Windows 7 hits RC stage Build 7100

willhub · 31 Jul 2009 at 15:30

PiKe said:
Installed 7100 on my media PC because I heard it works better with DVB-S, it does, and it means I can now receive BBC HD

Can you get BBC HD through freeview? I think my USB TV Tuner is HD compatible so I'd like to try it.

Also anyone play music with anything and have it showing on MSN? Does it work on build 7600?

mrk · 31 Jul 2009 at 15:31

BBCHD is not on Freeview yet, it will be but not right now!

PiKe · 31 Jul 2009 at 15:38

willhub said:
Can you get BBC HD through freeview? I think my USB TV Tuner is HD compatible so I'd like to try it.

Also anyone play music with anything and have it showing on MSN? Does it work on build 7600?

It's on freesat, I use a floppydtv and satellite dish to receive it, can also receive Luxe HD, and with a bit of tinkering, ITV HD

Recorded Coast last night, 10GB for an hour program, ouch.

willhub · 31 Jul 2009 at 15:52

Hmmm so with a freeview tv tuner and a sattelite dish you can get it? Damn my parents sold the other sattelite dish :mad:

PiKe · 31 Jul 2009 at 15:56

freeSAT

This

http://www.digital-everywhere.com/en/alcms/index.php?sid=1187859689

willhub · 31 Jul 2009 at 15:59

Is this going to overshadow freeview?

PiKe · 31 Jul 2009 at 16:00

willhub said:
Is this going to overshadow freeview?

Probably not no.

marmalade · 31 Jul 2009 at 16:08

gamer_boy said:
I'm slightly concerned about the integrity of the .iso I downloaded from Microsoft. Could anyone post the MD5 of their iso. The filename is:

7100.0.090421-1700_x64fre_client_en-us_retail_ultimate-grc1culxfrer_en_dvd

It is the latest x64 RC.

Thanks

CRC32: 58FB2BE0
MD5: 98341AF35655137966E382C4FEAA282D
SHA-1: FC867FE1AB2E0A9796F9E4D155B44EA6998F4874

Hashtab is great

Pdog · 31 Jul 2009 at 21:40

I'm not sure if this is possible in Windows 7 but here goes

I have a music directory In this directory I have a bunch of albums. I want to view this folder as large icons, which I can achieve, If I open an album I want see a detailed list of attributes and I want thisapplied to every folder.

Is this possible?

mrk · 31 Jul 2009 at 22:28

Cyberlink MediaShow Espresso absolutely loves Windows 7 x64 (although I am sure it loves Vista too

) fully quad core supported and GPGPU encoding supported and such a slick interface!

Also anyone noticed you can do this?

YoungBlood · 1 Aug 2009 at 19:55

Does anyone know of a working Skype gadget for W7 x64?
None of the ones google throw up work.

davestar_delux · 1 Aug 2009 at 20:57

Hi I am downloading this from Microsoft just now, can I install it from within Vista and then remove the Vista partition afterwards? Don't like having to get writeable media and burn stuff off.

mrk · 2 Aug 2009 at 00:34

Also if worst comes to worst I can make use of Professional's system backup feature to backup the system state, nuke my E version then install full version and restore the backup!

Jimmy1983 · 6 Aug 2009 at 08:50

I believe the RTM is out today? Could someone telll me when it's expires? Cheers

mrk · 6 Aug 2009 at 09:22

RTM on technet/msdn is the exact same RTM as previously leaked/released so don't be expecting any changes at all.

I just need to get confirmation if the European market is going to get E version with ballot or just be given the full version as the rest of the world now and can only confim this once the EU approve or decline the MS offer!

Damn the waiting...

Edit,

CREATE A WINDOWS 7 SYSTEM REPAIR DISC!

Let me tell you a story too from 2 nights ago.

It was a dark but not stormy night, I was running clonezilla on my C drive to clone to a new 1TB F1 hdd but I decided to use the 1TB on something else later so cloned that to a 500GB Western Digital Black edition.

All was well but I realised that I now had 3x drives with the same OS, same drive signature and same boot loader so needed to cleanse the older 2 partitions and didn’t want to do it in Windows incase during boot I got complaints.

So I booted up using the XP SP3 CD as I knew I could delete partitions from that no problems.

Seems XP does not like playing ball with partitions on system disks because I removed the parts fine but it also removed the boot loader on the newly cloned drive!

I booted up with the 7 Repair disc I created the night before and it detected that the drive had a missing boot loader and asked if I wanted it to repair it so I did that and all was well.

Saved me a whole night of reinstalling that did and now I also have a system vhd image saved on external disk just incase I need to boot again and there’s something worse than missing boot loader

HEADRAT · 6 Aug 2009 at 11:19

Can somebody confirm RTM on MSDN is:-

7600.16385.090713-1255_x64fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULXFRER_EN_DVD

CRC32: 1F1257CA
MD5: F43D22E4FB07BF617D573ACD8785C028
SHA-1: 326327CC2FF9F05379F5058C41BE6BC5E004BAA7

Thanks

HEADRAT

Datamonkey · 6 Aug 2009 at 11:32

HEADRAT said:
Can somebody confirm RTM on MSDN is:-

7600.16385.090713-1255_x64fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULXFRER_EN_DVD

CRC32: 1F1257CA
MD5: F43D22E4FB07BF617D573ACD8785C028
SHA-1: 326327CC2FF9F05379F5058C41BE6BC5E004BAA7

Thanks

HEADRAT

Its not on there yet, when it is i will check for ya.

Will probably be later this evening for us though

Cheers

csmager · 6 Aug 2009 at 12:27

mrk said:
CREATE A WINDOWS 7 SYSTEM REPAIR DISC!

I booted up with the 7 Repair disc I created the night before and it detected that the drive had a missing boot loader and asked if I wanted it to repair it so I did that and all was well.

The Windows 7 (and Vista) OS Install Media will do this if you hit 'repair' instead of 'install'.

The Mad Rapper · 6 Aug 2009 at 12:29

Dutch Guy said:
I tried to install Alcohol 120% yesterday on the 7600 version but it wouldn't install due to compatibility problems.
Is there maybe another program that works fine with Win7 ?

ImgBurn

The Mad Rapper · 6 Aug 2009 at 12:36

mrk said:
CREATE A WINDOWS 7 SYSTEM REPAIR DISC!

Let me tell you a story too from 2 nights ago.

It was a dark but not stormy night, I was running clonezilla on my C drive to clone to a new 1TB F1 hdd but I decided to use the 1TB on something else later so cloned that to a 500GB Western Digital Black edition.

All was well but I realised that I now had 3x drives with the same OS, same drive signature and same boot loader so needed to cleanse the older 2 partitions and didn’t want to do it in Windows incase during boot I got complaints.

So I booted up using the XP SP3 CD as I knew I could delete partitions from that no problems.

Seems XP does not like playing ball with partitions on system disks because I removed the parts fine but it also removed the boot loader on the newly cloned drive!

I booted up with the 7 Repair disc I created the night before and it detected that the drive had a missing boot loader and asked if I wanted it to repair it so I did that and all was well.

Saved me a whole night of reinstalling that did and now I also have a system vhd image saved on external disk just incase I need to boot again and there’s something worse than missing boot loader

You nub!

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