Now that I've had WIndows 7 for a few weeks, I've had time to test it out a lot more. The only serious problem I've found i that older games tend to crash a lot. This problem happened a lot with Team Fortress 2 (because I play that game a lot). I haven't tested it a whole lot with several other games yet, but, from what I have played, I have noticed some problems with them as well.

So, I'm just writing a short blog to tell everyone that if you're going to get Windows 7, you should probably change the compatibility settings for older games (released before 2009) to Windows Vista SP2 (or WIndows XP SP3 if it wasn't compatible with WIndows Vista). This seems to fix all of the problems, and I haven't had one crash since I did this. Although, on Team Fortress 2, the game did freeze for a few seconds, and I had to exit to the desktop (minimize it, not close it), then re-open it to get it working again.

I'm going to test this out some more this weekend. I want to see if Team Fortress 2 will continue to run smoothly, and if other games run properly as well.

On the bright side, though, the disc versions of Bethesda games (such as Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls IV) are compatible with the 64-bit version of WIndows 7! If you didn't already know, the disc versions of those games wouldn't install on Vista 64-bit operating systems (even if you changed the compatibility settings), so you had to get them from Steam if you wanted them.