windows beta

  1. Windows 8 NB: Seemingly needed reminder!!

    No Beta OS should be installed except, as follows: 1. On a spare machine 2. Virtually 3. As a dual-boot. Never as an Upgrade or replacement to an existing, current, non-beta OS. Never on a production machine. Nor, BTW, can one move from 1 Beta of an OS to the next or from Beta to...
  2. Windows 8 leak sites closed down

    There have been a large amount of leaks in the last couple of weeks of screenshots from an early build of Windows 8, notable from websites such as winreview.ru. These leaks have shown us features such as the log-in with your Live ID, the ribbon in Explorer and some of the metro interface...
  3. VIDEO Windows 8 Beta

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    Windows 7 Battlefield: Bad Company 2

    :cool: What do you guys think of BC2? Do you have the beta for PC? What about the demo for the Xbox 360/PS3?
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    Windows 7 Trouble Playing Games

    I have been having trouble with my new laptop it is a Dell Inspiron 1318. It has a Intel Graphics card (My problem). I was able to play These games on it in Win7's Beta but now that I have the full version I am having trouble.ALL of my games don't work. They don't even display an error. I have...
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    Windows 7 Blue screen error + few small gameing compatibility issues

    Hi as this is my first post on these forums, let me first commend you all on such a good site! having allready had numerous problems solved just by reading the post's of others. There are a few features that make this site particularly good, but also I get a good vibe from the community side...
  7. Windows 7 When windows beta stops

    . On August 1, 2009 if you are still on the Windows 7 beta, your license will expire and the non-genuine experience will be triggered. Your wallpaper will be removed and "This copy of Windows is not genuine" will be displayed in the lower right corner above the taskbar. :eek: Bi-hourly...
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    Windows 7 Video issues after installing RC - 8800GT...help!

    Last night I installed the Win 7 RC and unlike the beta which ran fine, I am having some serious driver issues. I have an EVGA GeForce 8800GT connected to an HDTV which is my only display. At install the display was OK but the screen was not resizable and the edges including the start menu were...
  9. Windows 7 Is there a way to move the Gadgets freely? Like in B1

    I have been using Beta 1 for a long time. When I was using B1 I was moving the gadgets way off to a side of one of the screens I have but now its automaticly moving them for me when I get too close or to far away from the end of the screen. Is there way to make them totally free again?
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Logo Leaked

    Link Removed - Invalid URL Link Removed - Invalid URL No longer using the Vista style logo, Windows 7's 'in light' logo has been leaked on the Microsoft China website (along with a MSChina event), and at PCBETA. It seems Windows 7 is trying to break away from Vista in all ways in order to...
  11. Windows 7 Windows 7 7127 to leak soon

    According to SoLoR, who is usually correct about these things, build 7127 will be leaking tonight or tomorrow in bot x86 and x64. Apparently it is available right now on Connect for Partners. PCBeta has screens, but apparently the leak will be coming from Russia.
  12. Windows 7 Kaspersky offers free security for life of Win7 Beta

    Just go too Kaspersky and get your free windows 7 cover while windows is in Beta . http://www.kaspersky.com/news?id=207575725 Link Removed due to 404 Error
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    Windows 7 Usb generic driver

    Hello. i have a couple of Speed-link medusa usb headphones, and there seems to be no way of getting them to work properly in win 7 beta. When i plug them in, Windows automaticly installs drivers. However, the channel mapping is totaly wrong. First, it detects as 7.1 sound (with no other...
  14. Windows 7 Help on understanding windows 7 Beta

    When the public beta program first starts, a version is released that has been extensively tested and determined to be stable enough for the general public to start testing. This first version (In this case v. 7000) is used as the base code for all of the bug reporting and feedback until the...
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    Windows 7 Any decent ftp software working on Windows 7?

    Hi, I always used smartftp on my vista machine and recently I switched to Windows 7. (edit: I'm using win 7 beta - 7000 build). My smart ftp won't work, I started using filezilla but it's just not good enough, it has only one remote browser, no good password manager etc, just not good enough...
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    Windows 7 Troubleshooting Media Center and Player DVD Playback Issues with Pinnacle PCTV 801e SE

    I'm having a problem with Media Center playing TV from my Pinnacle PCTV 801e SE USB Stick and DVDs from both Media Center and Player. This was all working at one point and I changed absolutely nothing when it started doing this. I currently get the error: "Decoder Error: The video decoder has...
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    Windows 7 Empire: Total War demo

    Greetings. This issue frustrates me to no end, i very much hope you can help me out. I downloaded the Empire Total War demo from steam, but when i try to run it, it only shows the first screen (the ones who played Total War games, know it, the one with total war logo, creative assembly, sega...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 LITE (web version vs. vliting)

    I have Windows 7 on a dozen home, office and family computers but wanted to try a lite version on an old HP 510 laptop and Gateway 700 with limited 528 ram. I downloaded the popular Windows.7.Beta.Build.7000.LiTE (1,43gb) from the web, it activated with MS Win7 key and works perfectly on both...
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    Windows 7 Lost virtual memory / paging file on upgrade

    I upgraded to the beta from Vista. In Vista, I never had any memory related problems. Since starting with the beta, I began getting out of memory errors. I looked into it, and realized that for some reason, there is no longer any paging file in use. The problem is that I can't do anything to get...
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    Windows 7 Windows could not configure one or more system components

    I'm trying to do a clean install of Windows 7 build 7000 32-bit (downloaded from microsoft.com) on a 30 GB partition. During the "Completing installation..." phase, I get a pop-up with this message: I looked in the logs, here are the last lines of X:\Windows\Panther\setuperr.log: Any idea?