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While i'm no stranger to new windows OS's and their compatibility issues i am a noob to microsoft beta testing.There are alot of concessions made to increase compatibility of app's designed for previous OS's (ability to tell seven what system it worked on previously back to pure XP no SP) is...

So i was all happy with the first beta of Windows 7 worked perfectly for months then i said what the heck lets try the RC candidate and check the improovements. Then all of the sudden in 1 week i lots 2 of my SAS drives, both times while i was away so i have no idea how they died on me. I was...

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With bulid 7260 (RTM escrow) MS started the RTM builds, and it's only few day before the final RTM build is compiled (if not already, 7262?). So why MS will wait 4 months (Third a year) for the General availability!, I mean they will miss Back-to-school season that way! Side note: why MS still...

Hi, I have been testing out the beta since the release date. Recently i formatted my computer and decided to download the latest RC and test that to see what sort of differences have been made. When i initially installed the beta i just did a upgrade from my Vista and everything worked like a...

Mozilla produced its first candidates of Firefox 3.5 RC1 and it was just a matter of time before the fully fledged Release Candidate would follow. But the RC was actually just around the corner. Fact is that users are now able to download Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 1. According to Mozilla...

Hi All, I just hope I'm doing this properly. I have installed Windows 7, latest version. All works very well and better than I expected from a pre lauch beta. I have one problem that I would like to ask about. I have a RS232 / USB converter with a Prolific chip set. Does anyone know of a Drivern...

Hi my name is Lukasz, Windows 7 Rules All vista drivers work after windows 7 update I am beta testing it for Microsoft :)

Okay I'm going to try to sum this up my best before I go to bed. I put a 32 bit Windows 7 RC on a CD, Try to install several times, It always freezes completly at either the inital background after I pick my language, I move the hard drive over to another machine and install windows 7 from...

Hi, It's my understanding that starting March 11th, those who are running W7 RC1 will experience an auto shutdown every 2 hours. Then, in June, the RC1 will lock you out of your system. Even if you buy the retail copy of W7 before June, there is no way to do an in place upgrade, rather, you...

After starting windows from a shut-down condition; Upon launch of IE8, I almost always get the dialog "IE closed unexpectedly, do you want to restore your last session?" This is is an invalid warning, as I always close IE manually (after clearing browsing history, etc.) before shutting down)...

windows 7 32bit and 64bit 1. Dungeon siege, Dungeon siege II (all of them) wont install 2. Neverwinter nights 2 (all of them) install but cant find my graphics card so game crashes (unable to detect a vidieo card w/hardware 3d acceleration) 3. Legend hand of god installs and plays fo 2...

I did a clean install of Windows 7 and now,I am having problems... I am testing Windows 7 on a work computer, on a Domain. I have Admin rights on the Domain, and everything worked PERFECTLY, untill I moved to the RC. Thats when the internet issues started. We use iPrism for our proxy server for...

I am unable to connect to a remote sql server 2008, only a local one. This happens in beta 1 and rc1.

Hi fellow beta testers, I have had an issue with windows 7 seems to affect all versions atleast for me. The issue is that my monitors 90% of the time will not go to power saving mode on their own after the computert has been idle. Occasioanlly the screensaver will not start either, in which...

Acer let some info out that they probably weren't supposed to. Not sure how credible the info is, but with the way the beta has been going it wouldn't surprise me in the least to see Win 7 ready to go by this date. Link: Link Removed - Invalid URL

I'm running build 7077 (which I understand is as close to RC 1 as anything) having progressively upgraded from 7000 via 7057. RC 1 installation is going to require the agony of a clean install and reinstallation of all the apps -including getting fresh downloads of the software where they were...

When Vista came out.....no LEAP protocol....months later, finally, a KB allowed Intel ProSet to show LEAP as a security protocol option (Windows6.0-KB932063-x86). Fast forward: Win 7 Beta....again, out of the box, no LEAP.....why not? WEP and No authentication are both options, and are low /...

Been trying to install Bumptop for my desktop but get 1 of 2 errors. - Do not have sufficient privileges to alter windows/winsxs/policies i am definitely the admin, said to run as SYSTEM, as a beta user do i now have control over my pc (for installation anyway)? tried new user name...

few days after Windows 7 Build 7068 , microsoft release windows 7 7070 , this release can be a sign for the quik developpement of this new os . More crumbs from the Windows 7 Release Candidate branch development are now available with the leaked screenshots for Build 7070. As Microsoft is...