Topic: General Windows 7 thread

[GeNe]

<sigh>  Whatever.  Buy the full version, gene.  90% of the WORLD needs just the upgrade.

But 100% of me wants something for nothing.

[nanaki254]

But 100% of me wants something for nothing.

should have hosted a windows 7 party then 

[Neocorteqz]

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.

[mephisto_kur]

What would you use the VirtualXP for?

[anomaly]

uh oh 

[Neocorteqz]

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.

[nanaki254]

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.. 

[Shyfty]

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   , 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.

[mephisto_kur]

That does seem odd.  My disk performance is 5.9, and I just use a normal drive.

[Gad]

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.

[Neocorteqz]

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. 

[nanaki254]

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?

[mephisto_kur]

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.

[nanaki254]

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

[mephisto_kur]

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.