Hey peeps, been test driving the release candidate of Windows 7- really liking it so far. Everything seems to run at least as quick as on xp and so far I havn't had much trouble running any of my apps and games. What trouble I have had was solved using techniques that work with Vista. Anyways, thought we ought to have a thread for folks test driving W7.
Cheers!
"Once people realize they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic" -Ben Franklin
Hey peeps, been test driving the release candidate of Windows 7- really liking it so far. Everything seems to run at least as quick as on xp and so far I havn't had much trouble running any of my apps and games. What trouble I have had was solved using techniques that work with Vista. Anyways, thought we ought to have a thread for folks test driving W7.
Cheers!
"Once people realize they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic" -Ben Franklin
I started a thread about the 64 bit version, complaining of not being able to install half of my Asus mobo drivers ( 64 bit versions on their website ) and some of the extra nice utilities like TurboV. After trying for a long time I gave up. Will have to go to the 32 bit version if I get it at all. I ain't gonna pay the full price for the 64 bit version and risk never getting it to run right on my rig.
That being said, I think it more AsusTek's fault and not Microsoft's.
As far as how I liked it other than that I can't say I liked it too much. After being used to XP it was too hard to find stuff. And I saw no Run command line anywhere. How can you bring up commands like Msconfig if there's no run command line?? I finally found where they hid the hard drive managament utility though. Microsoft always makes it hard to find stuff and XP was no exception. You only remember how to find things like System Restore if you do it all the time. MS likes to mess with people's heads and bury half their stuff in a maze of confusing layers. Hard to navigate sometimes. Some things never change in the MS world, remembering where to navigate to find things is one of them.
All run commands can be entered in the search bar in the start menu. Also the Windows 7 discs will contain both 32 and 64bit versions. For anyone interested if you pre-order win7 upgrade disc (which you can do a clean install with) before July 11th you get a big discount. Home Premium for $50, Pro for $100
"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.[Europe], under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and sheep. If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, judges and governors shall all become wolves. " - Thomas Jefferson
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Urufu_Shinjiro:
All run commands can be entered in the search bar in the start menu. Also the Windows 7 discs will contain both 32 and 64bit versions. For anyone interested if you pre-order win7 upgrade disc (which you can do a clean install with) before July 11th you get a big discount. Home Premium for $50, Pro for $100 </div></BLOCKQUOTE>I supposed I could do that and have both 32 and 64. Not a bad price for MSOS either. Where do I go to order it? The same place I went to download it?? I know, I know, that's what Google is for.
If you can do a full install with the upgrade version then what's the real difference between it and the "Full" version?? Why pay more for the full version if both are really full? By clean install do you mean full install??
One of the major reasons to upgrade is to move to 64 bit, if for no other reason than to be able to use more than four gigabytes of memory. But there are, and will increasingly be, more and more reasons to leave XP32 behind.
I'm interested in the preorder, but also a little thrown by what they mean by upgrade.
Just in playing with the various menus and such, it's really been pretty straightforward. The program control isn't bad, and certainly no worse than Zonealarm's various warnings. It seems that the idea is to make where certain things are, more logical. And, strangely enough, I'm using less memory and getting better reception on my network with 7.
Also, it worked and looked great without installing any chipset drivers- heck any drivers at all. I've been installing various drivers, but it seems I didn't need to- how about that?!
"Once people realize they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic" -Ben Franklin
You never need to install chipset drivers. Windows and most other programs will run without them. Only question is will the programs, especially games, run as well without them. The answer is usually no. Your motherboard has chipset drivers for a reason. They aren't put on your system to take up space. Your chipset is a traffic cop directing traffic to varying degrees depending on which processor you have. Helps things to run more smoothly.
The difference is the upgrade disc requires that there be a previous OS. You do not have to do an in place upgrade, you can do a full clean install. With XP upgrade discs they asked you to put in a windows disc to prove you had a previous OS. Vista was a little different, if you had an OS on the hdd then you could choose to upgrade or to do a full clean install (formatting in the process), if you had a blank hdd you had to use the disc to install vista but not put in a product key, and not activate it, then "upgrade" the vista you just installed. Kinda silly but not such a big deal to get windows 7 for $50.
Oh, and go to http://store.microsoft.com/home.aspx for the deal.
"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.[Europe], under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and sheep. If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, judges and governors shall all become wolves. " - Thomas Jefferson
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