Exp44 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Installed it as dual boot with vista on a machine with 3 gigs of ram, and I personally like it. Definitely faster than vista, and looks better too. Love the new taskbar. When I free up some space on my main machine (got it 4 years ago, only has 70 gigs of hard drive space - yuck, yes I know - but thankfully I'm getting a new computer soon) I'll try it as a dual boot with XP. Also, if any of you know if booting 7 from an external hard drive (usb) is possible, could you let me know? Wouldn't actually do it myself, just curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iq_132 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 I installed it to my MAME cabinet & it works fast. Keeps saying my copy isn't genuine every minute too.That's odd. Which key did you use? The first one for 32-bit Check your date/time. Mine randomly set itself to 2010 for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 I personally like it. Definitely faster than vista, and looks better too. Love the new taskbar.Yup, that's what I'm thinking too. This is what Vista should have been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bambi Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 I installed it to my MAME cabinet & it works fast. Keeps saying my copy isn't genuine every minute too.That's odd. Which key did you use? The first one for 32-bit Check your date/time. Mine randomly set itself to 2010 for some reason. Mine is doing that also, Should I re-install it again and try a different key? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 vista was being a d!ck and would not let me partition my hard drive no matter what I tried. so I just did the upgrade. so far so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobdrakke Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 I've heard vista basic is more responsive on older hardware and faster than the other ver. Fair enough its cut down ver but if surfing, ms office and mail are your only requirements then its viable option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iq_132 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 I installed it to my MAME cabinet & it works fast. Keeps saying my copy isn't genuine every minute too.That's odd. Which key did you use? The first one for 32-bit Check your date/time. Mine randomly set itself to 2010 for some reason. Mine is doing that also, Should I re-install it again and try a different key? A clean format + install (not update) has solved every issue I was having from my first install (update from vista 64 ultimate). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exp44 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 (edited) I personally like it. Definitely faster than vista, and looks better too. Love the new taskbar.Yup, that's what I'm thinking too. This is what Vista should have been.Absolutely. Now, I'm not totally fed up with Vista, as I can live with it. But you are right - 7 is what Microsoft should have released 2 years ago. I'm just glad that Microsoft managed to get it right this time. Dang I really need to free up some space so I can run it on my own machine... Edited January 15, 2009 by Exp44 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MILF Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 I started running this the day it went up, and thus far I'm pretty impressed. I did manage to somehow completely break IE8, but i went back into it's settings and set everything back to default and it fixed itself. Overall, it's very well set up, and overall a very good experience. I did notice a few quirks here and there, but that's to be expected from beta software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 You should submit those bugs and quirks because some people who did that with Vista beta got free copies of Vista Ultimate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MILF Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 You should submit those bugs and quirks because some people who did that with Vista beta got free copies of Vista Ultimate.i've been submitting them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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