Windows 7 Beta To Be Released On January 9

EXreaction · January 15th, 2009, 02:09 PM

No, they didn't only change explorer for 7. Many other things were changed.

cunokyle · January 15th, 2009, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Whir

It has taken up to 15 minutes for the screen to pass for me, cunokyle, but it's never frozen. Maybe try waiting longer if you haven't already.

Well, I suppose I many have been a bit impatient. After 5 minutes or so I would retry. I will give it a shot again and let it do its thing while I play on my PS3 or something.

Cmptr-Gy-Dv · January 15th, 2009, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by doddsy

single 300gb sata2 hdd.... two partitions. one with xp one with windows 7.

7 does not see the xp partition ...... maybe i just need to ak it to look a little harder.....

had the same problem, found answer,

and here it is, right down there vvvvvvv

it seems that sometimes win 7 don't assign a drive letter to extended partitions, so if you would be so kind as to go to (control panal) admin tools,

computer management, disk management, you will see your XP partition, right click on it and assign a drive letter and waaa laaaa your XP partition will show up like magic, thank you very much please stop by again, whaaaaaa

cunokyle · January 15th, 2009, 11:19 PM

Ok, got it installed! So far, I am really liking it! I never used Vista, so can not compare the two, but compared to XP..wow!

It does use a lot of memory. I have installed most of the programs I had running on XP startup and am using about 256MB more memory to run them. Guess that is the amount needed to run the themes and addition programs with Windows 7. Runs very smooth though. I am using the 64bit version and I have 4gigs of ram. I scored a 5.4 on the performance chart. My 7800GT scored the lowest of all of my hardware.

Rootstonian · January 16th, 2009, 08:36 AM

Windows 7 = Mojave

ha,ha,ha!

cunokyle · January 16th, 2009, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by KarmaKiller

181.20 drivers are good for me.
Everything works as it should. But have yet to install any games.

I had to uninstall the nvidia drivers and use the drivers Windows finds for it. I could not play a couple of games using those drivers. I have not tried any other nvidia drivers yet, other than the 181.20 which didn't work so well.

KarmaKiller · January 16th, 2009, 09:31 AM

What GPU are you running?
In my case, I'd say my GPU is a bit different. The GX2 always runs better on odd drivers then other GPU's. But I could have sworn 2Monsters told me yesterday he had his 8800gts(g92) going on the same drivers also.

EDIT: just saw you said 7800gt above.
maybe it's because you have a older generation of GPU??

Milwaukee · January 16th, 2009, 05:51 PM

Man 3 hours and it still install window 7. i use dvd.

it slower. you know expanding files 0% that one still 26% for 3 hours.

why it slow. Plus I am use Microsoft virtual pc

EXreaction · January 16th, 2009, 06:22 PM

Took me like 20 minutes maybe to install on my laptop.

cunokyle · January 16th, 2009, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by KarmaKiller

maybe it's because you have a older generation of GPU??

Might be. With the nvidia drivers installed I can not even get the Performance test to work. Use the drivers Windows installs and it can be run.