Windows 7 reliable enough to release?

win7 · 15 Mar 2009

Im running it on my laptop with no issuse and no hang up on install, but this is not the case on pc, so is till say noway lol... would of said yes if we were tlking about 7048.

echrada · 16 Mar 2009

garysgold said:

Still can't drag and drop a file on MS Word icon pinned to the taskbar and have it open the file in word, shift key or no shift key. So still using the quick launch bar. I did an upgrade which seemed to go without a hitch. Took about 1 hour. Other than that seems to go good. Haven't found any way to send feedback. Although I'm glad it's not in every window, woulda been nice to have the link on the desktop.

Gary

My first install was also an upgrade (had to see if it would work) and also had that problem with word. I then did a clean install and have no problem with word.

Slimy · 16 Mar 2009

Always do a clean install guys. Upgrading between Windows 7 builds isn't a scenario that is supported, even if it looks like it "worked."

echrada · 16 Mar 2009

Slimy I know that I just wanted to see for myself what the 'upgraders' were talking about. Never again though!

Barman58 · 16 Mar 2009

Strangely enough although I agree with you my Upgrade Branch is running without any problems

My x86 install is following MS route so is still running 7000 and will only change when official RC is out.

On my x64 partition I've upgraded all available builds from 7000 up without any major issues. I did see a little sluggishness at the very start with 7057 but that disappeared after a couple of hours so assume it was just superfetch and the like.

this is so much so that I've been using the x64 almost exclusively as my day to day OS.

Will still advise a fresh install if possible but this is the first MS OS I'd be happy upgrading if that proved what a user required.

Hans23 · 16 Mar 2009

Fresh Install of x64 7057 on my desktop was a breeze and it is running very smoothly so far. The only problem I had was the known issue of desktop.ini showing up and that was taken care of as suggested in the other thread.

Dinesh · 16 Mar 2009

I m unable to update it.
It gives error 8000FFFF. whats happening?

Quantum · 16 Mar 2009

update what? windows updates or passing fro 48 to 57

Duderino · 16 Mar 2009

7057 is for sure not ready the whole networking stack is buggy, thats the diff between leaked and offical builds..

sarastro · 16 Mar 2009

Duderino said:

7057 is for sure not ready the whole networking stack is buggy

Please elaborate.