August, 2009

30 days if you don't get a key

I have no problems getting a key, but I can't seem to get the damn download to work :damn:

Same here actually

august 09.:hmm: And its surpost to be released in august 09 too.:hmm: Im probably gonna wait. last thing I want to have is august 09 to come up and have to go back to vista. (would be really depressing going from a fast computer to a slower one again.):lol:

Stupid question: Did you try to download it with IE or Firefox?
It woudlnt dl with Firefox, had to use IE instead. ;)

Oooowwww. 64bit version. That will let my processor run to its full potential.:lol:

Dual boot it, use the Vista regularly so you don't get too used to it

Same experience here. It wouldn't download at all with Opera, and even with IE I had to hit download almost five times before it started. After that I worked well.

I tried Firefox with the IE plugin and IE itself and neither would work (although I got a ton of keys:rotfl:). Finally found direct links to the iso files and am downloading the 64 bit now.

See here for the direct links.

Anyone know of some good (ie FREE) drive imaging sofware? I'm contemplating setting up a second partition on my system drive for the beta, but I'd like to image the drive before I shrink the partition that my XP install is in now.

I downloaded both versions of Windows 7 Beta and I gotta say they did a good job of compressing the files as I did a comparison on just the windows folder in each version, 64 bit download is 3.3gb - windows folder expands out to 11gb, 32 bit download is 2.43gb - windows folder expands out to 7.3gb.

But I gotta say both versions run quicker than XP Pro which I was using and both versions installed under 25mins and thats going for a full install. Likeing this Beta very much at the moment having an issue with one or two things but I think its just bugs that need ironing out like most new OS's.

my 2 cents

Steve

Free download runs till 22/1 2009, so better go get it!
It will stop working 1/8 2009

Today I took the bold (and maybe foolish) step to wipe out my XP install. Only running Windows 7 beta 64bit now. I can't see myself looking back for a while.

Also check out the free beta for Kaspersky antivirus/firewall etc that works very well with Windows 7 beta.Link

cheers Porphy

Heh

I don't know it it's wise to advertise it here, but I did it in the opposite order and installed Windows 7 64 bit on the partition where XP had been :lol:

No complaints so far, actually even more praise: At first I wasn't able to get my wireless UBS-dongle to work with its Vista drivers no matter what, so I had to do with a wire for a while. Not for long. Today I finally checked Windows Update, and was surprised when they had a driver for my wireless card. Downloaded the driver and voila, wireless works :up:

:hmm:Im gonna have to get the higher power *parents* to agree with me on this. (ought a reformat vista anyway):hmm:

hmmmm, now how to back up vistas files. *just incase my parents say ok.

Thanks for the direct link - but where do I get a key for the bugger?

The link below describes the method I used to get a key with Firefox browser. It might sound a bit complicated at first but it beats hitting refresh in front of your computer for an hour or a lot more... :roll:

Link

cheers porphy

Finally got the nerve together to make an image of my XP install, shrink the partition XP was in and create a new partition for Windows 7. Got it installed and everything worked great until the first time I booted without the Windows 7 DVD in the drive. Booted right up to XP, no multi-boot option. Modified my boot.ini to point to the Windows 7 partition as a second option, won't boot. Put the Windows 7 disk back in the drive and, voila, boots into 7. Kind of a wonky way to do it for now, but it's just for testing anyway.

Gotta say, I'm pretty happy with it so far, too. Never tried Vista, so I'll find out in the next few days how much of my software will be a problem. So far, no worries, but haven't tried to install CS3 or any games yet either.

Direct X 11 in Windows 7
 

Ran the Direct X Diagnose tool in Windows 7 and to my surprise it came back saying that it uses Direct X 11, so now we are going to have to go out and buy new graphics cards down the track when developers start to use the new Direct X 11 to make there games.

Steve

Yeah noticed that DX11 thingy too, but so far I've had zero problems with Vista 64bit graphics drivers(made for DX10). Thanks to Ati for dropping support for my card(x1950 Pro) from their Windows 7 drivers :up:

Also Ati+OpenGL+64bit Win 7 = No go. Ati stated that it just isn't supported. Luckily DirectX works great.

Just installed the 64-bit version and it's running great (Except that I can't seem to get my damn RAID to work)

Gonne try to run it for a while and see how it goes