My Experience with Windows 7 RC Installation

Hi Everyone,

I want to share a quick post with you all about my Windows 7 RC installation and usage.

I read in blogs and comments on Facebook that its very convenient and very fast installation so I wanted to use it myself.

I got an ISO of 64bit from a “trustworthy” source, this ISO image came from Microsoft’s Technet site so I had no way to know what is waiting for me.

when approaching to install on my Lenovo X61 I got a strange message that want me to load driver for my DVD, strangely enough.. I thought “you know what … its an RC , the x61 has no built in DVD drive so it might cause it”. after borrowing a docking station for it it kept on doing the same problem..

I did not despair I installed the BETA version 32 bit and then then upgraded to RC 32 bit.

of course this whole process took me 2 days with downloads and installation.

after I finished installing my whole environment with office and all on the RC x32 bit, the CEO of my company asked about it.. so I told him the story, I said “i love it, its great OS but the installation just killed me!” so he said: “what are you talking about ?!? it took me 7 min to install it on my home desktop with quad core and 12GB ram…” and then i started wondering !! I said how could it be… and asked the ISO he installed from.

day after he gave it to me, ISO he downloaded not from technet or something just from the regular Windows7 site and it worked smoothly, no problems and no worries, it took me another day to install the rest of my work environment.

my point is that for me to get a good Lenovo x61 running Windows 7 RC x64 it took 3 days. instead of 15-30 min. sucks

BUT ! I like it, now that I have it.

so someone sent me some Windows 7 Tips that I’d like to share with the public :)

you can go to my directory and download it from here