I has Windows 7

[Yegolev]

Ha, how quaint! :)

You seem to know more about this than I do, I am mostly remembering things I read on Ars Tech.  I don't recall the article name but it would have been associated with Supreme Commander and memory limits.  I might be mixing up the "2GB per process" thing from somewhere else.  My excuse is that I don't work on Windows.

[Delmania]

Memory management has always been interesting to me, but my knowledge from my OS/architecture courses is vastly outdated and I am too lazy to refresh it.  My excuse is that I am lazy! (and tired at night)

[fuser]

Start -> Run box type in: Resource Monitor

Click on Network and look at the new options.. TCP Connections/Listening Ports   

This makes me all warm and fuzzy inside as the TCP connections stats even track packet loss and latency between you and remote connections

[Yegolev]

This must be in the final version.  That would be nice but doesn't work in RC.

[Soln]

I'm vaguely annoyed that Amazon didn't ship the boxes so that they would be received today, but it gives me time to prep my system.

did you order for release day delivery?

[Nerf]

If anyone is having issues with permissions for changing the .ini folder to do the rc->retail crack, save the edited file to your desktop, and then move it to the /source directory.  I couldn't get rid of that fucking read-only permission but it let me replace the file, and everything worked great.

[Morfiend]

I'm vaguely annoyed that Amazon didn't ship the boxes so that they would be received today, but it gives me time to prep my system.

did you order for release day delivery?

I had release day shipping, and they didnt get me mine ether. But I just got an email saying they are refunding my shipping and gave me a $10 gift card.

[Surlyboi]

Here's the bigger question:

Did you have a launch party? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ

[lac]

I get the impression that the Windows 7 launch is a lot like seeing an old girlfriend suddenly show up on your doorstep wanting to get back together. She's had some work done, apparently: stomach stapling to take off some of the weight, breast augmentation, and a radical nosejob to make her look as much like your current girlfriend as medical science will allow.

She's pretty, of course, almost too pretty. She still wears far too much makeup and carries that desperate look in her eyes. The fragrant haze around her is the perfume she overuses to mask the scent of failure.

But standing there in that low-cut top, you'd almost forget for a moment what a psycho she was- how she used to shut down in the middle of a date and forget everything you were talking about and how she was only happy when you were buying her things. You'd almost forget about carrying around her legacy baggage or those nights when, for seemingly no reason at all, she would simply stop speaking to you and when you asked what was wrong she'd just spit a string of hex code at you and expect you to figure it out.

You complained about her for years before finally deciding to get rid of her, and here she is again. Though, somehow she seems like a completely different person now.

"I'm up here," she says when she catches you staring at her chest.

Tempted though you may be, you know that over time she'll get bored and slow down on you just like she always does. And then you'll be right back where you started: trapped. She keeps you by convincing you that you don't have a choice. You're just not smart enough for one option or rich enough to afford the other.

"But I'm different now," she says, batting her eyes innocently. "I've changed."

Indeed she has. Apparently, she's really into Cabala now or something like that. It's helped her discover loads of untapped potential in herself. But it also means that you'll have to buy all new furniture to fit with her understanding of feng shui. That's not the only change she has in store for you. The minute you let her move in, she'll have a new alarm system put in that succeeds only in preventing your friends from coming over on poker night.

She doesn't love you, but she doesn't hate you, either. The truth is that she couldn't care less one way or the other. She's here because she doesn't want to be alone. Like all human beings, especially those well past their prime, she wants to feel wanted and, after a string of lost jobs and bad investments, she needs a place to stay.

But all in all, she's OK. She's a seven. She'll do, I guess.

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[Surlyboi]

 

[Yegolev]

Fantastic.

[JWIV]

 

[Delmania]

Well done.  If you read the rest of that post, there's also entries for OS X and Ubuntu.

[Sky]

Eh, she was cheap and plays the games I like 

Great install experience. Fast install, love the snappiness of a fresh install of anything. Taskbar isn't quite as pretty as the dock, but eh, I was fine with XP for the most part. Just need it to run mah games.

[Delmania]

My boss is going to hate it when I ask to put Windows 7 on my machine at work.   However, since I am the "bleeding edge" guy around here, I will enjoy it.

[schild]

Well done.  If you read the rest of that post, there's also entries for OS X and Ubuntu.

I would've if he'd made any attempt what so ever to spell Kabbalah correctly.

[Delmania]

So that's what "Cabala" is, I just ignored.

[Big Gulp]

Well done.  If you read the rest of that post, there's also entries for OS X and Ubuntu.

I would've if he'd made any attempt what so ever to spell Kabbalah correctly.

Look, we already know that you and Madonna are BFF's, Schild.  Don't push it in our faces.

[schild]

Well done.  If you read the rest of that post, there's also entries for OS X and Ubuntu.

I would've if he'd made any attempt what so ever to spell Kabbalah correctly.

Look, we already know that you and Madonna are BFF's, Schild.  Don't push it in our faces.

We go way back.

[Delmania]

http://www.judiciaryreport.com/images/madonna-muscles-getty.jpg

RAWR

[Yegolev]

I would've if he'd made any attempt what so ever to spell Kabbalah correctly.

I was thinking of that hunting game or perhaps a cult... this makes more sense.

I decided to postpone my Win7 Get until next week, after seeing what the weather is like.

[Nerf]

I would've if he'd made any attempt what so ever to spell Kabbalah correctly.

I was thinking of that hunting game or perhaps a cult... this makes more sense.

I decided to postpone my Win7 Get until next week, after seeing what the weather is like.

I think it is Cabala now that they made it into it's own religion.  Why they thought anyone would ever buy into a religion built on a tiny subset of Judaism is beyond me, though.

[Polysorbate80]

What if we spell it with a Q?

[SnakeCharmer]

So is the full install version still better to do than picking up the upgrade?

[caladein]

If you have your Vista/XP discs laying around I see no real reason to spend the extra $100.  Either way, do a clean install instead of an in-place one if you can help it.

[SnakeCharmer]

That's what I plan on doing.  I thought I remembered that if you had the upgrade version, if it detected a previous Windows OS it would allow you to do a true install -or- just upgrade.

Thanks.

[JWIV]

That's what I plan on doing.  I thought I remembered that if you had the upgrade version, if it detected a previous Windows OS it would allow you to do a true install -or- just upgrade.

Thanks.

It involves a chart, but you can just read it here. 

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1246

[01101010]

I just plopped WIN7 on my box. The gf's Alienware is next on the block (she bought it because it was pretty and blue and the specs were decent and she's a german redhead so stop with the comments). She and I both got the upgrade version. I was running XP pro 32bit since god knows when. You can do a full clean install on a machine without the full version and it actually loads pretty fast for an OS. XP pro 32bit was wiped, but I knew that and WIN7 64bit went on after some bad noise.

Bad noise meaning popping the disc in while XP was running started bitching about the versions being non-compatible. Then there was my own issue of flashing my BIOS a few months ago and not realizing it reset my mouse and keyboard to USB disabled. Once I was drunk enough to figure that was the problem, the WIN7 64bit booted right up from the dvdrom and away we went. I also read some stuff that you can do a clean install on a fresh drive with the upgrade version as well, though I didn't have one to try. No clue why you'd get a full version and toss another $80 or so at Microsoft - unless they have a trick up their sleeves.

[Krakrok]

Costco has 3 copies of Home Premium in a pack for $134.99.

Non-profits get Home Premium for $9 or something like that.


Still going to run the RC1 for free until it shuts down on me though.

[schild]

So. The special offers for the houseparty people that didn't get a FREE copy of 7, is a bunch of shit that is not Windows 7. How can anyone possibly fuck that up?

[Kitsune]

I held my Windows 7 party tonight, and apart from a minor bump in the road, I think it was a big success.  I got some pictures and tossed them up on my Live site.

[Tarami]

I held my Windows 7 party tonight, and apart from a minor bump in the road, I think it was a big success.  I got some pictures and tossed them up on my Live site.

Looks like a productive party! Combining leisure and vigilantism!

Edit:
Durrr. Engrish.

[Salamok]

Just did a clean install and it was super easy.  XP Mode is pretty sweet with how it just attaches to an app and runs as needed (I was expecting more of a VM container), unfortunately it doesn't work with the citrix client I use for work (installing virtual box+xp pro to handle that now).

So far I like it, adobe products seem to be a bit snappier (ie they load in under a minute).

[Surlyboi]

So. The special offers for the houseparty people that didn't get a FREE copy of 7, is a bunch of shit that is not Windows 7. How can anyone possibly fuck that up?

Heh, I'd say something, but it wouldn't be professional...

[fuser]

So now that the upgrade DVD has been released people have found it's easier to now do a clean install with 7 then it is with Vista. Paul Thurrott's blog has the full details Howto do a clean install from just upgrade media.

(A condensed version)
Install with upgrade media media and do a fresh install, also preform any windows updates before.
-Click on start and run regedit and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/
-Change the DWORD value on MediaBootInstall from 1 to 0
-Close regedit and then click on Start -> All Programs -> Accessories
-Hold shift, right mouse click on Command Prompt and select "Run as administrator"
-Type in slmgr /rearm and click on Ok on the popup then close the command prompt
-Reboot 7 and then at the new activation window use your upgrade key.
(To start an activation click on Start -> Control Panel -> System and Security -> System )