Windows 7 7068 First impressions

Rainmaker said:
Yeah. Later builds are set to expire on 02/03/2010 (not sure if that's US or UK format?). The very new builds (>7070) are said to be legit up until the middle of 2010, as will the RC. :)
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How does this work? As my install of 7068 is saying i have a certain number of days left to activate. Should I let it activate?
 
Hen_Dawg said:
How does this work? As my install of 7068 is saying i have a certain number of days left to activate. Should I let it activate?
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Yeah just use your beta key (you do have one?) and it'll activate and be valid until the set date next year. Later builds/RC will be valid for even longer.
 
Rainmaker said:
MC, re: MSN/WLM. When the app is closed, right click any shortcut to it (start menu, taskbar, or desktop etc) and go to Properties > Compatibility. Set it to run as compatible with Vista and hit Apply/OK. Voila. It will minimise to the systray and behave exactly the same way it did in Vista. :)
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This doesn't seem to be working for me?

On a side note, my sleep button isn't working. The PC will turn "off" and the power back "on" straight away without it being woken. Is that a bug?
 
Contrary to what most people seem to be experiencing ie snappy performance in Windows 7, my system just gradually became more and more sluggish over the few days i was using it. General performance ie opening apps, opening up drives in 'My Computer', entering control panel, pretty much everything slowed right down and also music was crackling.

I tried disabling themes, disabling visual effects, turning off indexing and various other tricks but for some reason the system remained ridiculously slow.

It got to the point where i had to switch back to XP which was thankfully on a dual boot.
 
JoeMama said:
Contrary to what most people seem to be experiencing ie snappy performance in Windows 7, my system just gradually became more and more sluggish over the few days i was using it. General performance ie opening apps, opening up drives in 'My Computer', entering control panel, pretty much everything slowed right down and also music was crackling.

I tried disabling themes, disabling visual effects, turning off indexing and various other tricks but for some reason the system remained ridiculously slow.

It got to the point where i had to switch back to XP which was thankfully on a dual boot.
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Perhaps W7 installed a driver which your system didn't agree with? My copy is running like the wind in terms of speed, plus it's an upgrade as well and from reading this thread some people have issues when upgrading instead of doing a clean install.
 
MilanoChris said:
Perhaps W7 installed a driver which your system didn't agree with? My copy is running like the wind in terms of speed, plus it's an upgrade as well and from reading this thread some people have issues when upgrading instead of doing a clean install.
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It was a clean install on a fresh partition. You may be right with the driver issue; the motherboard is quite old and i was using all the drivers that Win7 installed rather than vista64 drivers from the DFI website. That was on my 'next thing to try' list too but the DFI website was down so i couldn't download the drivers. I've still got Win7 installed on the dual boot so i'll give that a go soon.

If that doesn't help then perhaps a few system restores to try and track down the cause of the problem.
 
I installed 7068 x64 last night... and im really liking it so far!

Was a painless install...! Tho it didnt have the drivers for my p35 motherboard or the ethernet adapter. Usually the ethernet ones are there at least and i can pop straight online, but i had to look out the driver cd :(

Another wee issue i keep having... is it freezes :\ I have done it 3 times now, and i think both times were closing the intenet explorer window before a download finishes! The download gets to 100% but doesnt complete then everything goes slow and i get a white background eventually... had to restart all 3 times!

But aside from that... feels nice and nippy! Not had any issues with programs or drivers yet :)
 
Silly thing but I like the way you get a progress bar run across the icon of the app your using in the bottom left hand corner when your burning a CD or coping files etc...hehe
 
Installed 7068 x64 on my Macbook Pro last night - I was expecting a plethora of issues and being forced to remove it, but driver installs went well after some initial preparation (much better than with Vista, part of the reason for the change), and enjoying all the tweaks and enhancements a lot. :)
 
Installed 7068 yesterday, dual booted with XP, loving it so far, no issues, installed all the drivers it needed itself, smoothest install experience I've ever had that's for sure. Well impressed
 
Uh... WTF LOLZ!

Just installed 7068 onto my Laptop. Intel T2400 1.8ghz, 1GB RAM, Intel GMA 945 cruddy onboard graphics....

Aero theme on by default with full transparency and flip 3d and all animations, all using just the default drivers installed from the disk, and running silky smooth with no slowdown...!!!

Vista flat out refused to run Aero on my laptop, and always struggled to run... W7 is definately an improvement on Vista in terms of performance on lower spec machines!
 
Hen_Dawg said:
I have the same
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Are you sending the computer to Standby? As I often had an issue with my old PC on XP and the Vista betas where the network card was set to wake the computer from standby, the PC would go to sleep, but then as soon as anything hit the network card (which was within a second) it would wake the machine again. Check device manager.
 
Skeeter said:
Are you sending the computer to Standby? As I often had an issue with my old PC on XP and the Vista betas where the network card was set to wake the computer from standby, the PC would go to sleep, but then as soon as anything hit the network card (which was within a second) it would wake the machine again. Check device manager.
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Cheers, will have a look.

On a sepertae issue, my WLM has completely stopped working now. :confused:
 
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