Anyone crazy enough to run Win7 beta as their primary OS?
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It is working great for me. It is fast, stable and had only one minor compatibility issue: "Daemon Tools". But anyway I found a compatible replacement that works fine on mounting virtual drives on Windows 7. If you are not all excited about experimenting with new things you shouldn't do it. But as I am, I'm using it as my primary OS at home. No real problems at all. One thing blew me away though. I didn't know we would have a new version of DirectX in it already. I was installing a game and I checked the DirectX version, its 11!
Fabio Franco wrote:
But anyway I found a compatible replacement that works fine on mounting virtual drives on Windows 7.
Mind sharing the knowledge? ;) Daemon Tools not working under 7 is one of the few things stopping me from installing Win7 as my primary OS. If I knew what to use instead, I'd be typing this from Win7 now (or, to be more correct, I wouldn't be typing this at all :D)
"impossible" is just an opinion.
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I've been using Win7 as my primary OS on two systems...a Media PC that runs my living room, and my main PC at home. So far, Windows 7 is very impressive, from a variety of angles: 1) Its fast! Very fast! 2) Its lightweight...boots up with 28 processes running. 3) Its stable...at least as stable as vista (no major crashes yet...media player gets wonky sometimes). 4) Its clean! Win7 has the cleanest UI of any OS I've used recently. I like it better than OS X. 5) Its easier to use. The workflow and usability of Win7 is really nice. Its an evolution of Vista, but still an improvement. It does have some compatability issues. I am a big NetFlix fan, and for some reason I can't install their Instant Watch viewer without the installer crashing. Not sure what the deal is, but Win7 has some nice "Send Feedback" links on all the titlebars, so its really easy to report issues to Microsoft. I am in the process of upgrading my main system to a Core i7 system, and I plan to use Win7 as my primary OS again.
Jon Rista wrote:
Not sure what the deal is, but Win7 has some nice "Send Feedback" links on all the titlebars, so its really easy to report issues to Microsoft.
I believe they've always had that in their Betas. if it annoys you, its possible to turn it off in the registry: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/01/22/how-to-remove-windows-7-send-feedback-watermark-text/[^]
"impossible" is just an opinion.
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A couple of devs here have replaced Vista or XP with the Windows 7 beta, and are saying how great it is, now using it as their primary OS. I tried it through VPC 2007, and yeah, it's nice, but I can't really use it under Virtual PC for day-to-day use. So, any CPians have experience living on the bleeding edge and using Windows 7 as their primary OS? Is it insane to rely on the Win7 beta for day-to-day activity?
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I did, because for the first time over 8 years I faced a problem I couldn't solve on my XP installation, and I didn't regret moving to Windows 7. Yet!
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A couple of devs here have replaced Vista or XP with the Windows 7 beta, and are saying how great it is, now using it as their primary OS. I tried it through VPC 2007, and yeah, it's nice, but I can't really use it under Virtual PC for day-to-day use. So, any CPians have experience living on the bleeding edge and using Windows 7 as their primary OS? Is it insane to rely on the Win7 beta for day-to-day activity?
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango
I only have two machines at home, an older PC and newer laptop, so they're both primary to me. I popped in a new hard drive in the laptop, did a system recovery (Vista 32-bit) and then installed Windows 7 on top. I installed VS2008, SQL Server 2008 Dev, and Adobe Creative Suite CS3 on it with no problems. I've only had two issues so far: (1) I can't customize the sound card settings - the program runs but there's no text in the controls and the drop-downs are empty; (2) I can't seem to figure out how to modify the LocalizedString value for "My Computer" {20D04FE0-...}. Everything else has been working fine (knock on wood) but I'm still trying to figure out the "Libraries" feature. Maybe I'm just used to managing files myself between my user profile and the public repository instead of having the OS determine what shows up where - but Microsoft knows better than me, right? :^) But overall, I like it better especially the fact I don't have any problems connecting it wirelessly. With Vista, I had to literally fight and wrestle the OS to connect to my router.
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rguilmette wrote:
Only issue I have found is with the .msi installations, but they have posted a registry fix for that.
Mind posting the link? I'm planning to install Win7 as the primary OS soon, and I'm bound to run into the .msi issues. And I don't think I'm the only one. Thanks ;)
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Does the Vista drivers work for Windows 7? I am also thinking about installing it on my laptop but not too sure about the drivers?:confused:
Win 7 runs great for me on my laptop, other than that I had to install my RTL8187 Netcard drivers in Vista compatibility mode. I tried to install them in normal mode, but the drivers complained about not being installed on Vista, so they refused to work at all. Other than that, (and the fact that Daemon Tools will not install no matter what I do to get it to do so, and that the makers won't fix it for a 'beta level' OS) Win 7 kicks all sorts of Vista butt... If Vista had a butt, that is. Just my 2 cents, keep the change.
Some say that ignorance is bliss... Blissful, aren't they?
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A couple of devs here have replaced Vista or XP with the Windows 7 beta, and are saying how great it is, now using it as their primary OS. I tried it through VPC 2007, and yeah, it's nice, but I can't really use it under Virtual PC for day-to-day use. So, any CPians have experience living on the bleeding edge and using Windows 7 as their primary OS? Is it insane to rely on the Win7 beta for day-to-day activity?
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango
I was crazy enough to *upgrade* from Vista to Win7. Almost everything worked, just had to install the latest wireless drivers. Chrome doesn't work. Who. Cares. Anyway. 7 beta is fast and really worht the upgrade. And the taskbar has progressbars when copying or downloading (w/ IE) files. So cute :)
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Yes, and it's really nice to use. MagicDisc nearly stuffed my installation by stopping windows explorer from seeing drive C but everything's back to normal now I've got rid of it.
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Yeah I had the same problem with MagicDisc it was a bi%^ch to get rid of but finally got it uninstalled. The only other problem I had was with Acronis, it wouldn't install and all my backups use it but I don't think I'll need them anyway unless its to retrieve something I forgot to get off my XP system before converting. Mike
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A couple of devs here have replaced Vista or XP with the Windows 7 beta, and are saying how great it is, now using it as their primary OS. I tried it through VPC 2007, and yeah, it's nice, but I can't really use it under Virtual PC for day-to-day use. So, any CPians have experience living on the bleeding edge and using Windows 7 as their primary OS? Is it insane to rely on the Win7 beta for day-to-day activity?
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango
We are using it at work now (driver devlopment) and I have been pretty impressed with the stability so far when I compare it to the work we had to do on Beta levels of Vista.
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Jon Rista wrote:
Not sure what the deal is, but Win7 has some nice "Send Feedback" links on all the titlebars, so its really easy to report issues to Microsoft.
I believe they've always had that in their Betas. if it annoys you, its possible to turn it off in the registry: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/01/22/how-to-remove-windows-7-send-feedback-watermark-text/[^]
"impossible" is just an opinion.
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Fabio Franco wrote:
But anyway I found a compatible replacement that works fine on mounting virtual drives on Windows 7.
Mind sharing the knowledge? ;) Daemon Tools not working under 7 is one of the few things stopping me from installing Win7 as my primary OS. If I knew what to use instead, I'd be typing this from Win7 now (or, to be more correct, I wouldn't be typing this at all :D)
"impossible" is just an opinion.
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I tried to install it on my one and only home Windows PC (I use OS X day to day), but it hung while 'expanding files' - no Windows 7 for me :-(
I testest it on a (very) old machine (Pentium 3 800Mhz, 256MB RAM). I nearly gave up at "expanding files" - but after ages it finished (Lucky that I had something other to do, and left it allone :-)). Maybe you should try again and then wait...... :zzz: After installation has finished it worked fine, it was unbelievable, never thought it would run on this PC!
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I testest it on a (very) old machine (Pentium 3 800Mhz, 256MB RAM). I nearly gave up at "expanding files" - but after ages it finished (Lucky that I had something other to do, and left it allone :-)). Maybe you should try again and then wait...... :zzz: After installation has finished it worked fine, it was unbelievable, never thought it would run on this PC!
johannesnestler wrote:
Maybe you should try again and then wait
Maybe I will, maybe I will - nothing to lose!
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rguilmette wrote:
Only issue I have found is with the .msi installations, but they have posted a registry fix for that.
Mind posting the link? I'm planning to install Win7 as the primary OS soon, and I'm bound to run into the .msi issues. And I don't think I'm the only one. Thanks ;)
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The error window will give you the following info but here it is anyway. “Detailed instructions: 1. Select and copy the following to your clipboard: reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows\DisabledSessions /va /f 2. Click on “Start”, then “All Programs”, then “Accessories” 3. Right click on “Command Prompt”, then click on “Run as administrator” 4. In the UAC prompt, verify that the program’s name is “Windows Command Processor” and then click “Yes” 5. Right click on the “Administrator: Command Prompt” window’s black area, then select “Paste” 6. Press “Enter”, you should see “The operation completed successfully”. If you see “ERROR: Access is denied”, please make sure you followed Step 3. 7. Close the “Administrator: Command Prompt window”