Windows 7 RC out to public now

[Nerva]

i am having a lot of trouble getting this to boot. i used imgburn and burned the image, but it won't boot, no idea what the hell is going on. help?

 

[dbk]

it's fantastic.

 

[orion23]

Installed Windows 7 about 3 days ago and love it so much that I have no intentions of using my Vista installation anymore.

 

[orion23]

Originally posted by: Zenoth
I have it installed right now on my second partition, and I don't know if it's just a placebo effect, but it seems that most of the rare stuttering issues I had in some of my games under Vista x64 are now completely gone in 7 x64, maybe it relates to how better 7 recognized my hardware from the start, or how it deals with system resources... I don't know really, it's just an impression so far, although I can certainly make a difference between smooth game-play and game-play with occasional stutter (by the way I've tested with and without V-Sync). I've installed Dawn of War: Soulstorm, most of my Steam games, Quake IV, STALKER: SoC and Medieval II: TW, and so far the stuttering I sometimes had in Soulstorm and Shadow of Chernobyl is simply gone, or I'm making myself ideas, I'm still not sure.

Either way... stuttering or not, I like Windows 7, that's a sure thing for me, and the new Task Bar is... well, different, it'll take me some time to get used to it, I don't like being imposed change, usually, but this time I'm ready to impose the adaption that needs to be done on myself, I'll do pretty much anything that is needed to move away from Vista and completely get rid of my dependence on Windows XP, which I still believe is the best OS that Microsoft has developed (and from those I've tried, namely 95, 98SE, 2000, XP and Vista). It's too early for me to know if I'll actually prefer 7 to XP, but I certainly prefer it to Vista already, and that's one heck of a positive for me, finally a good reason for me to move on to newer technologies and OS features and capabilities.

I never really understood the fascination with Windows XP...As an OS it's always been very problematic and unstable.
XP can crash very easily, just rying to remove a virus or some spyware can completely destroy some of the BOOT files.
Hardware installation was always harder than needed be.
Sure, Vista had lots of issues (mostly retards trying to run a heavy OS on a 10 year old PC), but XP really sucked in terms of BSOD's!

 

[videopho]

I want to be able to keep both Vista and hopefully the new Window 7 in the same desktop.
Can anyone send me a link of how to install a dual boot system?

 

[Nerva]

hmmm i am trying it on a desktop at my parents house, doesnt detect sound, which is weird?

also, how do you get rid of the annoying message that keeps on telling you you are using a invalid version of windows and that you need to validate?

 

[dbk]

Originally posted by: Hadrian
hmmm i am trying it on a desktop at my parents house, doesnt detect sound, which is weird?

also, how do you get rid of the annoying message that keeps on telling you you are using a invalid version of windows and that you need to validate?

i don't understand the error. did you not receive your own key code before downloading it? did you activate it?

 

[Nerva]

Originally posted by: dbk

Originally posted by: Hadrian
hmmm i am trying it on a desktop at my parents house, doesnt detect sound, which is weird?

also, how do you get rid of the annoying message that keeps on telling you you are using a invalid version of windows and that you need to validate?

i don't understand the error. did you not receive your own key code before downloading it? did you activate it?

i fixed it. thanks. anyone able to update graphics drivers? i had to dl my sound driver separately and install

 

[Andrmgic]

I really like the UI changes for Win7.. I find the old taskbar to be a pain in the ass now. My usage habits have changed.. I no longer put stuff on the desktop, I don't even use the start menu anymore. I keep everything I need on the taskbar, which I have situated at the top of the screen.

I love how having a clean desktop looks in this OS. I've organized my most frequently accessed folders into a library, at work, I organized my 10+ vmware virtual machines into a Library, as they are spread over 3 different hard drives and 4 different partitions. The last time I adopted a MS OS before SP1 was Windows 2000 Pro and I did that with the RTM build, this time around I "switched" to Windows 7 when the beta was released. It has been a remarkably trouble-free experience, particularly compared to the earlier builds of Windows Vista that I tried and in practice has been more compatible than Vista SP1 with the same hardware.

 

[sportage]

A weird issue popped up using the MS release of 7100. Did not get this on the torrent DL of 7100.
The network internet connection (wireless) keeps dropping offline. Everything looks good as far as network card & install. Its like the browser in this MS release was tweaked or bloated down with something that causes failure to connect.
This never happened once with the 7100 I downloaded from a torrent pre May 5th.
And the issue reoccurs or continues after re installing win7 7100, the one I got from the MS site (64b).

Switching back to vista (dual boot) this connection issue never happens.

I was hoping MS wouldn?t bloat things down with tweaks or add-ons that actually make the os worse, rather than better. (Like we seen in vista)

 

[sportage]

PS... never mind (above).
It was my router, not win7.

 

[chrisf6969]

I'm liking how fast it comes out of Sleep mode. Much faster than XP.

Though I won't be giving up my dual boot of XP anytime soon.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: chrisf6969
I'm liking how fast it comes out of Sleep mode. Much faster than XP.

Though I won't be giving up my dual boot of XP anytime soon.

I have problems with sleep mode with Win7 RC and nforce 2 ,does not respond so only serious issue I have so far.

 

[JETninja]

Originally posted by: Mem

Originally posted by: chrisf6969
I'm liking how fast it comes out of Sleep mode. Much faster than XP.

Though I won't be giving up my dual boot of XP anytime soon.

I have problems with sleep mode with Win7 RC and nforce 2 ,does not respond so only serious issue I have so far.

Same here....it wont wake up well. So I have to reboot at times, so for now I way extended the time before sleep.

Either then that it works very well on this old system. I've installed Office '07, Avast AV, XP Start menu, some games, Zune, uTorrent, etc. Only my Printer drivers took some work around (XP and Admin mode) to install. Mobile center was a little odd at first with my WM6 Phone, but some reg tweaking fixed it.