gregrocker Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 (edited) Or dual boot. I've not logged into Vista for nearly a month. 7000 (and now 7057) has been quite the solid OS for me. On dual boot you don't even have to waste a DVD, or bother to mount to virtual drive. Just open the download file, run Setup and install to the other partition which you've just wiped and reformatted with disk management.. You can even overwrite C: drive since boot manager is in the hidden 200mb repair partition, though you may have to chkdisk it later to sort out boot.ini. I have done all of them this way and now have 7000 back on C: in a fight to the death with e:7057. If 7057 drops my wifi one more time, e: gets wiped. Edited March 21, 2009 by gregrocker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downhillrider Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 What Blackberry Desktop Manager did you install??I had forgotten to put that back on yesterday and just ran through installing 4.7 like a minute ago and it went without a hitch.. Guess now I should test whether it will sync or not with my Curve hehe. I tried 4.5 and 4.7. What I had to do was take ownership of certain files in the AppData\Local\Temp\WZSE0.TMP directories. Like .cab files and whatnot. Certain folders in that dir have little locks on them. Once it was completed Roxio (the media manager) wasnt installed. So I had to go back and take ownership of other folders and it finally works. My fps issue with Counter Strike Source is more frustrating. Ran flawless with the Open Beta. With this 5075 *Ultimate* it runs like crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synomenon Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 What is the very latest build of Windows 7? I'm getting ready to wipe my hard drive and would like to install Windows 7 instead of Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emberstrife Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Don't install Win7 as your main and only OS unless you've tried it before and verified all your necessary software to be working under the beta OS. You will regret it quickly, and end up either having to reinstall your old OS or using a VM to run incompatible software(except for games). Install it as a dual-boot instead. In fact, it's a good idea to have a triple-boot consisting of your old OS, a Win7 beta build you found to be the most stable(in my case, 7000) and the very latest leaked build(currently 7057). That way you can use the old OS to run legacy apps, and avoid any critical individual bugs of Win7 builds by using the build where they are not present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNutts Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 build 7000 smokes vista with sp1 ive been running win7 since beta release as my main os Agreed. Given the choice between Vista SP1 and Win7 7000 I chose the beta and haven't looked back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ba'al Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 What is the very latest build of Windows 7? I'm getting ready to wipe my hard drive and would like to install Windows 7 instead of Vista. Build 7057. You can download it by torrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monotremata Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 That's nothing, I find myself missing C64 Basic a little bit too much :rofl: I still have two at home. I wonder if I can install Win 7 and I wonder if its got drivers for my 300 baud modem so I can report back here when Im done! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jatt5 Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 I went back to Vista Ultimate. There is no exciting features. Its basically Vista SE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleSpellbinder Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 I went back to Vista Ultimate. There is no exciting features. Its basically Vista SE. I'll never understand comments comments like these. 7 is quite different from Vista. Plenty of new or updated features. The 7 UI is closer to Vista than Vista was to XP, but that's about it. 7 is blazing quick (quite a bit faster than Vista, SP1). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livin in a box Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 What is the very latest build of Windows 7? I'm getting ready to wipe my hard drive and would like to install Windows 7 instead of Vista.I wouldn't get any torrents of anything just now. The RC will be out soon which will hopefully be more stable that 7057 has been for the vast majority of people (my laptop being one of them). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Access Denied Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 7057 is running great for me. Vista SE my arse! Whatever your smoking, don't hide it, divide it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogger Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Wasn't RC confirmed by MS to be 7048 or something? I'm really tempted to try out 7057, but i'm just going to wait for the final thing, or at least the RC. I'll get to see how it compares to server 2008. Looks like i'll have to buy W7 though, dreamspark doesn't give free vista licenses, so i doubt it will do so for w7 either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synomenon Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 A little OT, but my Technet subscription just expired. If I renew for another year, will Windows 7 be out before my subscription expires again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ytterbium Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 I'm sure it will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen W Veteran Posted March 24, 2009 Veteran Share Posted March 24, 2009 I'm thinking of upgrading to 7057. Has anyone got any bad stories about going 7022 -> 7057? Yes. Don't do it. There are known issues, and can generate alot of bugs between the code of different applications. I highly reccomend a fresh install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fix-this! Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 right now i dual boot vista ultimate x64 and build 7057 x64. when the final RC comes out ill probably run it as my primary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ba'al Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 I'll never understand comments comments like these. 7 is quite different from Vista. Plenty of new or updated features. The 7 UI is closer to Vista than Vista was to XP, but that's about it. 7 is blazing quick (quite a bit faster than Vista, SP1). Same here. People who spout nonsense like that ("Vista SE") can't have done more than just cast a cursory glance at Win7 :pinch: Either that, or they're having a really bad trip on cheap crack or something :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealDave Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Tell me when 7 is retail. Until then I will suppress my temptation and wait for it! I cant wait to try it out!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jatt5 Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 7057 is running great for me. Vista SE my arse! Whatever your smoking, don't hide it, divide it! Do this go to http://abc.go.com/player/index?pn=index and launch the player it will not work with windows 7. Thats why i went back to vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Markus Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Do this go to http://abc.go.com/player/index?pn=index and launch the player it will not work with windows 7. Thats why i went back to vista. Doesn't work for me either... mainly because I'm living outside the US! Damn you Windows 7! :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xiphi Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 Do this go to http://abc.go.com/player/index?pn=index and launch the player it will not work with windows 7. Thats why i went back to vista. All you had to do was change the compatibility settings for Firefox. Heck, once the plugin is installed, you can change it back to what it was. It doesn't check for what OS you use after it installs the plugin. Took all of a minute to do it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean2989 Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 All you had to do was change the compatibility settings for Firefox. Heck, once the plugin is installed, you can change it back to what it was. It doesn't check for what OS you use after it installs the plugin. Took all of a minute to do it all. Hell, try Hulu. As for a few resource hacks to programs to work, I would liken the speed of 7057 to a converted version of Server 2008. When Server 08 was released I immediately made it into a workstation because of the speed improvement over Vista. Not that I had any problem with Vista once so ever, all of my hardware worked out of the box with my Dell D630, I just like having a computer that is lighting fast. Its nice to see that kind of speed on client side of Microsoft's products! So as far as I'm concired Windows 7 is a winner, unless something goes horribly wrong between now and RTM *knocks on wood* :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerFan Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 All you had to do was change the compatibility settings for Firefox. Heck, once the plugin is installed, you can change it back to what it was. It doesn't check for what OS you use after it installs the plugin. Took all of a minute to do it all. Honestly, it's probably better that he went back to Vista. People that will switch back to their original OS after a single web-based tv viewer doesn't work right away shouldn't be involved with beta testing in the first place. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
non1mus Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 I've been running 7057 for about a week now. I do a lot of video encoding and run my computer 24 hours a day, and haven't run into any major problems. I haven't had any need to boot back into Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleSpellbinder Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 (edited) Do this go to http://abc.go.com/player/index?pn=index and launch the player it will not work with windows 7. Thats why i went back to vista. You went back to Vista because of one web-app?? Pretty easy to work around. And it took around 15 seconds. I right clicked the Firefox exe, ran in compatibility mode (Vista, SP1). ABC's Move Media Player plug-in installed without issue. Closed Firefox, went out of compatibility mode, re-opened Firefox and.... Edited March 24, 2009 by UncleSpellbinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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