Windows 7 Installed
Monday, January 12, 2009 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing
Well I finally got Windows 7 installed on my laptop. The only issue I had was getting the partitioning right, but that was my problem.
Installation took about 10 minutes, and in about 20 minutes overall I was on the desktop ready to work. Very impressive!
So far, Windows 7 seems very fast and haven’t run into any problems as of yet. No problems with application compatibility yet, and I’m really liking some of the design changes.
Still have a lot to go through, but my initial quick impression is great!
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Reply #82 Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:09 AM
Given that the beta is due to expire on August 1st, it's likely to be released around then. 
Reply #83 Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:11 AM
starkers, you really should downgrade to XP mate, you know you want to
Reply #84 Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:35 AM
Yes, that may also be an issue. To ensure your (SATA) primary OS drive is not in focus confict with the (IDE) secondary OS drive, you may have to change jumper settings on the drives themselves... make the SATA the master and the IDE a slave. To do this you will need to open up your tower/box and refer the the manufacturer instructions. Most drive these days have that info on the top, if not you can find it at their website.
(blink blink)
Please tell me that you don't work in IT
Reply #85 Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:08 AM
Cliff - admin - at another site reports losing
his Vista partition when he installed 7 -
anyone else lose Vista in the process ???? 
Reply #86 Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:14 AM
.... Don't run BETA software (specially not an OS) if you're not ready to lose every bit of information on *any* connected harddrive...
Actually you should act as if you could lose everything at all times, even when running release software. But the risk of that happening is rather much smaller. 
Reply #87 Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:27 AM
It does, because it's based on Vista. The rumors that Microsoft was going back to XP's code turned out to be completely false.
So far everybody is guessing 2009, but Microsoft officially has their lips sealed.
Reply #88 Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:22 AM
PDJ good to see you finaly got there mate, I hope you enjoy it as much as the rest of us....
Reply #89 Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:03 AM
Nope... learning as I go and passed on info that resolved issues for me.
Reply #90 Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:10 AM
Best way to learn....from doing, not from reading.
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Reply #94 Thursday, January 15, 2009 1:21 PM
I still feel that XP would be an UPGRADE...lol. Even if I am running Vista& 7 PC, Vista Laptop.
Reply #95 Thursday, January 15, 2009 1:22 PM
Starkers, I have one thing to say.............CONGRATS Grandpa!!!!
Reply #96 Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:41 PM
Amen. That's the way I've learned much of what I know . That's also why I don't follow the opinion of the crowd when it comes to Vista.
I now have Windows 7 installed for dual booting.
Had to go to low resolution mode because it didn't set up my monitor right the first time, but installing the latest drivers and setting the resolution manually fixed it .
Looks very nice so far, no complaints . There is noticably a lot less of UAC, but it's still there. There is more fine gained control over it, so no more need toturn it off completely.
It's also quite fast so far - but then again, I haven't installed all of the stuff I usually do. Only time will tell if it stays that way.
I would like to emphasize: Do not replace your primary OS. Windows 7 is a time limited trial and will need to be removed or replaced when the trial is up. It's also beta, which means it's not quite production quality. The final version you'll have to pay for if you want to keep it.
Reply #97 Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:33 PM
Notice no Dreamscenes in Windows 7. MS for some reason seems to have dropped that ability.
Reply #98 Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:30 PM
It was added as a Ultimate update months after Vista went gold. I would assume that they want to run the beta through it's paces before adding that variable.
Reply #99 Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:43 PM
Been so long, I forgot that fact...lol...if I ever knew it. 
Reply #100 Friday, January 16, 2009 3:20 AM
Be very careful how you insult your internet connection. Remember, you could always have dial-up, or worse, satellite!
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Reply #81 Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:11 AM
The things I'm hearing of Windows 7 leaves me.. baffled. Maybe it's just some big bubble of happy people running around with rosecolored glasses in here, but from what I'm hearing, this may be the first Windows I'll install within the first year of it's release.
As I've come to understand it, it's just in beta at the moment (so Micro$oft still have time to screw up), but when is Windows 7 set for release?