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Re: General Windows 7 thread
« Reply #60 on: September 22, 2009, 08:38:20 am »
<sigh>  Whatever.  Buy the full version, gene.  90% of the WORLD needs just the upgrade.

But 100% of me wants something for nothing.
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Re: General Windows 7 thread
« Reply #61 on: September 22, 2009, 01:27:17 pm »
But 100% of me wants something for nothing.

should have hosted a windows 7 party then  :2funny:
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Re: General Windows 7 thread
« Reply #62 on: September 22, 2009, 07:10:32 pm »
I'm kinda not sure if I should Buy 7 Home Premium or 7 Professional, I kinda like the VirtualXP addition. But is it worth the 100 Bucks difference... I don't have any use for bitlocker drive encryption so that's not a deciding factor in which version I get.
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Re: General Windows 7 thread
« Reply #63 on: September 22, 2009, 07:58:40 pm »
What would you use the VirtualXP for?
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Re: General Windows 7 thread
« Reply #64 on: September 22, 2009, 08:23:37 pm »
uh oh  :worried:
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Re: General Windows 7 thread
« Reply #65 on: September 22, 2009, 09:39:50 pm »
What would you use the VirtualXP for?

Nothing really, I just like having it... But then again not like I already don't own a copy of XP, I could just install it in vmware anyways.
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Re: General Windows 7 thread
« Reply #66 on: October 10, 2009, 05:44:33 pm »
it seems like I can download windows 7 Professional for free through the class i'm in; but the class never gave me the username and password for the site... the msn academic alliance site..  :(
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Re: General Windows 7 thread
« Reply #67 on: October 10, 2009, 08:48:58 pm »
Installed Windows 7 Ultimate last night.  The install can be done in about 10 button clicks, and finished in an obcenely short period of time.  I have no vista experience so the lerning curve is slightly higher, but it seems intuitive enough.

HOWEVER   :knuppel2:, there is this built in benchmarking deal, rating from like 0 - 7.9.  I scorred a 7.2 on everything, but for some reason it considers my Raid 0 Western Digital Caviar Blacks to only be worth a 5.2.  I raged for a moment, and then decided  they were confused and moved on.

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Re: General Windows 7 thread
« Reply #68 on: October 10, 2009, 09:09:04 pm »
That does seem odd.  My disk performance is 5.9, and I just use a normal drive.
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Re: General Windows 7 thread
« Reply #69 on: October 10, 2009, 09:18:30 pm »
I got 5.9 on my disk as well.  It is a WD Caviar Black.  I thought with SATA2 it would be considered a better performer than that.  Oh well, everything works great.  I think my system as a whole seems a little faster than it was with XP.

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Re: General Windows 7 thread
« Reply #70 on: October 10, 2009, 10:02:14 pm »
Another 5.9 here. and I have one of the fastest WD drives on the market. Of course that's the fastest 7200 RPM drive.  ;)
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Re: General Windows 7 thread
« Reply #71 on: October 11, 2009, 03:36:16 pm »
would you have to back everything up if you are upgrading using the full disc, not the upgrade disc? or is upgrading even possible with the full disc?
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Re: General Windows 7 thread
« Reply #72 on: October 11, 2009, 04:53:38 pm »
Whenever you are installing\upgrading\updating, you should be backed up.

If you use the full disk, you will have the option to install an upgrade or a clean install.
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Re: General Windows 7 thread
« Reply #73 on: October 11, 2009, 11:16:53 pm »
hmm but i heard the upgrades are just like the beta/rc; as in you still get to keep whatever you had on the drive, just not the OS
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Re: General Windows 7 thread
« Reply #74 on: October 12, 2009, 12:06:39 am »
Depends on what you are upgrading from.  If you are coming from Vista, it is just an upgrade.  If you are coming from XP, it moves the entire XP OS to a Windows.old directory (I think that's what dir it dumps it to), and installs a *fresh* copy of Windows 7.
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