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#188689 11-Jan-2009 00:05

For those still waiting to download the Microsoft 7 Beta, the download is working again:

32-bit download

64-bit download

The wait now is just for the licence serial to authenticate.

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#188703 11-Jan-2009 04:35

Instrcutions here on how to sneak in the back door and grab a key - get in quick before the U.S. of A. wakes up though!

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#188704 11-Jan-2009 04:36

And make sure you apply this patch too

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#188793 11-Jan-2009 14:21

From http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/MainFeed.aspx:

"We have clearly heard that many of you want to check out the Windows 7 Beta and, as a result, we have decided remove the initial 2.5 million limit on the public beta for the next two weeks (thru January 24th). During that time you will have access to the beta even if the download number exceeds the 2.5 million unit limit."

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#188828 11-Jan-2009 18:33

IT appears that there may only be limited amount of product keys. I just went to the Windows 7 download site , logged in and receiveved my key that was the same as one in a group posted on another websire earlier today. Oh well will install when I get back from Raro in a week..

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#188830 11-Jan-2009 18:52

old3eyes: IT appears that there may only be limited amount of product keys. I just went to the Windows 7 download site , logged in and receiveved my key that was the same as one in a group posted on another websire earlier today. Oh well will install when I get back from Raro in a week..

Hmm, mine looks to be the same. Does yours look like: 4HJRK-*****-*****-*****-K8HDH ?

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#188847 11-Jan-2009 20:51

adamj:
old3eyes: IT appears that there may only be limited amount of product keys. I just went to the Windows 7 download site , logged in and receiveved my key that was the same as one in a group posted on another websire earlier today. Oh well will install when I get back from Raro in a week..

Hmm, mine looks to be the same. Does yours look like: 4HJRK-*****-*****-*****-K8HDH ?

Thats mine too

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#188852 11-Jan-2009 21:02

adamj:
old3eyes: IT appears that there may only be limited amount of product keys. I just went to the Windows 7 download site , logged in and receiveved my key that was the same as one in a group posted on another websire earlier today. Oh well will install when I get back from Raro in a week..

Hmm, mine looks to be the same. Does yours look like: 4HJRK-*****-*****-*****-K8HDH ?

Mine's quite radically different to this.

First impressions - not overly impressed actually. My laptop has an NVidia 9600M GT video card which is being listed as a "Generic Non-PNP Monitor on Standard VGA Graphics Adaptor." Because of this, the max resolution I can set on my display is 1280x800, which looks fairly basic. On my Vista installation I have (with the right display driver) it set at 1920x1080.

According to the NVidia website, they have supplied drivers to Microsoft which "will be automatically downloaded via Windows Update." Wrong.

Not sure what's happening with the sound drivers either, so am going to have to have a good dig around here as well...

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#188859 11-Jan-2009 21:37

adamj:
old3eyes: IT appears that there may only be limited amount of product keys. I just went to the Windows 7 download site , logged in and receiveved my key that was the same as one in a group posted on another websire earlier today. Oh well will install when I get back from Raro in a week..

Hmm, mine looks to be the same. Does yours look like: 4HJRK-*****-*****-*****-K8HDH ?

No 6JKV2-*****-*****-*****-PBJ73 But yours is on the list I have..

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#188861 11-Jan-2009 21:55

Installed fine on my machine except for my Linksys WMP300N PCI card (one download and manual update later all good).

But very spookily.... my Windows XP activation status was munted and I had to reactivate - no new tin has been added, all I did was install to an empty hard disk partition.... hmmm....

I don't know if the networking stack has been tuned or fiddled, but it positvely rockets with my TelstraClear connection. Vista was always sluggish by comparison...

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#188873 11-Jan-2009 23:23

I'm not sure if this is an accident or intentional by design (it'd make sense, since beta testers would often need to do multiple installations, virtual images, etc) but thought I'd pass this on in case it was of interest to someone: it seems people can get up to 4 keys per email address during the registration/download process.

Pressing F5 on the 'here's your Key' screen will cycle through 4 unique Keys for you (I assume they're unique - they were different to each other, anyway!).

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#188888 12-Jan-2009 07:28

There are 5 keys for 32bit and 5 for 64bit - pushing refresh will give you all 5, sometimes it will take more than 5 refreshes but you can get them all. I have the same 10 keys as 3 or 4 other people I know . . .

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#188901 12-Jan-2009 08:38

x64: 7XRCQ-***********************-84GH3
x86: QXV7B-***********************-KGMM7

Best MS beta i'v ever used.

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#189005 12-Jan-2009 15:49

Well - being on dial-up speeds, it took me a while to get Windows 7, but I finally got here. Posting from Windows 7 right now.

The Aero theme works on my borderline computer just fine - 1GB RAM, 128MB video RAM and 2GHz processor...

It definitely runs better than the original Windows Vista Home Basic that the computer came with - it's smoother and the effects are more than worth the wait.

It runs all of the software I've installed on it to date - it's a pretty good beta to me.

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#189480 14-Jan-2009 11:41

I have it running on my Lenovo Ideapad S10 netbook. Everything bar the multi touch is working without having to install any drivers. Aero seems to be working - transperencies and window effects are happing. Only installed last night so havent had a desent play yet but it does boot fast and things are nice and snappy.

1.6Ghz Atom
2GB RAM
160GB HDD
intel 950 GMA graphics

Might try dual booting on my Mediaportal DVB-T box and see how it compares - its currently Vista Ultimate 64bit.

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