Microsoft Announces Availability of Windows 7 Beta and Windows Live

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Krazy_About_Technology

Krazy_About_Technology

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Got the DVD download after 24 hours continuous downloading, got around 5 keys. :) Hell! Couldn't find a blank DVD, will have to wait till morning :x

But if i think the other way, my lappy and me both got a break :D
 
rockthegod

rockthegod

Dark Overlord !!!
Krazy_About_Technology said:
Got the DVD download after 24 hours continuous downloading, got around 5 keys. :) Hell! Couldn't find a blank DVD, will have to wait till morning :x
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You can always mount the ISO in DT or Alcohol in your existing XP/Vista installation and initiate a clean install of Win 7 in another empty partition without burning a DVD !!! :)


OK, I have been running Win 7 build 7000 for quite some time now and have installed it both on my desktop (conf in my sig) and on a laptop with an Athlon X2 TK-53 1.7 GHz proc with Ati Radeon 1100 Xpress integrated graphics, 2 GB DDR2 533 MHz RAM and 160 GB 5400 rpm Hitachi HDD. In spite of being a beta 1 product, everyone have been hailing Win 7 to be faster than Vista (and some say even XP). But with a clean install, I have noticed Win XP still to be the fastest of them all... and with some usual tweaks Vista SP1 is also much more fluent than Win 7 on both the machines. I hoped that at least the underpowered laptop should run the beta 1 at least a tad better than Vista at clean install, but it ain't so imo !!! The Win 7 Beta 1 performance is still impressive given its stage without the availability of any matured drivers...but with so many people saying that it runs faster on even old laptops, I am a little bit confused with the results of my own experience. I have been using the default drivers on Win 7 with a few exceptions like the card reader and Realtek HD sound codecs for which I installed the Vista drivers... and haven't tweaked the OS a bit !!! Any suggestions or opinions about this ?
 
krazzy

krazzy

Techtree Reviewer
Downloading it now. 38% done. Will be over by evening. :)

LOL! take a look at this:

*imgs.xkcd.com/comics/windows_7.png
 
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comp@ddict

comp@ddict

EXIT: DATA Junkyard
I've found out an alternative to those who dun wanna download the WIn7 Build 7000 2.5GB and wanna try Win 7 PDC Edition but without downloading much.

It's only 280MB SUPER COMPRESSED, and I tried, so anyone wants to try can google.
 
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kuki_295

Journeyman
I am getting error while installing it says missing file or corrupt files. Error code 0x80070570
Anyone know anything about it,will burning the dvd again help?
 
gary4gar

gary4gar

GaurishSharma.com
T159 said:
^^thats why torrents rocks
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Yeah, With Constant Harsh checking for every piece of data, files don't get corrupted.

Perhaps, MS should learn advantages of Bit torrent over HTTP. and start distributing large files over torrents;)
 
anispace

anispace

dattebayo
just search for a torrent containing the original untouched windows 7 beta build u downloaded and download to the same folder u saved the damaged file. It will check for the amount of data downloaded and redownload only the missing parts.
 
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kuki_295

Journeyman
Yeah thanks for the tips i downloaded bittorrent > found a untouched iso on mininova > started the download > stopped the download > replaced the downloaded files with earlier downloaded file > started bittorrent again and it checked the file and started the download from 99.8%.
 
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gforce23

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Microsoft has pushed out its first patch for the Windows 7 public beta. The update saves your MP3s from a rather nasty bug that trims seconds off any song that's been edited, either by you or via automatic updates from Windows Media Player. If you've got afflicted files, there's a chance they're salvageable via properties window, according to the patch notes -- and if not, then here's hoping you backed up your library.

SOURCE
 
desiibond

desiibond

Bond, Desi Bond!
Things to look out for in win7:

1) Superbar
2) the new mediacenter app
3) IE8
4) libraries
5) powerful firewall application (no need for any third party app now)
6) Action Center
7) jump lists in start menu
8) Windows HomeGroup
9) touch and multi-touch (only on selected devices)
 
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