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Eric.
Well, with 1.5TB hard drives being just over $100 now, a healthy sized page file isn't really an inconvenience.
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True but...
thats fine for a desktop yet with all the speed increases people will be looking to use them on notebooks/netbooks. Manufactures have an obsession with putting SSD's into these small laptops and at the moment they don't have a great capacity.
 
Runs pretty fast on my 1.4Ghz 512mb RAM 40GB HDD laptop, almost as fast as XP.

Apparently it only uses 46% of the RAM at startup, which is very good. But I expect that to rise when you have all your necessary software installed and the features list increases...

The dragging the windows to different sides of the screen is a cool nifty feature that I could get used to. Still doesn't touch MAC though.
 
G.T
Apparently it only uses 46% of the RAM at startup, which is very good. But I expect that to rise when you have all your necessary software installed and the features list increases...
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Apparently Beta 1 is feature complete. So the only changes you'll see between this and RTM are bug fixes and UI updates.
 
GilesGuthrie
Flerbizky
No luck with neither the 32bit or 64bit version on top of Xen Express :-/
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That's a shame. VMware Server and Virtual PC both claim to support it. I'm not installing 'till I've done my Vista rebuild (next week), so I can't comment until then.
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It is quite annoying indeed. People have it running on Xen Express v4, but no luck so far on v5. And I've installed a multitude of both Vista and SBS2008-64 on Xen, so it is quite weird..
 
Well, I installed it about a day ago over Vista. For some reason, it uses 70-75% of my CPU, whereas Vista only took 45%. Using 67% of 2GB of RAM probably isn't good either. Seems to be running slightly slower than usual, too... :confused:
 
ty00123
Well, I installed it about a day ago over Vista. For some reason, it uses 70-75% of my CPU, whereas Vista only took 45%. Using 67% of 2GB of RAM probably isn't good either. Seems to be running slightly slower than usual, too... :confused:
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System specs? I noticed RAM usage to be roughly the same as Vista, maybe a bit less, and at idle it was using 0-3% CPU...Perhaps yours was running a scan in the background, like the first Windows Defender scan?
 
Pentium Dual-Core running at 1.73 GHz, 2.0GB of RAM.

Has now settled down a bit, but is still running 15-25% of CPU. Physical memory usage is 45%, only program running is one tab on Opera.

Is there any way I can get in and reduce these numbers/somehow make it run faster?
 
If you open Task Manager and make it show processes from all users, what is taking up the most memory and the most CPU? With 2GB of RAM available, idling with about 40-50% used is pretty normal for Vista and likely Win7. It is used for Prefetch, which keeps your most used programs cached in RAM so they load quicker. You can delete the contents of the Prefetch folder and see if you notice any difference. I'd just cut them and put them in a backup folder in case something goes south from it, though it didn't do anything bad in Vista when I was experimenting with it.

How does this compare to Vista on that machine?
 
Opera is taking up the most RAM, and as for CPU usage, it's not one specific program-it's a bunch of little ones.

EDIT: What I'm looking at-add about 7,000K for the rest of the processes (the ones under the "Show From All Users" tab).
 

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ty00123
Opera is taking up the most RAM, and as for CPU usage, it's not one specific program-it's a bunch of little ones.

EDIT: What I'm looking at-add about 7,000K for the rest of the processes (the ones under the "Show From All Users" tab).
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Only 5% CPU usage in that screenshot. Everything looks like it should be in my opinion. Once I get an external DVD drive I'll see how it runs on my Acer Aspire One. Half the RAM, 1.6Ghz Intel Atom (hyperthreaded).
 
Eric.
Only 5% CPU usage in that screenshot. Everything looks like it should be in my opinion. Once I get an external DVD drive I'll see how it runs on my Acer Aspire One. Half the RAM, 1.6Ghz Intel Atom (hyperthreaded).
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It can behave a bit oddly; it'll jump from 5% to 15, to 40, to 75, to 20, to 50....

And it can also sit at 15% or so for a few minutes. Is this odd, or should it be considered fairly normal?
 
I've installed it last night. I like the way it functions way more than Vista, but I think I have no audio on it, even though the Device Manager shows the audio driver installed and the volume control is working.

It's a bit more RAM hungry than Vista I'd say, at idle it consumes 27% of 4GB, Vista consumes 23%.
 
I've just had a quick look at Windows 7 at work today. All i can say is 'welcome to OSX'
 
TheCracker
All i can say is 'welcome to OSX'
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Without the nice 3D dock and a Windows 98 style quick launch looking toolbar instead :yuck:

Seriously the only thing thats wrong with 7 is this ugly 'superbar'. Good thing you can turn it off!

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Robin.
 
TheCracker
I've just had a quick look at Windows 7 at work today. All i can say is 'welcome to OSX'
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With the Superbar it resembles a Linux distro with KDE 4 more than anything. A friend of mine who hates Windows with a passion asked me how I liked KDE4 when I said I had 7 installed. :lol:
 
I get bored by the "superbar" and all of these crazy themes. I'd rather use less of my RAM because of some fancy-pants windows theme. Though I don't mind newer window OS's as long as they keep the Windows classic theme. Using the classic theme saves RAM and I hate how the Windows 7 theme grabs my attention as if its the center of the world.

Sorry for the rant, I just had to get something off my chest.
 
That's just how OSes in general are going. Because I'm so old, I love that I can PuTTY into my Linux boxes and get just a CLI.

On topic, I'm not having joy installing W7 Beta x64 on VMware Server 2
 
GilesGuthrie
That's just how OSes in general are going. Because I'm so old, I love that I can PuTTY into my Linux boxes and get just a CLI.

On topic, I'm not having joy installing W7 Beta x64 on VMware Server 2
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OTOH, I'm having a tremendous amount of joy using W7 on the HTPC - It is unbelievably fast, even though the only HD in the HTPC is a puny 160Gb 7200rpm 2.5" drive !...

And so far, rock solid working with nothing but MediaPortal !..

Kudos to MS for this OS !.. It is what Vista should've been from the get go !..

Btw. GG - The issue with W7 on Xen has been haxxored - Just hadn't had the time to try it out...
 
I got it going. Seems that choosing "Other 64-bit OS" as the "Guest Type" in VMware wasn't the best plan. Seting it to "Windows Vista x64" saw the install pass right through without a hitch.

Sadly, my McAfee VirusScan Home Use program doesnae work... Throws a "Known Compatibility Issues" box, then lunches itself.
 
GilesGuthrie
I got it going. Seems that choosing "Other 64-bit OS" as the "Guest Type" in VMware wasn't the best plan. Seting it to "Windows Vista x64" saw the install pass right through without a hitch.

Sadly, my McAfee VirusScan Home Use program doesnae work... Throws a "Known Compatibility Issues" box, then lunches itself.
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Just throw AVG Free 8.0 or Antivir on it and you'll be fine. 👍 I can confirm that AVG works on it, I don't know about Antivir.
 
I'm using NOD32 with it, no problems at all.

Also, I installed FSX on it last night and it runs better than it does on Vista. Gotta try other games with it. I'm liking this OS! 👍
 
FatAssBR
I'm using NOD32 with it, no problems at all.

Also, I installed FSX on it last night and it runs better than it does on Vista. Gotta try other games with it. I'm liking this OS! 👍
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I was going to benchmark Crysis to compare it to Vista, but it complained that I didn't have DX10 installed (running this from my game partition, not actually installed for 7). I thought that was odd so I ran dxdiag.exe and that's when I found out that DX11 was included. :lol:
 
I decided to do a proper install today, ie partitioning and not using VPC and damn its fast. 100% better than Vista although I still don't rate the start button when it's hovered over.

For people wondering how to make the taskbar smaller just open up the start menu --> right click --> Properties --> Taskbar Tab --> Use small Icons

For people without keys or are annoyed with Microsoft Key handout thing, use one of these, they all work http://programming-designs.com/2009/01/windows-7-beta-keys-are-not-unique/
 
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I'm trying to download it now, but the transfer rate has plummeted to 40KB/S from a steady 120 KB/S.

Has anyone tried to install it in Virtual PC 2007, as I don't fancy partitioning my hard drive?

Super_Spig
 
Just installed it last night on a spare HDD (the old one from the PS3 actually) and so far, im not that impressed. Everything looks the same, there are a fw little tweaks here and there, but nothing major. Netbooks/notbooks will probably see an increase in performance over vista, and better battery life.

I hope this build doesn't go straight to RTM, they still need to change a whole lotta stuff
 

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