I actually like Win7 32bit Pro, at least a bit (not 32 bits).
Libraries are a feature I like the most... I have a number of external drives (about 10 terabytes, on 6 separate drives), and I use the Libraries feature often to keep track of the various source-file locations for my multicamera projects.
I do DISLIKE the somewhat unpredictable aspects of the Security features. Many more times than once, Win7 told me I couldn't make changes to such-and-such a folder because I didn't "own" it. And that's on a system that has only ONE user (me), which has complete administrative privileges. I usually go through the tiresome "take ownership" drill with success, but I'm not at all fond of the way that works.

JJKizak, you have 8 gig of ram and are using the 32 bit version of windows which does not allow full access of all of your ram. Why are you not using the 64 bit version?

That does not make sense!

As for your problems, it looks like you might have a faulty install and/or other issues. I would do a clean install with the 64 bit version.

I see that several posts in this thread topic have some common issues in the build of Win7Pro 32bit. Having recently built my own PC from new parts and 32bitPro OEM, I would like to add my experience. I would also note that I have been building workstation class as well network servers for 17 years.....

Any new build can come up with results varying from complete CPU /MBoard being fried to just annoying OS quirks. This last OEM build seems to be one of the latter for me. My first boots and burn-in testing revealed that the native install creates conflicts in "services" called to run at start-up. I could not believe this at first - but checking resources from Microsoft etc. did reveal this to be a very potential and documented problem with Win7Pro. Fixed that.

Then upon installing the first software on the OS for basic applications found that errors were documented in the event log...which after some period ot time dissappeared on their own accord.

Then the PC would occassionaly hang - no errors in event-log or experience of other problems. I had a choice to soft power-off the motherboard or to actually kill power at the power supply. When I used the soft-power off (a feature of the Mboard power switch) - the PC rebooted just fine to open Win7Pro as I would have expected. Except that most of the security permissions had switched themselves to lock-out the admin account- Never ever saw behavior of that type- luckily I had enough control left to retake over ownership and reset permissions on every needed directory on the hard-drive.
Ironically I have since tested the security lock-out with a drastic step of kill at the power supply and this kind of security breach does not happen. One would think that should really work to destroy the system.

So verdict I have given Win7Pro 32bit - just a bit quirky in operations but fairly resilient in computer reboots.

VidMus:
The computer I am referring to is my "Online" computer which uses Windows 7 32 bit with older Gigabyte board/AMD processor and 1 gig of ram. . The data you have referred to is about my "Movie Editing" computer which uses Vista 64 bit Ultimate which is as stable as a rock. The number three backup computer uses Windows XP 32 bit pro with 2 gig of ram which is stable as a rock and is used primarily for printing discs. Mom's computer (She cannot operate it anymore) which uses Windows XP is stable as a rock but I have to use it to get into the loggins on some HTTPS sites with IE8 which Win 7 32 bit Pro/IE9 cannot, no matter how you juggle the options. I didn't mean to imply that I was having these problems with the video eding computer.
JJK

Sounds like this very old machine seems to be telling you it's not capable of Windows 7 - especially with a single GB of RAM (that alone would be giving anyone a boat load of slowness right off the bat) - why bother with Win 7 32bit at all?

Stick XP SP3 on there and be done with it. Everything will work great with no hassles.

VP

1 gig of RAM is the minimum to rum Windows 7 32bit. That means that you will not get the best performance out of your computer. Minimum is never the way to go.