Windows 7 RC1 Available to Review
May 10, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
Today for Mother’s Day I thought I might upgrade my wife’s computer to have her try out the Windows 7 RC1 that’s now available. She’s been having some odd issues with her Vista installation randomly locking up, so I thought I’d install Windows 7 and see what she thought about the new operating system.
The problem though is that from what I read on the Windows 7 download site and installation instructions, it’s a complete fresh install of the OS. Anything on the hard drive is lost. The verbiage talked about having to backup everything and then reinstalling the programs you use once the Windows 7 RC1 files are installed.
I understand that it’s beta software and use at my own risk, but sure wish I didn’t have to lose everything on my wife’s computer to take Windows 7 for a spin. That wouldn’t be much of a Mother’s Day present.
Drop down to your closest computer store and pick up cheapest hard drive. Take out the current (and store it away), pop in the new one.
Win7 is the best thing that has EVER come out of MS in a LONG long time. It’s well worth any grief for the initial install.
Is that really Windows 7? I thought the taskbar looked different…
I’m sure it’s been tweaked in different versions.
You can upgrade Vista to Windows 7 RC1.