Kshitiz_Indian
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RC1 is the 7100 build itself.
Windows 7 - Will it be the best of Microsoft?
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I heard that there will still be some changes over the 7100 build (visually, there is not going to be much difference).
sohum
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MSDN subscribers and TechNet+ members have had the RC available for about a week now. It'll be released to the general public tomorrow. I'm going to wipe my beta installation and put it on that.
angryangy
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As was the case with the beta, don't treat the RC as a standalone upgrade. You will save yourself the most trouble by having a dual-boot system.
That said, the RC will, like the beta, install as upgrade on a Vista install, but you should only do so for the sake of testing the feature. It won't upgrade-install over the beta. You will need to create a new installation if you have been using the beta.
Whereas the beta ends in a couple of months, the RC will continue until mid-2010, possibly even operating beyond the official retail release. This is a boon for anyone who felt that a few months was too short to really get settled and see what the OS is like when you have to depend on it.
As always, a new install is only as good as its drivers. Win 7 has a pretty good stock of drivers and you can of course use Vista drivers, but there are catches. Win 7 does not like unsigned drivers and to use them you need to disable driver signature enforcement at boot, at every boot. A lot of big name makers don't bother making the drivers that they should, like drivers for 64 bit operating systems, so it's not like you can always just get it off the website ahead of time, or if it is there, it might be a beta (an unsigned beta).
For those odd ones, what you really want is for Windows to just connect to the net and get the driver it thinks it needs. Unfortunately, if you've got a problem with your wireless network card, it might not be so simple.
Luckily, it is a little known fact that you can manually browse the Windows Update catalog. Just find the right device, download the driver to a safe place and then go ahead with your new installation. You can also get other things that Windows automatically updates. There are times, rare times, when this is an incredibly useful tool.
Microsoft Update Catalog
That said, the RC will, like the beta, install as upgrade on a Vista install, but you should only do so for the sake of testing the feature. It won't upgrade-install over the beta. You will need to create a new installation if you have been using the beta.
Whereas the beta ends in a couple of months, the RC will continue until mid-2010, possibly even operating beyond the official retail release. This is a boon for anyone who felt that a few months was too short to really get settled and see what the OS is like when you have to depend on it.
As always, a new install is only as good as its drivers. Win 7 has a pretty good stock of drivers and you can of course use Vista drivers, but there are catches. Win 7 does not like unsigned drivers and to use them you need to disable driver signature enforcement at boot, at every boot. A lot of big name makers don't bother making the drivers that they should, like drivers for 64 bit operating systems, so it's not like you can always just get it off the website ahead of time, or if it is there, it might be a beta (an unsigned beta).
For those odd ones, what you really want is for Windows to just connect to the net and get the driver it thinks it needs. Unfortunately, if you've got a problem with your wireless network card, it might not be so simple.
Luckily, it is a little known fact that you can manually browse the Windows Update catalog. Just find the right device, download the driver to a safe place and then go ahead with your new installation. You can also get other things that Windows automatically updates. There are times, rare times, when this is an incredibly useful tool.
Microsoft Update Catalog
sohum
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Just began the download. About an hour to go.
Who said the beta expires in a couple of months? Check this
Windows 7 build 7100 by ~Silver-Chris on deviantART
The build 7077 and the build 7100 expires in March 2010, not in a couple of months.
Windows 7 build 7100 by ~Silver-Chris on deviantART
The build 7077 and the build 7100 expires in March 2010, not in a couple of months.
Abhas
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Media.
If you want to remove it later on, you can simply shift the media to other drives and format the windows 7 installation.
If you install it in games, you will have to reinstall your games, incase of formatting.
If you want to remove it later on, you can simply shift the media to other drives and format the windows 7 installation.
If you install it in games, you will have to reinstall your games, incase of formatting.
sohum
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Build 7100 is the RC.
Yes. But 7077 is not, and it expires on March 2, 2010 (you can find it by typing 'winver' in the Run command if you're using build 7077). My friends have tried it.
Finally got Windows 7, seems to give you better control over the UAC settings and it actually is easy to find!
The new themes look good, and I like the use of the icons to collapse all the open windows for that program. The preview of each window is also handy makes it much easier when you have lots of folders open. Just used the new Paint program as well, a huge improvement from the xp version, has the Office 07 theme as well.
What is the best anti virus to use for Windows 7? I'm thinking of trying something different from my usual Kaspersky.
The new themes look good, and I like the use of the icons to collapse all the open windows for that program. The preview of each window is also handy makes it much easier when you have lots of folders open. Just used the new Paint program as well, a huge improvement from the xp version, has the Office 07 theme as well.
What is the best anti virus to use for Windows 7? I'm thinking of trying something different from my usual Kaspersky.
I really want to try this on my laptop. I need to ask a question.
I have two partitions.
C: Acer
D: Acerdata
Both ~46GB, D is about 99% free but it has some files in it.
I haven't formatted for ages, if I format the D so I can have an extra drive (would be H
would I just be able to install Windows 7 on that and keep XP and all my other stuff on the other partitions?
I have two partitions.
C: Acer
D: Acerdata
Both ~46GB, D is about 99% free but it has some files in it.
I haven't formatted for ages, if I format the D so I can have an extra drive (would be H
would I just be able to install Windows 7 on that and keep XP and all my other stuff on the other partitions?
sohum
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Yeah.I really want to try this on my laptop. I need to ask a question.
I have two partitions.
C: Acer
D: Acerdata
Both ~46GB, D is about 99% free but it has some files in it.
I haven't formatted for ages, if I format the D so I can have an extra drive (would be H
I think you mean partition instead of format? Formatting simply makes all the files on that disc unreadable through the OS and sets up the filesystem tables according to the FS you choose (NTFS, FAT, etc.). If you want to partition, you will want to defragment that drive before partitioning, so you can get a large enough contiguous space for Windows 7.
I would copy the files on D that you need onto C or some external hard disk. Then, when you run the installation disc, make sure you choose to install it on D. The setup will take care of setting up your bootloader correctly.
Kshitiz_Indian
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Finally completed my download. Just in the process of installing it in my VM, maybe in the weekend I'll do a full install but a VirtualBox install will do for a while for me.
