Windows 7 Pre-Order

[Ch3tan]

Okay due to monumental fuck ups I have 2 extra copies of win7 pro. Is it worth me trying to flog them seeing as it now retails for £148? or just refund them? or offer them at cost to freddies?

 

[MYstIC G]

I would flog them C, price is unlikely to drop for a windows CD.

 

[inactionman]

Just got my copies, will probably be upgrading my desktop this evening, and applying my key to my netbook.

 

[cHodAX]

Got my copy, will wait a few weeks or mebbe even until new year until a serious kinks are ironed out. My current XP system is rock solid so I see no point in moving over until MS get the first dozen or so hotfixes out of the way.

 

[Bahumat]

Is there any way to get Remote Desktop to work on Windows 7 without using a VM?

 

[Kryten]

Wasn't sure there was a problem doing that, Bahumat : I've been using it quite religiously for the last few months - I can't actually get RealVNC to work, so was using remote desktop to sort out my win7 media centre.

 

[Bahumat]

ahh, we use a VPN connection and then remote desktop into our work pc's. My friend said he could not do this on Windows 7 so has to use a VM on Windows 98.

Will have to quizz him on it

 

[TdC]

I has it as of last night. Will prolly be nerding it up after mountainbiking

 

[MYstIC G]

Mine turned up yesterday, pretty glad as I didn't really fancy having to try and recover it if it went for a walk in the strikes.

 

[nath]

Whelp, I'm yet to see any significant improvement over vista. A few not so amazing cosmetic differences. It's faster, though possibly just from moving from 32bit to 64bit and getting use of my full 4gbs.

Overall, quite the anti-climax.

 

[Dr_Weasel]

ahh, we use a VPN connection and then remote desktop into our work pc's. My friend said he could not do this on Windows 7 so has to use a VM on Windows 98.

Will have to quizz him on it

Which version of Win 7 does he have? I have the Pro version and the above is ok for me. I do exactly the same. However, I believe they took out Remote Desktop (both in and out of the machine) for the Home version

 

[old.user4556]

Guys, my missus' little sister a stoodent so can get a copy of this for £30.

Can someone tell me if there is an option to download it or to get the disk delivered? I want to get a phyiscal copy but I'm unsure of the process. Any help mucho appreciated.

 

[FuzzyLogic]

You get the choice of purchasing a disc copy when you checkout for £9. Download is the standard but you don't get an iso, just an exe that unpacks and was broken when I downloaded my copy :/ seems as though others had the same problem

 

[FuzzyLogic]

Windows 7 student upgrade installer not working for many

take a looksee at that

 

[old.user4556]

cheers FL, rep for you.

 

[Bodhi]

Quite honestly bodes, if you can't figure out "Ubuntu Language" what in gods name are you doing using it I can't get any simpler than "install it, follow the instructions" because if I can install them, just about any bugger can

Now I have tried this. I formatted the W7 partition from within Vista, popped the Ubuntu disk in and off I went. I let it set up the dual boot for me and it appears to have created a root partition which is big enough for the OS but not big enough for anything else. Hence when I try to update Ubuntu I get a no disk space error. It's also left a dirty great big empty partiton on my hard disk.

Um, Qué? How do I fix that then?

Vista still works and boots fine.

 

[Kryten]

Errr, I'd have thought it'd have been more "intelligent" than to do that :| TBH I don't have a clue without looking at it. Only thing I can suggest is popping into the partition manager (somewhere within the administrative tools in Ubuntu) and resizing the partition you want - you can do that within Linux without upsetting other file systems etc. Or look for "gparted" for the same thing, GUI partition editor which is fairly self explanitory.

 

[Bahumat]

Which version of Win 7 does he have? I have the Pro version and the above is ok for me. I do exactly the same. However, I believe they took out Remote Desktop (both in and out of the machine) for the Home version

I'll have to ask him but I can only assume it's Home. Thanks for letting me know Pro works ok