Hello from Windows 7 RC1 Build 7100 x64

[PurpleBuddha]

Yep, and that's Microsoft's fault for taking so long to come out with an improved operating system. Some think they still haven't.

Absolutely. That was my point as to why they are only going three years between operating systems now.

As to your second sentence, I agree you will find detractors for any product. However, the majority of tech people that have regular experience with Vista will not only tell you it is quite superior to XP, they can justify it.

 

[TheGodBen]

Haven't tried to game yet, heard some people say some games where slower on Vista and I want to see if that's true for windows 7 too.

I felt that Medieval 2 ran better on 7 than Vista, but I haven't compared any other game between the two platforms. I've also played Empire Total War and Europa Universalis III on 7 and the only problems I had were common graphics glitches that everyone has with ETW. Resource usage on 7 is down, in Vista my PC would commonly use 900MB-1 GB of ram right after boot up, but on 7 it tends to be around 600-700MB with the same programs installed.

 

[PurpleBuddha]

The reviewer at www.anandtech.com made the comment that with Windows 7, Microsoft is it's own worst enemy. After 5 years and 3 service packs, XP has entrenched it's self as fast, reliable O/S and Vista has to try and shake that aside

Thumbs up on anadtech in general. I have had good exeriences in their forums.

 

[Chaos Descending]

Is dual booting Windows 7 on a Vista machine fairly straight forward?

I am led to believe that all of the resizing/partitioning can be done directly from Vista itself, is this true?

 

[Noname Given]

Desktop

I have to say, this Release Candidate is solid, very solid. It feels complete and I could run off of this without even needing to install the Gold version when it is out, it feels that solid right now. I am running it as my primary OS now on my main machine and every application works great with it, no problems at all to report.

Still cannot run it on a Fat32 hard drive.

So, honestly, Windows XP doesn't run that well under FAT32. NTFS also uses a lot less overhead to manage the large fomat drives in use today. There's np real reason to use FAT16 or FAT32 any longer (Unless you have sone circa 1980 DOS-based games you can't live without ).

 

[PurpleBuddha]

Is dual booting Windows 7 on a Vista machine fairly straight forward?

I am led to believe that all of the resizing/partitioning can be done directly from Vista itself, is this true?

Yes to both of your questions.

This link will tell you how step by step (either for a vist/7 dual boot or for an xp/7 dual boot). I think you will find it is a very simple and straight forward process.

http://lifehacker.com/5126781/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-with-xp-or-vista

 

[PurpleBuddha]

Desktop

I have to say, this Release Candidate is solid, very solid. It feels complete and I could run off of this without even needing to install the Gold version when it is out, it feels that solid right now. I am running it as my primary OS now on my main machine and every application works great with it, no problems at all to report.

Still cannot run it on a Fat32 hard drive.

So, honestly, Windows XP doesn't run that well under FAT32. NTFS also uses a lot less overhead to manage the large fomat drives in use today. There's np real reason to use FAT16 or FAT32 any longer (Unless you have sone circa 1980 DOS-based games you can't live without ).

Further, FAT32 has a file size limit just short of 4gb. I am not talking about partition size; I believe FAT32 can go up to 2TB, but rather the size limit for a single file. With video applications, one can run into the 4gb size limit per file pretty easily. Right now I have 16 files on my hard drive that are over 4gb each.

 

[romulus]

Haven't tried to game yet, heard some people say some games where slower on Vista and I want to see if that's true for windows 7 too.

I felt that Medieval 2 ran better on 7 than Vista, but I haven't compared any other game between the two platforms. I've also played Empire Total War and Europa Universalis III on 7 and the only problems I had were common graphics glitches that everyone has with ETW. Resource usage on 7 is down, in Vista my PC would commonly use 900MB-1 GB of ram right after boot up, but on 7 it tends to be around 600-700MB with the same programs installed.

I have Medieval 2; it was the last PC game I bought. My PC can't handle all settings set to highest (well it can, but not in larger towns/cities). Newer games are just too slow on my PC. So I doubt it will run any slower on 7. But I’m still curious to see if there is any noticeable difference.

And yeah 7 uses about 500MB with no apps up, at first I was like WTF. It makes it seem like the PC runs faster so as long as it's smart about witch programs it pre-loads, I wouldn't mind if it used more.

 

[TheSeeker]

Well after reading through this thread I am definitely going to download RC1 tonight.

 

[Chaos Descending]

Is dual booting Windows 7 on a Vista machine fairly straight forward?

I am led to believe that all of the resizing/partitioning can be done directly from Vista itself, is this true?

Yes to both of your questions.

This link will tell you how step by step (either for a vist/7 dual boot or for an xp/7 dual boot). I think you will find it is a very simple and straight forward process.

http://lifehacker.com/5126781/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-with-xp-or-vista

Thanks! I think I'll give this a whack this weekend.

 

[Iasius]

Does anyone know how Windows 7 behaves when you've already got grub as a boot manager installed for you Ubuntu/Vista needs?
I don't exactly want to screw up my existing configuration just to try out 7.

(In fact, I have Ubuntu, Vista and XP installed right now, though I haven't booted the latter in months.)

 

[Sheep]

Does anyone know how Windows 7 behaves when you've already got grub as a boot manager installed for you Ubuntu/Vista needs?
I don't exactly want to screw up my existing configuration just to try out 7.

(In fact, I have Ubuntu, Vista and XP installed right now, though I haven't booted the latter in months.)

I used to dual boot XP and Ubuntu with grub. Adding Win7 into the mix (on its own partition) installed Microsoft's bootloader which now recognizes only Win7 and XP.

I haven't bothered to update it so all three are recognized...I don't use Ubuntu enough for it to matter.

 

[Marc]

Does anyone know how Windows 7 behaves when you've already got grub as a boot manager installed for you Ubuntu/Vista needs?
I don't exactly want to screw up my existing configuration just to try out 7.

(In fact, I have Ubuntu, Vista and XP installed right now, though I haven't booted the latter in months.)

I used to dual boot XP and Ubuntu with grub. Adding Win7 into the mix (on its own partition) installed Microsoft's bootloader which now recognizes only Win7 and XP.

I haven't bothered to update it so all three are recognized...I don't use Ubuntu enough for it to matter.

yeah it's long been a hassle with Windows where it says "frack you" to any other bootloaders and O/S you have installed.

Though in the past it's been pssoble to repair the situation with a simple repair of the boot loader through the Linux install process (well it was with OpenSuSE - I've never used Ubuntu).