1. Upgrade Options: Windows 7 beta will upgrade a Vista installation on your PC/laptop, but it will not directly skip Vista for Windows XP users. All XP users have to erase the existing operating system and start over. So make sure that you have back up all data and documents on a CD or an external drive before upgrading Windows XP machine. Windows 7 also runs on netbooks and performs well enough.
2. Dual Booting: For Vista users, you can also try Dual booting Vista and Windows 7, instead of completely erasing Vista from your system. You can always switch back to your original copy of Windows Vista, if you don't like Windows 7. Here is the link that can help you with step by step procedure to create dual boot for Windows 7 and Vista. Option 1: Click Here. Option 2: Click Here. The Windows 7 download comes as a file with a .iso extension, which can be copied to a DVD using any DVD writer.
3. Compatible Antivirus Solutions: Don't fall for the rumors that Windows 7 has problems with the installations of antivirus solutions. Microsoft is still working on the latest version of Operating System, so it is in trying to iron out these issues. One of the options that you can use is beta of Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows 7, which is the latest release of of a "technical prototype" by Kaspersky Lab. The product is optimized for multi-core systems and will be available for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. Microsoft has also recommends to try solutions by other Antivirus providers including Symantec's Norton 360 3.0 Beta, AVG Internet Security and AVG Anti-Virus.4. Higher Bit Versions: You can now download either 32-bit version (about 2.3 gigabytes file size) or 64-bit version (about 3.3 gigabytes file size) of Windows 7 at through at least Jan. 24. Choose 32-bit version as it would also run on 64-bit processors, if you're not sure what you have. If you have an Intel Core 2 Duo or newer processor, which means you have got a 64-bit CPU, and you should install the 64-bit version of Windows 7. You may be limited on hardware, but Windows 7 will scale to support as high as 256 processor cores, which was not found in Vista OS. Vista was limited at 64 cores with the high-end 64-bit version. So Microsoft is promising a faster experience with Windows 7.
5. Driver Usage: You must have had issues with the installations of drivers from older versions, but Windows 7 has a great compatibility tool. Every driver from Vista can be used in Windows 7 and it works including video drivers. It is reliable and impressive. It will not fail your installations by freezing up on you or flash yellow screen.
6. Better Performance: Windows 7 Beta beats Windows Vista in all tests, including Access time and CPU usage. So it is possible that the final version of Windows 7 will perform better. Hardware website TweakTown carried out solid state drives performance comparison tests for Windows 7 beta and Windows Vista SP1. TweakTown ran some tests with the Patriot Warp2 128GB SSD SATA drive for both RAID 0 and single drive setups. Access time was impressive under Windows 7, while the CPU usage of W7 blew Vista to pieces scoring -1% usage under every test, according to TweakTown. It concludes: "Based on our testing, we can see that obviously Microsoft have spent some time improving SSD performance under Windows 7, as it managed to beat out Vista in all but one test and that might have only been a slip up."
7. Productivity Enhancer: Windows 7 saves a lot of clicks, so that your tasks become easy and fast. For instance, in Windows 7 try clicking right on Internet Explorer’s taskbar icon and you’ll see a list of recently visited Web sites; right-click on the desktop and the Screen Resolution menu is right there; there is a direct option to save all your data in a backup drive and it can be found under "Autoplay" once you plug in an external hard drive.8. Revolutionary Applications: Microsoft taps into the latest technology and provides sleek features with Windows 7 that cuts down on mouse-clicks. It has made significant changes to the desktop and taskbar. Taskbar is bigger by default. Then there is Aero Shake, which is useful in shaking a window to minimize other windows that are visible. Aero Peek is also a new tool that will allow you to seek your desktop without minimizing open windows. Windows 7 also has new ways of maximizing and tiling windows. Most of these tools can be used by just hovering mouse pointer over them.
9. New Files For Older Version: Windows 7's WordPad, which comes free with Microsoft's word processing bundle, can supports Office 2007's or 2008's XML-based Word docs. Microsoft has restricted the installation of near-final Release Candidate (RC) test build of Internet Explorer version 8.0. The reason being the both Windows 7 and the IE 8 RC are beta versions,
which means that they are still in the building process and are being tweaked for final versions through the feedbacks they receive.10. Windows 7 Shortcuts: If you are not prepared to upgrade your XP or Vista machine to Windows 7, try this lightweight application for Windows 7 Shortcuts that will give you the feel of what you can expect from the latest release. You can also try the updated Windows 7 Shortcuts release history.
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