Windows 7

Ginger

I installed from a USB hard disk.. tempted to just use one of the 4GB pen drives as the installer...

Dardania

Ginger wrote: »

I installed from a USB hard disk.. tempted to just use one of the 4GB pen drives as the installer...

it's swift - very swift

Ginger

If its USB2 I would be quicker than DVD drive anyways

Nick_oliveri

Dardania wrote: »

it's swift - very swift

I had it set up but it hung for ages before the format or upgrade screen. It was hung for 15 minutes when I eventually switched it off.

Dardania

Nick_oliveri wrote: »

I had it set up but it hung for ages before the format or upgrade screen. It was hung for 15 minutes when I eventually switched it off.

Formatted as NTFS, set the partition Active, boosect /nt60 <driveletter>:, extracted the ISO to it?

Is there a BIOS update available or something?

cpu-dude

Nick_oliveri wrote: »

I had it set up but it hung for ages before the format or upgrade screen. It was hung for 15 minutes when I eventually switched it off.

I used this guide here with my 16GB Sony Microvault. All I have to do is move the ISO contents to the Root Directory of it and it's bootable for Windows 7. I have 64-bit and 32-bit sitting aside for when needed, works a treat.

Guide!

mick.fr

I work with 2 MS guys this week and they are both using Windows 7 on their laptops (Not so new IBM and Dell). Just asked them today.

One is on the Windows 7 Beta still with Office 14 Beta and the other is on Windows RC with Office 14 Beta too. They both have Virtual PC running with no problem. There is an error message when you start it, but it runs fine. One had 4 VMs running on the laptop (DC/SQL/SHAREPOINT/...)

They both installed the laptops of their own with VPC 2007 SP1, they told me there was nothing special to do. They do not use a special internal Windows 7 version, it does not exist. MS uses Select (Enterprise versions), same as customers.

I will give it a try then.

They both use x64 version too...

Nick_oliveri

Yes I used that specific guide. It must be my sandisk or something.
Pimps go through this type of **** from time to time.

cpu-dude

Nick_oliveri wrote: »

Yes I used that specific guide. It must be my sandisk or something.
Pimps go through this type of **** from time to time.

What happens when you boot from the USB? Is USB Boot enabled in your BIOS?

Nick_oliveri

Yep, with my BIOS you just have to go to the Boot Menu and choose USB.
I've always had that setting enabled in the BIOS.
There is a WD passport here that I will eventually try it with.

aidan_walsh

October 22nd is the date folks.

5uspect

All we need now is pricing.

Kinetic^

Finally got to put this on my PC today. Haven't had much time on it but having done a fresh install of Vista yesterday and 7 today, 7 is way quicker without a doubt.

byte

Kinetic^ wrote: »

Finally got to put this on my PC today. Haven't had much time on it but having done a fresh install of Vista yesterday and 7 today, 7 is way quicker without a doubt.

Yup, installed it myself last night on a new partition, and during the relatively short period I've used Win7, it's quite noticeably faster.

weeder

spotted on digg,

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Windows&articleId=9134026&taxonomyId=125

if its that cheap they might get my money for this release (even though they gave me free vista last time round i wouldnt have bought it)

Capt'n Midnight

weeder wrote: »

spotted on digg,

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Windows&articleId=9134026&taxonomyId=125

if its that cheap they might get my money for this release (even though they gave me free vista last time round i wouldnt have bought it)

When Vista first came out there were seriously low prices, for USA home users ONLY.
Even between us and the UK there was masive price difference that they blamed on currency fluctuations

Nick_oliveri

Anyone else been getting incorrect time synch? I seem to be just over a half an hour behind GMT. It wont synch to nist.gov either.

I have been getting this on and off since the beta. Usually it was fixed by selecting nist for the synch.

Stephen

My clock used to lose a few minutes per week on Vista, but its been fine on 7. Try pool.ntp.org for your time server.

banquo

Anyhope of running it on a P4, 4gb ram? I don't trust Microsoft's hilarious 'minimum requirements'.

cpu-dude

banquo wrote: »

Anyhope of running it on a P4, 4gb ram? I don't trust Microsoft's hilarious 'minimum requirements'.

Are you serious? Mine runs perfectly on a 1.6Ghz Atom with 2GB of RAM.

I installed in on a 2.0Ghz Celeron the other day with 768MB of RAM.

banquo

Wow. Both that I can run it, and that you said 'Celeron'. It's been a long time since I've seen that word.

/Downloads

5uspect

Ran it on a 6~7 year old Dell 4550 with a 2.66 Northwood and 1 GB of crappy RAM without a hitch.

kaimera

quicky...has anyone gotten win7 to stream mkvs to a 360?

my understanding was that win7 was able to seamlessly stream any file.

currently using the media centre on the 360 to try play them.

Stephen

360 can't play MKV's.

5uspect

I use a program called xenonmkv to repackage the mkv into mp4.
It doesn't re transcode the video just changes the container.
Quick and painless.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xenonmkv/

Stephen

Ooh, interesting. Thanks.

5uspect

No bother. It converted a 2 gig 720p mkv into a mp4 in about 20 mins on my old dell. I must try it on my Win 7 Core i7!

Kinetic^

kaimera wrote: »

quicky...has anyone gotten win7 to stream mkvs to a 360?

my understanding was that win7 was able to seamlessly stream any file.

currently using the media centre on the 360 to try play them.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/mkv2vob

Nick_oliveri

^^Thats good for the ps3 also.

kaimera

hey, didnt mean to hijack the thread!

i thought i read win7 was gonna stream movies and sorta assumed the 360 would be able to deal with mkvs when coupled to a win7 machine.

i was wrong.

it is cleaner and quicker than vista tho the media centre integration.

5uspect

I was able to stream to the xbox with Windows media player 11 on XP. Whats differnent about Win 7?

Kinetic^

5uspect wrote: »

I was able to stream to the xbox with Windows media player 11 on XP. Whats differnent about Win 7?

Nothing. It's the MKV file format that causes issues for streaming to Xbox 360.

Stephen

I find media centre, whether on Vista or 7 to be very slow through the Xbox, whereas using the WMP library on the Xbox (or PS3, since it uses a standard protocol) seems much faster.

5uspect

I use a Freecom NAS with Twonky to stream to the xbox. Its a bit unstable but works pretty well otherwise.

I must see what new bells and whistles Windows 7 offers for the xbox.

Unregistered.

5uspect wrote: »

No bother. It converted a 2 gig 720p mkv into a mp4 in about 20 mins on my old dell. I must try it on my Win 7 Core i7!

Hey could you post back the results? Like how long it takes?

5uspect

Yeah I'll convert the same video again tonight if I remember and that software works on 7.

kaimera

i know it's OT guys, but wrt mkv converter; running on a c2d 2.2 laptop; I left a folder running with a ~25gb of mkvs to convert, started @ 0030 after pub and it finished @ ~0330 and only 1 file didnt convert but no big deal.

pretty quick and painless. splits files larger than 4gb to play on the 360. havent tested them yet on the 360 tho

Tea_Bag

Stephen wrote: »

I find media centre, whether on Vista or 7 to be very slow through the Xbox, whereas using the WMP library on the Xbox (or PS3, since it uses a standard protocol) seems much faster.

after having loads of problems with media centre -> 360, i started using WMP library streaming, but gave up on that after it was too slow. I started using Tversity and it worked wonders. really quick and simple and its free!

cpu-dude

Dardania

cpu-dude wrote: »

I really want that...wow!

5uspect

Unregistered. wrote: »

Hey could you post back the results? Like how long it takes?

I've deleted the mkv file.

Unregistered.

5uspect wrote: »

I've deleted the mkv file.

good man

Tea_Bag

you're not the only dissapointed one...

5uspect

Okay so, I converted (demuxed) the mp4 back to mkv using MKVtoolnix.

This took 56 seconds and my PC barely broke a sweat.
The file is 720p and is 2,143,784 kB in size.

I then reconverted to mp4 using xenonMKV. This took 6 minutes, on two cores.

I then installed Avidemux and converted the mkv to mp4. It took 36 seconds to read in the file (rebuilding frames) and 26 seconds to demux into mp4 on 4 cores. (Didn't appear to use hyper threaded cores)

Then I took the mp4 and converted it to MKV using Avidemux and that took 28 seconds to load the file and 75 seconds to demux.

All in all Windows 7 runs all these apps pretty flawlessly and the applications aren't hardware intensive.

System specs:
Core i7 920 D0
6GB (3x2) Corsair DDR3 XMS3 RAM
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2
EVGA GeForce GTX 275 896MB
Corsair TX750W 750 Watt

TheAuditor

hi everyone, question for you - all help appreciated. For about a week now all Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) have only opened in read-only compatibility mode on my laptop. How do I get it back to read-write mode please? Thanks in advance

TheAuditor

TheAuditor wrote: »

hi everyone, question for you - all help appreciated. For about a week now all Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) have only opened in read-only compatibility mode on my laptop. How do I get it back to read-write mode please? Thanks in advance

This usually happens when the copy of Office is not activated. In XP or 2003 go to the Help menu in any Office application and choose Activate Product. I don't know how to do it in 2007.

jak/mar

Guys could you please help me install windows 7 on my pc.
i got the disk off my friends dad that is in the microsoft development program.
I took out my current Hard drive which had windows xp home edition service pack 2 and replaced it with an empty hard drive.
I booted the disk and i get to the "upgrade and custom" install screen.
I choose custom as there is no files on the hard drive.
It goes "copying windows files...100%","expanding windows files..1%" then an error message pops up saying "Winodows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available,and restart the installation. Error code: 0x80070570."
I click ok and another error message pops up saying "rollback.exe - Application error. The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click ok to close the application.
My friend was downloading windows 7 yesterday, should i ask him if i could borrow his disk and try to install it??
Thanks guys :D:(

5uspect

Can you burn the image again.
Are you installing the x64 version on an x86 machine?

cpu-dude

jak/mar wrote: »

Guys could you please help me install windows 7 on my pc.
i got the disk off my friends dad that is in the microsoft development program.
I took out my current Hard drive which had windows xp home edition service pack 2 and replaced it with an empty hard drive.
I booted the disk and i get to the "upgrade and custom" install screen.
I choose custom as there is no files on the hard drive.
It goes "copying windows files...100%","expanding windows files..1%" then an error message pops up saying "Winodows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available,and restart the installation. Error code: 0x80070570."
I click ok and another error message pops up saying "rollback.exe - Application error. The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click ok to close the application.
My friend was downloading windows 7 yesterday, should i ask him if i could borrow his disk and try to install it??
Thanks guys :D:(

Sounds like a bad rip or a scratched / damaged / dirty DVD. Check the disc for smudges and dirt, clean it and try it again. If the same error appears, get your friend to rip the ISO to DVD again.

jak/mar

5uspect wrote: »

Can you burn the image again.
Are you installing the x64 version on an x86 machine?

Well i received the disk from a friend and I will be getting another disk off one of my other friend and i will try to install that.
Its the 32 bit version and sorry but i dont know how to check to see if my pc is x86.
I keep getting the error over and over again.

cpu-dude wrote: »

Sounds like a bad rip or a scratched / damaged / dirty DVD. Check the disc for smudges and dirt, clean it and try it again. If the same error appears, get your friend to rip the ISO to DVD again.

Well it is microsoft that burned the disk not him.
I cleaned the disk and i am trying again. There are a few fairly deep scratches even though this is the first time it is taken out of it's packaging

Well cleaning the disk didnt work.
I'm gonna rip it and burn it again on my mams pc