The postie delivered both my Win 7 packs this morning from PCW:D:D...early delivery possibly because of the forthcoming doom and gloom from the Post Office.

Looking forward to having fun trying to network to Win XP !!

Aye. Got mine this morning too and so have a few others by the looks.

Got it all installed and seems pretty good so far. Seems blisteringly fast compared to Vista.

Phil

Havent got mine yet :( Hope it comes before thursday

Does seem very fast. However I have just had my first lock up!

Does seem very fast. However I have just had my first lock up!

Don't worry there will be a service pack

Does seem very fast. However I have just had my first lock up!

Just wondered have you got the full or update program?

Just wondered have you got the full or update program?

I've got the full program. Did a complete wipe and reinstall last night. The lock ups seem to occur when I'm moving large amounts of data back over from my external hard drive (pictures, music etc) and then access a website. So far it's only done it whilst accessing one forum and when I access the forum again after rebooting it's logged me out... Don't know if it's a driver issue or a cookie issue or something. Have to do a hard off though, screen completely freezes, HD activity ceases etc.

I got mine yesterday and did an upgrade from vista on my laptop, HP dv6599ea so a decent processor and graphics.

What a length of time it took, something like 6 hours.

First Kaspersky anti virus was incompatible, but the pre-purchase upgrade checker had not suggested that. Kaspersky say there will be an update "soon".

I've lost my fingerprint sign on. There is not a compatible driver yet.

Then IE8 would not open - good, as i use Firefox. (But really...)

Then it set up a homegroup. And wouldn't print the password - despite this being a dedicated button on the setup screen. Error Code 2147500037, which has been a problem since RC1. And no solution apart from using "printscreen"!

The start bar has horribly big icons, and I hate that I've lost my quick start. I don't like that the windows appear slowly, rather than NOW.

Overall it is so similar looking to Vista that I am not sure why I bothered. Oh, it was all teh reviews that siad it was teh best thing since sliced bread, and I have hated vista.

Several of my previously installed programs would not start - Pinnacle TV amongst them.

So I have given up and installed the 64 bit version instead, as a clean install. It only took 2 hours, and at least it is clean. Now i have to install all of my other programs again.

Luckily I used Belarc advisor to create a snapshot of my PC. It prints out details of the PC and its components, and all of the programs installed with codes if appropriate. I also printed off my Firefox add-ons, so i can add them back.

W7 saved all my files to a folder called windows.old , so I can still get at them. It has also saved program files, settings and even old log files! I had backed everything up anyway, but this is useful to know.

The only thing I have found that it got wrong was the laptop screen. It did not recognise that I have an Nvidia Gforce 8400M as the card. It gave me standard VGA. Easily downloaded from Nvidia.

It didn't find my printer at first (on the network) but has done so automatically through the control panel. Now in W7 64 bit the homegroup password prints straight away.

I'm ordering a pre-order from Scan later... bit late into the party, but oh well!

Oh, and 8GB RAM and two 1TB HDDs...

Just don't tell SWMBO!

Both our copies turned up this morning, pre-ordered from PC World as soon as they started taking them. So now I have 2 home PCs to sort and install Win7 Pro 64bit on.

I got mine yesterday and did an upgrade from vista on my laptop, HP dv6599ea so a decent processor and graphics.

What a length of time it took, something like 6 hours.

First Kaspersky anti virus was incompatible, but the pre-purchase upgrade checker had not suggested that. Kaspersky say there will be an update "soon".

I've lost my fingerprint sign on. There is not a compatible driver yet.

Then IE8 would not open - good, as i use Firefox. (But really...)

Then it set up a homegroup. And wouldn't print the password - despite this being a dedicated button on the setup screen. Error Code 2147500037, which has been a problem since RC1. And no solution apart from using "printscreen"!

The start bar has horribly big icons, and I hate that I've lost my quick start. I don't like that the windows appear slowly, rather than NOW.

Overall it is so similar looking to Vista that I am not sure why I bothered. Oh, it was all teh reviews that siad it was teh best thing since sliced bread, and I have hated vista.

Several of my previously installed programs would not start - Pinnacle TV amongst them.

So I have given up and installed the 64 bit version instead, as a clean install. It only took 2 hours, and at least it is clean. Now i have to install all of my other programs again.

Luckily I used Belarc advisor to create a snapshot of my PC. It prints out details of the PC and its components, and all of the programs installed with codes if appropriate. I also printed off my Firefox add-ons, so i can add them back.

These are all caused by upgrading. Unless you must keep something you should always do a clean install and start again, this avoids all the issues of software compatibilty and such. For antivirus for now, you can install AVG Free as its fully Win7 compatible.

A fresh install of Win7 takes about 20mins at the most.

Oh, and 8GB RAM and two 1TB HDDs...

Just don't tell SWMBO!

Good lad!

I'm thinking about getting another 4GB in there and boosting my memory to 8GB. I would love another HDD and run it in RAID but noise is really an issue which only leaves me with one option... SSD... Only this is that we have just signed up for our mortgage! :thumbdwn:

Good lad!

I'm thinking about getting another 4GB in there and boosting my memory to 8GB. I would love another HDD and run it in RAID but noise is really an issue which only leaves me with one option... SSD... Only this is that we have just signed up for our mortgage! :thumbdwn:

Ordered W7... have left the drives for the moment! I need a few other minor things, and the PC is burried away, so I only really want to get it out and opened up once... so I'll save and get the new drives, RAM, and some new fans all at once!

Samsung Spinpoint T3's seem to get a good review. even beating WD Raptors in BitTech's test :eek:

Got my windows today, Dont know what disc i need to install (32bit or 64bit)

I am running amd 64bit duel core chip with 4 Gb of ddr 800 ram

I have heard 64bit there may be issues with drivers etc

These are all caused by upgrading. Unless you must keep something you should always do a clean install and start again, this avoids all the issues of software compatibilty and such. For antivirus for now, you can install AVG Free as its fully Win7 compatible.

A fresh install of Win7 takes about 20mins at the most.

As I said, I gave up and did a clean install of W7-64 bit and it took 2 hours.

I had a 3 PC licence for F-Secure which was only on my desktop and SWMBO's laptop, so have installed that.

Today I am trying to do a clean install on my desktop, 8GB RAM, a drive with XP and Ubuntu, a 1TB x2 RAID Array, and a freshly formatted 250GB Disk to put W7 on. It appears to install, and after only about 10 minutes it reboots to the OS choice menu I get a black screen and it hangs. The screen has just turned itself off due to inactivity.

How I love computers :(

These are all caused by upgrading. Unless you must keep something you should always do a clean install and start again, this avoids all the issues of software compatibilty and such. For antivirus for now, you can install AVG Free as its fully Win7 compatible.

A fresh install of Win7 takes about 20mins at the most.

I did an install of Win 7 at the weekend on an old Fujitsu 7010D laptop, 512MB RAM and a Centrino single core 1.6ghz CPU. Fresh install took only 45 minutes and it's running perfectly with Avast as the AV software. It took just over 20 on my machine at home which is a reasonable spec.

So far it's getting a big thumbs up from me, on the old Fujitsu all hardware was picked up save for the intel gma built in graphics, but there is a vista driver for that and it went on ok. It's given the old shonky peice of carp a new lease of life as my Vag-Com / Torrent box now and is running at the very least as well as it did on XP

I did an install of Win 7 at the weekend on an old Fujitsu 7010D laptop, 512MB RAM and a Centrino single core 1.6ghz CPU. Fresh install took only 45 minutes and it's running perfectly

Was there a difference from having xp installed on the laptop.

What graphics memory does the laptop have? I was thinking of installing Windows 7 onto my mrs Laptop (2.6ghz Intel celeron cpu with 512Mb Ram - The only thing im unsure of is that the laptop only has 64Mb of onboard graphics so was thinking if it would work ok.

I thought Microsoft stated that win 7 needed a min of 1Gb of ram so if you can get away with 512mb thats a bonus - Like i said would it be ok with the laptop having just 512Mb of ram.

Thanks

I never thought I would say this - I haven't had any problems or issues yet.

No problems for me either, installed the 64bit version of 7 pro on my Quad core desktop in 20mins.

The 64bit version has a recommended ram size of 2GB,

The 32bit version has a recommended ram size of 1GB.

The more ram you have the better it will be. you can install with less ram though. I have got Windows Vista Business running on a P3 1GHZ CPU with just 512mb ram. It does work, but its quiet slow due to constant paging.

64 bit finally fully installed on desktop. If I had chosen F8 and screen of 640x480 on first proper reboot, I would have been there in about 30 minutes. 15 minutes to unpack the files from the DVD, 5 to install, 10 minutes to download updates.

The NVidia graphics card caused the problem - how often have graphics cards been a right royal pain in the backside? I stopped using ATI becasue their cards always gave me trouble, and up until today NVidia had been no problem. Once W7 registered, it downloaded the latest graphics driver, but now I have lost my second screen. It is the driver that is at fault, as I updated it on my XP setup, and that has also lost screen 2. In both instances Windows shows that tehre is a second monitor, but provides no signal to it. I see a roll back coming.

Of course, now I have to install all my programs again.

I have an nvidia graphics card and had no problems with the 64bit install, its an old 8300GS though. After 7 was setup, the card was using a Microsoft Nvidia display driver, soon fixed by manually doing a windows update which downloaded the latest Nvidia driver.

Well I tried to be clever and run a Windows 7 installation on a second partition alongside my Windows Vista but soon gave up after it generally fecked everything over... so now I am running this:

Windows 7 installed on 25gb partition C:\

Programs (and in the future, games...) installed on 205gb partition P:\

Media (Docs, pics, video, downloads etc) stored in a 350gb partition M:\

Now to buy a nice whacking great big internal HDD for backups to work alongside my 500gb external HDD which for the moment only backs up M:\.

Very very fast so far!

just got my copy, so backing stuff up and 64bit os here I come

so which is the best to hav on?

64bit or 32bit?

I am gonna get the Pro one but which?

AMD Phenom X4 9950

4GB 1066 ram

ATI HD 4890 1GB

2x 120gb HDDs (1 SATA and other is IDE with SATA adapter)

billy

Don't worry there will be a service pack

Moggie -know you're old enough to have seen this one - "service pack " as in the super glue cure for Allegro suspensions :rofl: