# Download Free Legal Copy of Windows 7 beta ( 32 bit or 64 bit ) tomorrow from MS **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 8, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938 "2009-01-08T06:57:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![BillysRevenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 10:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/101 "2009-01-11T10:04:17Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#): > > I just ordered 4gb of ram for my box so that I can dedicate some more ram to this and give it some real use. What speed/timings ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/102 "2009-01-11T13:59:00Z")
> [@BillysRevenge](#): > > What speed/timings > **[CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop...](https://www.newegg.com/corsair-4gb-240-pin-ddr2-sdram/p/N82E16820145184)** > > Buy CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-6400C5 with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg! ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/103 "2009-01-11T14:39:24Z")
How is it? I have my laptop which is a core 2 duo with a 512 MB DDR3 video card and 4GB of DDR3 RAM so I am debating giving it a shot ---
**Author:** ![9c1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9c1/32/7392_2.png) [@9c1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/104 "2009-01-11T17:16:47Z")
Dell Latitude D810 Pentium M 2GHz 1GB RAM Runs flawlessly. Initially had an issue finding a video card driver that would enable Aero. Dell doesn’t have Vista drivers. Ended up finding a modded ATi Catalyst driver that enabled everything and works great. I have zero issues. No slow downs, no hiccups. It hibernates and sleeps like it should. This thing could pass as an actual release. I’m quite impressed. Note for anyone installing: make sure you apply the update to fix the MP3 bug. Explaination and download of the update here: [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961367](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961367) ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/105 "2009-01-11T17:46:16Z")
Do applications install correctly? Like 64bit applications made for vista install and run fine? ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/106 "2009-01-11T20:18:31Z")
Runs fairly slow on my rig, but I probably built this thing 5 years ago and I’ve probably got a lot of fancy stuff turned on, although it looks like 7 appraises your system and I’m thinking it adjusts itself automatically… ![http://nyspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=7466&stc=1&d=1231733886](http://nyspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=7466&stc=1&d=1231733886) ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/107 "2009-01-11T20:35:10Z")
I’m really enjoying that files can be indexed by category rather than just file location. I.E. You can have a shortcut on your desktop to “Pictures” and you can add various files and folders to the pictures library, so when you double click pictures it opens like a normal folder but it contains all the files/folders you’ve added to the library regardless of location. There’s a nicely configurable file and/or system image backup utility. :tup: Hasn’t crashed yet, and it seems to handle frozen/crashed programs without the entire OS taking a shit. :jawdrop: ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 5:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/108 "2009-01-12T05:31:40Z")
definitely a good beta ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 5:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/109 "2009-01-12T05:41:49Z")
Can’t install logmein. I guess I’ll have to sort out all the RDP port forwarding stuff the old fashioned way. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 5:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/110 "2009-01-12T05:45:36Z")
liked it enough to upgrade vista to the beta, only to find out that a lot of my software isnt exactly compatible yet (should of tested it better in vmware), and went back to vista. can’t wait for this to come out :tup: I really like that they’re doing virtualization for software compatibility these days ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 5:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/111 "2009-01-12T05:53:47Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > Can’t install logmein. I guess I’ll have to sort out all the RDP port forwarding stuff the old fashioned way. Crap. That is my primary method of getting into my laptop since VNC is slow and remote desktop isn’t available on Home editions of Vista. > [@Dr.Stevil](#): > > liked it enough to upgrade vista to the beta, only to find out that a lot of my software isnt exactly compatible yet (should of tested it better in vmware), and went back to vista. > > can’t wait for this to come out :tup: I really like that they’re doing virtualization for software compatibility these days Ok then I am going to wait to upgrade my main OS and test it on VMWare. There is a few primary applications that I use daily that keep me from using Linux or any other OS than XP/Vista since they just don’t run as clean. Any popular ones you find not work correctly? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 5:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/112 "2009-01-12T05:57:35Z")
> [@boxxa](#): > > Crap. That is my primary method of getting into my laptop since VNC is slow and remote desktop isn’t available on Home editions of Vista. > > Ok then I am going to wait to upgrade my main OS and test it on VMWare. There is a few primary applications that I use daily that keep me from using Linux or any other OS than XP/Vista since they just don’t run as clean. > > Any popular ones you find not work correctly? alcohol 120% was the biggest one (since I bought a license)… I couldn’t go day to day without it. The version of NOD32 I had didn’t like it either still have it running in a VM though, just wish VMWARE utilized the 3D hardware acceleration a little better edit:oh, and my XM radio sidebar gadget wouldn’t work correctly ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 6:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/113 "2009-01-12T06:04:44Z")
:lol: :crap: I mapped my XP drive in 7, added my XP documents to my 7 documents library. Now I can’t access my documents in XP. :thankyou: ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/114 "2009-01-12T06:05:34Z")
:lol: Fry keep playing with Windows 7 and post results so we can start a “what not to do thread” ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/115 "2009-01-12T06:13:37Z")
:lol: Will do. :tup: ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 6:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/116 "2009-01-12T06:27:38Z")
> [@LZ](#): > > :lol: > > Fry keep playing with Windows 7 and post results so we can start a “what not to do thread” :lol::lol: ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 6:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/117 "2009-01-12T06:28:32Z")
hah, you guys would really use a M$ beta on a primary machine? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/118 "2009-01-12T06:33:27Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#): > > hah, you guys would really use a M$ beta on a primary machine? did it with vista pre-SP1 😛 If the software compatibility was 100%, I would honestly probably use it full time ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/119 "2009-01-12T06:36:07Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#): > > hah, you guys would really use a M$ beta on a primary machine? :tif: Dual booting with a separate partition. It certainly isn’t my primary OS. It never occured to me that I might fuck up my permissions. Oh well, I’ll figure it out when I get home tonight. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 6:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938/120 "2009-01-12T06:40:03Z")
Fry best solution…triple boot…install linux with NTFS support…and go between all 3… [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938.md?page=5) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/download-free-legal-copy-of-windows-7-beta-32-bit-or-64-bit-tomorrow-from-ms/60938.md?page=7)