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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:30:47 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:33:11 PM EDT
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Godspeed
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:33:34 PM EDT
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I hear it's awesome. Good luck!
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:34:14 PM EDT
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Tagged. Good luck.
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:34:25 PM EDT
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Quoted: pray for me Good luck. I've already gone through some aggravation trying to upgrade 32-bit Vista Business to 64-bit 7 Pro using the student discount. It's been about 20 times the effort that I put in upgrading to Snow Leopard, and I still don't have 7 running. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:34:50 PM EDT
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Loving Win 7. Have fun!
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:36:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:37:13 PM EDT
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pray for me Good luck. I've already gone through some aggravation trying to upgrade 32-bit Vista Business to 64-bit 7 Pro using the student discount. It's been about 20 times the effort that I put in upgrading to Snow Leopard, and I still don't have 7 running. according to MS there is no upgrade path from 32bit to 64 bit. it fresh install only. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:38:26 PM EDT
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yea i used the student discount to.
if this goes well i need about 4 more copies. i am going to have to creat me some more email accounts at work 
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:40:41 PM EDT
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Tagged for ensuing frustration and hilarity.
<posted from an iMac> |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:41:27 PM EDT
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I just finished doing a clean install about an hour or two ago and so far - thumbs up.
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:42:20 PM EDT
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Quoted: Tagged for ensuing frustration and hilarity. <posted from an iMac> You'll be waiting a while. Windows 7 is awesome. I've been using it since August. I love it to death. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:42:38 PM EDT
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Tagged for ensuing frustration and hilarity. <posted from an iMac> Actually it's real simple, at least the clean install was. Took about a half an hour and she was done (not including the time i used last night backing up pics/music/documents/etc) |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:42:42 PM EDT
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I love it. I have 7 running on my work laptop and desktop. It is much much faster and less of a memory whore than Vista was. I think you will like it.
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:42:47 PM EDT
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Tagged for ensuing frustration and hilarity. <posted from an iMac> I am putting in on my Mac! 
(I need it/something to run autocad 2010..) |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:42:50 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: pray for me Good luck. I've already gone through some aggravation trying to upgrade 32-bit Vista Business to 64-bit 7 Pro using the student discount. It's been about 20 times the effort that I put in upgrading to Snow Leopard, and I still don't have 7 running. according to MS there is no upgrade path from 32bit to 64 bit. it fresh install only. Yeah, I learned this too late. Now I'm in touch with support on how to proceed. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:45:58 PM EDT
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I'm using it right now on all my computers and have been using it since day 1 of beta. I have zero problems. I bought the 64 bit OEM home Prem from newegg.com for $99 and the home prem 32bit/64bit upgrade at Walmart for $119.00. With upgrade disk you can do a clean install so really it's the same as getting a normal retail disk. Good luck
windows XP can bite my ass. Install time for windows 7 was 15-20 minutes while doing and install and update for xp takes hours. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:48:17 PM EDT
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pray for me Good luck. I've already gone through some aggravation trying to upgrade 32-bit Vista Business to 64-bit 7 Pro using the student discount. It's been about 20 times the effort that I put in upgrading to Snow Leopard, and I still don't have 7 running. according to MS there is no upgrade path from 32bit to 64 bit. it fresh install only. Yeah, I learned this too late. Now I'm in touch with support on how to proceed. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS read the release notes |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:48:24 PM EDT
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I've been running it since it came out to VLS in September. (insert neener smiley here).
I did a fresh 64-bit install on to my 2 core laptop with 4GB. It runs very well but I haven't loaded it up with Office and all the other performance anchors. I have noticed that replying to large threads causes the display to go apeshit here on ARFCOM. It may be my Lenovo driver or something inherent to IE8 but I don't post from any other W7/IE8 computers so fair warning. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:50:50 PM EDT
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I'll upgrade my desktop with it soon. And all will be well.
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:51:20 PM EDT
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Been running for a month or so at work. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY better than Vista. So far I haven't had a bit of trouble with it.
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:51:38 PM EDT
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I've been running it since it came out to VLS in September. (insert neener smiley here). I did a fresh 64-bit install on to my 2 core laptop with 4GB. It runs very well but I haven't loaded it up with Office and all the other performance anchors. I have noticed that replying to large threads causes the display to go apeshit here on ARFCOM. It may be my Lenovo driver or something inherent to IE8 but I don't post from any other W7/IE8 computers so fair warning. thats an IE8 issue. turn on compatibility mode and most of that will go away. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:51:56 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: pray for me Good luck. I've already gone through some aggravation trying to upgrade 32-bit Vista Business to 64-bit 7 Pro using the student discount. It's been about 20 times the effort that I put in upgrading to Snow Leopard, and I still don't have 7 running. according to MS there is no upgrade path from 32bit to 64 bit. it fresh install only. Yeah, I learned this too late. Now I'm in touch with support on how to proceed. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS read the release notes Yeah, this is what I get for being spoiled by Apple for the past four and half years. How foolish of me to listen to the ad campaigns that suggested Windows isn't what it used to be. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:54:25 PM EDT
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I just got done loading it on my laptop
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:55:52 PM EDT
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Beer_Slayer, what version of windows are you upgrading from?
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:57:37 PM EDT
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I need a .edu address
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:57:51 PM EDT
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pray for me Good luck. I've already gone through some aggravation trying to upgrade 32-bit Vista Business to 64-bit 7 Pro using the student discount. It's been about 20 times the effort that I put in upgrading to Snow Leopard, and I still don't have 7 running. according to MS there is no upgrade path from 32bit to 64 bit. it fresh install only. Yeah, I learned this too late. Now I'm in touch with support on how to proceed. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS read the release notes Yeah, this is what I get for being spoiled by Apple for the past four and half years. How foolish of me to listen to the ad campaigns that suggested Windows isn't what it used to be. ummmm... you can't blame windows for that. there are a LOT of differences in a 64 bit and a 32bit OS.I seen more than a couple of issues upgrading macs at work. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:58:15 PM EDT
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How do you decide if you want 32 or 64 bits?
Nevermind, looked it up 
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:59:42 PM EDT
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tag for aar
I love the Mac commercials |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 4:59:47 PM EDT
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Beer_Slayer, what version of windows are you upgrading from? vista. so far it's been running about 40 min. still gathering data on installed programs. it's only about 40% done with this step. on the brightside the upgrade runs like an application and i could be websurfing or working during the upgrade right now. mike |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 5:00:30 PM EDT
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How do you decide if you want 32 or 64 bits? Nevermind, looked it up i went with 32 becuase my vista load is 32 bit and i only have 2gb of ram. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 5:06:39 PM EDT
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When do you intend to upgrade from Windows 7 to Linux?
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Posted: 10/26/2009 5:08:53 PM EDT
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When do you intend to upgrade from Windows 7 to Linux? 
i run 2 linux machines as well as an aix machine as well. I am far beyond tron guy
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Posted: 10/26/2009 5:18:31 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: When do you intend to upgrade from Windows 7 to Linux? i run 2 linux machines as well as an aix machine as well. I am far beyond tron guy Even though I'm a Linux fanboy, I'll admit that W7 is a major improvement over Vista and XP. I've been running it for a few months on a HTPC. Hopefully it'll make it's way into the business world quickly as I loathe using XP.  |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 5:19:38 PM EDT
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how does it compare to XP?
do i need to reformat my drive to install W7? |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 5:40:54 PM EDT
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Quoted: how does it compare to XP? do i need to reformat my drive to install W7? Do you have to? No. Why wouldn't you though? |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 5:43:49 PM EDT
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Best OS, I'm on one and been using 7 since march.
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Posted: 10/26/2009 5:47:38 PM EDT
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how does it compare to XP? do i need to reformat my drive to install W7? Do you have to? No. Why wouldn't you though? Do you guys even hear yourselves? <posted from an iMac> ETA: What does "reformat" mean? |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 5:54:42 PM EDT
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Wow. I am currently on hold with microsoft. I've been trying to place the order for over an hour. First on the website, now by phone
I've called 4 times trying to place the order. And I've called my CC co twice. MS keep billing my CC for $1, the CC co approves the charge, then MS rejects it. two different MS sales guys said "I'm going to call customer service" and disconnected me. My CC co keeps seeing $1 charges from MS, then MS rejects the charge. I've just explained it, for the fouth time, to the latest sales lady. She has to type the whole mess in and send it to a supervisor. What a clusterfuck. This shit had better be good |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 5:57:29 PM EDT
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Dibs on... never mind.
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Posted: 10/26/2009 5:58:27 PM EDT
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 That's funny.
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Posted: 10/26/2009 5:59:05 PM EDT
[#41]
Uh oh!
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Posted: 10/26/2009 5:59:31 PM EDT
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Prayers sent.
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Posted: 10/26/2009 6:05:17 PM EDT
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My install was a piece of cake. I think it took me 15 minutes to go from XP Professonal 32bit to Windows 7 Professional 64bit. I've been really pleased with it.
Everything loads faster, it feels smooth. If you use task manager to close a program, it has (everytime so far) immediately closed it. None of that fucking "end task, end task, end task, end task" 20 times like Windows XP to get a program to shut  .
I'm diggin it over XP Pro. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 6:07:22 PM EDT
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I've been running it since it came out to VLS in September. (insert neener smiley here). I did a fresh 64-bit install on to my 2 core laptop with 4GB. It runs very well but I haven't loaded it up with Office and all the other performance anchors. I have noticed that replying to large threads causes the display to go apeshit here on ARFCOM. It may be my Lenovo driver or something inherent to IE8 but I don't post from any other W7/IE8 computers so fair warning. thats an IE8 issue. turn on compatibility mode and most of that will go away. better load up firefox for maximum win. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 6:08:07 PM EDT
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Had Windows 7 installed since public beta and now on retail after launch. Rock solid OS!
The 'Laptop Hunter' ads are some of my favorite too. http://www.youtube.com/user/WindowsVideos#g/c/C6F0DDC317078684 |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 6:08:37 PM EDT
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I've been running windows 7 for around 6 months I think. It's great. Time to install the release version.
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Posted: 10/26/2009 6:12:35 PM EDT
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how does it compare to XP? do i need to reformat my drive to install W7? Do you have to? No. Why wouldn't you though? Do you guys even hear yourselves? <posted from an iMac> ETA: What does "reformat" mean? i swear you are nothing but a trolling mac douche. go play with your gay toy and leave the adults and people who actually know how to use a REAL computer alone. if I wanted to pay a grand to use a computer designed by a norcal homo running a bastardized version of BSD I'd buy a mac! |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 6:31:55 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: how does it compare to XP? do i need to reformat my drive to install W7? Do you have to? No. Why wouldn't you though? Do you guys even hear yourselves? <posted from an iMac> ETA: What does "reformat" mean? i swear you are nothing but a trolling mac douche. go play with your gay toy and leave the adults and people who actually know how to use a REAL computer alone. if I wanted to pay a grand to use a computer designed by a norcal homo running a bastardized version of BSD I'd buy a mac! +1. Danner130, you need to watch this. |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 6:34:29 PM EDT
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4 hrs and still running........
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Posted: 10/26/2009 6:35:01 PM EDT
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Tagged for ensuing frustration and hilarity. <posted from an iMac> You're going to be disappointed. Windows 7 is great. |
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