the upgrade has received from professional reviewers, pundits, and users of pre-release editions.
A sizable majority say they're extremely satisfied with the OS and rate it as a clear improvement on both the now beloved Windows XP and the widely panned Windows Vista 
Crippling installation problems - the bane of every upgrader's existence, and always a legitimate reason to postpone switching OSes were rare.

source: pcadvisor.co.uk

We have already covered number of tools which allows you to change Windows 7 Logon Screen. However these tools don’t provide any option to change Windows 7 boot animation displayed before logon screen. Here is simple tool Boot BMP Changer with which you can easily change Windows 7 Logon animation & replace with your own static image file.
The Boot BMP Changer application uses two flags that you can add to your boot.ini file to change the Windows loading animation to a static bitmap file.
The program can be set to run at start up, and copies a different bitmap to your WINDOWS directory, so that every time you reboot your computer, a different loading screen will be displayed. The bitmaps that can be used must be 640 x 480 pixels and 16 colors only.
Features of Boot BMP Changer
1. Easy to use graphic interface.
2. Audit function checks the bitmaps in the program directory and adds any valid files to the list to be used by the program. Files that are the wrong size or colour depth are reported.
3. Change the current image by scrolling through the currently avaliable images.
4. Run the program silently on on start up.
5. Optional display a message when the screen is changed.
Download:
Boot BMP Changer (link 1)
Boot BMP Changer (link 2)

source: blogsdna.com