release candidate

i have windows 7 build 7100 and im pretty sure its rc. i downloaded it on 5-26-09 :p when will it expire?

After using Windows 7 x64 beta for many months, I decided to install the Windows 7 x64 Release Candidate from MS yesterday. Everything runs fine as with the beta, but I have one annoying problem. Windows Live Messenger keeps pausing every 10 seconds, becoming unresponsive for a few seconds...

I upgraded one of my Vista Home Premium computers to Windows 7 Release Candidate. When the retail version of Windows 7 is released will I still be able to just purchase the upgrade version or will I have to purchase the full version? Just wondering as my Vista has been over written now on this...

I installed Windows 7 Release Candidate edition and it's been going pretty smoothly so far, but one thing I notice, this happens quite randomly (that is, sometimes often, sometimes it just runs for hours/days perfectly) that the frame rate of the games just drops massively, nothing is running in...

download Windows 7 Build 7127 now Just a week after Microsoft officially made available Windows 7 RC download with the build version of 7100 publicly, a newer build of Windows 7 has been compiled by Microsoft and released to internal testers. And of course, the Windows 7 build 7127, which...

Win 7 Beta stops at end of June! Please note. Most of you have received this Email. PLease do not start posting this as a problem after July 1st. The RC is freely available for download by all. IMPORTANT REMINDER ABOUT BETA EXPIRATION DATE Thanks again for your help in testing Windows 7...

I have done some searching, and i haven't been able to find anything similar to this problem. it is incredibly frustrating. I have installed windows 7 release candidate and it appears to install fine, it goes through the install screens with no problem at all. After ths install is done, the...

I read in an earlier post that the bug/feature which killed your gadgets when UAC was off seemed to be fixed after a certain beta build number. Can anyone verify that this is fixed in the RC? It wouldn't bother me at all, except I have one game which will not run with UAC, so, it becomes a...

because my new computer died yesterday. It got bumped and the stock Intel processor fan fell off became unplugged and it's possible my cpu burned up not sure though. The computer won't even power up now. So it's either the CPU, power supply or motherboard problem, I don't know yet. So anyhow I...

Hello folks, I discovered this forum via. Google and it looks like you guys could definitely help me out with the problem I'm having. I just wiped my Beta release from the partition I have for Windows 7, and installed Release Candidate 1 last night. Everything went fine and dandy until I got to...

I currently am using the Vista SP2 RC when initially I had SP1 from Vista Home Premium. I am thinking of installing the Windows 7 RC. When the real Vista SP2 is released will I still be able to get that? Will it recognize that I had Vista before and let me download it? Should I back up...

So far I like the RC. It doesn't crash or lock-up (IE8) like the Beta frequently did while browsing, and the "Delete Browsing History" function actually does the job now; when I do a disk cleanup, the temp files are already empty, whereas they were still there with the Beta. Shutdown takes...

I'm pretty good with Windows, but I've never tried running a Beta version or RC version before, and I have a question. It's probably a dumb question, but I haven't seen a topic address it so I'm just going to go ahead and ask. Microsoft updates the release candidate regularly, but as it...

All these years with VLC and they have finally released the release candidate for their media player. I didnt even know it was still in beta! VLC RC1 1.0 If you've ever used VLC you've probably grown to love it for its out-of-the-box support for virtually any file type you can throw at it.With...

Can I upgrade beta to RC directly or should I do clean install for RC? I have a lot of program installed on beta I would not like to lose or install again.

Microsoft is warning customers downloading the Release Candidate of its long-awaited Windows 7 operating system that its first bug has been detected, potentially causing application failures. Microsoft said the problem affects the 32-bit (x86) English-language version of Windows 7 build 7100...

I'm having this wierd issue. This happens in both Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3. I am currently running Windows 7 Release Candidate Build 7100. Everytime I click on a youtube video, the player shows up but nothing happens. The black box with the play and fullscreen icon shows up but the...

I had no problems installing the Beta on 2 systems. The RC installed just fine on 1 but has failed on 2 others. Why did the beta work but the RC not work on the same machines. Is this a case of MS fixing a system that worked till be breaks? till it breaks?:confused:

Install screen comes up with no options. Just a pointer and the background. The PC is not frozen. I'm trying to install a dual boot with XP, and will replace a current linux partition with W7. And that's it. It happened with all the betas and now with the RC. What is going on here?

I loaded it on a usb, go to install, windows loads files then freezes on the Starting Windows screen...I had the same problem when the BETA came out but gave up and now wanted to try again with the release candidate. I have heard a bunch of people with ASUS motherboards say this was a problem...