Windows 7 – Release Candidate is out in the wild till July 2009.
A good opertating system makes a lot of difference for making tech living easy…
After reading many good reviews on the new OS, I decided to give it a try too. I started with the public beta back in January and created a new partition on my C: drive to do a dual boot from my Windows XP Professional.
It worked really well and surprisingly almost all my devices on my old Pentium 4 2.8ghz, with 1GB RAM and an ATI FireGL 32mb worked fine.. including my logitech wireless keyboard and mouse.
But my C: drive is dying.. the hard disk has been having clunking sounds and is really slow.
I used HDD Health from Panterasoft.com. It’s a free program to help monitor the health of your hard disks. Windows only.
It has alerts to let you know if your hard disks are opearting at temperatures too high, send you alerts via email or logs while using no system resources.
And the health for my C: was at 30%.. so time to change.
As the experts say, hard disk failures are not a question of ‘IF”, it’s a question of ‘When’.
So do backup your important files!
Downloading Windows 7 RC Built 7100 from Microsoft – Click here [You'll need a Hotmail or Live account to proceed]
I had problems using Chrome and even IE downloading the file. Probably the plug in issues. So finally got it to work with Firefox, via a Java applet.
The product key will be given on the download page (as you can see above).
You will be downloading the .ISO file -> which means u need to burn this onto a DVD.
Boot from the DVD to run the installation. The ISO image is 2.36gb, so it’s gonna take a while to download… alternativetly you can try the torrent downloads.
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