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Thread ID: 96368 2009-01-08 07:52:00 Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Beta as a Free Download zqwerty (97) PC World Chat
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736303 2009-01-10 06:52:00 I'll have that copy of Ultimate :p pcuser42 (130)
736304 2009-01-10 07:41:00 Aero is governed by the graphic paower, not RAM, Virtual Machines dont have powerful GPU's!, so no VM of Windows 7 will show off the graphics

If u have a GPU that can use aero, aero will work even in virtual machine right?
:stare:
pcuser7895 (12979)
736305 2009-01-10 07:55:00 Nope - Virtual PC emulates a 8MB graphics card (www.imagef1.net.nz)!

Future versions will apparently allow VMs to use more graphics memory though.
jwil1 (65)
736306 2009-01-10 08:03:00 :eek: nevermind, ill create a dual boot if i really want to c the aero but password seems
quite comfortable without it and maybe doesn't even notice a difference so i think i should b fine without it too
pcuser7895 (12979)
736307 2009-01-10 08:11:00 Make sure you back up your files FIRST.

How much spare HD space do you have and which OS are you running at the moment?
jwil1 (65)
736308 2009-01-10 08:15:00 17.x GBs and win xp
i had alone got 600MB this morning, but due to the determination of trying out windows 7 , i have gotten like 17GB of my disk:)
pcuser7895 (12979)
736309 2009-01-10 08:15:00 If you want to dualboot with 7, you need to split your disk. This can't easily be done without a 3rd party program or a Linux live disc.

Note that just because there is 17GB of disk space does NOT mean you can shrink your HD by 17GB.

You may need to to a clean install of XP, create a small partition for it, then use the rest for 7.
jwil1 (65)
736310 2009-01-10 08:18:00 :eek: nevermind, ill create a dual boot if i really want to c the aero but password seems
quite comfortable without it and maybe doesn't even notice a difference so i think i should b fine without it too

Lol, i dont think its very exciting but i did not even realise it was missing until i saw posts about it haha!@
password (5384)
736311 2009-01-10 08:20:00 ive done 3 dualboots before without backing up my data because i don't have a big enough hard drive and there's nothing really that important on my computer. pcuser7895 (12979)
736312 2009-01-10 08:21:00 Lol, i dont think its very exciting but i did not even realise it was missing until i saw posts about it haha!@

then the diffrence between aero and no aero must be very small
pcuser7895 (12979)
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