Windows 7 beta download

AFAIK Daemon Tools uses a lot of OS-specific commands and its own drivers in order to simulate a virtual drive, and unluckily this kind of stuff have huge compatibility issues if you try to put them to work in an environment they were not designed to work in. The same happened with Vista when it was released.

About Alcohol 120% it has been a long time since the last time I used it so I'm not sure why doesn't it work, however it's probably by a similar cause...

BTW, same problem with Virtual CloneDrive OH:

 

Guys, you can use virtualdrive pro, it will work

 

I love the 21 minute clean install. Although as windows is far from the dominant os in my house (only one machine runs it, 7 don't), I don't know if it's worth upgrading for me yet.

 

"due to the media center"

Yeah, that's my angle. I want external hard disk drives to hold all of my media (music, movies, pictures), and connect it to a PC that's on my home network and attached to my TV. Then I can listen to music on my home stereo through my 360 or while I'm at my PC. Same with videos....I should be able to watch it on my PC or on my TV.

Then all the women will come a runnin' for sure.

 

been dinkin' around with it with my friend's laptop a school. I like it, I don't know what his specs are so I'm not sure how well it would actually peform on my machines I have. He used to have Vista but installed XP on the PC before hand.

Is it really less resource heavy than Vista?

 

Yep. I've seen several reports of it running very well on netbooks with 1GB of RAM.

I've also seen reports saying it's faster than XP, so who knows. It feels very fast in a VM. I was playing a game in DOSBox in Windows 7 running in a VM on my Aspire One, and it was quite smooth. Once I swap hard drives I plan on using it full-time.

 

Yeah, runs pretty decent even on low end pc's. I'm posting this from a 1GB RAM laptop running Windows 7.

 

im running Windows 7 too, for a beta so far this thing is very stable. The only problem I had was installing the catalyst Software from ATI, good thing they already released a Version made for this beta so that fixed that issue.

 

The main goal of Windows 7 is so that it can run on netbook hardware. It is the success of that sector that XP is still around and you do not see any netbooks (as far as i know) running Vista OS.

 

I heard there was going to be a netbook edition, but does that mean a heavily stripped-down version?

 

I was of the impression that normal version would be used on netbooks, albeit without Aero Glass etc perhaps. Netbooks will start getting more powerful, hopefully by the time of it's release..

 

If vendors start making ITX, etc. boards with nVidia's new mobile chipset coupled with Intel's Atom that is fully DX10 capable, capable of playing 1080P HD video. Basically, it is great for a small HTPC. If they put that into netbooks, you can have aero on netbooks without a problem!

 

I have Win7 64 bit running on my work laptop and it is damn quick. The machine is a C2D 2.66GHz with 4GB ram and an 256mb Nvidia Quadro card. I am liking some of the new features, the resource usage and speed are also very nice. UAV being less annoying is also really nice.

The downfall I see is that this really should be Vista SP2, there is nothing major that couldn't really just be a service pack. However maybe MS got a clue from the way Apple does there OS releases and figured they could make some money on this.

 

I think they are aiming to improve their brand image asap after the knocking that Vista took (regardless of its truth or not). Even if there was a new SP with these features, it is still 'Vista' and it would carry the same negative associations.

Windows 7 will, imo, attempt to improve Microsoft's image and provide a fresh new reputation for their flagship OS .

 

Ok I got this running on my Macbook (original white version) and it runs great but I can't get sound or the touchpad working. I've tried downloading the Vista bootcamp drivers but double clicking the executable but it doesnt work, it just wont open.

Any suggestions?

 

Not quite. It's important, but I think the main goal is to update and fix the tarnished image Vista left us with. It wouldn't make sense to spend millions on a new OS simply for a niche market. Development also started before the Eee PC was released.

Edit: and just FYI, there are some people who do run Vista on their netbooks, although there aren't any that are shipping with it installed, which I think is what you meant. I have no idea why one would want to do such a thing, though.

Aero supposedly runs in software mode, now, as well, so it should work with Intel GMA cards. A coworker tried it on his Dell Latitude D410 and had weird graphic issues, but so far it seems to be an isolated incident.

@Alchy: I haven't heard anything of a netbook version, although that isn't to say there isn't going to be one. From everything I've read, though, the standard version of Windows 7 runs very well on stock netbook hardware, so I don't know why they would bother.

 

Is there something wrong with my pc, I tried with Firefox, IE, Opera. Installed that Active X tool thing and each time I goto download it says something about java then returns me back to "Download It" button.

Meh.

 

Got this ready to download as soon as i get time and i may shove it on my vista partition after uninstalling vista.

The only thing i'm bothered about is making sure my wireless card will work with the beta otherwise i may not install it or i may try and make a small partition and still use vista for net use as well as any downloads i need to make like drivers for it.

 

Try a torrent. Microsoft hasn't exactly made a huge effort to keep it from spreading, especially since they haven't said anything to blogs that paste links to trackers all over their articles.