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 Post subject: Windows 7
 Post 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
 Post 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
 Post 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

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 7
 Post 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.

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Thinking of dual booting my current XP and putting Windows 7 on another Partition.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 7
 Post Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:14 pm 
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Won't be a problem at all :smile: If you have vm hardware support on your CPU you can download and run the XP virtual machine within 7...

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 7
 Post 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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 Post subject: Re: Windows 7
 Post Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:58 pm 
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cough ... where does 7 come from :wink:

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 7
 Post 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
 Post 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.aspx

The RC version is valid till june 2010

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 7
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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.aspx

The RC version is valid till june 2010[/quote]
thankx sir!!!

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 7
 Post 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
 Post 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 :stumble:

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 7
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lol - my upgrade ran for 7 hours, then rolled itself back saying "upgrade unsuccesful" or something equally vague :evil:

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 7
 Post Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:12 am 
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lol - my upgrade ran for 7 hours, then rolled itself back saying "upgrade unsuccesful" or something equally vague :evil:

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
 Post Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:00 am 
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quote of the year so far ?

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lol - my upgrade ran for 7 hours, then rolled itself back saying "upgrade unsuccesful" or something equally vague :evil:

Clean install might be a better solution then

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