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Caspius=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Windows 7  Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:32 pm |
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Anyone dual booting XP 32 and Windows 7 x64?
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Post subject: Re: Windows 7 Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:09 pm |
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I used to but found vista 64 way too slow and the video drivers sucked, so now use windows 7 64 and its so much better.
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Post subject: Re: Windows 7 Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:05 pm |
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Dual booting Vista 64 and 7 64 - gave up on Vista a long time ago  _________________  The Pancreas of S.T.F.U. | Never take life too seriously - nobody gets out alive anyway. Disco_jim: um..... I have no excuse. | Chips: Thank the Beef | Rev Dr: Beef, I think i wee'd a little
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Post subject: Re: Windows 7 Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:53 pm |
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COMPLETLY typed that in wrong, I meant XP 32 and Windows 7 or any other configuration.  Thinking of dual booting my current XP and putting Windows 7 on another Partition. _________________
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Post subject: Re: Windows 7 Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:14 pm |
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Won't be a problem at all  If you have vm hardware support on your CPU you can download and run the XP virtual machine within 7... _________________ The Pancreas of S.T.F.U. | Never take life too seriously - nobody gets out alive anyway. Disco_jim: um..... I have no excuse. | Chips: Thank the Beef | Rev Dr: Beef, I think i wee'd a little
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Post subject: Re: Windows 7 Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:25 pm |
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im still running the beta and it owns vista shit, had to install it after xp fecked up on a friday night and not having any xp disk to recover it thought id give it a go - miles better than xp / vista
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Lemon =GCHQ=
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Post subject: Re: Windows 7 Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:58 pm |
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cough ... where does 7 come from 
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Post subject: Re: Windows 7 Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:14 am |
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running vista 32 and 7 64bit, get a few crashes, but only when I'm loading games, so I've got a feeling it's my current drivers (too lazy to try some others) or its something to do with SLI.
Apart from that I'm mucho impressed!
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Post subject: Re: Windows 7 Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:38 pm |
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You can get the windows 7 iso both 32 and 64 bit easily enough if you google it. microsoft stopped hosting it but other sites still have it including torrent sites as its a legal download. just make sure you get the RC version which is the latest. I recommend 64bit. you will need a cd key which you can get from microsoft here. hxxxp://www.microsoft.com/windows/windo ... nload.aspxThe RC version is valid till june 2010 _________________
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Post subject: Re: Windows 7 Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:47 pm |
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[quote=\"CoolMan=GCHQ=\"]You can get the windows 7 iso both 32 and 64 bit easily enough if you google it. microsoft stopped hosting it but other sites still have it including torrent sites as its a legal download. just make sure you get the RC version which is the latest. I recommend 64bit. you will need a cd key which you can get from microsoft here. hxxxp://www.microsoft.com/windows/windo ... nload.aspxThe RC version is valid till june 2010[/quote] thankx sir!!! _________________ "If your going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."- Winston Churchill three and a half foot long??? dude, it could have swallowed you whole! 3jorn=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Re: Windows 7 Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:07 pm |
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just got me hands on the RTM 64bit, will install later on, hopefully it's as simply as upgrading my 7100 build, but I doubt it.
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Post subject: Re: Windows 7 Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:16 pm |
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Doesn't upgrade from XP - clean install required. A colleague upgraded Vista home premium to 7 Ultimate, taking 3 hours _________________ The Pancreas of S.T.F.U. | Never take life too seriously - nobody gets out alive anyway. Disco_jim: um..... I have no excuse. | Chips: Thank the Beef | Rev Dr: Beef, I think i wee'd a little
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Post subject: Re: Windows 7 Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:30 pm |
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lol - my upgrade ran for 7 hours, then rolled itself back saying "upgrade unsuccesful" or something equally vague 
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Post subject: Re: Windows 7 Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:12 am |
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GeneralPublic=GCHQ= wrote: lol - my upgrade ran for 7 hours, then rolled itself back saying "upgrade unsuccesful" or something equally vague Clean install might be a better solution then. Just backup everything you need to and reinstall. I changed from Windows XP x86 to Windows 7 x86 and I must say it is a very nice OS. I tried Vista before but that was just a major pain in the arse. Did try W7 x64 but had some weird problems when I wrote files to my Samba share on my Linux server. W7 crashed straight away or rather froze. Only thing I could do was restart. So after trying a reinstall of W7 x64 and having the same thing I went for x86 edition. I won't miss the 800 MB of my 4 GB memory I reckon I especially like the new and improved taskbar/systray in W7.
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Post subject: Re: Windows 7 Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:00 am |
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quote of the year so far ? Quote: GeneralPublic=GCHQ= wrote: lol - my upgrade ran for 7 hours, then rolled itself back saying "upgrade unsuccesful" or something equally vague Clean install might be a better solution then _________________
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