Published: Friday 9th January, 2009 | Author: Parm Mann
Products: Windows 7
Companies: Microsoft (All Microsoft content)
External reviews: Microsoft Windows 7
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email to a friendRight on cue, Microsoft has made available the first (and presumably only) beta release of Windows 7.
The download, available in both 32-bit and 64-bit formats, can be obtained from the official Windows 7 website or technet.micrsoft.com, and is available to the first 2.5 million people who sign up.
As expected, Microsoft's servers are struggling to cope with demand but there's no harm in trying if you're itching to put Vista's successor to the test.
Users should, of course, be aware that this is a beta release aimed at technical users. Microsoft's words of caution state:
"Microsoft isn’t providing technical support for the Beta and isn’t responsible for business-related downtime. Don’t install the Beta on your primary home or work computer. When the Beta expires on August 1, 2009, you’ll need to reinstall a released version of Windows to keep using your computer"
Microsoft lists the minimum required specification for the Windows 7 beta as follows:
Are you putting Windows 7 beta to the test? If so, share your thoughts in the HEXUS.community forums.
Official Windows 7 beta download link: official Windows 7 website or technet.micrsoft.com
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and superfetch uses *free* ram to hasten window's reactions, no point turning it off tbhQuote
I'm going to have one more try to resolve it later after a stiff drink!Quote
It refused to close after several attempts, so I tried to log off so that I could log in again and see if it had fixed. However when I clicked log off, nothing happened, so after several minutes, I tried to leave feedback. During my feedback report, the log off screen came up and said that the feedback program was stopping it from logging off, so I clicked cancel.
The cancel button then dissappeared and all that was left was the 'force' log off button.
Clicking this did nothing either, then my PC froze, CTRL ALT Delete had no effect, so I was forced to restart using the power button.Quote
Could someone please confirm the file size of the x64 ISO? I spent all day with it on D/L, and firefox just ceased up at the end (when it says a few seconds remaining) it just left the temp file with the .part extension, i took that off and opened the ISO, but i think it's magically missing a 100 mg or so.
3.15 GB (3,387,009,024 bytes)
I'm not even gonna bother doing that again if its messed up. Damn you Laptop/internet/firefox/MS.
SHA1 hash is E09FDBC1CB3A92CF6CC872040FDAF65553AB62A5 - check it against that and if it matches you're good.Quote
Turning the pagefile off was the only way to stop Battlefield 2 from getting extreme lag on my computer. Also it seems to make all of Windows speed up.
Superfetch doesn't seem to make any noticeable difference on or off anyway so IMO it just uses more RAM. Though I wouldn't necessarily recommend turning off Superfetch; it depends on the circumstances. But I definitely would recommend turning off the pagefile if you have enough RAM. If not then obviously don't.
Sir, as mentioned, it only uses RAM thats not used by anything else.
If its un-used, then whats the problem?!
How can it possibly slow things down?
Its a bad failing that its not noticeable performance increase, for me i found plenty of desktop apps speeded up, but they where all apps like Notepad++ fly open. Far faster than they did on XP.
The problem is complex apps this does little to help, by that i mean games and the like.Quote
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