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Since Windows 7 Beta came out I have been running it on three machines. The first is the well documented Dell Mini 9. I have also installed it on my Dell XPS 420 (Quad Core, 8 Gb RAM). Those run very well with no discrenable difference. Well the XPS is faster, but what I mean [...]

  I still greatly dislike IE8. I tried the original Beta and uninstalled it almost immediately. Windows 7 Beta shipped with IE8 beta so when using Windows 7 Beta I *must* use IE8. I hate this. There are too many options, too many features, too many icons, too many colors. IE8 is trying to provide [...]

  I have received a fair amount of questions and searches regarding the installation of the Windows 7 Beta on a Dell Mini. It is dead simple. A little knowledge of BIOS management and ISO burning is required. Setup Dell Mini 9 8Gb SSD 2Gb RAM Xbox 360 USB HD DVD ROM Step 1: Download [...]

On the original install of Win 7 Beta on my Mini I was able to capture a score of  2.2! I recently installed Windows 7 Beta along side Vista in a dual boot format. It was quite easy running the install from within Vista, as it was running as a fresh install from a DVD [...]

My device manager showed some unknown Devices. I have no idea what these are because the Mini works fine: So I opened the new Windows 7 Beta Troubleshooter and got the following: Looking to see if there is a troubleshooter for the troubleshooter

Today Microsoft released an update to the Windows 7 Beta. It addresses Live TV issues in Media Center and addresses an MP3 corruption issues. See screens: in What is interesting is that this is a core update; an update you would expect on a released OS. this is surely a testament to how committed MS [...]

So I am poking around my Mini looking for things to delete to save HD space. As I was exploring the Disk Cleanup features I found the image below: I  think its great that some versions of Vista may contain shadow copies, but what about Windows 7 Beta? The message reads: In some editions of [...]

Aero on the Mini What a cool little machine. Running Windows 7 Beta is great. the new Aero interface doesn’t  like running on batteries, so I may just try to disable that feature.               The aero issue allowed me to play with 2 new features. First is the trouble [...]

I did it. Against my better judgment, I hooked up an Xbox HD DVD player to my new toy: a Dell Mini 9 and installed Windows Vista Beta 32 bit. Install took a while, but it worked. I am actually surprised. Here is why: Intel Atom, 1 Ghz RAM, 8 Gig HD. Oh yeah. But [...]

Apparently Firefox doesn’t like Windows 7 Beta. Let me know if you have a work around. (is this fixfoxalypse?)