Windows 7 RC download early

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I am VERY surprised how fast the RC installed.

Was that with a clean installation or the work-around upgrade?

To the people who responded to my earlier question, thank you :) However, I was referring to mounting the ISO on a virtual hardrive (created by my ISO program) and then installing Windows 7 off of that, rather than burning to a disk.

Has anybody in this particular thread done a work-around upgrade?

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so is this EXACTLY the same as the version that leaked last week?

i know they both says 7100, but im curious if there is some minor additions.

Exactly the same.
I can atleast tell you the iso size and name are exactly the same.

7100 RC x86 compared

Official MS RC 7100 on the left in the screenshot, leaked RC 7100 on the right.

They both look the same to me.. :yes:

7100vs7100-1.jpg

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To the people who responded to my earlier question, thank you :) However, I was referring to mounting the ISO on a virtual hardrive (created by my ISO program) and then installing Windows 7 off of that, rather than burning to a disk.

I installed Windows 7 RC by mounting it on a virtual drive using Daemon Tools Lite. I did a clean install, and it worked perfectly.

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11.6 MB/s here on my home broadband.

*grin*

I might go down to campus and verify the speeds while downloading the 64-bit build. I think I have seen download speed spikes into 20+ MB/s.

For reference, I remember getting the 64-bit build within 3 minutes 37 seconds.

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Currently downloading the Japanese RC1, I have it in English already but I always wanted a Japanese one, call me an Anime jerk if you like :p

(on a side note, anyone had problems with 403 errors when downloading? I started the download before school with DownThemAll and now when I came back the download was back at 0% Error 403 and unresumable :blink: )

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Has anyone ever mounted a Windows 7 ISO to a virtual drive? I don't have any disks and I mounted the beta to a virtual drive and it seemed to work perfectly.

I'd like to know others' experience in this area please as I am hoping to do this again with the release candidate.

I installed the RC using this method and it intalled without any problems.

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EDIT: You can install it from a Virtua Drive? So it installs bootloader and unzips itself inside Windows then restarts and continues installation? Cool. Anyone tried installing the RC on a USB Hard Drive?

I will install it once I get home (I forgot my power cable @ home ):)

Downloaded it overnight!

Weird though - I had to retry the download a few times and it gave me a different key each time... :/ I only needed one - I guess they have many many to hand out. ??

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It was the DVD, I'm typing this from Windows 7 RC! In Firefox of course! I started installing at around 12:30 and it finished at 12:50. Pretty damn quick.

I don't really like the new wallpaper/theme changer. I know a wallpaper isn't a major thing but I like my 22 inch monitor to look it's best. In Vista, you could choose wallpapers separately but where is that in Windows 7? It was there in the Beta. All I see are themes.

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