Considering the elections on last Thursday, I took Friday off too to get a looong :) weekend. Luckily for me, Windows 7 RC was released at the same time and I downloaded it. I had the 64-bit beta version installed and despite various warnings that I would have to reinstall from scratch, I was able to find
a guide (thanks to LifeHacker) on how to upgrade from Beta.
- Extract the ISO to a Flash drive
- Open sources\cversion.ini in Notepad
- Set MinClient to 7000.0 and save it
- Run setup from the flash drive inside Windows 7 Beta to upgrade to the RC version
- Wait and watch as your system reboots 4 (maybe 5!!) times
RC seems pretty much same as Beta - there are minor UI differences, but unfortunately, according to
SecurAble,
XP mode is not available in my cheap E2200 processor. It seems this problem is
Intel specific - most AMD processwors will not face this issue. Not that I care - I am not planning to move to Windows 7 full time anytime soon - XP works well for me, and I still havent got
my TV Tuner working in Windows 7. In the meantime, Anandtech has a
great article on Windows 7 RC, you can also
hit Lifehacker and
Microsoft Springboard to find whats new in Windows 7 RC. There's also a
video from Microsoft in WMV format if you are interested.
BTW, there's a new firmware
v21.0.025 available for the Nokia 5800. In typical Nokia style, its NOT available for India region as yet.
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