I have been using the beta for a few weeks now, I am a MS beta tester still.

Some things in this thread are not true.

It is not an upgrade of Windows Vista (Windows 6) it is Windows 7 (Windows 7) yet it currenty reports itself as Windows 6.1 due to compatibilty issues.

You do not need to be running Windows Vista to install it. I run Windows XP SP2 as you could not pay me enough money to run Vista.

For this being a beta, I am actually quite impressed by the driver support, the speed, the eye candy. It's looking like this could be a winner and remove the bad taste that Vista left with many users.

Now, having not used Vista that much, sme of these features may be in that OS as well, but have been fine tuned and made better in Win 7.

Hover over your taskbar opened programs and get windowed previews of the windows that are open. Furthermore,hover over those previews and your main window is changed to that window. To keep it as the active window, just click it.

Want to see your desktop gadgets (the side bar is gone) head over to the right of the taskbar past the notification area, hover there and all your open windows go trasnparent (see the borders still there) to see the desktop.

Want to make a window full screen? Drag it to the top of the desktop and it goes full screen. Half screen? Drag it over to the left or right of the screen. Yes, you can drag fullscreen windows.

In the version of IE8 Beta you get a list of your history if you right click on the icon in the taskbar. Same with Windows Explorer, and Word, Excel, etc.

Don't like the arangement of the task bar icons for open programs? Drag and drop them in your order.

How about not needed a third party app to rotate your wallpapers? Time sets as low as 30 seconds and as high as 1 day.

There is much more that I am still playing with, but I am enjoying this much more than I did Vista.

Oh, and no issues yet with DVD Profiler.


Oh, one other thing.... The Classic look and the XP look has been removed from Windows 7.

I installed it on a 3-year old Pentium 4 3GHz. Vista in the past ran just about OK, it's now very fast!

Is anybody running Norton 360 ver. 2? I have tried to install it and all I get is

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This product requires Windows XP or later. Setup will exit.

What antivirus works with this windows version?

I guess windows 7 also has Restore (restore points) set up in help section.. Any changes to this??

I would like to test it one day. Maybe my old pc can still run it, despite I wanted it to be a Ubuntu mediaserver.

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Is anybody running Norton 360 ver. 2? I have tried to install it and all I get is

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This product requires Windows XP or later. Setup will exit.

What antivirus works with this windows version?

I don't have windows 7, but I like Nod32 so I've looked on their website and it appears to be compatible. (at least the 32 bit version is)

Downloading now. Need to go to the shop and get me some DVD's

Just a question, when the 30 days are over, is it easy to remove or do we need to reinstall / recover the computer?

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Quoting EdwinK:

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Downloading now. Need to go to the shop and get me some DVD's

Just a question, when the 30 days are over, is it easy to remove or do we need to reinstall / recover the computer?

Downgrading to Windows Vista will not work. You will need to re-install vista from scratch.

I read you can extend the trial period. To do this, open a command prompt and execute the following command:

slmgr -rearm

Or you get a key from MS and it works until 1. August (official beta end). There are only 5 keys in rotation, so just take one (google it).

Edit:
Link to the keys (german site):
Computerbase.de