| Hello and Welcome to Tech Support Team! Before you can start posting and answering questions, you'll have to register. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free! Feel free to browse through existing questions by choosing the forum you want to visit below. | |
|
 | | 
12th January 2009, 04:10 AM
|  | TST Expert | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 551 posts. Location: Killadelphia Reputation:  | | | Windows 7 Beta released to the public
Okay I noticed that the previous thread was closed due to the whole torrent mess because someone didn't take the little hint that EF threw up there.
Anywho, the Windows 7 Beta has been released to the public by Micro$oft and I'm using IE8 on the beta to make this post. It's quite nice I'd say, they even redid the games and paint...cool stuff especially coming from XP.
If you guys would like to get it for yourselves, it's right here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...-download.aspx
I decided to install mine by clearin out the HDD, just so I don't have to deal with the whole dual-boot mess. I haven't really noticed any major problems so far. Occasional video glitches and the video driver sometimes stops responding but fixes itself.
Whaddya think?  |
12th January 2009, 08:31 AM
|  | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 8,001 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation: | | |
Download seems to be very busy as I cannot get the download to run yet - will keep at it during the day but I am supposed to have better things to do!
Update
2 1/2 hours later and instead of ignoring me it now says it's own link cannot be found. Guess it was just a tad oversubscribed!
__________________ Confuse and Prosper.
Last edited by Albert Lionheart; 12th January 2009 at 11:06 AM.
|
12th January 2009, 02:26 PM
|  | TST Enthusiast | | Join Date: Jan 2008, 332 posts. Location: rowley regis Reputation: | | |
Does this need active X for the download as it will not even download on either of my Linux desktop or laptop.
__________________
Its all gone to pot
|
12th January 2009, 02:47 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 8,001 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation: | | |
I think the site has collapsed...
__________________ Confuse and Prosper. |
12th January 2009, 03:09 PM
|  | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Jul 2008, 8,171 posts. Location: UK Norfolk ..... Reputation: | | |
you broke it Albert
__________________ Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming...
Damn, What a ride!!  |
12th January 2009, 03:18 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 8,001 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation: | | |
Mea Cupla, Donna, mea culpa.
__________________ Confuse and Prosper. |
12th January 2009, 03:28 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Jul 2008, 8,171 posts. Location: UK Norfolk ..... Reputation: | | |
I am on the site
2.44GB
__________________ Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming...
Damn, What a ride!! |
12th January 2009, 03:36 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 8,001 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation: | | |
Nope - on the site OK but it will not download - gimme 5 mins and I will try with IE instead of FF
Swine - it has been doctored so it won't work with FF.
__________________ Confuse and Prosper.
Last edited by Albert Lionheart; 12th January 2009 at 03:41 PM.
|
12th January 2009, 08:11 PM
| | TST Expert | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 551 posts. Location: Killadelphia Reputation: | | |
Yeah sorry, I should have mentioned that you can only use Internet Explorer to download the OS. Fortunately for the people who download it, you get it pretty damn fast (at or near your max download speeds from what I've heard). I had mine downloading at 330-360kbps which is basically top speed for me.
BM I take it that you're using IE?
|
12th January 2009, 08:46 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Jul 2008, 8,171 posts. Location: UK Norfolk ..... Reputation: | | |
Of cours
I decided not to install it
Being a Beta
I dont like Betas
__________________ Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming...
Damn, What a ride!! |
12th January 2009, 09:30 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 8,001 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation: | | |
As I only have a s hite 1Mb download it has taken hours but seems to have arrived OK - I wandered off to the pub and left it to it!
Will have a shufti in the morning and find a machine to stick it on to see how well it works. Maybe another boot drive on this one....
__________________ Confuse and Prosper. |
13th January 2009, 02:29 AM
|  | TST Guru | | Join Date: Mar 2008, 1,360 posts. Location: USA, KY Reputation: | |
downloading now. though it isn't going very fast. 
oh well. I will just let it run all night.
__________________
Facts are stubborn things, statistics are more pliable. Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it. Mark Twain
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. Mark Twain
|
13th January 2009, 12:22 PM
| | TST Expert | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 551 posts. Location: Killadelphia Reputation: | | |
Am I the only one here who got the download at a good speed? It still took like 2.5 hours but that's pretty damn good for me lol
|
13th January 2009, 12:27 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 8,001 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation: | | |
Downloaded OK - minor panic as I suddenly thought there might not be 244Gb spare on the drive so had to shuffle some files around to make space. 244Gb - that is humungous - wonder why it is so big and how they are going to deliver the final edition?
__________________ Confuse and Prosper. |
13th January 2009, 02:06 PM
| | TST Guru | | Join Date: Mar 2008, 1,360 posts. Location: USA, KY Reputation: | | |
It finally sped up for me Taima. It probably went a an average of 280KB.
__________________
Facts are stubborn things, statistics are more pliable. Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it. Mark Twain
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. Mark Twain
|
13th January 2009, 04:15 PM
| | TST Enthusiast | | Join Date: Jan 2008, 332 posts. Location: rowley regis Reputation: | |
Thanks for the tip about IE Albert, I was using Opera on a Linux system, so I had no chance.  
__________________
Its all gone to pot
|
13th January 2009, 04:17 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 8,001 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation: | | |
No worries, Alan. Trouble is that it is such a huge file it is going to be a pig to move around!
__________________ Confuse and Prosper. |
13th January 2009, 05:16 PM
| | TST Enthusiast | | Join Date: Jan 2008, 332 posts. Location: rowley regis Reputation: | | |
A 3.2GB download, how can they justify that.
I know it is a beta but that is huge when a Linux distro can be under 700MB and be burned to a CD.
I will not prejudge it till I have had time to evaluate it.
I remember using the Vista beta and that had all sorts of problems with the 64 bit one.
__________________
Its all gone to pot
|
14th January 2009, 12:08 PM
| | TST Expert | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 551 posts. Location: Killadelphia Reputation: | | |
what's the difference between 32 and 64 versions
|
14th January 2009, 12:22 PM
|  | Community Moderator | | Join Date: Oct 2007, 1,028 posts. Location: Stoke-on-Trent, England Reputation: | |
I use 64 bit Vista and I have absolutely no problems with it whatsoever
The main difference between 32 bit and 64 bit OS's is memory allocation.
32 bit operating systems can only allocate a maximum of around 3.2GB of RAM, whereas 64 bit can allocate much more (i'm not sure on the exact figure, maybe someone else can inform both of us on that one  )
__________________
"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters" - Bill Gates
| | |  Only registered members can participate in forum threads. You must register or log in to contribute.
All times are GMT. The time now is 02:43 PM.
|
|
|
Submit Your Article 
Forum Rules 
FAQ 
About Us 
Main Menu
Contact Us