Well after an absolutely fantastic experience on a beefy desktop PC I installed Windows 7 on an Dell XPS M1530 Laptop.

It functioned reasonably well for the first couple of days but developed a problem that installed applications would not run, or more correctly they would run but only in background.

I then found I could not terminate these running application from the taskmgr and ultimately had to remove the laptop battery to perform a reboot as it would not shutdown.

I encountered this issue in both iTunes 8.02 and Windows Media Player and it was pretty consistent.

Alongside the fact Windows 7 could not display a populated taskbar if an external monitor was connected made for a really annoying user experience on the XPS M1530.

The enforced removal of the battery could ultimately have caused damage to the Laptop so I elected to remove Windows 7 beta on this machine.

I can’t accurately blame a specific piece of software or Windows 7 for the problem. However  I do know it  stopped Windows 7 in its tracks.

Hopefully the Windows 7 RC1 goes public next month (April) and I will dive back in.

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