Windows 7 Beta

[hudson80]

Public beta supposed to be released tomorrow. I'm tempted. Have an ESATA drive in an Capricorn enclosure that isn't doing much. I already dual boot-XP pro & Vista HP 64 so not sure how that would work. I've heard of some sort of virtual drive by MS. Wonder if you could load on that?

http://www.reuters.com/article/techn...5070JW20090108

[mikeL]

Downloaded it yesterday, tossed it on a spare SATA drive in my desktop, even got a product ID from microsoft. The only thing I found so far I don't care for is the "Homegroup" networking, and the auto generating password it creates. But other than that it is a fairly decent OS; so far, it also still has the UAC pop up very annoying, but I disabled it.

Also if you should download it and don't get a product ID, and want to extend the 30 day activation to 120 days, open a command prompt as administrator and type slmgr -rearm this will extend the activation

[Xypher_online]

i have liked windows 7 so far.. i set up a dual boot tho and i cant find my main partition that has vista on it with all my files.. is there any way to find these files?

[patrickt]

My home computer is just for fun and I find playing with OS betas fun. So, I backed up my data and did a clean install. It's clearly a beta with some glitches but it is absolutely stable with my desktop hardware. I was surprised at the driver support. It runs well for me. I loaded it onto my netbook, too. It runs well there, too, and is as fast, or as slow, as was WindowsXP. That's the nature of netbooks. If I get too eager and give it too many tasks it freezes up but I can go to task manager and close a couple of tasks and it keeps working.

So far, one week, I like it a lot.

[draceena01]

Windows 7 will install and run on VirtualBox (My settings are: HD - 10gig, RAM - 1gig, Video - 125 meg). I needed to install VirtualBox Guest Addition (in Vista Compatibility Mode) to get Internet connectivity.