Windows 7

[King Cricket]

Anyone knows what will be the sys reqs for 7?

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I've just checked the sys reqs. It really surprises me if i compare it with Vista's. Boy, I think each and every PC in the world will be able to run Windows 7.

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

I've got Win 7 already. Not VERY different than Vista, but yes, its different. Here's how my experience went.

I downloaded the image, burnt the DVD and straight slid it in. I had some 25 gigs unpartitioned space on my HDD so decided to install it there. That would have left me with 3 os's, XP, Vista and Win7. Ran the Win7 setup in XP, chose the advanced option, chose the drive, and boom, its on. The interface of the installation WAS DITTO same as of Vista. I used a timer to time the install, it took exactly 23 minutes (Yes, 23 minutes, isn't a typo, I was surprised myselves). The boot loader was sorted very sweetly, with three options at the start now. The loading screen (The black one which comes on the initial loading) is now much more dynamic, the 4 MS colours keep shining / rotating in a pleasant way while it loads.

Right in terms of performance. Yeah its been all snap for me since the install (1 day). Fast, starts up like magic and shuts down too. However I had the same experience with Vista initially so I'm going to reserve my opinion here till I am able to install something concrete and then test it.

Hardware support, well I installed the Vista 32bit drivers for my nVidia 9600GT and they work uber cool. Never really was required to install any other drivers, everything else worked off the go.

The control panel has changed, UAC's probably either gone now or is disabled by default. The Windows Experience Index however gave me the most surprises. The rating system has changed, its now on a scale of 1 to 7.9 and has some new tests in it. Found the names interesting, dunno what they actually do.

But the best part is, all this in a BETA! Its stable, its fast, it works, and its a BETA, free till August 1. Couldn't get anything better, especially from a company like MS.

I'll try and get the screenies up by tomorrow if someone else doesn't. Yeah I'm too lazy sorry, but apart from the taskbar or whatever you call the lower bar, not much is different in terms of interface.

 

[mukund_nadkarni]

Yeah some screenies mate! Keep an eye on the performance, hope it's better than Vista.

I've just checked the sys reqs. It really surprises me if i compare it with Vista's. Boy, I think each and every PC in the world will be able to run Windows

What are the minimum requirements?

 

[MattW]

The control panel has changed, UAC's probably either gone now or is disabled by default.

UAC is there, just much more sensible. I sent a bug report in over it though, because I'd like a 'always trust this program' option. I have an XP only thing I use every day and clicking the UAC prompt once is fine, but each time I start it is annoying.

For me, as good as XP. Better in some, worse in others, but on average it is as good. Driver support is fantastic.

 

[Harrypotter_fan]

Ho do I burn the Win7 iso to a DVD in Nero 7 Essentials? I know how to use the 'Burn Image to Disk' feature, but do I need to do anything else to make it a bootable disk?

 

[Neo95]

but do I need to do anything else to make it a bootable disk?

Nope.Just copy the CD.The files are such that they will become bootable on their own.
Hey and how will you test 7?
Will you test it on a friend's computer?

 

[Harrypotter_fan]

No, I'll install it on my F drive.

 

[Neo95]

No, I'll install it on my F drive.

How much RAM do you have?

 

[Harrypotter_fan]

620MB. Win7 can work quiet smoothly on a 512MB PC without Aero effects.

 

[MacWorld]

Make sure you guys have the following

1GHz Pentium processor
1GB RAM
Direct X9 GFX Card with 128mb Shared Memory
16GB HD Space.

I installed it with no problems downloading it on my laptop and mounting it using Daemon tools. (No CD used)It seems quite good and the UAC is definatly better. It is actually quite stable and i tried opening multiple apps at once and it handled it on my

1.3GHz Intel Celoron
2GB RAM
30GB Hard Drive
It cant run aero but still looks good.

Check the desktop thread for a screeny
Watch this space

I downloaded 7 in under 1 hour at the dead of night and then mounted it on my XP Lappy (which had a few viruses etc...) Using Daemon tools. Once i opened the setup it looked very professional and installed over my XP setup in about 40 Mintutes. The first thing that llooked great was the statup where it had a animated loading screen which looked quite cool.

It seemed to work amazingly at first with the login taking less than 8 seconds to load everything and it even ran apps smoothly straight after login when it was loading. I like the look but the taskbar seems like the mac one. Also not having aero is a down as i cant do stuff others can. e.g the taskbar does not show a window when a app is open, only a black box with writing.

UAC is great, smarter and better. Start menu is basicaly the same as vista and so is the interface etc... not much change apart from the taskbar and a few icons. I would not pay for this yet. However it is a good stable release and looks good so far

 

[Harrypotter_fan]

Did you overwrite XP with it?

 

[MacWorld]

Yeh my xp was crap and i hardly use my lappy, it was a clean installation and i have a xp cd aswell so i can restore it whenever.

 

[MacWorld]

Hey guys, just download Windows live messenger, the new one, whenever it opens it just crashes 7 and i cant do anything, it just freezes. Can someone else try this as i thing this is a major bug.

 

[Simbazz]

If I get this, will I still have my files etc? Or will they all be removed?

 

[sohum]

If I get this, will I still have my files etc? Or will they all be removed?

You should absolutely not install this on an OS that you are using as a primary environment. It is not released software, it's beta, and hence you may lose or corrupt your data.