Post Your Windows 7 Beta Experiences

Chaos · February 3rd, 2009, 06:05 PM

It turned out that with AHIC enabled the drives did not show as available once I set the BIOS setting for drives to IDE they became accessible

Dyre Straits · February 8th, 2009, 04:02 PM

How many of you are using the Gadgets? I never liked having something like this on my ol' CRT monitor. But, with the extra real estate on my LCD, I do like them. I have the Clock, Calendar, CPU/Memory Usage, and Local Weather gadgets showing.

They have some additional and free Gadgets available from Windows Downloads if you're interested.

PrEzi · February 8th, 2009, 06:18 PM

Well, I have the clock, calendar and weather gadget (from weather bug), so far Win7 feels speedier and better than Vista. It's better tweaked 'by default'.
Downloading now the pre-RC branch build 7022, we'll see what kind of improvements since build 7000.

shinysuitman · February 9th, 2009, 06:52 AM

My iTunes is screwed. It uses unusually high amounts of CPU and RAM. At one point it was using 500 MB of RAM and 47 percent of my CPU. It already has to be run in Windows Vista compatibility mode. I'm currently using Windows Build 7000 x64