A little news to inform you that the Windows 7 RC is now available for everybody !
Available in English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish, now you can download for free the Release Candidate of Windows 7 in 32-bit and 64-bit versions as an ISO image which will need to be burned onto a DVD, and this, until July 1st, 2009 without limite on the number of product keys.
The RC will expire on June 1, 2010. Nevertheless, starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours.
Noticed that Windows 7 RC does not stand for an update from the beta version on your PC.
If you've installed Windows 7 Beta, you'll need to back up your data, and do a clean installation of the RC. Then you'll need to reinstall your programs and restore the files, settings, and other information you want to use for testing.
You need a PC with these system requirements :

1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)

DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Well, if you want to test
Windows 7 Release Candidate, you can click
here for download it. You should login on Windows Live ID, and Microsoft strongly recommend that "
only experienced computer users try the software. You should be comfortable backing up a computer, formatting a hard drive, installing an operating system, and troubleshooting your own technical problems. Don't install Windows 7 RC on your primary home or work computer".
If you want more information about Windows 7 RC, I suggest you to go to this page.
So, what do you think of this Release Candidate ?
And besides, what difference is there that will massively change my life? Not enough.
it's GUI is incredibly like vista , I wish I could migrate my drivers from xp
It's only 2.6gb but the java download manager is dodgey I got a few errors before it worked
If you can't shrink in Vista, you can always shrink in the Windows 7 installation.
Like any other OS.
That doesn't really help. Any other OS I'd partition, run the install DVD/CD and then it'd set up a bootloader (GRUB) and Vista would fail.
That doesn't really help. Any other OS I'd partition, run the install DVD/CD and then it'd set up a bootloader (GRUB) and Vista would fail.
Install 7 to a seperate partition and it'll install it's own bootloader and have Vista and 7 in the list.
If you knew how to do it with a command prompt, you could always try that instead using the Repair your computer link before installing. I don't know if it would work though...
You could always install it virtually.
The W7 bootloader is still the bcdedit type so EasyBCD works with it.
EDIT: Have you tried a program like Partition Magic?