Windows 7

[Nate Smith]

Originally Posted by Mark Rozitis

Any idea where we get the keys? I downloaded and installed win7 64 as a second OS this morning, install was super fast, 45 min and done but it won't connect to the internet with my cable modem no matter what I try so I still have to figure that out and it asks for a key and I m not sure were we are supposed to get the keys but then again I haven't had much time to read and I have to go back out on the road now.

Still want to get the 32 bit version as well and try it.

mark

it's my understanding that MS temporarily stopped handing out product keys due to the overload on the 32 bit version on their servers. Once they bring that back online, you should be able to sign up for a key...

[techsupport07]

I too, have not had many if any problems with Vista. I am majoring in Network Administration, so I work with Vista on many levels including networking them. No real problems here...I sometimes find it easier to find something because of the nice litte "start search" on the start menu. I am waiting for Windows 7, but I hear it is not going to be much different than Vista. I have seen some screen shots and had some details thrown at me. Sounds like its is just basically a version of Vista with ALL of the bugs worked out.

[synth3tk]

You don't have to download the Beta if you have already, but go through the process here to grab your key(s):
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...-download.aspx

[T3H_K3YM45T3R]

a guy that used to be on my team downloaded the beta via torrent and he likes it, he said it had some cool stuff and he was going to use it instead of vista. he gave me a copy of the ISO but I haven't had a chance to get it working yet because vista won't allow me to adjust my partitions enough to get it installed

[mrbob1000]

Originally Posted by T3H_K3YM45T3R

a guy that used to be on my team downloaded the beta via torrent and he likes it, he said it had some cool stuff and he was going to use it instead of vista. he gave me a copy of the ISO but I haven't had a chance to get it working yet because vista won't allow me to adjust my partitions enough to get it installed

I didnt touch my partitions at all, i just made a virtual machine in virtualbox (its free) it runs pretty well but would probably be faster if it was installed on my computer as opposed to a virtual machine.

[Michael_MARS]

Originally Posted by T3H_K3YM45T3R

a guy that used to be on my team downloaded the beta via torrent and he likes it, he said it had some cool stuff and he was going to use it instead of vista. he gave me a copy of the ISO but I haven't had a chance to get it working yet because vista won't allow me to adjust my partitions enough to get it installed

Were you using the partition manager in a window or in cmd? Because some times i can get things done in cmd that the normal wizards or programs don't let me do.... just a suggestion.

[kirtar]

Ok, so I just installed the beta and right now most of it works. By most I mean that the Internet fails. It seems that with my MSI Neos Platinum, the networking goes through an Nvidia nForce 3 that it doesn't work. Anybody know how to fix this? As far as I know, Nvidia has dropped support for nForce 3 even for Vista, so I can't find drivers or whatever to let me connect to the internet.

[MrForbes]

It looks like I'll be trying out beta 7 after all...my son wants to play with it, so we're downloading it to insall on one of the spare P4s. We need to juggle memory to come up with 1GB for it, though.

27%....should be done downloading by morning....

[McGurky]

they where originaly going to cap the downloads at about 2.5 million, but they changed it and made it unlimited downloads for 2 full weeks!! woot this means i don't have to rush to get it downloaded

[rdlevy1215]

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate Beta and can say for sure that i will not be going back to Vista or XP. This will be here as my regular day-to-day OS since everything works with it and it runs like XP on the machine that i'm using it with (Pentium D 3.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA 7350LE). This machine came with XP (With Vista Express Upgrade) and then i put vista on it and now Seven ... I will be staying here as MSFT did an awesome job on it!

**Note: If you have installed the beta I highly recommending changing the taskbar to the setting that says "Combine When Taskbar is Full". That is when you right-click and go to properties ... it is the option for "Taskbar Buttons"**

[synth3tk]

Just setup today. Lemme say one thing here: I LOVE THE INSTALLATION!!!
It has a clean, easy-to-read progress bar, not as many pop-ups requesting info, and (my favorite part), you can START THE INSTALL from your current Microsoft OS. I realized that I didn't need a DVD to install it. You can choose a new partition, or upgrade. But you can only upgrade if you have Vista SP1+.

So now I'm triple-booting Win7-64, XP64, and Ubuntu64. I really, truly, honestly don't know where to start. Just if you read this, every positive thing that someone has said about this OS, is true. Even their claim of less UAC-related notifications.

Runs well on my laptop with an AMD64 1.6GHz dual core, 2gigs of RAM, and integrated mobile video card. In fact, if it wasn't for my crappy video, I'd have a 4.5 on the Windows Experience Index (currently it's 1.0).

I'm not gonna lie, I wasn't a big fan of MS, if at all, before tonight. Now, well, let's just say they have my vote. I've already vowed to legally purchase this OS, and have only pestered all of my friends about it.

And it's still in Beta....

[Joshamuffin]

I've skimmed through all 5 pages. I'm very suprised. Nobody mentioned http://windows7news.com/

[MrForbes]

A college student gets his first look at the new Windows. Hopefully I'll get a chance soon.


edit: it only took me about 15 minutes to crash it....I was doing a complicated task, trying to see what was on the C drive, using Windows Explorer. Used to be we could just type in "dir c:"

[Uberbots]

So i downloaded it, struggled to get one of the first 2.5 million keys (before they stopped download capping), and installed it. I got it up and running and installed over Vista in about a half an hour on my computer. I must say, i really, really like the installation process.

Now into the actual experience. The bootup screen was kinda weird... the little glowy balls forming a windows logo was kind of awkward. Performance wise, it is much faster than Vista. heck, it may even be faster than XP, ive yet to run any formal tests. The ability to dock unopen programs in the taskbar is extremely useful, and so is the live preview function (hovering over the mini preview and watching the other windows fade is pretty cool). I dont see much use for the desktop preview function, but whatever. Window "slamming" is also a really nice feature... i hated it when i used to close a window after exerting a reasonable effort to maximize it.

As for compatibility, the 64 bit beta version of windows 7 is FAR more compatible with my computer/hardware than Vista ever was. In vista my wireless network card experienced intermittent dropped data and lagging, but in 7 there is nothing of the sort.


windows 7 is windows vista with all the bugs worked out. like they said, they finally listened to the users. I think they are marketing it as windows 7 to avoid the stigma that Vista had placed on it. with that said, i am never going back to XP or (god forbid) Vista


edit
Oh! i forgot to mention the libraries feature! i run a configuration with XP on one hard disk and se7en (upgraded from vista) on the other. The libraries basically allow you to define the "My Documents" scheme however you want- for instance my ONE my documents library links together all of the data from my XP system and my current se7en system. You can also add custom libraries (for instance "My Webserver", "My C++ Projects" etc). It is such a handy feature and im glad they finally added it.

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by squirrel

edit: it only took me about 15 minutes to crash it....I was doing a complicated task, trying to see what was on the C drive, using Windows Explorer. Used to be we could just type in "dir c:"

Remember, this is still an early Beta build, so the fact that it's nearly fully functional is amazing in-and-of itself. I'm pretty sure whatever made it crash will be worked out by "August".

Originally Posted by Uberbots

So i downloaded it, struggled to get one of the first 2.5 million keys (before they stopped download capping), and installed it. I got it up and running and installed over Vista in about a half an hour on my computer. I must say, i really, really like the installation process.

You didn't hear? They raised the limit to "infinity". There's an unlimited number of keys now, so tell anyone who's interested.

Originally Posted by Uberbots

As for compatibility, the 64 bit beta version of windows 7 is FAR more compatible with my computer/hardware than Vista ever was. In vista my wireless network card experienced intermittent dropped data and lagging, but in 7 there is nothing of the sort.

I had no audio in XP64, and it was pretty irritating. I also couldn't use an ethernet wire or my quick launch touch buttons.

Originally Posted by Uberbots

windows 7 is windows vista with all the bugs worked out. like they said, they finally listened to the users. I think they are marketing it as windows 7 to avoid the stigma that Vista had placed on it. with that said, i am never going back to XP or (god forbid) Vista

Yeah, it certainly would not build the hype that it has, had it been marketed as "Vista SP3". And I'm also going to leave XP and Vista behind me. Heck, I might try to see if I can stick with this Beta OS until it releases.

Only issue I have right now is video, and that seems to be a majority of the compatibility problems with Windows 7. So my games are sort of just wasting HDD space, but that's fine, because it's FRC season.