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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My W7-64bit RC1 expired a while back; so also had to spring for RTM version. Went well; and W7 has been flawless (well, at least after I installed latest MSI Motherboard BIOS update shortly after powering up the new i& quad-core machine; to address known problems with silent system hangs due to power management issues between W7 and earlier BIOS versions).
One little gotcha I stumbled on for a bit:
My W7-64 RC1 was Ultimate; my purchased upgrade was for Pro.
Besides as mentioned above that MS does not officially support upgrade from RC to RTM versions, it also turns MS does not want you to upgrade from an Ultimate RC to Pro. Was able to work around it, and all is well now. But grrr…..
Just curious: what software is available for Mac that’s not on a PC? I always thought Mac was way behind PC.
Please, just get a mac. I’d totally be willing to donate towards that cause.
Dual boot Linux. Ubuntu is fine, but there are lots of others.
Keep up the good work. Hey, how about your audit program for the met stations to be used by the UK Met Office program for quality control of the real met data?
LINUXLINUXLINUX
Anthony — you CAN upgrade but there’s a trick…
email me if you need info.
got to copy the dvd to your drive… then edit an ini file in the sources folder…
OH NO!!! WINDOWS???? Why don’t you “update” to gentoo linux instead.
REPLY: My other machines are Ubuntu and Slackware Linux. I use Windows because certain applications I need don’t exist in Linux or in Mac. -A
DesertYote (19:00:35) :
“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”. :P”
Sorry, that is “Pretentious MAC users who think they are geeks do not use Windows”… I program in more languages than most diplomats speak, I’ve authored a half dozen software manuals, developed several commercial websites, I programmed my own PC operated ‘fax-back’ service in 1992, my own football video game in 7th grade on an HP-99 (1981), I run a virtual world development company, and I’ve used Windows since 1991.
Methow Ken (19:59:53) :
Might you be able to share that work around? My wife have ultimate and I’m not looking forward to reinstalling all her media stuff again when I put Pro on there.
If I have to, I’ll just do a fresh install, but I’m really hoping to make this simpler.
Here’s what you can do to bypass the check for pre-release upgrade IF YOU REALLY REALLY NEED TO:
1. Copy the whole image to a storage location you wish to run the upgrade from (a bootable flash drive or a directory on any partition on the machine running the pre-release build).
3. Browse to the sources directory.
4. Open the file cversion.ini in a text editor like Notepad.
5. Modify the MinClient build number to a value lower than the down-level build. For example, change to 7000.
6. Save the file in place with the same name.
7. Run setup like you would normally from this modified copy of the image and the version check will be bypassed.
I’d volunteer my living body for research on the freezing effects of global warming before I’d ever consider being a guinea pig for a new Windows operating system again.
Good luck with your upgrade. Hope it’s not worse than you thought.
I tried the beta edition on a partition and went back to XP. My kids had Vista. I was impressed enough that when it came out I spent a couple bucks and now only run Windows 7 (5 PC’s), even on my EEE with an upgraded 32 GB SSD.
I actually thought about an apple but I can’t give up my DOS box 😉 … run ‘cmd’ return and its there … comforting.
Apparrently the problem of installing a version of Windows 7 diiferent to Ultimate can be solved also.
see:
http://tech.icrontic.com/articles/upgrade-the-windows-7-rc-to-retail/
He doesn’t want to sit around p*ss*n around trying to get various pieces of hardware to work, which were working perfectly well already?
Plus — software. Glorious choice of dozens of different types of software all designed to accomplish the same thing, in a competitive market, giving one the option to choose the best of the best.
I’ve used both and I always thought so too — before and after using both.
Oh, there’s software for Mac. But there’s inevitably more software for Windows giving one a higher likelihood of finding software that does the task as one wants it done.
With the software as a service model with browser-based delivery, this will be arguably less so in the future… assuming one isn’t using the awful Safari browser.
Macs suck… but man, they sure are pretty, aren’t they?
I prefer Kubuntu Linux due to the KDE desktop environment. Linux – the home for FOSS (Free and Open Source Software).
Good luck with your upgrading, but try Linux from a Live CD.
Anthony –
seriously, if you are running this site on only one machine, get a Pay Pal tip jar going. I am sure many of us would be happy to contribute
I had win7 premium RC then I was faced with Big price to get real Win7 Premium.. I went for PCLinusOS much better the Win7 ! and safer!
windows is shutting
down it is now safe
to turn off your computer
Even world changing blog owners make mistakes…
The only reason that people like windows 7 is because it looks and feels more like a mac than ever before. Just bite the bullet and get a macbook and get the whole deal. You get the power of unix, the beauty of a mac and no more crashes. Just run your windows in a vmware window if you really need to. After a while you will not feel the need to go back.
Windows is great for the younger generation but for serious users, you should be on unix. Any flavour will do from linux through to macs. Anyone that misses the command.com needs to see what you can do in the terminal window on macs.
Ex windows developer.
I’ve been a Linux guy since 2000. My first OS was Red Hat 7.1 (before they started doing the Fedora thing). I love Linux, but I am not a “LInux Snob”. I have been using Win 7 on my audio processing machine, and it is a fine OS. I’ve not done the RC to regular upgrade, but have heard it is easy. Good Luck Anthony…. And crap, I just realized I still need to get the latest pic of the Yosemite station over to Surfacestations.org. Will do that tomorrow.
OS evangelists… second against the wall come the revolution.
Why not buy a Fedora or Kubuntu bundle on a CD, put in disk reader and reboot? Much easier, and so much more free high quality applications on the web for it …
Just a suggestion.
its a sign of global warming the need to update your windows LOL..
“Windows 7 RC1”
Awkward choice for someone championing transparency and open practices 🙂 Good luck with the new install.