7232.0.amd64fre.winmain.090610-1900.client_en-us.ultimate.vhd

[FaiKee]

CRC: 5723B24B

MD5: F47C13D2FD1D94F5A2E9A0A85BA0B5D0

SHA1: 8BB2AB688698AE503794F02C29C629131FF0160C

[protocol7]

That wallpaper looks tacky as hell to me. The fish was better.

[david]

[iaTa]

Yeah that Windows logo in the centre of the wp is not nice.

[Avogadro]

The claim is obviously bull****, Microsoft has never shown any interest in doing anything like that before, and just don't care.

If they wanted to though, sure, they could easily put "tracking software" in it. They just have to build the final version with a different setting, no problem at all. That these builds have any chance of being the exact binaries that end up on the final media has a probability of about 0.

It is true that the Win7 builds include the possibility for tracking, and some traffic indicate that data is being sent to ms, but I doubt the claim that this date is being used for other that improving the products by gathering usage statistics.

[freak180]

:)...

[dt]

I wish the Windows logo weren't so flippin' HUGE.. lol. Otherwise it's a rather nice wp.

[SuperKid]

Nice new wallpaper, have the icons changed with the wallpaper then or are they still the same?

[Livin in a box]

Oh yeah! Another build! And 1 more build above 7231 too! Gosh, this is just fantastic!

[/sarcasm]

[NEVER85]

Yeah that Windows logo in the centre of the wp is not nice.

Better than that damn fish.

[statm1]

Well, the fish is called a "beta" fish. Alittle irony there. So I've always been pretty sure that it wasn't going to be the RTM wallpaper..

[Denis W. Veteran]

:)...

Thanks for posting that wallpaper!

At first it looks tacky... but really it's not bad for the default wallpaper. Clearly they're serious about pushing the Windows brand, and from a distance the Windows logo placed on a gradient background resembles that of their TV ads, although with different colours of the Windows logo colour spectrum. And from a closeup perspective, there's some interesting bits in the logo: a tree, a butterfly, grass, and a dot matrix.

My only complaint would be how the logo doesn't have a border, light flare, or shadow behind it. Maybe I'm wrong in that it looks better without anything behind it.

The fish was nice while it lasted... and it was still a clever joke. ;)

[George P Global Moderator]

It's just one of many wallpapers, so no biggy really. Besides everyone here changes it anyways. I have a growing wallpaper folder which I'm going to have win7 change automatically per-day. Though it would've been nice if there was a "change at startup" option. But that's not a big problem really.

[hdood]

It is true that the Win7 builds include the possibility for tracking, and some traffic indicate that data is being sent to ms, but I doubt the claim that this date is being used for other that improving the products by gathering usage statistics.

Well, there's CEIP and error reporting. Both are opt-in in the RC, but I dunno about the pirated builds.

[atleeit]

I do agree the wallpaper is looks really nice but on my 22" wide the windows logo looks massive on 1680 resolution, way too big takes the professional look off it, like a playground theme.

[FaiKee]

Oh yeah! Another build! And 1 more build above 7231 too! Gosh, this is just fantastic!

[/sarcasm]

7231 is x86 only, and 7232 atm is x64, x86 unlikely to leak as these are all internals. Keep the sarcasm yourself lol.

Seems no more leaks until next week, maybe the RTM final by then.

[Raa]

RTM final next week. Ah huh.

I doubt that, but it's good to see we're getting close now ;)

[Lord Ba'al]

Good to see that this is x64 :cool:

Too bad though it's only .vhd... any idea how to make this installable?

Or do we have to wait until someone wraps the 7229 installer around it?

[epilepsynweed]

Does VHD stand for Valvular Heart Disease or virtual hard drive.. uh... er... what?

So if its a virtual hard drive, does it mean that this is just a bunch of random files from a hard drive from the developers at MS? im lost and confused, ha. new to the entire "VHD" thing :p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHD_(file_format)

:)

[pasty2k2]

Does VHD stand for Valvular Heart Disease or virtual hard drive.. uh... er... what?

So if its a virtual hard drive, does it mean that this is just a bunch of random files from a hard drive from the developers at MS? im lost and confused, ha. new to the entire "VHD" thing :p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valvular_heart_disease

:D

[atleeit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valvular_heart_disease

:D

You can create VHD files which are used by Virtual PC in disk management a new feature of Windows 7 or you can image a VHD direct to a empty harddisk, It's an image so your OS is already installed and setup, base OS anyway. So you can be up and running with a VHD within a few minutes.

Then all you have to do is install drivers, software etc.

Difference in security between a ISO and a VHD is that VHD's, people can deploy files within the image, spyware, viruses, depends what group releases this image.

ISO, well it's upto you to find an untouched one or a modified one, depends on what risks you would like to take, but untouched is the way to go.

VHD's are great for getting up and running really fast, as long as the image is safe.

[FaiKee]

To do a small summing up here:

Seems leakers now on leaking internals, they have to first install it to remove the tracing elements in the install log so they won't be caught, and then sort of compile it to a VHD. It's because win7's disk manager can mount a VHD, so people could actually run the OS by fixing the BCD entries, else they can also image the VHD and restore it to drive C, and run the OS like it's installed normally on drive C. These operations wouldn't be possible on ISO's.

SoLoR had posted on how to convert the VHD to a installing ISO on the previous page, but you had to know how to handle WAIK and ImageX.

He also uploaded the ISO for BT, vasill in tor_ru had uploaded his make, both are people of credit, just make sure you match the MD5's..... and enjoy. :D

[vask]

To do a small summing up here:

Seems leakers now on leaking internals, they have to first install it to remove the tracing elements in the install log so they won't be caught, and then sort of compile it to a VHD. It's because win7's disk manager can mount a VHD, so people could actually run the OS by fixing the BCD entries, else they can also image the VHD and restore it to drive C, and run the OS like it's installed normally on drive C. These operations wouldn't be possible on ISO's.

SoLoR had posted on how to convert the VHD to a installing ISO on the previous page, but you had to know how to handle WAIK and ImageX.

He also uploaded the ISO for BT, vasill in tor_ru had uploaded his make, both are people of credit, just make sure you match the MD5's..... and enjoy. :D

No, these builds simply originated as vhd from microsoft.

P.S. One of the posters (a reliable source) from torrents.ru has informed of a new compile added to the win7_rtm branch: 7260.0.090612-21xx

[Inctye]

RTM final next week. Ah huh.

I doubt that, but it's good to see we're getting close now ;)

Really starting to look like whatever wzor was reporting the other week is starting to look pretty accurate. Can't wait for the RTM.

[Lord Ba'al]

No, these builds simply originated as vhd from microsoft.

That would explain why we're only seeing .vhd files after 7229.

P.S. One of the posters (a reliable source) from torrents.ru has informed of a new compile added to the win7_rtm branch: 7260.0.090612-21xx

Interesting... is that one an installable .iso or also just a .vhd?