CWmike writes with a warning that free preview copies of Windows 7 in the wild will start nagging users to pay up in a couple of week until ultimately shutting down the PC altogether in a month. "Microsoft unveiled the schedule for Windows 7 Release Candidate's retirement in May 2009, when it issued the early look to the public. At the time, it said Windows 7 RC would expire June 1, 2010. Before that date, however, users are to receive warnings of the impending end. Starting on Feb. 15, Windows 7 RC will display notices every few hours that the machine will periodically shut down beginning on March 1. As of March 1, PCs running Windows 7 RC will automatically shut down every two hours. Those shutdowns will come without warning." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
From: ninety-ohm bedistor (CELERON) [#7] 5 Feb 0:18 To: elfz0r (ELF) [#6] 5 Feb 2:00
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All you need to do is change the MinClient value to something less than the current build you are using. For the RC release, you can change it to 7000.
From the looks of it, that trick should still work.
From: Tom Sawyer (TOM_SAWYER) [#12] 1 Mar 9:59 To: ninety-ohm bedistor (CELERON) [#11] 1 Mar 12:39
ultimate 7 working fine here
I can see the performance difference in bioshock 2 at least. With XP it was running very poor frame rates in single player to the point where I could not enjoy it.
Many factors but a afew:
I went from a 32 bit os to the 64 to let my aging opty 165 stretch its legs.
It can finally use all 4gb of memory instead of the xp limit
and my nvidia gtx260 really has boosted in directx11
From: ninety-ohm bedistor (CELERON) [#17] 2 Mar 0:31 To: elfz0r (ELF) [#16] 2 Mar 15:36
Good to know.
In the next few days, my friend will be calling me complaining that "my computer keeps shutting down and saying it's expired or something". He'll be wanting me to fix it, and I don't want to waste a whole day messing with settings.