Windows 7 SP1 RC released

[royal tyrant]

Decided to Install this today, Now In bottom right corner It says windows 7 Is an evaluation copy build 7601, Is that normal?

 

[Francis93]

Decided to Install this today, Now In bottom right corner It says windows 7 Is an evaluation copy build 7601, Is that normal?

The watermark? Yes it's normal. Every tester has it. It means that you're currently evaluating SP1 Release Candidate which will expire on September 1, 2011. But it'll go off once you have installed the final SP1 which is set to be released sometime in Spring 2011.

 

[EchoX860]

Yes you can get rid of it by...

How To Remove Watermark From Windows 7 Builds [Both X86 & X64]

There's a tutorial on here but I couldn't find it for the life of me.

 

[Francis93]

Yes you can get rid of it by...

How To Remove Watermark From Windows 7 Builds [Both X86 & X64]

There's a tutorial on here but I couldn't find it for the life of me.

I'd just leave that watermark there. There's nothing wrong or embarrassing having it on your desktop anyway.

 

[24c]

Yes you can get rid of it by...

How To Remove Watermark From Windows 7 Builds [Both X86 & X64]

There's a tutorial on here but I couldn't find it for the life of me.

I also thought there was a tutorial here and am pretty sure that's where I got my info. I can't find it now either.

 

[EchoX860]

Yeah, Trillian (AIM/YIM/MSN/Facebook/Twitter) covers it up since I'm always on one of them.

 

[Francis93]

Yeah, Trillian (AIM/YIM/MSN/Facebook/Twitter) covers it up since I'm always on one of them.

You could also cover/hide it with Windows Desktop Gadgets.

 

[royal tyrant]

OK thankyou for the reply's, I will just leave It there, It's small writing anyway, Just wanted to be sure I was OK, Everything seems to be running normal so far

 

[Brink]

Yes you can get rid of it by...

How To Remove Watermark From Windows 7 Builds [Both X86 & X64]

There's a tutorial on here but I couldn't find it for the life of me.

I also thought there was a tutorial here and am pretty sure that's where I got my info. I can't find it now either.

Removing the watermark usually causes to many bad issues, so we didn't allow it.

 

[nailgunner]

I had a tough time too - can't do it with IE9, had to use FF - I love irony.

It is beyond ironic and I have the same issue with Silverlight.

I'm using Skydrive to store photos. I cannot keep Silverlight working on IE8 and have to keep re-installing it. Works beautifully and stays put on Chrome.

 

[Luckystar]

As my update, all seems fine.

Seems that bug (POST #41) has not appeared for me.

Only 62mb to download.

Lucky

EDIT: Forgot, i had a couple of other updates downloading, hence the 62mb.

 

[Night Hawk]

Post #41 is not about any bug but the readiness tool KB947821. That insures everything is ready by downloading some other updates.

 

[Alphamale]

Watermark remover works great.

 

[Luckystar]

Post #41 is not about any bug but the readiness tool KB947821. That insures everything is ready by downloading some other updates.

Ah yeah, forgot that one too. Damn goldfish memory.

Any way on another note, i just noticed something.

As i reinstalled windows a while ago, i did'nt really bother putting the key in (And yes i am fully legit thanks). i knew i was coming up to the end of the 28 days so i just checked to see how long was left and since installing SP1, it seems to have reset it self.

????? Confuzelled as hell, anyone care to shed light since this was meant to be mainly updates??????

Thanks

Lucky

 

[Night Hawk]

The installtion of the service pack evidently rearmed the trial period for you. That should be good for another 28 less one days now since you added the SP1 RC on. It's still a service pack not just a rollup of updates that upgrades or enables support for new things.

If you are not planning to activate right away, http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/875-activation-trial-period-extend-up-120-days.html

 

[Luckystar]

The installtion of the service pack evidently rearmed the trial period for you. That should be good for another 28 less one days now since you added the SP1 RC on. It's still a service pack not just a rollup of updates that upgrades or enables support for new things.

If you are not planning to activate right away, http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/875-activation-trial-period-extend-up-120-days.html

Oh thanks, did'nt realise that.

Nah, i will activate, once i can be bothered to pull out the pc to look at the back to find the code. lol.

Lucky

 

[SevenNerd]

How come SP1 is not showing up in my regular windows updates if its now official?

 

[Luckystar]

How come SP1 is not showing up in my regular windows updates if its now official?

First, its not official, its only an evalution version.

Second, because of that, you will need to sign up for it by installing the sign up tool (the only thing you will need to download and install to download the Service pack through win update) -

You'll need to go here to get it.

Download details: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate (KB976932)

Download the 'WUSignUpTool_x64.exe'

(You will need to do a windows genuine check)

Download and install.

Then go to your Windows update and it will be there waiting!!

Lucky

 

[SevenNerd]

How come SP1 is not showing up in my regular windows updates if its now official?

First, its not official, its only an evalution version.

Second, because of that, you will need to sign up for it by installing the sign up tool (the only thing you will need to download and install to download the Service pack through win update) -

You'll need to go here to get it.

Download details: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate (KB976932)

Download the 'WUSignUpTool_x64.exe'

(You will need to do a windows genuine check)

Download and install.

Then go to your Windows update and it will be there waiting!!

Lucky

Well in that case I will be waiting for the final version, thanks for the clarification..

 

[Night Hawk]

I had already downloaded it directly in both forms(iso image for both 32/64bit, stand alone installer) and just now found it listed in the updates after several days. That seems a bit slow.