I’m having to do a personal computer upgrade. My Windows 7 RC1 (release candidate 1 for you non-geeks) that I installed last year is about to expire, and I have to update my system with the full version tonight.
Thus I’ll be offline and moderation may be slow or non-existent for awhile. Hopefully the WUWT moderation team can pick up the slack. Thanks for your patronage and patience – Anthony
UPDATE: I’m up and running again, pretty painless actually, I had to re-install a couple of applications, and I finally dumped MS-Office for the OpenOffice.org suite. No looking back now. See my desktop below:
For those who still live with the hassles of Windows Vista, do yourself a favor and buy Windows 7.
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… and such a polite young man too! 😉
Finally, something that I am qualified to comment on.
Good luck with the Upgrade. As one who is trying to be agnostic when it comes to Operating Systems, I actually enjoy Windows 7.
When I upgraded our computer from Vista home 32 to Windows 7 64 bit, I had visions of spending a whole Saturday upgrading. I told my wife I was going to get my geek on. I was salivating at just the thought.
Turns out it was something like 7 next buttons three okays and go mow the lawn.
Have fun!
Did you partition the drive for the eventuality in the first place?
Don’t forget to do it this time…
hope that goes ok
I don’t think you can ‘update’ to the full version, but get the fun of doing a full reinestall.
When I did the RC win7 fun, I kept all my install programs in separate folders with notes and keys and deactivation and activation procedures knowing the win7 full release was not a simple update.
I often miss the ‘old days’ when a program was a program. The program ran from it’s own directory and you simply copied the directory from one place to the other to ‘move’ it.
I dislike the windows registry.
Anyway – have fun! And best wishes on your ‘update’.
Good luck, I imagine that the swear jar will be full of change in the morning.
Good luck, eh? Meanwhile Canada leads Germany 4-1 in the 2nd period at the Olympics. If they win they get the Russians tomorrow on real anthro created ice.
‘…Thanks for your patronage and patience – Anthony’
And thanks to you (and the mods) for your pertinence and persistence.
Technically, its just called the RC version. It is true that it was the first one, but there was never a second one. We should try to be as accurate as possible in our climate change blogs.
You need a parrot to record your technical notes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRhvUJIwbV0
And now, for the inevitable Mac-fanatic jab: You wouldn’t have these kinds of issues if you had a Mac. I thought you were smarter than to have Windows. Sure, I use a Windows machine at work 8 hours each day. But when I actually want to get something done, I use a Mac at home. Do you depend on some software that only works with Windows? So, get a Mac and run both OS-X AND Windows on the same machine at the same time.
Unfortunately, though, Al Gore is on the Apple board — that’s enough to make me want to destroy Apple.
I was very frustrated and annoyed by Vista. Windows 7 is much better product. Still a bit annoyed at having to pay them for the upgrade, but damn glad I did it.
While the cat’s away, the mice continue to throw each other under buses: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/02/the-guardian-disappoints/
Anthony
You CAN upgrade windows7 RC to regular windows 7. I just did it myself yesterday and it works like a charm.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3075/how-to-upgrade-the-windows-7-rc-to-rtm/
good luck!
google “hackintosh” for how to run OS X on hardware not christened by Jobs or cried on by unicorns.
OS X upgrades haven’t been troublefree ever, check out Apple’s support forums for the same kinds of problems you’ll see on ubuntu’s and everyone’s support forums, including MS.
The RC to RTM upgrade isn’t officially supported, but it’s quite possible and has been successful for many.
Good luck! …and relax, kick the feet up. We’ll be good, scout’s honor
* grabs whiskey from parent’s liquor cabinet and calls friends over
😛
Good luck, Anthony. I know what those upgrade evenings can be like. I don’t envy you.
Windows 7 upgrades; not difficult, but very, very tedious. Best of luck and don’t let the BSOD get your hard drive.
I did that process. Sadly, Windows 7 final is not as fast or crash free as RC was. There are also memory leaks.
The words Windows and geeks can only be used in a small set of sentences. All of these sentences can be typified by the example, “Geeks do not use Windows”. 😛
“Van Grungy (17:34:26) :
Have fun!
Did you partition the drive for the eventuality in the first place?
Don’t forget to do it this time…”
No need to do that beforehand anymore. Use Acronis disk manager to “fix” partition/disk decision errors with ease after the event. I use it all the time with my VM’s (SMS, MOM, SCCM, SCOM, Unicenter, SQL, 2K3, 2K8 etc test servers). I’ve even used Acronis to change the sector size to prove a point to someone that when you have a 4kb memory page to swap out, you’ll need 2 i/o’s when your swap space is formatted with 2kb sectors.
If things go poorly and the parrot gets too bossy, there is the beached whale option: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vmnq5dBF7Y
Thanks for reminding me why I run Linux. For me a clean reinstall is a 1/2 hour tops, with everything running just as before.
What happened to all that Big Oil money you are supposed to be rolling in? I thought you would have a gazillion computers. What’s this – the whole blog is run off one little pc? Sheesh – I hope you at least have a dual head graphics card, or Al Gore will show you up (he’s got 3 big plasma screens). Better put through a grant application to Big Oil….
😉
Thanks for this website. Thanks for the open discussion, more of you are needed.
I feel your pain. I have to do the same tommorriw