Windows 7 32Bit Build 6801 Boot Time in Virtual PC

[eusceptic]

@SuperMark360 It's an early buid, Build 6801, not the final product. Read the fucking title before you comment.

If you still having doubts, download the build from piratebay or something and install it.

[TheMisaTV]

@eusceptic It's true!

[scenegta]

what about 2 bit rofl

[dochertyryan]

@scenegta 2bit is black, dark grey, light grey and white.

[rtype6]

Can 32-bit Windows XP applications work on 64-bit Windows 7?

[eusceptic]

@rtype6 Some work, some not, you have to try it yourself.

[eusceptic]

When you buy retail you get both versions (32 and 64) on two disks.

[mankyman6]

I thought Windows 7 only offered 64 bit. Whenever I look at computers on Dell, HP, or Sony, that's all they have offered is the 64 bit version.

[rjpurk]

16 bits XD

[wowaddict66]

no offense but the quality is a little bad.

[eusceptic]

None taken, this is youtube's fault.

[chrischoy9]

Go to computer management, storage, disk manger and wait, than back click on your system hard drive and click on shrink driver. If you can , than that means your computer hard drive doesn't have enough free disk space

[ZerqTM]

I've tried suse it was nice..

but i prefer Gnome as i like to code in monodevelop

(i am a windows developer by trade so C# is my bread and butter... with mono i can port it to ubuntu which is my favorit dist :3

just a pitty about that looming cloude of patent law it has hanging over its head... i doubt microsoft would use it though..)

[ZerqTM]

Yay! another 32bit windows..

this is why i switched to ubuntu...

microsoft are gonna loose out big time if they cant get over there 64bit driver problems.

with linux i dont have to put up with never ending blue screens of death on login

[eusceptic]

Try Open Suse with KDE4 instead, you'll won*t miss Windows 7 at all.

[mavamaarten]

This is surely the old beta of Windows 7.

The new one has another bootscreen, without that loading bar. The light shines out of the microsoft logo in waves. That's how it loads.

[you54222]

Windows Seven Ultimate...huh?

[mavamaarten]

yep. The bèta version is the ultimate version of windows 7. I had it installed for about 5 minutes, i pressed reset, and VOILA. Your Windows 7 is wrecked.

[fx500blaster]

lol

I have vmware workstation 6.5, and i got it for FREE

because my dad works in that company :D:D:D:D

[SOF006]

and we care why?

[Yaxxe]

When i restart my Virtual Machine after installing the Virtual Machine Additions the computer start with the Blue Screen Of Death while Booting

[anonprotein]

Noob, Just dual boot it or triple boot it!

I installed windows 7 with triple boot!

[Yaxxe]

i dont have any sound device at all in Windows 7 Virtual PC. How do I install it? In device manager there isn't any yellow questions..

[eusceptic]

In the virtual machine window click:

Actions-> Install or update Virtual Machine Additions

[mathboyx215]

thats preety fast

[nick9624]

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007/2004 can suck my balls!

VMWare Workstation 4.0 FTW!

[eusceptic]

If you've got the money to spend on VMWare knock yourself out.

[keitaidenwaKern]

So is this a free version of VMware. My dad wasted $300 on that so he could run linux on it.

[TheRealPCHintsNTips]

with VMWare can you get aero on win 7?

[nick9624]

yea

[TheRealPCHintsNTips]

omg relli? i have it on virtual box but no aero... i must try it!

[brian3393]

how do you get the aero interface?

[kcloona]

yeah i lost aero from my windows vista cause it started going weird on me, i miss it but i want it back

[vistainspirat2]

hey could you plz tell me what to do! i have the sam 32 bit, build 6801 and ive put 1.62 gb ram in virtual pc for it. and it is so slow.

when i right click i have to wait 62 seconds. yeahy i counted how long it would take.

plz tell me what to do i'll subscribe you!

thx

[eusceptic]

What is your total ram and what kind of processor you've got?

You can read my specs bellow.

[vistainspirat2]

i have a ibm intel(r)

pentium 4 cpu 2.40ghz,

2.39ghz, 2.00gb of ram.

thx plz reply

[eusceptic]

You've got 2GB of ram and you allocated 1.62 for virtual PC and this slowed down your host computer and virtual computer, try to make a new virtual computer and allocate just 1Gb this way you'll have enough for your host OS too.

If the host OS is Vista, i don't recommended to try this without at least 3GB of ram (2 for the host OS 1 for the Virtual Machine)

[eusceptic]

Good for you. I don't think you'll use more than 3GB for something else than rendering.

Anyhow Windows 7 uses about 350MB RAM idle (without any other autorun software except an antivirus) and about 500-600MB RAM with 10 tabs of firefox and one virus scan with avast at the same time.

[SpedoBear]

gygabyte i-ram BOOTS XP IN 4 SECONDS FLAT

20 seconds is long in comparison

[rampagetv]

my iMac boots in 12 seconds. own. xD no i am not a fanboy, this is just a fact.

[eusceptic]

My specs:

Windows Vista X64

Asrock Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300

Nvidia 9600GT 1GB RAM

4GB RAM

I had opened itunes and other applications when i did the test.

I know that some motherboards are lagging when they are checking hard drives and other stuff.

Anyhow my motherboard doesn't slows my boot time even when i have external media plugged in.

[brian1010101]

You can probably get it to boot in under 20 seconds if you wanted to boot it on real hardware and not VMware. But VMware is probably how I would use it once it is done downloading. If it proves faster and more stable than my current Vista on my "barely can run XP laptop" I think I'll try it on there.

[eusceptic]

I've used Virtual PC from Microsoft (is free) instead of VMWare with "Vista" profile.

[TheRealPCHintsNTips]

Vista AND 7 ??!!?? wat are your pc specs??

[CountX]

Umm...how is this accurate for real life scenarios? Virtual pc's use virtual hardware, generic drivers and no 3d support. Actual boot time on a real machine with all the "fancy's" is not going to be reflected by your test...sorry if i come off rude, but this doesnt proove jack..You can make xp boot in a vm in under 20 seconds. major problem is i have an external hdd and my motherboard insists on checking it for boot files. Even so, i get 52 seconds to boot 7, with all the pretty stuff on.