*Official * Windows 7 Thread

ukulele_ninja said:
Going to install the beta tonight, has anyone heard what thr pricing tiers will be for 7 when its officially released?
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It would be nice if the rumors are true, I'd like a free upgrade from Vista. I think at the very least if you splurged on Vista Ultimate, you should be allowed to have 7 for free.
 
Briguy said:
I've got it running on a Slot A 1ghz 1gb ram machine and it works great!

Yes I said Slot A.
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First gen AMD Athlon then? I remember when I upgraded my Celeron 300A to an AMD Athlon 650Mhz, man that was killer back then. Slot processors were such a pain and more expensive glad they scrapped them.
 
I threw in an older video card to setup 7, then downloaded a driver for my GX2, it said the driver was successfully installed and was up to date and everything. But in device manager it had the caution sign for it and said there was an error, though they wouldn't tell me what the **** the error is. So I shutdown, took out the older card, rebooted and I lost picture again.

So far vista is still better. At least the drivers work properly on it.
 
I will say that i am very happy with the fact that Windows 7 immediatly found all of my device drivers upon install as that saved a lot of time. Thus far the interface is basically the same as Vista with a few extras.

I like that theres no more annoying side bar to deal with and that UAC is significantly less annoying (Still turned it off, but out of the box it was not as intrusive)

Now to start installing all of my software!

I did want to ask though, when the beta ends in August, will there be a way to recover all of my data off of W7?
 
Just installed 7 on my friends AMD Duron 750Mhz with 512MB RAM. sadly the gfx card (FireGL 8800) in it was not DirectX 9 compatible so no Aero. It ran slower than XP (as I had anticipated) but it ran better than I expected. IE didn't take forever to load, websites loaded fine, watched a couple youtube vids, no skipping.
 
Irishwhistle said:
Great... then it only goes to July. :P
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Just confirming the above info :)

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-Michael
 
Wow I cant wait till they release it. My Windows XP has got very very bloated and extremely slow over the year I've been using it and needs a reinstall. I went to reinstall it and stupid emachines recovery installed xp on my old 40 gig hard drive. I said whatever and reformatted the old hard drive and installed windows 7 on it just to see how it runs. It is super fast! I love it! The only problem I have is not all games work but most I've tried do :D. It detected my monitor and my 8600gt and installed 4 month old drivers lol.
 
I finally finished installing it on my VM and i must say I'm impressed!

Also the first page has been updated.
 
I love W7 but I don't know why MS was so in a hurry to bring out Vista. They should have waited and incorporate W7 with vista so I don't have to buy W7. That what tick me off:mad:. W7 is the same as Vista feature wise but its more stable and use less resource.:D
 
I had a spare 30GB HDD laying around, so I tossed it in my computer and installed the beta. Runs like a dream! :D Too bad I can't keep it. 30GB is not enough space for me and I don't want to dual-boot.
 
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