anyone know how to run driver install prior to windows7 install. I need windows7 installer to recognize my raid card.

Just installed Windows 7 RC because I rebuilt my desktop and needed a new OS anyways. Way faster! I like!

Windows 7 should scale to the hdd space you have if I recall. I find the RC slower than my previous build 7077

7077 is pretty mint. it does load a lot faster, but i've had some issues with the taskbar being intrusive on VLC fullscreen.

Is it worth switching from vista to Windows 7? I can't get back into vista so i'm wondering if its worth it to just install windows 7. I have everything on different partitions so it shouldn't be a problem to just completely replace Vista. Would I have to reinstall everything again or can I just run the programs from a partition?

its worth getting alright, just back up your files you have in vista onto a CD and your fine. And yes you have to reinstall all your programs

^Alright thanks for the info. Luckily all of my documents and pictures are all on different partitions so I just need to create the DVD. Reinstalling the programs is going to be a toughy haha. Should be worth it in the end hopefully.

On a side note whats this talk about windows 7 being a whole lot expensive?

Just take note. Win7 is beta software. So some things might not work. With that said its great to try it out.

backing up my laptop to load 7 on

windows 7 is sweet. installed on my old laptop, just didnt have vid or audio drivers =(. even so, its still faster than xp for me.. damn

Isn't one of the advantages to Win7 is that system drivers are automatically installed compared to XP and Vista?

Anyone have trouble getting their wireless asaptets workng on laptops? I haven't loaded it on but that's a concern

most drivers that are needed will be recongized by windows 7
i inistalled it on my hp laptop and i did not installed any drivers

Question... so basically this is a trial version? then when the actuall program in stores is released i have to go buy it? Not sure if it's worth installing everything all over again.

Yeah a trial beta version.

Dell sucks...win7 can't detect the wifi and lan

With my vaio it detected both before setup was even done :)

Anyways it's pretty cool so far, I was wondering can u download widgets for the desktop from somewhere besides the microsoft site? They don't really have much at all

Run windows update to see if that can find any missing drivers.

Runs awesome on my new Lenovo SL.

damn.. anyone else find windows 7 to download things extremely fast?

i just downloaded the itunes exe file which is 58mb i belive in under 4 seconds

also.. how do you put programs into your task bar or w/e while deleting the main icon on the desktop? when i do this it seems to only be a shortcut to the actual link on the desktop and i'm just hiding them

when u have th program opened right click on the icon and click pin to taskbar or something like that

yea seems to not work though, im just hiding them, pretty much same thing i guess

the windows media player is kinda glitchy but some of the new features are pretty cool, like play a sample of a song when hovering over it

Just finished installing windows 7. I think this will be my main OS from now on. So far so good although it took me a really long time to install. I don't know if it was the way i burnt it or if its my DVD drive. I'm starting to install everything again.

Install, whether fresh or upgrade, should be roughly 15-20mins.
I;m trying to install iTunes, but there is no Win7 version for it. Only vista or xp. lol.

Whenever you run into that, just install Vista. Straight up Windows 7 apps are few and far between.

Fuck wish my laptop had a little more ram, I'm under a gig and it still runs fine but really slows when there are big processes going on