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Windows 7 Beta Public
« on: January 09, 2009, 12:49:17 PM »
Microsoft took down the beta site today due to overwhelming demand but is anyone else running windows 7 yet?

thoughts?
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Re: Windows 7 Beta Public
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2009, 09:54:02 PM »
nope, haven't touched it or seen anything on it.
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Re: Windows 7 Beta Public
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2009, 05:39:51 AM »
Spent a good 2-3 hours refreshing the page cause of 'Server too busy' errors.  Screw u Microsoft!
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Re: Windows 7 Beta Public
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2009, 08:15:28 AM »
MS seems to usually do the screwing.
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Re: Windows 7 Beta Public
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2009, 09:00:31 AM »
i <3 windows 7.  running on my laptop and about to put it on my desktop at work.
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Re: Windows 7 Beta Public
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2009, 09:18:18 AM »
who else got it? i'm downloading it now, as we speak.
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Re: Windows 7 Beta Public
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2009, 11:40:38 AM »
I've been running the 64-bit for the past 3 days. I like it. Nothing amazing, though. I'm not particularly blown away by anything at this point. I just feels like a way more polished vista. I have to say, though, that the new taskbar is pretty sweet.

I was also surprised that pretty much everything worked. Only two items had to be MacGyver's into working: My X-fi sound card (fuck you, creative, and your shitty driver support for an unsupported beta...wait, what?), and Google chrome. Chrome was really simple though. Just had to add -in-process-plugins to the end of the command line.  Only real complaint I have so far is that the ftp that's built in to windows explorer doesn't want to connect to my server. Not sure which end the problem is on at this point though

Thing seems to handle gaming fine, but the only things I ever run are Source, CoD4, and WoW.

tl;dr
Not balls-tickling fantastic, but it seems to be shaping up to be a good OS.
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Re: Windows 7 Beta Public
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2009, 01:50:51 PM »
Finally got my copy.  Gonna install it some time soon.
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Re: Windows 7 Beta Public
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2009, 04:30:06 PM »
Im excited about it because I can finally use more then 3GB of ram without running vista! It also seems a tad faster then XP which is a huge surprise.

PS. I have never run vista on anything, and i know a lot of people like me.  So alot of the things you guys might consider normal from vista are new to us XP diehards ;)
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Re: Windows 7 Beta Public
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2009, 05:08:17 PM »
Yeah, I'm skipping Vista, going right to 7, seems like I'm making the right choice.
On another note, I know this is rather nubby, how do I know if I can do 64-bit?
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Re: Windows 7 Beta Public
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2009, 05:26:12 PM »
What cpu you got?
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Re: Windows 7 Beta Public
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2009, 07:49:23 PM »
AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core 3.0 GHz
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Re: Windows 7 Beta Public
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2009, 09:10:21 PM »
Quote from: coldflame on January 12, 2009, 07:49:23 PM
AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core 3.0 GHz

yea, i think you can use 64
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Re: Windows 7 Beta Public
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2009, 04:16:23 AM »
The problem with 64 bit code that you're going to have will come in the form of driver and software support. I had problems because some of my hardware didn't have 64bit drivers so I went back to 32bit.
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Re: Windows 7 Beta Public
« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2009, 05:04:58 AM »
I installed it yesterday on my one PC, Removed my Linux drive and replaced it with a another one I had sitting around.

Personally, it sucks, Umm the reason I say this is I opened resource monitor and with nothing running the one svchost [LocalServiceNetworkRestricted] is running at 50% constantly and it's like what.. Hmmm, tried to play a MP3 I copied over, Nope not gonna play, I tried a video I recorded from my PCI Sat card, Nope ain't gonna play, I went into Media Player to the options, Umm, anyone know where they are.

It for me just seems more frustrating then it is learning linux. Like, I dunno, again drivers is also a big thing I guess, and finding them is gonna be a job in it's self.

And yes I am like Pops, an XP User, never touched Vista.

But if 1st impressions is something you can get after a few hour's, well I think I'll delete it and just re-install my linux drive...

But this is my opinion, My Brother likes Vista, but me.. Ehhh I'll stay with Xp
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