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foxit software has one of my must have installations after the many installs and upgrades i've done of windows 7 over the past year. i typically have occasional need to open a pdf file, and foxit reader does that job well, but what i really like is...
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at our thursday loadfest we had a user that had the magnifier starting every time their computer restarted (kind of annoying until you realize how awesome the new windows 7 magnifier is!), so i figured out where it got configured and wanted to send instructions...
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over the weekend i blogged about a great netbook deal – and currently it’s exclusively at best buy . the lt3114u or lt3103u both have a 250 gb hard drive and 2 gb of ram. i’ve got the cherry red one and it’s now running windows 7 home premium...
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i’ve become a big fan of netbooks lately. they are light and inexpensive and some come with reasonable hard drives (160 gb in many models) but up until recently i’ve had three complaints – 1) windows xp home 2) limited ram and 3) resolution. ...
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three more installations of windows 7 - i've done a lot of installations of windows home premium and on a couple i might want to eventually run windows 7 professional or ultimate because of windows virtual pc or features included that i may want to...
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i’m running a couple of my main windows 7 laptops (and a netbook) with only 1 gb of ram and it’s running great, but for a system that 1) allows for additional ram 2) has shared video memory and 3) might run xp mode at some point, 2 gb of ram is really...
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today i’m working on my 4th and 5th installation of windows 7 rtm. one is an upgrade from the windows 7 enterprise release candidate to rtm and the other was a fresh install (both of these were 64 bit installations). i’ve been on rtm bits for a...
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so i’ve already installed three copies of the rtm (release to manufacturing) of windows 7 and it’s working great! i’ve upgraded one system (32 bit windows vista home premium) and installed two copies of 64 bit so far. i’ll try to provide as...
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hopefully you've installed the windows 7 release candidate by now (and if you haven't download and install it) - so the next thing you'll want to take a look at is how your applications and utilities will perform under the latest operating...
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so today i ran my second and third (and assisted with a fourth and fifth) upgrade to the windows 7 release candidate. the upgrade from windows vista sp2 release candidate ran fine. i've put in a request to make it my second computer in the direct...
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today we've posted addtional information in preparation for the release candidate for windows 7 on the engineering 7 blog. it confirms what a lot of people have been asking me – you will be able to upgrade from the beta or interim builds to the release...
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another week and another loadfest and presentation on windows 7. i had the opportunity to load windows 7 on a dell e6400 today - the install ran without issue. friday we're doing another loadfest with partners and microsoft internal folks. Share this...
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internet explorer 8 is here and i'm about to put it on one of my windows vista systems. just got back from cwug - great time with virtualization technologies and boot to vhd. 15 more installations this evening, although i had some help from shawn...
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i've just loaded beta drivers to enable multi touch on a dell latitude xt and this afternoon i'll check out this new feature and report back soon. also loading up a group of acer netbooks for a windows 7 lab i'm putting together for a local...
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i recently received two netbooks for our upcoming cwug windows 7 loadfest and have been doing some testing with windows 7 home premium and windows 7 ultimate on them. we're looking to provide the community with these kinds of experiences as well....
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i think i win the geekiest airline passenger award this past week - i brought three laptops with me to redmond for the mct summit. 1 running windows 7 enterprise, 1 running windows home premium and 1 running windows server 2008 and hyper-v. so i get out...
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this evening i was looking at the various options - around $300-350 for netbooks. netbooks are interesting because they can run either windows xp, windows vista or windows 7 beta and they are larger than my current phone to make typing and using them...
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i was thinking of someone who taught me the value of my time when i was much younger (and had time to spare!) today as i setup another 15 computers with windows 7 at work. "dr. bob" as he was known to me, was technical, an entertaining presenter...
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build #63 today but i'll pick up 15 more on sunday in preparation for a demo monday. i saw the acer netbook at walmart this evening. besides what i'm assuming is very limited space on the hard drive, it looked pretty nice in the display case....
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on my way to 700 installations of windows 7, i've decided i won't include virtual installations using virtual pc, virtual server/hyper-v or other virtualization products (it doesn't seem fair to count them). i will however be counting reinstallations...
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so i've installed my first windows 7 home premium build 6801 and my first upgrade to an existing windows vista system (which just so happened to be running windows vista home premium). both of which emphasized the strong application compatibility...
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i'm slowly but surely racking up installations of windows 7 on systems. i've now done my first few "over the network" installations using WDS (haven't multicast the installation just yet). i'll do the math to see how many installations...
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i did some additional testing on three dell desktop systems with the pre beta windows 7 build - fast extraction of the wim from dvd (i'll need to time it, but i believe the extraction was around 10 minutes) and setup on systems with 4 gb of ram. all...
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my first two builds of windows 7 in one way brought me back to when windows vista was in beta (downloading the bits, burning dvds, waiting while the installation runs), but since windows 7 is building upon the foundation that windows vista sp1 and windows...
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one of my goals with windows 7 is to install and test it on as many systems and as many times as i can. much of this will be on my own time since i do have a day job :), but looking towards the future, or dogfooding as they say at microsoft, is part of...
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