Windows 7 RC due May 5th

Steve · May 05, 2009, 20:45:33

Don't know whether its a quirk of virtualbox but having allocated 1gb of physical memory to the guest OS.Windows 7 in non aero mode uses about 300mb, which surprisingly is very similar to XP pro. One difference is that XP still feels quicker.

Sebby · May 05, 2009, 20:47:17

Windows 7 is certainly supposed to be a lot less resource-hungry. I'll switch on my old PC later and see how much of the 2GB physical RAM it uses.

Sebby · May 05, 2009, 20:54:02

Here's the answer.

That's with Kaspersky Antivirus running and Internet Explorer 8.

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Steve · May 05, 2009, 21:10:21

I am sure Vista would be much nearer the 1Gb in a similar situation.

Sebby · May 05, 2009, 23:03:42

Agreed. It's a vast improvement.

Gary · May 06, 2009, 06:55:23

That certainly is Sebby in Vista it is about 986MB on my machine, but I'm still not spending cash on something I do not need, not in the recession, decorating and making our new house and garden ours is more important, and my laptop runs just fine on Vista, I think its a great upgrade for XP users but the expense of buying a new OS just to replace one that works fine for me isn't worth it, but if I was buying now I would definitely wait till its release

oh and Kaspersky does not support windows 7 according to the forums, so see how that goes, they say official support will come at release http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=115494 ;

watch out for any odd behaviour with other programs I guess.

Steve · May 06, 2009, 07:46:13

Imagine the headlines .Memory chip manufacturers complain to MS that the new OS will not increase their sales."They claim they have an agreement that any new MS OS must........."

psp83 · May 06, 2009, 08:09:47

Will be installing windows 7 this weekend on a test machine.

If this is any help though, heres my memory usage on vista straight after a reboot (left it a few mins to fully settle down)

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Sebby · May 06, 2009, 13:36:20

Quote from: Gary on May 06, 2009, 06:55:23
That certainly is Sebby in Vista it is about 986MB on my machine, but I'm still not spending cash on something I do not need, not in the recession, decorating and making our new house and garden ours is more important, and my laptop runs just fine on Vista, I think its a great upgrade for XP users but the expense of buying a new OS just to replace one that works fine for me isn't worth it, but if I was buying now I would definitely wait till its release oh and Kaspersky does not support windows 7 according to the forums, so see how that goes, they say official support will come at release http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=115494 watch out for any odd behaviour with other programs I guess.

http://www.kaspersky.com/windows7

Sebby · May 06, 2009, 13:37:47

Quote from: psp83 on May 06, 2009, 08:09:47
Will be installing windows 7 this weekend on a test machine.

If this is any help though, heres my memory usage on vista straight after a reboot (left it a few mins to fully settle down)

A few minutes? It needs a few hours to settle down in my experience!

somanyholes · May 06, 2009, 14:20:25

Quotehttp://www.kaspersky.com/windows7

this is on one of my colleagues box's and seems to be working well.

Glenn · May 06, 2009, 17:15:00

I downloaded W7 agian at work today - the last download failed, but I left the DVD at work

Rik · May 06, 2009, 17:30:31

Is it with the Nikon charger, Glenn?

Glenn · May 06, 2009, 17:34:19

Possibly

psp83 · May 06, 2009, 21:27:12

Quote from: Sebby on May 06, 2009, 13:37:47
A few minutes? It needs a few hours to settle down in my experience!

lol. my machine is powerful enough though

I can boot into vista and be checking emails within 30secs.

psp83 · May 07, 2009, 09:29:35

I've installed Windows 7 on my spare laptop and its seems to be ok but there is one annoying problem, Wireless doesn't allow connection to the internet but it does connect to the router.

Rik · May 07, 2009, 09:32:05

It's a new security feature, Paul, designed to ensure you don't get any nasties on the machine.

psp83 · May 07, 2009, 09:48:19

Quote from: Rik on May 07, 2009, 09:32:05
It's a new security feature, Paul, designed to ensure you don't get any nasties on the machine.

Well they've done a good job so far, tried everything i can think of and cant get net access on that laptop.

Rik · May 07, 2009, 09:53:37

If you can reach the router, TCP/IP must be OK. I assume DHCP is working too? Is there some sort of weird firewall setting which is blocking any external traffic? Can you see another machine on the LAN?

RichR · May 07, 2009, 10:11:31

Quote from: psp83 on May 07, 2009, 09:29:35
I've installed Windows 7 on my spare laptop and its seems to be ok but there is one annoying problem, Wireless doesn't allow connection to the internet but it does connect to the router.

I've seen this happen on Vista before and the only solution was going back to a system restore point. A whole bunch of services weren't starting due to permissions problems. Usefully one of the services that wasn't running was the Diagnostic service. The one causing the problem with getting out to the net was DHCP. Unfortunately Microsoft's solution didn't work either.

psp83 · May 07, 2009, 12:23:15

Heres a screenshot. would love to get wireless working if anybody knows how?

Access type : no internet access

I've removed my works company id from the pic.

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Rik · May 07, 2009, 12:27:03

Could you try a cable connection first, Paul, to narrow it to a purely wireless issue (or have you already done that)?

psp83 · May 07, 2009, 13:01:28

cable and wireless dont work

Rik · May 07, 2009, 13:06:51

So that rules out anything to do with WEP/WPA encryption I guess. Is it obtaining an IP address (I'm assuming it is if you can see the router). If so, that would make me think it has to be down to some sort of firewall block. Have you checked which services are running?

somanyholes · May 07, 2009, 13:07:44

can you ping 216.239.59.99?