Windows 7 Build 695x revealed at WinHEC 2008 China

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edgarf28

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It's upto you to post us a CLEAR! Video of the new Boot Screen, the current videos are too blurry and too bright. Can you do a video or something for us please? :D

sorry, but I have the vista boot screen when i boot up... because I had to repair my boot with the 6801 dvd.

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ToneKnee

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the taskbar still looks off to me. seems like such a waste of space how the program/icon text is just thrown in the middle and truncated.

The reason being for the huge taskbar is because Windows 7 is trying to be 'Touch screen' friendly. You can make it the same size as Vista's taskbar in the settings.

Wait, so they got rid of the pop-up thumbnail displays to switch windows?

No one said that?

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ienhz

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The reason being for the huge taskbar is because Windows 7 is trying to be 'Touch screen' friendly. You can make it the same size as Vista's taskbar in the settings.

I know you can change the size and I know why they made it big. I'm just talking about the design elements they chose to implement when it is that big. I don't mind the larger size -- I don't know how to describe it -- but the design just doesn't look elegant with the way text is used and the odd looking translucent borders around no-text/pinned icons on the taskbar.

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Roger H. Veteran

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Damn, Anyone here using IE8beta2? Imageshack doesn't show me any of those pictures posted above. Anyone else have this problem?

Doesn't work for me either on Win 7 6801. The first one did then i couldn't get it to work anymore

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Roger H. Veteran

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I got the Vista boot screen also when i was repairing (not even the 6801 boot screen which of-course is different). Whenever i try to boot the new one though i still get a BSOD (0x0000007b) which states inacessible boot device. I did the repair but still wont work. :argh:

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drlacus

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I got the Vista boot screen also when i was repairing (not even the 6801 boot screen which of-course is different). Whenever i try to boot the new one though i still get a BSOD (0x0000007b) which states inacessible boot device. I did the repair but still wont work. :argh:

Same here !!

Don't have any idea what to do next...

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ToneKnee

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Anyone tried this?

1. Boot Windows 7 DVD

2. Choose Windows Repair

3. start CMD

4. Run Diskpart

5. Create vdisk file=c:\windows7.vhd maximum=100000

6. select vdisk file=c:\windows7.vhd

7. surface vdisk

8. exit Windows Repair (without Reboot)

9. Install Windows 7 to this surfaced VHD

10. Reboots and boots Windows 7 from VHD

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Roger H. Veteran

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Anyone tried this?

That you got from a site i was at too. That's easy enough to do as you create the VHD when you are botting, that doesn't really do the booting from one you already have.

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Denis W. Veteran

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it feels lighter and faster then 6801

and the new aero effects are really nice! (new taskbar etc..)

here are 2 more screenshots:

screenshot51220082ph5.th.jpg

screenshot51220084yj5.th.jpg

(sorry for my bad english!)

Looks like they've toned down the glass 'streams'.

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SoapyHamHocks Member

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If you guys are getting a bluescreen at classpnp.sys try disabling AHCI. I got it working using the following:

BCDedit /copy {current} /d new7
BCdedit /set <guid result of previous command> device vhd=[C:]\vhd\new7.vhd
Bcdedit /set <guid result of previous command> osdevice vhd=[C:]\vhd\new7.vhd

The above was done from within 6801.

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