Windows 7 BETA

[yaruar]

It's running very well on my laptop at home, it just feels right. A few software issues, google chrome is broken badly on 64 bit, but everything else i use seems ok so far. I've been using windows 7 on it since it came out to open beta and almost never had to boot back to vista. Lovely and responsive, it's a win!

[Cyradix]

You can fix Chrome on your Windows 7 64bit by adding this to the shortcut : --in-process-plugins
So it should read something like : C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome \Application\chrome.exe --in-process-plugins

[Ch3tan]

Wow, this is so fast. Really nice.

I have installed it in a seperate partition, but it runs so well I may just get rid of XP, backup Vista and upgrade it over the top.

edit:// do Ati drivers work fine with it? Is it worth installing them? The default drivers seem to be fine...

[Cyradix]

Don't know how it is with ATI, but for nvidia cards the drivers provided by windowsupdate are the Windows 7 beta drivers from the nvidia site...

[Ch3tan]

Ack, how annoying. Windows 7 is not giving me an option to boot into vista, it thinks it is the only OS even though I installed it onto a fresh partition. Anyone around this without removing win7 and starting again?

[Kryten]

Couple of updates that I've found out today.

1. No native BR support. No biggy, never have and never will use the native support when PowerDVD suffices.

2. Driver glitch - unsurprisingly from the nVidia camp. do NOT install nVidia drivers for nvidia chipsetted motherboards, just use whatever MS shove on automatically.

[MYstIC G]

Originally Posted by Ch3tan

Ack, how annoying. Windows 7 is not giving me an option to boot into vista, it thinks it is the only OS even though I installed it onto a fresh partition. Anyone around this without removing win7 and starting again?

Probably need to add the necessary lines to Boot.ini

That or put on a "proper" boot manager.

[yaruar]

Originally Posted by Cyradix

You can fix Chrome on your Windows 7 64bit by adding this to the shortcut : --in-process-plugins
So it should read something like : C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome \Application\chrome.exe --in-process-plugins

apparantly that was reasonably stable on the previous build but on the RC makes it crash. TBH IE 8 is doing me fine, appart from the refresh button being in a stupd place.

[Kryten]

Browser is the first thing to be changed here IE8 isn't bad (well, it's fucking shoddy on XP, not exactly great on Vista and it's ok on 7) so stick with Firefox here

[Ch3tan]

Well I decided that having 4 partitions and 3 os's was a pain in the arse. Just running win7/vista now. Goodbye for good XP, Vista was much faster and smoother than XP for me, and win7 is Vista on performance enhancing drugs, it's great!

Going to install win7 on my cousins home pc and laptop as well, XP runs like a dog on both.

[Yaka]

well upgraded from beta, samba which for some reason didnt work before with my tux based leech box works now. what doesnt work is for some reason i cant go on line. no network conn at all

[dysfunction]

Some Nvidia GFX card drivers

GeForce Release 185

[Ch3tan]

No radeon drivers for my card (1950xtx), only drivers for the cards released since then Really need one, as the timing on my tv is not right and means I get a black border under win7.

[TdC]

update from me too: shrunk my vista partition on the lappy, and now the installer doesn't complain at all. prolly because the unpartitioned space is exactly that, unpartitioned

[Yaka]

anyone know how i can get my connection working again other than a full install? ive tried eveything, reboot cm and router various setting changes a few threads suggest elsewhere nothing is working