Welcome to the Windows 7 Beta Customer Preview Program

[SwaleSmith]

Good old microsoft gotta be some bugs somewhere lol gotta love microsoft

jokes aside windows 7 seems very good & stable....and this is only beta, I like it.

FSX also seems to like windows 7 better seems much smoother.

 

[Rastalovich]

done it and ''A'' Is gone hope this helps

Ah sweet thnx

 

[Hassan]

Windows 7 is very good. I see the taskbar as a good thing, but for some strange reason it reminds me of OSX's dock.

The other thing is that it's stupid that they removed Windows Mail - I actually used that frequently on Vista

 

[Pyr0]

microsoft would like everyone to use the windows live essentials instead:

http://download.live.com/wlmail

only real complaint i have at the moment is that the windows explorer folders don't automatically expand in the left side if double clicked on in the right

 

[Rastalovich]

Is the UP-a-level arrow back in explorer ?

 

[nathan]

Is the UP-a-level arrow back in explorer ?

that button is still missing

 

[GavX]

Got it DLing now, you need to burn it to a disk correct? It is an .ISO?

3.15Gb... be here a while

Plenty of time to figure out if I can remember how to burn .ISO's.. I remember I failed miserably last time I had MSDN Vista 64 and took about 4 disks before I used the right Nero program XD

 

[SwaleSmith]

I used cdburnerxp simple and free you will of course need a dvd rom disc not a standard disc!!!

on cd burner its easy just click burn iso select file and burn simple.

now have windows 7 beta 32bit on my lappy all is good

 

[nathan]

I used cdburnerxp simple and free you will of course need a dvd rom disc not a standard disc!!!

on cd burner its easy just click burn iso select file and burn simple.

now have windows 7 beta 32bit on my lappy all is good

I'm guessing by a dvd rom disc you mean either a dvd-r or dvd+r disc

 

[monkey7]

CDburnerXP indeed is a good app, I use it for all my disk burns.

 

[GavX]

Well I think this thing is a DVD burner, my old one wasn;t so I stole this one from my media PC I will use CDBurnerXP, seems to have good praise, cheers all.

22%!

Better start rebuilding this old P4 machine, as I will try to play with Windows 7 on this, will a P4 3Ghz, 2Gb PC3200 RAM be ample? I know Vista was a system whore, so will this do it? Or will it be like running XP on my 400Mhz Pentium II... painful. When opening a web page, music actually slows down

 

[nathan]

Well I think this thing is a DVD burner, my old one wasn;t so I stole this one from my media PC I will use CDBurnerXP, seems to have good praise, cheers all.

22%!

Better start rebuilding this old P4 machine, as I will try to play with Windows 7 on this, will a P4 3Ghz, 2Gb PC3200 RAM be ample? I know Vista was a system whore, so will this do it? Or will it be like running XP on my 400Mhz Pentium II... painful. When opening a web page, music actually slows down

well i have windows 7 on a netbook and its fine (specs are, 1.6 atom, 1gb ram and a pants ssd.)

 

[nepas]

ok I have the dreaded UAC turned on,but still cant get my gadgets to work

 

[nathan]

ok I have the dreaded UAC turned on,but still cant get my gadgets to work

you mean by right clicking on the desktop and adding a gadget from there?

 

[nepas]

yes,whenever I try the gadget just flickers and nothing happens

 

[nathan]

yes,whenever I try the gadget just flickers and nothing happens

o i see, did you vlite or is a normal install?

 

[nepas]

normal,however it was an upgrade and not a full install,maybe that has caused it(but the sidebar worked fine in vista)

 

[nathan]

normal,however it was an upgrade and not a full install,maybe that has caused it(but the sidebar worked fine in vista)

yeah its working fine for me here, perhaps, as you said it was caused by the upgrade.

 

[SwaleSmith]

upgrade didn't quite work for me either guess there may of been some incompatible apps

 

[nepas]

o well,am back on vista now as one of my drives looks like its about to fail,so need to copy all my data over(the bloody drive is only a month old)