Hands-On Windows 7 Milestone 1

[Warboy]

I was able to get a copy of Windows 7 Milestone One early this morning. Here are Some screenshots. It's not fully working since It is Not active because Milestone 2 coming out later this month, Early next month. When I find a way to make it work correctly. I would be able to answer all the questions I CAN, But Remember I'm not a Microsoft Employee.

[perkam]

How big is the footprint, and how much memory did you assign to it.

Did they reduce the number of background processes, and have they gotten rid of UAC

Perkam

[Warboy]

How big is the footprint, and how much memory did you assign to it.

Perkam

Well, If You look at the hard drive room it is currently using(16gb HD,Around 8GB Free). It's not very big at all. Compared to Windows Vista, It's Smaller.

I assigned 768mb for Virtual Ram, It's using 337mb. It's bumpy right now since it's on a Virtual Machine and It's not active. I will be installing it on my 2nd HD hopefully sometime this week.

P.S. I'll check on how big the Windows Folder Itself is soon and report back.

[perkam]

Well, If You look at the hard drive room it is currently using(16gb HD,Around 8GB Free). It's not very big at all. Compared to Windows Vista, It's Smaller.

I assigned 768mb for Virtual Ram, It's using 337mb. It's bumpy right now since it's on a Virtual Machine and It's not active. I will be installing it on my 2nd HD hopefully sometime this week.

P.S. I'll check on how big the Windows Folder Itself is soon and report back.

8GB is not great for a clean install. Mine is 11GB, but after a year without a re-install.

Perkam

[Sr7]

That looks exactly like Vista.. I assume they add UI goodness/differences as a later stage.. right now they probably just have the internals based on Windows 7 to get it working.

[Joor]

Whats new in windows 7 ?

[perkam]

That looks exactly like Vista.. I assume they add UI goodness/differences as a later stage.. right now they probably just have the internals based on Windows 7 to get it working.

I wouldn't mind some lighter UI, as long as they get rid of the extra fat

I had to disable half the background processes Vista uses because I never needed them

Perkam

[Warboy]

I just dropped a DXDiag Picture in the link. Well. The Windows Folder itself is 4.25gb. The DVD was 2.9GB.

Hopefully the 64bit Version isn't like the Windows Vista 64bit in size atleast. Since Vista 64 was 10-11gb from a fresh install.

[Errik89]

it looks the same of Vista, but if really the it using 337mb of virtual memory probably the final system could use less memory than Vista. It's very good if it's real!!

[Warboy]

Whats new in windows 7 ?

I can't answer that.

it looks the same of Vista, but if really the it using 337mb of virtual memory probably the final system could use less memory than Vista. It's very good if it's real!!

It's real, Check the pictures. The New Boot Loading screen is sexy, it's in 32bit color too. Which is a first. Since It's also animated. The Highest Bit for a Vista Loading Screen was 24bit, and That was only if it was a static image.

[G80]

How big is the footprint, and how much memory did you assign to it.

Did they reduce the number of background processes, and have they gotten rid of UAC

Perkam

LOL UAC, what a joke. Im confident they have something else just as annoying ready for the final build.

"Are you sure you want to turn off this computer yes/no?"

[3NZ0]

I can't answer that.



It's real, Check the pictures. The New Boot Loading screen is sexy, it's in 32bit color too. Which is a first. Since It's also animated. The Highest Bit for a Vista Loading Screen was 24bit, and That was only if it was a static image.

You have a copy of Windows 7 to test and one of the first things you report back is 'the new boot loading screen'

Brilliant.

[gillll]

the m1 build as i recall is good till somtimes this month.

isn't it ?

[dieqast]

Very nice Warboy. What I don't like is that there is also a 32-bit version, alas still no future for 64-bit computing! But other than that I like that it is Vista on SlimFast. Very sleek, and yes the dusty loading screen had to go so nice 1 there Microsoft!
Does Windows 7 recognise and fully map 4GB's of RAM?
Is it DX10 only?
When you can get it non-virtual, we would like to see performance impact on games since I wasn't pleased with that in Vista.

[Shintai]

Windows 7 looks like Vista SR2...

[mAJORD]

How big is the footprint, and how much memory did you assign to it.

Did they reduce the number of background processes, and have they gotten rid of UAC

Perkam

Who doesn't turn UAC off straight away though?

[Warboy]

You have a copy of Windows 7 to test and one of the first things you report back is 'the new boot loading screen'

Brilliant.

Yes, It's sexy tho

the m1 build as i recall is good till somtimes this month.

isn't it ?

I answered this in the first post.

Very nice Warboy. What I don't like is that there is also a 32-bit version, alas still no future for 64-bit computing! But other than that I like that it is Vista on SlimFast. Very sleek, and yes the dusty loading screen had to go so nice 1 there Microsoft!
Does Windows 7 recognise and fully map 4GB's of RAM?
Is it DX10 only?
When you can get it non-virtual, we would like to see performance impact on games since I wasn't pleased with that in Vista.

I don't have 4GB of DDR3 to test it on. This is also the 32-bit Version. It supports DX10, But I don't believe it's DX10 only. I also Answered the last part of your post in the 2nd post I made.

[Shintai]

it looks the same of Vista, but if really the it using 337mb of virtual memory probably the final system could use less memory than Vista. It's very good if it's real!!

Not for 32bit....My Vista32 on my old laptop uses less.

[gillll]

yea thanx saw it.

it's the smallest kernel since win3.11 i think

how many types are there ? ultimate ? home ?

[InputUsername]

Is there a DX diag in it?

[Warboy]

yea thanx saw it.

it's the smallest kernel since win3.11 i think

how many types are there ? ultimate ? home ?

What about the Kernel Size? Anyways, There are all the types just like Vista right now.

Is there a DX diag in it?

Look at the screenshots.

[gillll]

http://s31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...rent=W7-14.png

kernel size is total 96 in your pic where my xp is 150mb and above.
it's good thing, do more then that and ms will have to reveal which linux kernel they had modded

[dieqast]

I don't have 4GB of DDR3 to test it on. This is also the 32-bit Version. It supports DX10, But I don't believe it's DX10 only. I also Answered the last part of your post in the 2nd post I made.

I was just saying, I'm very anxious to see if gaming performance (Crysis, CoD4 i.e.) has improved compared to Vista 32-bit.
Hmm also the 4GB mapping, if they worked that out properly, I'm interested

[Warboy]

http://s31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...rent=W7-14.png

kernel size is total 96 in your pic where my xp is 150mb and above.
it's good thing, do more then that and ms will have to reveal which linux kernel they had modded

Fair Enough.

I was just saying, I'm very anxious to see if gaming performance (Crysis, CoD4 i.e.) has improved compared to Vista 32-bit.
Hmm also the 4GB mapping, if they worked that out properly, I'm interested

Well Send me some DDR3 2gb sticks and I'll test it

Yea, I wanna see what it can do with Crysis and such too. I should check the DX10 Subversion...That gives me a Idea. Next Time.

[gillll]

u'll need driver for that... are there nvidia drivers for win7 ?