Tag: WINDOWS-7-RC

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/02/25/how-to-upgrade-from-windows-7-rc-to-final/'; So the Windows 7 deadline is fast approaching. Officially, there's no way to upgrade from your RC to retail. But in the real world, it only requires a Windows 7 ISO image and editing a single file in Notepad. Here are the quick text instructions. After the jump you can find detailed (and ...

Haven't gotten around to downloading your copy of the Windows 7 Release Candidate yet? Well you'd better hurry up. Tomorrow is the last day to download the pre-release version of the operating system. You don't need to install or activate the release candidate this week. You'll still be able to get a product key. But the download links will go away later this week. The official ones anyway. Of ...

Today's the last day to pre-order Windows 7 Upgrade discs for half off. But Microsoft almost always offers upgrade discs for existing Windows users for a lower cost than the full install discs. So even if you don't get your order in today, you can probably save a few bucks by ordering Windows 7 Upgrade instead of the full version. The question is: will you be able to install it? Microsoft has ...

So you downloaded the first beta version of Windows 7 when it was released to the public in January. You installed it on a separate partition on your Windows XP, Vista, Linux, or OS X box played around with it for a little while and then forgot about it. You never got around to installing the Windows 7 release candidate that came later. Well, let me tell you what will happen the next time you ...

If you've been using an early build of Windows 7 beta and haven't upgraded to the Release Candidate yet, you'll probably want to do that by next week. Starting on July 1st, anyone still using Windows 7 Beta will have to put up with their computers rebooting every hour. The beta will expire altogether on August 1st. Meanwhile, the download program for Windows 7 RC closes on August 15th. You ...

Never mind the torrent trackers, Microsoft's official download links for the Windows 7 release candidate are now live! At this point, the downloads are still moving along at a good pace (560K/s in my case). Don't forget what happened last time, though. The surge of Beta downloaders proved to be too much for Microsoft's servers and caused downtime and slow transfers for some users. The good news ...

Microsoft has made the release candidate of Windows 7 available to TechNet subscribers, and next week the company is expected to let the general public download and install the pre-released operating system. While Windows 7 won't be officially released until later this year (most likely), it's not expected to look dramatically different from the release candidate. And that means if you can run ...

We've said it before, and it bears repeating: if you're going to download Windows 7 torrents, play it safe. Frank Fontaine posted the above screenshot to the NeoWin forums a few days ago which show just why it's so important. Some of the Windows 7 RC ISO files appearing on trackers have a nasty little surprise inside, which you can see in the Avast alert window above. Granted, the infected file ...

One big strike against Vista was the fact that some programs which worked just fine in Windows XP just wouldn't run properly. Not even after playing with compatibility mode options. Microsoft has, however, come up with a brilliant solution for Windows 7 that could do wonders for Windows 7 enterprise adoption. Dubbed XP Mode (XPM), the new feature should make Vista-esque program incompatibilities ...

A leaked copy of the release candidate for Windows 7 may have hit the gray areas of the internet this morning, but Microsoft isn't quite ready to distribute the OS to the general public. The company is very close to being ready though. In a blog post this morning, the Windows 7 team announced that the release candidate is on track for an April 30th release to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The ...

While the partner page Microsoft put up a few days back announcing the availability of the Windows 7 RC turned out to be another minor slip-up, the results in Mininova's index are a bit more real. You guessed it - the Windows 7 RC build (7100) has been leaked. Unlike previous builds where the leak started with a single poorly-seeded torrent, this time there are no fewer than four torrents - two ...

Ok gang, it looks like we may finally have an honest-to-goodness release date for the Windows 7 RC: May 5, 2009. A page has been posted on Microsoft's partner portal which tells MSDN and Technet subscribers that they can download the RC now, though that doesn't appear to be true just yet. Clicking through to the downloads page still only displays the Windows 7 Beta downloads. It could turn out ...

Millions of people around the globe have downloaded and installed beta versions of Windows 7. And soon Microsoft will be launching a release candidate which offers new features and bug fixes. But the company's not making it easy to upgrade from Windows 7 beta to the Windows 7 release candidate. And there's a good reason for that: When the company releases the full version of Windows 7 most ...

I could swear it's still March, but according to a Technet post I'm either very wrong or Microsoft has learned how to manipulate the flow of time. A document showing a publication date of May 2009 has appeared and reveals new information about the upcoming Windows 7 release candidate. While the date reads May, there's no confirmation of the actual release date. It makes sense that the page's ...

Apart from implementing some of the previously announced changes in post-beta Windows 7 builds, Microsoft has clearly set their sites on providing a desktop environment that users can customize six ways from Sunday. Don't take the title too literally: build 7048 has definitely received plenty of attention under the hood. In my normal computing tasks, build 7048 feels more stable even more usable ...