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jamie

..i know this is hardly news - but i finally formatted this.. XP Media centre - to vista betas - to vista - to win 7 betas - to release candidate.

I have not - fresh loaded - windows in years.

Just wanted to say - it loaded without asking for one Motherboard driver, video card, sound card - anything.

Device manager clean - super fast.

should have done this long ago (rebooting no longer takes 10 minutes - and i also had windows spread across c and d drives (somehow)

anyway - just posting that it was impressive - in the dont bug me for anything dept.

PS - i chickened out on 64bit.. went with 32

SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

Having installed it several times (couple builds, couple systems, etc), I second the OOBE motion. It "Just Works".

And x64 works just fine over here. You'll be fine as long as your hardware isn't from the 20th century.

jamie

In reply to SlackmasterK

#Sep 6th @ 1:56 PM

ya i just didnt want to deal with program files and program files x86 or 32 like jono has been

this ver only works for year anyway (rtm) but when i BUY the actual release (soon i hear) i think ill try 64

SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

In reply to jamie

#Sep 6th @ 2:14 PM

Make sure to buy some more RAM too. You won't need it, but it'll help justify the upgrade Smiley

ZippyV
Fired Up

My install of Win 7 on my 5 year old laptop also went well, except for the ATI driver that needed 20 retries before it installed successfully from WindowsUpdate.

PS: Don't get too scared of 64 bit, you might even be disappointed because everything just works fine and there is no real difference when using it (unless some hardware like a scanner doesn't work with it).

jamie

In reply to ZippyV

#Sep 6th @ 3:16 PM

ya my scanner/printer (hp) already doesnt work... never did. "look for our win7 drivers on release!" **idiots

i need my finder-keeper in 7! Tongue Out

figuerres
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In reply to jamie

#Sep 6th @ 3:42 PM

it's fairly retarded the way some Mfg. won't let you get the early drivers.... i have a sony viao laptop that needs like 2 drivers from sony and they will not let me have them... same deal "we will support windows 7 on release, come back later..."

like give me an option to check some boxes on a form saying i know it's not done and i will not go nuts on you if it does not work and then let me give you feedback on how it works so you can be ready on rtm day.

PerfectPhase
"This is not war, this is pest control!" - Dalek to Cyberman

In reply to figuerres

#Sep 7th @ 1:29 PM

I'll second that. I have a new laptop that I wiped the dell OEM install of Vista in favour of Windows 7, the only thing I could not get working was the WWAN 3G card, so I set the theme to windows clasic, dropped a vista background in and it called support. twenty minutes into the webex session they finally noticed and end the call with, sorry, unsupported Smiley

In the end I found out who made the card (Sony-Eric) and got their dialler rather rather than the dell branded one and it works perfectly...

La Bomba
Boing!

In reply to PerfectPhase

#Sep 7th @ 2:49 PM

I'm trying it now...

Hmm, time to decide if i'm upgrading.

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

In reply to PerfectPhase

#Sep 7th @ 2:49 PM

Ah yea, I had that - I had to use MSIEXEC to extract the drivers from the Dell download package, install them manually and then install the Vodafone dialler. Win7 has WWAN support though - so I'm looking forward to seeing if we get updated drivers.