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01-22-2009, 11:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Saratoga, CA | | | Windows 7 Beta
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Has anyone tried it yet? I went through hours of partitioning and installation only to have it crash after half an hour. It was a very nice half hour though. Everything installed itself basically, the graphics were smooth and things loaded very quickly. I thought it was perfect until the unexpected blue screen.
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01-22-2009, 11:08 PM
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Endorsing Artist : Genz Benz | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago - LA | | | No crashes for me. See if google has an answer, but also post yer specs.
Theres even updates for it, but just check driver compstibility first.
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01-22-2009, 11:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Saratoga, CA | | | Win7 64 bit
AMD Phenom 9550
6 gigs ram
Nvidia Geforce 9600 GT
500 gb HD, but put 28 gigs partitioned for win7, I'm using the rest for XP still
That's all I really know about my comp, not much. It also did some automatic updates after I installed it but it crashed after that. I didn't expect it to work perfectly but I was just using firefox and trillian and it just died literally out of the blue. I wasn't installing anything or doing anything specific.
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01-22-2009, 11:28 PM
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Endorsing Artist : Genz Benz | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago - LA | | | will it boot back to 7 or does it blue screen during boot?
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01-22-2009, 11:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Saratoga, CA | | | Nope I'm on Win7 again right now, and it's working perfectly smoothly and even faster than XP.
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01-22-2009, 11:44 PM
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Endorsing Artist : Genz Benz | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago - LA | | | well theres an amd forum and also see what mobo you have and do some searching..
there wont be much info right now, but, go ahead and keep a file. =)
Glad to know its working now. W7 is really cool.
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01-23-2009, 12:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Chicago, IL | | | I'm downloading it right now. How do you select which OS to boot before you startup?
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01-23-2009, 01:41 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Norway | | | I'm dual booting with Vista. So far I like it a lot. It's not a whole new OS compared to Vista, but it is faster an smoother than Vista, by now. I see it more as a extencive service pack than a new OS. So far I have not had any trouble with the beta, no crash, and all Vista drivers seems to be working nice.
Armueller2001: If you have two partitions with two different OS, you will be able to choose between the two OS at startup.
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01-23-2009, 02:13 AM
|  | Working on successful. Got the first syllable... | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huddinge, Sweden | | | Running it at home on 3 computers. 2 32-bit and one 64-bit.
Didn't recognize the old WLAN card on one of them, but the rest were effortless. Very snappy response, and every application I've tried works flawlessly. UAC is much less intrusive.
Internet Explorer 8 is OK, but there are some glitches with rendering.
Fast user switching doesn't work well on the 64-bit machine; the display goes blank. Don't know about the 32-bit machines yet.
I can't see myself going back to Vista anytime soon unless some really big incompatibility surfaces.
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01-23-2009, 02:13 AM
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01-23-2009, 02:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Urbana, IL | | I'm dual booting with XP. BTW, I'm ahead of you a bit on the thread...  Windows 7 Beta
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01-23-2009, 10:13 AM
| | | | So, whats the deal once it goes public for sale? Does the beta version stop working? Do you have to buy the new version then? |
01-23-2009, 10:47 AM
|  | Mmmmmm... Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Kopavogur, Iceland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fate So, whats the deal once it goes public for sale? Does the beta version stop working? Do you have to buy the new version then? | The beta version stops working August 1st.
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01-23-2009, 11:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Ontario | | | thats my brithday!
I used it for a month, but then switched back to ubuntu, ( im using an old IBM T42 laptop).
To be honest, i liked it better than XP. It even ran smoother than XP. |
01-23-2009, 11:56 AM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | I just now DL'ed it. I happen to have a Gateway with no OS right now that I can put this on. So I'll do it tonight.
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01-23-2009, 12:03 PM
| | Mmmmmm... Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Kopavogur, Iceland | | Heh
Found out something fun today, have some programs open, select one window, shake it around a bit and all the other applications minimize themselves! Sweet!
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01-23-2009, 12:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Montreal, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ívar Þórólfsson Heh
Found out something fun today, have some programs open, select one window, shake it around a bit and all the other applications minimize themselves! Sweet! | One of my favorite features is...
Drag one window to the left and another one to the right...
I like it. I have a 24" wide screen monitor and I find this feature very useful.
I've been using 7 for a little...since it was available for the beta testers and I have many bugs on my version. I might reinstall today or tomorrow.
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01-23-2009, 01:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Urbana, IL | | | Yeah, my Windows Media Player can't play videos without crashing the whole machine... Got to report that one so they can get on it.
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01-23-2009, 02:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: I'm a dyno man, N.of Detoilet | | | Hope they do "get on it" soon. They're firing 5000 people......
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01-23-2009, 02:38 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | It looks a lot like some of the Linux versions I have used.  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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