Windows 7 Installed

Published on January 12, 2009 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

Well I finally got Windows 7 installed on my laptop. The only issue I had was getting the partitioning right, but that was my problem.

Installation took about 10 minutes, and in about 20 minutes overall I was on the desktop ready to work. Very impressive!

So far, Windows 7 seems very fast and haven’t run into any problems as of yet. No problems with application compatibility yet, and I’m really liking some of the design changes.

Still have a lot to go through, but my initial quick impression is great!

Comments (Page 2)

CobraA1

on Jan 12, 2009

What app? Where?

Hard to say, something asked for flash.ocx and I guess I clicked too fast to check it out. I think it was Impulse?

Moosetek13

on Jan 12, 2009

KittyMalone

reply 9

so...can you download windows 7 or do you have to buy it?...im interested!! .. and does it just install over vista?

This is a BETA version of Windows 7. It is not meant to replace your current OS, and it will quit working August 1st.

The Beta is a free download, but you will have to buy Windows 7 when it is released.

If you do decide to replace your current OS, you should back up any important documents and preferably make a disk image of the hard drive before hand.

CarGuy1

on Jan 12, 2009

Hard to say, something asked for flash.ocx and I guess I clicked too fast to check it out. I think it was Impulse?

You will get that error from Impulse if you do not have Flash loaded.

ZubaZ

on Jan 12, 2009

Hard to say, something asked for flash.ocx and I guess I clicked too fast to check it out. I think it was Impulse?

You will get that error from Impulse if you do not have Flash loaded.

Hmm. I wish I knew where. I thought there was a flash file in the store at one point. It freaked me out when it started to auto-play when I was on a different tab. I thought it was removed.

Phoon

on Jan 12, 2009

Phoon wonder how long till the Windows 7 popularity @#$%'s start in with skins...

on Jan 12, 2009

Installed it into virualpc "computer"...

It ran faster than XP IN VIRTUALPC! Amazing indeed... I can't wait to buy it.

dxm765

on Jan 12, 2009

I installed it on my laptop as I did not want to kill my desktop,runs great,I to have had no problems,love the new start menu set up for viewing windows and the invisible option is a great add on,being able to compare windows side by side. So far windows is doing a great job

sb_41

on Jan 12, 2009

Congrats ID! Did you dual-boot? Hope everything's running smoothly!

Also, don't forget about Win 7's Wallpaper SlideShow feature!

And to those who can't get their Vista partition to show up under Win 7 and are freaking out right now:

1. Right-click My Computer.

2. Click "Manage". (Note that UAC might pop up.)

3. In the "Computer Management" window that appears, select "Disc Management".

4. You should see your other partitions, only without letters assigned to them. Right-click and select "Change Drive Letter and Paths".

5. The box that appears will easily help you mount your partitions in Windows 7.

6. DONE! Enjoy Windows 7!

Jafo

on Jan 12, 2009

2 gig isn't it? if I start downloading now, I should have it by 2040

Broadband, adsl, what a crock!!!!

Took me only a few hours on 'Pond's ADSL ...

Tailsgirl

on Jan 12, 2009

HOW Jafo!!?!?!?!!?!! I'm with them too, wtf is going on with them!! I d/load at 25k max

DethAdder

on Jan 12, 2009

I d/load at 25k max

Wow! And I thought I was getting shafted only getting around 260 out of their servers.

@pm1: Thanks for that tip, was wondering why I could only get one partition of one drive to show up right .

Robbie_Boy

on Jan 13, 2009

Well i finaly downloaded it (26 hours

)............. But it was a good thing i did download cos i'm having so much fun with it...

but i to was well impressed with how quick it was to install and with not one problem... Way to go microsoft.......

on Jan 13, 2009

It took me only 2 hours to get both 64 bit and 32 bit. I waited till night to do so, and it was worth it at 1.5-3 MBPS...

Tailsgirl

on Jan 13, 2009

DethAdder

reply 1

I d/load at 25k max

Wow! And I thought I was getting shafted only getting around 260 out of their servers.

How!?!?!!?!? do bigpond now have a plan powered by NASA?

AzDude

on Jan 13, 2009

I have the higher speed cable took less than an hour for both versions to download ...

i'm using 32-bit but downloaded the 64-bit too just incase i want to try it

on one of my other computers ....... all is good so far much faster , but of course

haven't loaded up on stuff - I wonder how fast it will be when fully loaded with

lot's of stuff ? Start up and shutdown way faster .... more to come ....

duel boot is great option - and it hasen't effected my Vista version at all ....

so far it just seems though like a more cleaned up and faster version of Vista ....

some nice new features but I want the final release to have more ....

they probably could update Vista to do the same thing ... for less $$$

that's my take anyway .........

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