Windows 7 Beta?

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#1  Edited By Wolverine

How is it? Is it worth installing on my vista PC? Can it be unnstalled?

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#2  Edited By Megalon

Well it's not really something that is "uninstalled"...you would most likely want to partition some of your harddrive to install 7 onto. Then when you want, you can just delete the partition and fix your boot manager.

If you don't really know how to do that stuff with full release OS's, I wouldn't recommend fooling with this beta yet. It's pretty cool, but nothing to get super excited about (so far, at least).

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#3  Edited By serbsta

It can be uninstalled and replaced with a new OS, you can keep it on the PC up until August sometime when the Beta closes, so keep that in mind. I think its worth installing if youre a fan of Microsoft or you just want to try something new, im quite enjoying it so far.

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#4  Edited By Da_Muffin_Man

Download it! It's awesome!

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#5  Edited By pirate_republic

I don't recommend getting it if you don't have the technical know-how beforehand, but here goes.

The easiest way would be to use something like Gparted to reformat your drive, than burn the windows beta to DVD using Imgburn, than install the beta on your empty hard drive. If you don't want to kill your vista install, than use Gparted to resize your vista partition, and then make another NTFS partition to install the windows beta to, and that way you'll have a dual boot: pick vista or 7 when your comp boots up. This way, you can delete the 7 partition when you're done with it, and resize Vista to to cover your entire drive.

If that didn't make any sense, or if you absolutely can't risk losing anything on your Vista (and you don't back up), than don't try the beta. If you know what I'm talking about, then great, go for it. I'm using it as I type now and it's great... very few bugs and it's very stable.
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#6  Edited By DavidPalmer

I think I'm going to stay with XP for the time being. Until I'm forced to change I don't think I'm going to be commuting to a new Windows operating system.

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#7  Edited By Steven

Wow, I don't think I could ever go back to XP.  The new stuff really is pretty good.

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#8  Edited By Aaron_G

I would go for it, but I don't want to risk loosing my XP install. 

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#9  Edited By teh_destroyer
DavidPalmer said:
"I think I'm going to stay with XP for the time being. Until I'm forced to change I don't think I'm going to be commuting to a new Windows operating system."
I am in the same boat,I usually just use my pc for web surfing anyways.
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#10  Edited By Depression

WINDOWS 7 is the best windows ever, not one problem

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#11  Edited By NoSwear

It's really good. Really stable and the new features are awesome.
It's what I wanted Vista to be.