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This is a discussion on Windows 7 within the The Lounge forums, part of the Off Topic category; Anyone here installed the release candidate? Im just finishing off downloading it now!...
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This is a discussion on Windows 7 within the The Lounge forums, part of the Off Topic category; Anyone here installed the release candidate? Im just finishing off downloading it now!...
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02-07-09, 01:57 PM
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| Mini Mac  Join Date: Jan 2009
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  | I think my brother said that the RC has expired already (or gonna soon)  Or is there a new one?  Edit - Just saw that it expires on 1st of July 2010
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02-07-09, 02:26 PM
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| MJ lady with maracas  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Leeds
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 | The one I have expires in July next year, but after March 2010 it shuts down every 2 hours, but by then I will have decieded if ill be getting it or going back to XP Just about to install it now so fingers crosed 
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02-07-09, 02:31 PM
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| I have it installed on my laptop, and I'm on it now Edit - I already miss my softwares from XP
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02-07-09, 02:39 PM
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| Mini Mac  Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: St Helens
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 | What sort of specs do you need for Windows 7. Will it be ok on my 1Gb desktop or will I need to upgrade?
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02-07-09, 02:47 PM
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| iPod 60gb  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Brighton
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| Windows 7 is awesome! Windows' best operating system yet. All you mac lovers will cry at it's amazingness, and also be willing to sell your grandparents to get a copy. |
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02-07-09, 02:48 PM
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| iBook  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Nottingham
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| I have Windows 7 at home and I am part of a trial at work that will be pushing out W7 to laptops over the coming few weeks. I love it, its performance is so much better than Vista, |
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02-07-09, 02:51 PM
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 I'm running it on 1.5GB laptop and it runs smoothly!Specs: Quote:
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02-07-09, 03:13 PM
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| I've been running it since it was released and I like it a lot. It was the easier OS I've ever installed and I've had no performance issues with it (although I do have 4GB of RAM so there shouldn't be any problems). Can't see myself going back to XP. |
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02-07-09, 03:20 PM
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| Mini Mac Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: St Helens
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| I will be able to install it OK. I am a PC Technician. Just hadn't seen the Min specs for it. I remember what vista was like on a 1GB machine so thought I would ask
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02-07-09, 03:38 PM
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| iPod 20gb  Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: West Midlands
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| its good john, you've most likely got the same rc as mine (7100), cant fault it tbh. Looks as good if not better than vista. I explain it as having the appeal of vista with the performance of xp! i run the 32bit version on my laptop with 2gb ram and a 1.6ghz duo core processor. Runs very quick just like xp. |
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02-07-09, 05:16 PM
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| MJ lady with maracas Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Leeds
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| Ive got it running on 512 and so far so good just finding what drivers I need then will install office etcDo you run any firewall with it? I hear that MS have improved the built in firewall alot
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02-07-09, 05:36 PM
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| iPod 20gb Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: West Midlands
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| i personally dont use any additional firewall, windows is good enough. i do use spybot tho for virus removal. |
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02-07-09, 05:52 PM
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| I used to use Comodo Firewall however it didn't work the Windows 7 RC (even though it did with the beta). I did try Kaspersky AV and firewall but found that caused my PC to freeze within minutes of start up so I removed it. I now use Avira AV and the build in Windows firewall. |
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02-07-09, 05:56 PM
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| iBook Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Nottingham
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| The built in firewall is pretty good, although I dont trust MS applications that much so I use the Virgin Media firewall and AV, which surprisingly is very good |
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02-07-09, 08:01 PM
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| Mini Mac Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: St Helens
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| The VM one is being updated this month to Version 8 which is powered by the Kaspersky engine.
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04-07-09, 03:51 PM
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| Call me Vlad  Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: South London
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| I've just installed it now, and it's very aesthetically pleasing. It was surprisingly quick (and easy) to install aswell... I'm using build 7100; does that mean it's one of the latest versions?
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04-07-09, 03:55 PM
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04-07-09, 04:20 PM
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| FireFox Rules!  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Nottingham.
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Just to add, if you do want to try a later version that has been leaked, be careful with it since some people add spyware and whats not to them.. On dedicated computer forums you will find that they have posted later version with hash keys, like the CRC32, MD5 and SHA-1 numbers.. if they don't match with the leaked version they been tampered with! Cheers Tom | |
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