This may be a noob question but if I choose the upgrade option from Vista to Windows 7 will I need to reinstall all my programs, or does it carry over into the new OS?
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Its should be a straight upgrade, you shouldn't have to reinstall anything. That being said, since it is a beta, expect quirks.
Windows 7 has not been in development for 5 years now. Development on Windows 7 started around the time Windows Vista was released.
It might RTM Q3 of 2009, but if it RTMs, that doesn't mean the consumers will get it at that time. There will still be quite a few months that we'll have to wait for MS to print off a sufficient amount of disks. Vista RTMed in November, but wasn't released to the consumer market (us) until late January 2007.
You also really can't justify that Windows 7 will be done in Q3 because of the fact that Windows 7 Beta 1 is stable. Windows Vista Beta 1/2 were pretty stable (although Beta 1 was just incomplete, beta 2 was feature complete and pretty stable), but we still saw 2 Release Candidates.
I reinstalled and it seemed to fix the problem. Not sure what the cause was. We'll see how it goes.
Mine took about 13GB. I didn't check to see if there's a way to cut back on it. I'm sure there is.
Hibernate also takes up space. I think it's the same amount as how much RAM is available to Windows. Also, the page file takes up space, which I think is also dependent on how much memory is available.
Just things to take in consideration when calculating how much HDD space a Windows OS uses.
1st Gen Mac Pro with 7300GT BSOD
Has anyone else with a 1st Gen Mac Pro been able to make it through the install (bootcamp) without a BSOD? The Bluescreen is saying that the nvidia driver is the culprit...
Has anyone else with a 1st Gen Mac Pro been able to make it through the install (bootcamp) without a BSOD? The Bluescreen is saying that the nvidia driver is the culprit...
I just gave it a 10 gig drive to use, and it only took up 6.5 gigs, maybe you got the full install where as I didn't get the printer drivers or something? *shrug*
I gave mine 40GB to work with and 13GB is what it came up with. Did anyone see a way to customize the install?
Installed in parallels today, and also installed the os on my MSI Wind.
Parallels seems to hang here and there, however on my little wind it runs like a trooper.
Parallels seems to hang here and there, however on my little wind it runs like a trooper.
Gave mine 128GB, didn't customize anything and it ended up just north of 8GB. Try to run Disk Cleanup and see if it finds any crap you can remove.
Thanks Mikael, will do.
Edit: Down to about 9GB now after deleting the hibernation cache. I don't know why my install is so much larger than others.
Edit: Down to about 9GB now after deleting the hibernation cache. I don't know why my install is so much larger than others.
steve balmer announced a public Beta Will be up on Friday i think i may give this a shot..http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10135791-56.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1
Indeed, and it will be available to anyone & everyone on the 9th. Damn, I really want to try it out (the 64-bit, non-torrent version). My main concern is drivers working correctly on my early '08 MBP. It's sad, but I find myself using Vista64 more than Leopard these days as the airport wireless card driver for OS X sucks (yes, even after 10.5.6).
Which makes me question why we're paying thousands of dollars for "early access" when it's only a couple of days.
Very good question there.. I think in most instances, they aren't ready for the masses to get their hands on it... but this windows is cooked enough for public consumption.. aside from the mp3 corruption issue, which has a patch available for official testers as of now, I believe.
Also, the public beta will be limited to 2.5 million downloads.
Just a quick note, the public beta is only going to be available to the first 2.5 million downloaders. So, get it Friday.
"The Windows 7 Beta is going to be available download-only (were not sending out physical media) and available for a limited time to the first 2.5 million people who download the beta."
http://community.winsupersite.com/b.../08/recap-of-microsoft-ces-announcements.aspx
"The Windows 7 Beta is going to be available download-only (were not sending out physical media) and available for a limited time to the first 2.5 million people who download the beta."
http://community.winsupersite.com/b.../08/recap-of-microsoft-ces-announcements.aspx
Guinea pigs err...Beta Testers that have to pay for the privilege of helping Microsoft?
What ever happened to companies paying the Beta Testers?If not a check, at least in free goodies.
Oh...wait a minute...this is Microsoft. "Where the world is turned upside down".
I hadn't seen this part anywhere. Thanks for the heads up.
That is correct, it's listed in my available downloads.
I wasn't aware of that. I haven't been following the public beta since I have a subscription.
Anyway, I've installed it and so far it seems pretty "snappy". I'm running it in VMware with 1 GB of memory allocated and no performance issues so far. I will install it onto real hardware once my replacement DVD drive arrives...
Guinea pigs err...Beta Testers that have to pay for the privilege of helping Microsoft?
If not a check, at least in free goodies.
I got an HP Mini-Note out of them
... which I then sold ROFL!I got an HP Mini-Note out of them
I don't blame you. Cash is king.
I was thinking the same thing.Oh wow. I wonder how fast it will go then.
And how big is it?
All day maybe?