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Windows 7 Installation Guide / Tutorial

Windows 7 Installation Guide / TutoriaThe Windows 7 is finally here. It's released for beta testers a few days ago and I am here with a sdownloaded the x86 version of the M3 build ( build No: 6801) from Microsoft Connect s

The installation process was just like vista setup and to my surprise completed in juperformance improvements Microsoft has put on this windows vista replacement.

The TestMachine

I decided to install Windows 7 in a VMware workstation first to make sure that the DValso.

VMWare Version: VMWare Workstation 6.5Virtual HArddisk : 9 GBRAM : 512 MBProcessor : Single CoreWindows Version : Windows 7 Ultimate M3 v6801-0-080913-2030

Preparing the DVD from the ISO image

Since most the people are installing Windows 7 in a real hardware, a DVD should be busoftware and a blank DVD-R or DVD-RW to prepare the installation disk. I used a Sony those who don't have Nero installed, CDBurnerXP is a free Alternative.

So using the DVD burning software of your choice burn the Windows 7 ISO image to the results.

Setting up your Computer & BIOS changes ( If required)

Now reboot your computer after popping in the all new Windows 7 DVD you just created Windows 7 Installation DVD. But in some cases if the Boot device order is changed in to change the BIOS settings to gt it done ( More details in a different tutorial).

Booting Up and First Installation Steps

Steps from here are pretty straight forward. Read the descriptions in each pages befothese steps you may find them with each images.

You may choose your Language options by selecting the dropdowns 'Language to install'leave everything to 'US' but it would be better for selecting the correct

This screen is where the installation wizard begins. The install now options will leacomputer' button located at the bottom-left can be used. For fresh insta

Tick the 'I accept the license terms' checkbox and click

Which type of installation do you wa

This screen provides two options, Upgrade and Custom (advanced). The upgrade option is for thosWindows to Windows 7. It is confirmed that Windows Vista can be upgraded to Windows 7

We will opt for the second option here, the

Where do you want to install Windo

Clicking on the 'Custom' button brings the install location selection screen. In the installation all your hard drive partitions (e.g. C:\ , D:\ etc.) will be listed here. Choose the drive as you any important data or the Windows 7 installation will wipe-out the contents of that p

move important files from there to say E:\ drive or to an externa

Partitioning /Creating or Modifying Par

Click the Drive options (advanced) for advanced partition management options like 'Delete', 'Format'But if you have list of partitions in the previous screen, choose the one where you a

The 'New' option provides a text box to enter the size of the partition you wish to cthe full size of my virtual drive, i.e. 9216 MB. Click the Apply button to continue. You may be greete

correctly, windows might create additional partitions for system files. . This is a new feature in W

So here we are, A new primary partition of 8.8 GB is created along with a System

All right, we are all set. The Windows 7 installation begins. time to grab a cup of c

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u can install windows 7 by using image mount utility also itsreally grate and the installation time by image mounting is15-16 mins.__________________

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05-11-2008, 07:46 AM #5






It justs looks like Vista with a different background

but installation time is really impressive. I would love toinstall it, only thing I don't have enough free space

And the image mount feature was present in Vista too.

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I installed it on my harddrive, no VMWare or Virtual Machine And yeah, baku, it does sort of look like vista, but it's

definately a lot better than it

EDIT:I'll just keep on editing this post to add more information onWindows 7 as I find more Well, for one thing, whilesetting up I noticed something that looks like Microsoft hasstolen from Mac. It asks you which wireless network toconnect to if there are any in range.Microsoft has chosen to keep Aero in Windows 7 as far as Ican tell, but it does not have any lag whatsoever on thecomputer like it does in Vista. It has does have a difference inspeed compared to Vista, and is even comparable toWindows XP. Although I'm not that good at noticing speed, Iwould have to say that comparing Windows 7 32 bit andWindows XP Pro 32 bit would be a pretty tough choose... itwill definately be a good thing once it's released. I'll updatewith some screenshots and more information soon __________________--1mAn3rd

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10-11-2008, 09:59 AM #7

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upgrading to windows 7 from vista takes too much time..ittook some 2.5 hours !! but fresh installation is faster..

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i liked the new super bar(taskbar) , sidebar in win 7. IE 8 betais really cOOL.

all drivers of vista works perfrect in windows 7

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I agree. I haven't gotten any problems with drivers whileinstalling Windows 7 and IE8 Beta has some great newfeatures. I'm still troubled by this PowerShell thing... I don'tknow what it is!!!__________________--1mAn3rd

12-11-2008, 07:27 AM #9






PowerShell is the new alternative to the command prompt.It's available for Vista too -- though you need to install itseparately. In fact all commands that work in commandprompt, also works from power shell. Additionally there are alot of other scripting improvements made in Powershell :http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr.../hubs/msh.mspx

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ughh, the ugly HUD returns

i really hate all the standard windows themes, gotta used"Standard Windows" and then modify the colors

now thx for this but i'll stick with XP

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