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So downloaded both the 32bit and 64bit. 64bit stopped at 81% as i guess the servers were full.

So fresh install with 32bit on a Dell Vostro 400 - 2.2 Core 2 Duo, 3GB, 250GB, 8300GS and 2 20 inch monitors.

So far so good. Very quick to install under an hour to get my machine up and on domain, Office 07 installed, Exchange configured, Quickbooks installed, had to bounce it off domain once for some folder redirection issue.

But going good. Very responsive, much faster then Vista in every means. Seems to be as fast as XP. I was a Vista user for 2 weeks stopped using it and have been using and selling Dell's with XP only for the last year or so.

Only issue I see so far is HardForum doesn't like to be displayed in IE8, have to run it in compatibility mode - didn't look much into this.

Post results. We need a single thread, there is about 8 threads so far, mostly with where do i downloads
 
I'm trying it, but it didn't install the LAN driver for my onboard networking on my IP35-E, anyone else having a problem (or solution)?
 
Runs like crap on a Pentium D 3ghz with 2GB ram and an X1950Pro.

I am going to test it on my main machine this weekend.
 
Picked up all drives cept chipset and a hp 1022 printer. everything else was found.
 
got both 32 and 64 bit versions. Installed the 32-bit on a VM (1Gig of memory allocated). It took less than 20 minutes to install and runs surprisingly fast, though I haven't loaded any apps on it yet.
 
I guess it depends on how you define "crap"... :) If it "runs like crap" on that Pentium D with the ATI X1950, I'd say: a) something is terribly wrong with that box, or b) PEBKAC... :p

Got it running on the following (and have had it running for over 2 weeks now):

Toshiba M205-S810 Tablet PC (Pentium M 1.5 GHz, 1.5GB DDR2 333, 160GB 5400 RPM IDE drive, 12.1" tablet LCD), no issues to speak of. Boots in about 35 seconds, stable, all Tablet functionality works outta the box, as well as all other hardware. It's fast on this machine, really fast.

HP/Compaq nc8230 "Business" laptop (Pentium M 1.73 GHz, 2GB DDR2 533, 160GB 5400 rpm IDE drive, 14.1" WXGA+ LCD), no issues to speak of. Boots in about 42 seconds, stable, all functionality works including the media card reader, wireless, etc. Very quick and snappy on this machine, probably because of the full 2GB RAM (laptop max)

HP/Compaq nx7400 "Business" laptop (Core 2 Duo T5800, 4GB DDR2 667, 120GB 7200 rpm SATA I drive, 15.4" WXSGA+ LCD), no issues to speak of, only piece of hardware not natively supported is the HP Bluetooth module (driver from HP for Vista works fine). Boots in 31 seconds roughly, stable, everything works great from top to bottom. This is my "baby" now, found this laptop on Craig's List for $300 last week and pounced on it almost as soon as it was posted. Amazing machine, and one of the few awesome deals I've been lucky enough to happen upon. Windows 7 on this thing kicks some serious ass. Hell, OSx86 is fast as hell on it too, so I'll probably do a dual boot at some point just for shits and giggles.

Homebrew Celeron 430 box, 4GB of DDR2 800, 250GB 7200 rpm SATA I drive, Nvidia 8600GT 512MB, the usual assorted stuff. Works great, just bought an E8400+mobo combo at Fry's this morning so that'll be the primary "muckbox" where I do all sorts of testing, etc.

IBM ThinkPad t23 (Pentium 3 1.13, 1GB of DDR 266, 60GB 5400 rpm IDE drive, low end ATI Mobility Radeon with 32MB of video RAM, 14.1" screen). Works fine, amazingly. One of the oldest useful pieces of hardware I have, and I installed Win7 just for kicks, and was surprised at just how well it scales down to the older hardware, better than Vista did for sure.

I have no issues with Windows 7 yet that would preclude me from continuing to use it and test it from this point on...
 
vsboxerboy said:
I'm trying it, but it didn't install the LAN driver for my onboard networking on my IP35-E, anyone else having a problem (or solution)?
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i'm pretty sure the Vista driver should work.
 
Joe Average said:
I guess it depends on how you define "crap"... :) If it "runs like crap" on that Pentium D with the ATI X1950, I'd say: a) something is terribly wrong with that box, or b) PEBKAC... :p
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It doesn't run smooth and folders open up really slow.

But the main issue is with audio in the video files, all of them played with scratchy audio and stuttering, these were avi's, flash videos from MS's site, and an MKV file played in slow motion with really scratchy audio.

All of the hardware is using the included drivers in the Beta.

XP Pro SP3 works perfect on that same box.
 
Its nice so far, but it's not detecting my storage drive. At least its not available under My Computer.
 
maw said:
i'm pretty sure the Vista driver should work.
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I had to download the driver straight from Marvell, the Vista driver was inlayed into an installer which would refuse to install on vista. This is better anyhow.

So far it looks good though, not much notably different
 
You have to right click on most drivers and install in compatibility mode. Then most drivers will install, like Xfi drivers, Marvel lan drivers etc...
 
so I have a pretty new laptop:

Amd Turion X2 2.0ghz
2gb ram
dvd burner
120gb hd.

Windows 7 detected the wifi adapter and the LAN driver on the install so then I just had to go to HP's website to get the rest, downloaded all the vista drivers, installed and went just fine. My Laptop scored a 3.1 on the performance section.

So far it's doing pretty well though it seems to be faster than Vista, the UI is fairly clean and simple to use. My friend walked by and said OMG Ubuntu! as a joke though of course. Honestly it seems to be doing pretty well. It still sucks in transferring files over a network though. Anyone know why this is still going on? XP still does it faster.

All in all so far though it's going great, only been using it off and on for an hour, at work right now so can't dedicate myself to it. Install was easy and fast, and so far no crashes or bugs, so good job Microsoft.
 
got it installed on my Penryn MBP.

Bootcamp 2.1 went on fine, and so did the latest laptopvideo2go.com drivers for my 8600gt.

The only issue I can see at this point is my sound isnt working. The device is installed, and visible.

Doesnt work!
 
Had the x64 version running on the first system in sig. Everything was detected and installed, minus my X-Fi, but the Vista divers worked fine for it.

Daemon Tools doesn't work in 7, which is a big problem for me (But that's hardly microsoft's fault.) Also, I kept getting random explorer crashes/freezes that would need a hard restart.

I like some of the new features, and I'm going to need to get used to others like the new taskbar. It was neat to toy with for a while, but I just went back to Vista a few hours ago.

It's looking good from what I saw, though.
 
I'm on it right now. Where can I download updates? I heard that Win7 can potentially corrupt your mp3 library and Windows Update apparently doesn't work.

Also I can't seem to get to this forum in IE8, only Firefox (3.0). Well to clarify I can get to the forum, but whenever I go into a thread, it loads, then the window turns white.
 
Got the X64 version running, took ALL DAY to get a key for it, but finally got it. Everything is working so far except for my XF-i extreme gamer (d/l the Vista drivers but I get an error about an unsupported O/S.), and I can't seem to get Windows update to work on Win7, keep getting an error...... I did load the *.mp3 patch already, so maybe there is nothing to d/l? Wouldn't think I would get an 'error' though, although it is beta..

Mp3 patches for Win7

X64 patch link...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...3c-9370-4fda-b4c8-5dc63d55626d&displaylang=en

x86 patch link...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...8b-d574-4e39-b4ba-67b859a242b7&displaylang=en



SR
 
^^ Thanks! I actually found the link right before you posted. *crosses fingers mp3 album will make it out intact*
 
Zepher said:
It doesn't run smooth and folders open up really slow.

But the main issue is with audio in the video files, all of them played with scratchy audio and stuttering, these were avi's, flash videos from MS's site, and an MKV file played in slow motion with really scratchy audio.

All of the hardware is using the included drivers in the Beta.

XP Pro SP3 works perfect on that same box.
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So you are saying that your audio is messed up on flash?

ok maybe you chipset isn't well supported buy Vista or windows 7 which is possible since a lot of the audio codecs build around the time of the pentium D were only 20-bit and sub par at best ( if you have a SoundBlaster blame creative for any and every issue you ever have with sound cause they couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag.

FYI the driver included in the os are there fior compatibility testing and not performance. like how the standard vga driver will allow most any video card or chipset provide a display, but they would never run games or support the full feature set of said chip.

They are there to check for blue screens and application testing not multimedia file playback. Also .MKV files are not natively supported in the OS so I dought very much they would work smooth with a 3rd party filter/splitter/codec package.

If the app, filter/splitter/codec setup was programmed fo XP it isn't going to play fast as normal due to the changes for the EVR renderer and the way the dll files are allowed to access the display drivers( which are different in window 7 form XP)

Please Don't judge a OS for lack of feature that are dependant on 3rd party functions.

If more people make the device manufactures provide drivers that work well instead of ragging on MIcrosoft to provide drivers companys wouldn't just hand us crap like how Creative, Ati, and Nvidia all totally screw up with the transition to vista ( and to some extent from win98 to xp)

Moving to Xp was driver hell at first but people forget since Xp got good after Sp2 and runs good even now.
 
You'd only be affected by that glitch (theoretically if at all) by using WMP12 to not only play your mp3 files but to catalog them into its Library - that process scans all the mp3 files on the drives you specify or the whole system and reads off the tags and metadata, and that's what the bug affects - if you don't use WMP12 to do that, catalog your content into the WMP12 Library you most likely will never have this problem of the mp3 files having a small chunk stripped off.

But, it's a small simple fix so it's worth installing just in case...

Besides, with Windows 7's ability to play almost any file you can throw at it (save for a few), it's quite nice.
 
undermined said:
So you are saying that your audio is messed up on flash?

ok maybe you chipset isn't well supported buy Vista or windows 7 which is possible since a lot of the audio codecs build around the time of the pentium D were only 20-bit and sub par at best ( if you have a SoundBlaster blame creative for any and every issue you ever have with sound cause they couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag.

FYI the driver included in the os are there fior compatibility testing and not performance. like how the standard vga driver will allow most any video card or chipset provide a display, but they would never run games or support the full feature set of said chip.

They are there to check for blue screens and application testing not multimedia file playback. Also .MKV files are not natively supported in the OS so I dought very much they would work smooth with a 3rd party filter/splitter/codec package.

If the app, filter/splitter/codec setup was programmed fo XP it isn't going to play fast as normal due to the changes for the EVR renderer and the way the dll files are allowed to access the display drivers( which are different in window 7 form XP)

Please Don't judge a OS for lack of feature that are dependant on 3rd party functions.

If more people make the device manufactures provide drivers that work well instead of ragging on MIcrosoft to provide drivers companys wouldn't just hand us crap like how Creative, Ati, and Nvidia all totally screw up with the transition to vista ( and to some extent from win98 to xp)

Moving to Xp was driver hell at first but people forget since Xp got good after Sp2 and runs good even now.
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Outstanding post, very well done. Been preaching that same stuff around here for years and years (this isn't my first and only account, I assure you) but most people just won't listen. It's easier to bash and whine than think about what you're trying to say with some intelligence behind it, which is what the majority seems to do with respect to Windows. ;)
 
samborarocks said:
Got the X64 version running, took ALL DAY to get a key for it, but finally got it. Everything is working so far except for my XF-i extreme gamer (d/l the Vista drivers but I get an error about an unsupported O/S.)
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Vista drivers work fine. Run the setup in compatibility mode for Vista.
 
Joe Average said:
Outstanding post, very well done. Been preaching that same stuff around here for years and years (this isn't my first and only account, I assure you) but most people just won't listen. It's easier to bash and whine than think about what you're trying to say with some intelligence behind it, which is what the majority seems to do with respect to Windows. ;)
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I am not bashing and whining. I just stated how it ran on that particular machine.
I am hoping that Windows 7 gets released on time so I can migrate my main rig from XP to W7. I don't really want to buy Vista for this machine and then W7 in a year.
 
Just for shits and giggles I dropped a Pentium D 915 I've got here in a test box, just did a CPU swap in 5 minutes (it's a test bench setup, the hardware is literally mounted on a board and fully exposed), and installed Win 7 x64 on it in 17 mins (2GB of DDR2 533, 120GB 7200 RPM IDE drive, 8x DVD-ROM, Nvidia 6800GT 256MB) and it flies. WinSAT score is 5.2...

I have no idea why that machine might run crappy, but I do know from running 32 bit Windows 7 on a variety of hardware recently shows it performs damned well, so I'm suspecting something is amiss with that configuration somewhere.

My point is: don't lay the blame on the OS because it could be something not related to Windows 7 at all.
 
Just for gigles I decided to upgrade my XPS720 (Q6600, 8G Ram). Went very smooth. I did have to do a registry hack though because apparently you cant update Enterprise versions of vista to Vista Ultimate or Windows 7 unless you change it in the registry to make it think its Windows Vista Business Edition.

Either way I think its pretty damn slick and quick.
 
Very interesting problem: My dual core CPU shows up as a single CPU in the Task Manager. Two CPUs do show up in the Device Manager however. What's going on?
 
I think it's called a "bug" and should be reported. Oh, and reinstall Windows 7... 'cause you know what happens when you install it twice... magically everything will work perfectly the second time around, almost guaranteed. :)
 
Got it running on my gaming PC :)

One thing I already hate is there is not the classic start menu :(
 
Got it running on the PC in my sig. Aside from both the network cards and cd-rom not working at first (both work now), it has been great so far.
 
yea im missing the classic start menu too.....

overall, its more of a "meh" than a "wow". sure, some aesthetics are different, but overall, this truely is a windows 2000-xp sort of jump
 
Joe Average said:
I think it's called a "bug" and should be reported. Oh, and reinstall Windows 7... 'cause you know what happens when you install it twice... magically everything will work perfectly the second time around, almost guaranteed. :)
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I upgraded (and this is my work laptop too). I knew I was taking a risk, I'm surprised at the outcome though.

I managed to fix the problem. MSCONFIG -> Boot Tab ->Advanced Options -> Check "Detect HAL" and reboot. Both cores now show.

Also AVG is going bye-bye; the Resident Shield is for some reason using a whole CPU core. No scan is running either.
 
installed it on a vostro 1400 (x64) still has all the same issues as vista x64 when it comes to audio (it does not work). installed the dell vista x64 drivers, and all is well....is it worth upgrading from vista ultimate? no, not really......

I did the install on a 320GB drive after removing my 500GB vista install hdd

i am going to import the screensaver into vista though the photo swapping is a nice touch
 
I installed it on my main system last night. It autoinstalled drivers for all but three items (my X-Fi, HD-PVR, and Zune), which were all easily remedied.

I've encountered one annoying bug so far. The Dawn of War games don't like alt tabbing in W7. They completely lock any time I try to alt tab at all.

Really annoying thing is I can't even file any bug reports because I'm using my technet key and apparently that key isn't tied into the connect system.
 
How much space is it taking up on peoples computers? Please specify if you have the 64bit one or 32bit.

Im hearing the space can vary a lot, like 6gbs-16gbs. I have the 64bit version and its taking up 12gbs after deleting the hibernation file.




Everyone needs to make sure they install this so they dont destroy their mp3's (64bit version, I dont have the linkto the 32bit version): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...3C-9370-4FDA-B4C8-5DC63D55626D&displaylang=en
 
Just got my 64-bit versino up and running. Seems to be taking 14.7GB of space out of 60GB.
 
idividebyzero said:
How much space is it taking up on peoples computers? Please specify if you have the 64bit one or 32bit.

Im hearing the space can vary a lot, like 6gbs-16gbs. I have the 64bit version and its taking up 12gbs after deleting the hibernation file.
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my windows folder at 12.4GB. i installed over vista x64 sp1 with no problems.

i do have a problem with windwos 7, CS1.6 fps is random. i have refresh rate set to 85 as with the fps ingame is also set to max 85, but the game bounces inbetween 60-85 randomly, it doesnt matter where im at in a map.. makes the game not feel as smooth. didnt have this problem with vista ~_~

EDIT: i uninstalled the driver that windows supplies (178.24) and i installed the new 181.20. i get constant 85fps now but i get this weird graphical glitch, like scan lines.. its only ingame (and i had no problems with these drivers under vista). Also to note the 178.24 driver made my screen faintly blurry, once i installed 181.20 it was definatly clearer, dont know whats up with that...

only quirk so far, all other games that i play run fine.
 
i have windows 7 b1 on disk but my Vista 64 is running so damn good that i dont want to install it, ha.
 
Ok I have the iso image but for some reason I keep having burn errors that are making the discs fail. I have twice now completed the image on a disc only to have it crap out on me.

One using Nero 7 (burn image) and everything seems fine until I try to boot off the disc and I get and error saying the disc is not a bootable items please insert a boot device or insert a disc.

Second with ImgBurn and get to the very end and then it starts giving me sector errors and the burn fails...

What am I missing here? I have burn speed set to Auto using Memorex DVD-Rs on a lite-on drive..
 
Symon14 said:
Its nice so far, but it's not detecting my storage drive. At least its not available under My Computer.
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Is your storage drive empty? I ran across an option to hide drives if they are empty, and it was enabled by default.
 
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