so if you put the product key at the custom install it'll tell you whether its valid right?

 

Well the Vista way was you choose custom the first time then you choose upgrade the 2nd time. I'm gonna do it myself in a sec and I'll report back but from what I've heard you can just do custom install it will work. It should cause W7 install is different than Vista cause it asks for the product key AFTER install is complete and not before it starts.

 

ok please keep us posted (do I have to ask?)

oh and, no CD for me today........

 

here's a video to watch while I'm installing W7. It's the launch keynote and they do some cool demos of W7. First that kylie girl comes out and she's is wicked cute so watch that then they show of the "play to" feature streaming from one laptop to 16 different devices thought that was pretty cool then at about 40 mins in they go over all the cool new PCs coming out with W7. Definitely watch that! They got the Dell Adamo XPS at the end.

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I got a 6 pack of a variety of Sam Adams so I'm gonna enjoy that and I'll..

 

I was expecting something else.......

 

drinking and installing? damn, dude.

 

Just installed Windows 7 Home Premium on my 3.5 year old Sony VAIO FJ-270. I got on the 29.99 student deal. I have had the RC version installed on my desktop for a while but I am surprised how fast its running on such an old laptop. Sadly I cant have the Aero style since my graphics card cant handle it. Oh well, this laptop is my "netbook" now for school.

 

Ok I'm back. It took 12 minutes just like last time and yes you can just choose custom install and then enter the key after install is done.

 

admit it, that's exactly what your were hoping for!


It's that laid back. If you were wondering it was Sam Adams Blackberry Witbier

 

The Win7 install is insanely fast. I remember old Windows installs going 1 hr+

 

No lie! MS security Essentials installed in less than 2 sec on my PC! I soon as I clicked the install button it was right back in my face saying it was done.

 

that Adamo is fricking HOTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FINALLY PC's pull ahead of teh Apple in the "thin" department!!!! damn thats hot.

 

The Play To feature makes me wish my TV was DLNA compatible. Unfortunately, it's not. I wonder if any of those media adapter/streamer/box/thingies can be used as a DLNA end point? Doesn't matter though, I don't have data by my TV and the wireless signal from my router is puny so that would need to be taken care of first.

BTW, could Play To be used to show photos? I'm not familiar with the capabilities of WMP so I have no idea if it has a slideshow feature.

 

My day keeps getting better! MS has released a few personalization options for W7 and included is three Zune themes! I've been wanting Zune desktops for a while so finally they're here and they're cool. There's a bunch of other stuff to download here

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ds/personalize

 

yo, y'all need to get that ferrari theme! It's hot!

 

I put the RC on my old Vaio and it didn't have a video card driver. I wonder if they got one now? I may need to give it a shot.

 

I just started downloading Ultimate from technet, and it says it's going to take 2 days and 17 hours. Anybody else experiencing teh slowness?

 

In Japan for the launch of W7 Burger King released a 7 patty Whopper!


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BSOD = burger stack of death.

 

speaking of which, last night I tried using my old Creative Zen mp3 player.. and to upload tracks it requires Creative Mediasource software. I downloaded the supposedly compatible version (for Vista 64) and it BSOD'ed on the initial step of install - after it rebooted, the whole desktop was jacked, the icons were in an Arial font, I was kind of like WTF. I shutdown completely and let it sit a few minutes started it back up and it was fine. But, just a reminder to never install Creative software. POS. Only reason I tried it is because I know I'm installing 7 soon.

 

Yeah Creative is teh suxor! Their drivers fucked up my W7 RC install, luckily I could use system restore and that brought me back up.

 

Woo hoo, Amazon just shipped my windows 7. Hope it comes today so I can goof around with it all weekend. I guess I'll be dual boot for a bit until I get all the drivers/etc I want.

- Frank

 

FYI

Costco has a 3 pack of W7 Home Premium Upgrade Licenses for $135.

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product...rodid=11489085

 

Just did a format and clean install of 7. Flawless victory. Well, aside from losing some data I forgot to backup... anyways. f'ing QUICK install. Real happy so far, I can already tell its faster. One of the things I tested and noticed problem with Vista was in Firefox, when just dragging to resize the window - if I drag it to very small and then to full-size real quick, it was stuttering the frame, it was not smooth. I'm quite sure that means there was something restricting the performance. Don't know what, but anyways it's not doing this in 7. Very smooth. Will keep updated as needed.

 

Apparently students get Windows 7 for 29.99, either Premium Home or Professional.... I think i'm going to pick up a copy of Professional!

 

I'm loving W7 right now too! I setup my PS3 for a gigabit connection and using W7 Media Foundation to transcode my videos on the fly to stream to my PS3! This works on pretty much any video that W7 can play which is just about anything so h.264, divx, WMV, mov, avi, mpg2, etc. Even TV shows recorded in Media Centers .wtv format can be played back on the PS3 cause W7 sees the formats that the PS3 supports and then handles all the conversions. yeah I'm lovin it. I just wish that my WHS did this but I know the next version will.

 

yes that's already been discussed a few pages back. In fact I'm running the W7 professional that I got for $30!

 

I just found out through a email I got from my school saying I can pick up one at the bookstore.... Tuesday's the day!

 

uhh.. where's the Quick Launch toolbar..

 

It's gone. Sort of. Well it's very well hidden. The new default taskbar is a combination quick launch toolbar / taskband (the place where open windows were displayed on the old taskbar). W7 by default keeps an apps open window grouped with it's icon. You can turn this off if you want but I like it, it turns the taskbar into one big quick launch bar.

 

For $30? The local school I saw was selling it for almost $60 but that was the ultimate version. OH shit! It just hit me! I now have a way to get W7 ultimate for less than $60!!! Anyways, if you go to the www.win741.com website and give them your school @.edu email address then they'll send you a link to where you can download right then a copy of Professional for $30. So you don't have to wait until tuesday to pick up a copy.

 

 

it begins...

 

Ahh yes I saw that too! I put in my school email addy already
BTW Did you end up buying ultimate?

 

What's the big deal? Now it's called pinning to the taskbar. Now you can pin to the start menu and the task bar. Sounds great to me.

Just right click anything in your start menu and choose "Pin to taskbar". Then, drag it to the left where the old quick launch used to be.

 

So where can I steal a legit copy?

 

+1

 

Not yet, I still haven't given up on getting Ultimate from one of my bosses.

If you know someone with an@.edu email address then use that way, or Technet. Or you could have hosted your own launch party and they would've sent you a free copy in the mail. Or you could host your own Windows 7 torrenting party

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ok, I'll try..