Comments on: Can Your Machine Run Windows 7?

By: Michael the Dumb Tec

Michael the Dumb Tec — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:16:00 +0000

I somehow didn't download this Advisor tool correctly the first time. The only difference I can think of is that I didn't download it with IE, but with Chrome. So first time it didn't work.

Re-downloaded it with IE, got it running, and ran the test. It actually told me there would be some problems with Visual Studio 2005, which I found odd since that means Windows doesn't always get along with other Windows software….

Anyway, tried to install Windows 7 RC on my secondary hard drive while I was still in Vista. It copied all the files and was 26% thru unpacking them when it shut down Vista with very little warning. It restarted and continued unpacking. Shortly after 39% it told me some of the files were messed up. It uninstalled itself and brought me back to the Welcome page in Vista. This was late last night so I haven't had an opportunity to try to re-download RC or attempt to re-install. Nonetheless, this is legitimately fun!

By: Michael the Dumb Tech Geek

Michael the Dumb Tech Geek — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:16:00 +0000

I somehow didn’t download this Advisor tool correctly the first time. The only difference I can think of is that I didn’t download it with IE, but with Chrome. So first time it didn’t work.
Re-downloaded it with IE, got it running, and ran the test. It actually told me there would be some problems with Visual Studio 2005, which I found odd since that means Windows doesn’t always get along with other Windows software….
Anyway, tried to install Windows 7 RC on my secondary hard drive while I was still in Vista. It copied all the files and was 26% thru unpacking them when it shut down Vista with very little warning. It restarted and continued unpacking. Shortly after 39% it told me some of the files were messed up. It uninstalled itself and brought me back to the Welcome page in Vista. This was late last night so I haven’t had an opportunity to try to re-download RC or attempt to re-install. Nonetheless, this is legitimately fun!

By: Bryan Price

Bryan Price — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:24:00 +0000

@Dennis Kaur: The only valid update is with Vista. Not even the Win 7 Beta. And you can't change bit sizes when you do it.

By: Bryan Price

Bryan Price — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:24:00 +0000

@Dennis Kaur: The only valid update is with Vista. Not even the Win 7 Beta. And you can’t change bit sizes when you do it.

By: IT News blog

IT News blog — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:09:00 +0000

I've used windows 7 on my basic laptop and my main pc and it works flawlessly on both. i think this is gonna be a great os!! :-)

By: IT News blog

IT News blog — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:09:00 +0000

I’ve used windows 7 on my basic laptop and my main pc and it works flawlessly on both. i think this is gonna be a great os!! :-)

By: Dennis Kaur

Dennis Kaur — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:44:00 +0000

The installer doesn't work with Win XP 64bit pro

By: Dennis Kaur

Dennis Kaur — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:44:00 +0000

The installer doesn’t work with Win XP 64bit pro

By: Bryan Price

Bryan Price — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:08:00 +0000

I've had the beta (32-bit) running on an Acer Aspire 5110, Aero works (and I see no need to disable it), and I've got RC running on a new hard drive, that was originally slated for the RTM release, but the backup to install RC forced me to run a chkdsk /r, and went from 0 b bad sectors to over 1 MB bad sectors, so I decided it was time for it to go.

It runs better than the Vista I had when I got the thing. But my son installed it, and I really think the cruft of everything that he had installed was screwing it up. I turned ZoneAlarm's firewall, as it was more of a pain that an actual help. I never got FTP working from a CMD prompt. Same .cmd worked with XP and 2003 XP (and now Win 7!)

I had to wait for a Windows Update to get a working Aero display (the Beta worked out of the box. :/, although now I'm running 64-bit after upgrading to 4GB from 2GB), and I already had the beta driver for the webcam.

By: Bryan Price

Bryan Price — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:08:00 +0000

I’ve had the beta (32-bit) running on an Acer Aspire 5110, Aero works (and I see no need to disable it), and I’ve got RC running on a new hard drive, that was originally slated for the RTM release, but the backup to install RC forced me to run a chkdsk /r, and went from 0 b bad sectors to over 1 MB bad sectors, so I decided it was time for it to go.

It runs better than the Vista I had when I got the thing. But my son installed it, and I really think the cruft of everything that he had installed was screwing it up. I turned ZoneAlarm’s firewall, as it was more of a pain that an actual help. I never got FTP working from a CMD prompt. Same .cmd worked with XP and 2003 XP (and now Win 7!)

I had to wait for a Windows Update to get a working Aero display (the Beta worked out of the box. :/, although now I’m running 64-bit after upgrading to 4GB from 2GB), and I already had the beta driver for the webcam.

By: Timmy8ken

Timmy8ken — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:53:00 +0000

I have installed 7's RC on a Dell Latitude D420 with a core duo 1.2GHz and 1.5GB RAM and I was very surprised to find that it actually runs well!! It doesn't run Aero either but everything else is running nicely and I haven't had a crash yet!! I especially like the Search Federation function combined with this Flickr search web service: http://www.istartedsomething.com/flickrsearch/

By: Atzeplus

Atzeplus — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:32:00 +0000

I'm currently "testing" Win7 too for a couple of week.

I installed it in addition of my XP, in order to test it, but I'm always running on it :P