Windows 7 Beta??? Anyone?!?!

[Sjorge450R]

Well i got a copy last night and let it install last night when I was sleeping. Needless to say its amazing. Too all of you that are too scared to try beta software just wait until this OS launches in the forth quarter of this year. Just imagine XP speeds with Vista interface! If you want to try the beta make sure that you install it on a seperate partition as it is due to expire on August 1st.

[Sjorge450R]

wow I am really surprised that no one even commented this thread considering the amount of vista haters their are out there. This is by no means vista.

[scuzz]

I have it downloaded too, I just haven't had the time to commit as of yet.

I have two machines running Vista and two running XP.

Also, I don't feel like dicking around with waiting for drivers and wondering how my programs are going to or not going to flake-out.

[250r rider 88]

I honestly do not understand why people hate vista, it is not hard to use at all, my 71 year old grandpa bought a laptop to use while in florida and him and and my 63 year old grandma use it with no problems what soever. Granted I'm in the generation where technology comes naturally to me but if they can do it, anyone with simple computer knowledge should be able to

[adawg89]

OH damn nice can't wait I can finally get rid of vista :D

Edit: well vista hogs half of my ram so I only have 1gb when I play a game.

[Sjorge450R]

the only problem i have had comes from running internet explorer 8 beta. Its terrible so far it needs more development time. Other than that its fine. Here are a list of programs I am already running on 7 (all programs are the most up to date versions)

Aim
Firefox
Winamp
Itunes
Photoshop
Norton 360 (Beta 7 Version)

the boot time is also unbelievably faster

[bwamos]

Originally posted by 250r rider 88
I honestly do not understand why people hate vista, it is not hard to use at all, my 71 year old grandpa bought a laptop to use while in florida and him and and my 63 year old grandma use it with no problems what soever. Granted I'm in the generation where technology comes naturally to me but if they can do it, anyone with simple computer knowledge should be able to

Vista is very secure (great) but it has NO flexibility at all (bad).
Vista is also a major resource hog.

It's like strapping a snow plow to the front of a 450r. ;)

It works fine and dandy if you're using it for word processing, or running a single account.

But if you want to run a gaming rig, run image processing, or run multiple accounts w/ custom security settings XP Pro is the way to go until Win7 comes out.

I also have 4GB Ram w/ Vista Home Premium 32bit. Vista-32bit also only recognises 3GB RAM Max including Video RAM. With 756MB video Ram that leaves a whopping 2.25GB RAM w/ 1+ GB used by Vista leaving 1.25GB RAM for all other applications.

I can't wait for them to get the bugs worked out of 7. I for one will certianly be upgrading my Vista platform.

[Sjorge450R]

now bwamos check to see if your processor is capable of running 64bit windows vista because i have a desktop running a 2.7 AMD with 5gb of ram and that is by no means a slow machine. I am running Windows 7 on my Hp laptop with a 1.7 AMD Athlon with 2gb of ram.... It feels alot quicker than when i am running the vista partition of my harddrive but the performance just shines in 7. As soon as I can pre order this OS i will be.

People hate vista because of its nature to hog all your resources, standard users dont have a problem its the people that are doing multimedia work that hate it. I can tolerate it on my laptop when I have photoshop running with winamp, but as soon as i have photoshop, firefox, winamp,aim, and illustrator opened, it kills it. One reason why i was running XP for some time.

[quad2xtreme]

you guys are all too young and missed the best OS of all time...Commodore AmigaOS...unbelievable what it could do back in 1985. I can only imagine where it would be 24 years later if it didn't get snubbed out by IBM and Microsoft.

[Sjorge450R]

IMO Linux would be the best, its just that major company's need to step up and start making compatible programs. Aim only has a version that was the original version for windows. 10 years later, linux is stuck with that version.

[mx428]

I'll stick with my MacBook Pro.

[ZeroLogic]

Originally posted by mx428
I'll stick with my MacBook Pro.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkQb7NUxU1P87SAN.vJFbdHpy6IX;_ylv=3?qid =20081203172442AAyuaHT

:blah:

[<DRS>GPF]

Originally posted by ZeroLogic
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkQb7NUxU1P87SAN.vJFbdHpy6IX;_ylv=3?qid =20081203172442AAyuaHT

:blah:


LOL!

[MOFO]

I downloaded it this morning - took about 12 minutes... I love my new FiOS account. :D

I am running XP on 2 PC's (Desktop and Music/Media server) and Vista on 1 laptop. Once I get a few minutes, I'll give it a whirl...

[Sjorge450R]

Just make sure you give a new partition at least 16gb in order for everything to work properly. I set mine at 20 and after install I only have 9.99gb left.

[MOFO]

Originally posted by Sjorge300EX
Just make sure you give a new partition at least 16gb in order for everything to work properly. I set mine at 20 and after install I only have 9.99gb left.

I'm not going to mess around with partitions - I have a few 80 gig drive's laying around. I'll just toss in a new drive and start from scratch.

[Sjorge450R]

Originally posted by MOFO
I'm not going to mess around with partitions - I have a few 80 gig drive's laying around. I'll just toss in a new drive and start from scratch.

hahaha well that works too. Let me know if you find out anything interesting about it or if you have any problems.

[Ralph]

I was gonna throw it into my HTPC but then i realized that it is already such a pain to get everything running together smoothly that i dont want to start all over in August.

I downloaded just in case but Vista Ultimate is treating me just fine and i got vista business 64 bit on my pc so i cant justify wasting a bunch of time tinkering when everything is working great...

[Sjorge450R]

Originally posted by Ralph
I was gonna throw it into my HTPC but then i realized that it is already such a pain to get everything running together smoothly that i dont want to start all over in August.

I downloaded just in case but Vista Ultimate is treating me just fine and i got vista business 64 bit on my pc so i cant justify wasting a bunch of time tinkering when everything is working great...

yea thats true. I havent really done any tinkering so far. Only thing I have done is installed some programs ran windows update and this one other thing.

Windows 7 has this new feature called The Action center. Its basically a Microsoft application that lets you know what is going on and what needs to be taken care of. It has a small indicator by the clock which accompanies the network, battery and speaker indicator. Its like a message center. I like it. Makes maintenance a little easier.

[mikeexplorer]

What do they list as the requirements to run the beta windows 7 ?

[mikeexplorer]

What do they list as the requirements to run the beta windows 7 ?

[scuzz]

Originally posted by mikeexplorer
What do they list as the requirements to run the beta windows 7 ?


http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=windows+7+requirements

[Sjorge450R]

just to make the thread more useful. Its basically the same as Vista.

For the Premium Windows 7
* 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
* 1 GB of system memory
* 40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
* Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:
o WDDM Driver
o 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)
o Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware
o 32 bits per pixel
* DVD-ROM drive
* Audio Output
* Internet access (fees may apply)


For the Basic Windows 7
* 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
* 512 MB of system memory
* 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
* Support for DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory
* DVD-ROM drive
* Audio Output
* Internet access (fees may apply)

[scuzz]

Also, you can run it on Microsoft's Virtual Machine.

[scuzz]

I just launched mine and got the BSOD.



Greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j254/gwwaddle/Windows%207/Windows7error.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j254/gwwaddle/Windows%207/Windows7error2.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j254/gwwaddle/Windows%207/Windows7error3.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j254/gwwaddle/Windows%207/Windows7error4.jpg

[Sjorge450R]

hmmm. Was program did you use to burn the iso? Also this may have been caused from running it virtually.

[scuzz]

Success!

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j254/gwwaddle/Windows%207/success.jpg

[Sjorge450R]

another question, did you try to install it at all or did it do this after windows modified the MBR?

[Sjorge450R]

never mind. You got it going. I would definitely recommend running it on a separate partition so that way you can try it out to its fullest potential.

[scuzz]

Originally posted by Sjorge300EX
hmmm. Was program did you use to burn the iso? Also this may have been caused from running it virtually.


Microsoft Virtual Machine 2007 allows you to boot from an ISO.

The issue is with Windows Virtual Machine in that it allows you to remove changes via a tool called "VM Additions"

The problem is described here (http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/2009/01/windows_7_in_a.html) .

So it's not a Windows 7 issue but rather an issue with program incompatibility, which since this is a beta is fully understandable.

[Sjorge450R]

Originally posted by scuzz
Microsoft Virtual Machine 2007 allows you to boot from an ISO.

The issue is with Windows Virtual Machine in that it allows you to remove changes via a tool called "VM Additions"

The problem is described here (http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/2009/01/windows_7_in_a.html) .

So it's not a Windows 7 issue but rather an issue with program incompatibility, which since this is a beta is fully understandable.

yea. I see alot of people running the Virtual to run Ubuntu and other Linux OS's. I just find it easy to just split off 20 or 30gb of my harddrive, format them and then install to that partition.

[scuzz]

Originally posted by Sjorge300EX
another question, did you try to install it at all or did it do this after windows modified the MBR?


Unfortunately I cannot edit anything to do with the MBR as I am an Whole Disk Encryption Administrator and the product that I am over (as most other WDE products) covets the MBR as it own and doesn't play well with dual boot scenarios.

I have a few boxes at home that I could try it on, but most of them are old.

I just know that if I put it on my main machine at home I would quickly become frustrated with getting things to work on it like VPN clients and virus programs.

I refuse to by software to support beta software.

[exboy]

OSX!!!!

[Sjorge450R]

Originally posted by exboy
OSX!!!!

hater.....:chinese:

[exboy]

HAHA. not hating....its just a preference.

[08mxkfx]

i just got done installing windows 7 on my iMac. I love osx but windows 7 is definitely better then vista. It runs fast like xp and has good looks like vista. Although it doesnt run as fast and tinyxp i have installed on my macbook.

[mikeexplorer]

I loaded it on Virtual PC but I think I might have to slap a spare HD in my machine to give it a real test.

[Sjorge450R]

still using it a week later, not one problem yet!!!! Knock on wood.