Windows 7 Installed

Installed Windows 7 pro x64 RTM last weekend. Everything went smoothly, and I now have a dual boot setup with Vista Home Premium x86.

Just a couple of problems.

1. Outlook 2007 doesn’t always exit cleanly. It leaves the exe running in the background, preventing a trouble free windows shutdown.
2. Adobe CS3 wont activate because of “too many activations”. Need to deactivate previous installation first – that’s on the old drive that I can’t access any more due to cluster errors and stuffed registry. Did have an old Acronis backup, but so far that’s a nightmare to restore – will try again when time permitts.

So far, everything I’ve installed, that worked in Vista, works in Win7.

And, so far very impressed with Windows 7. Very fast. Installed it to an OCZ Vertex SSD. Never seen windows start up so fast. Internet access is fastest ever!!

Downloading the RTM iso was the slowest ever!! though, taking 12hrs -ish – maybe downloaded too soon after release.

IE8 Blocker

Microsoft will be distributing Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) via automatic updates, like they did with IE7.  They say it helps make browsing the web faster, easier, safer and more reliable.

If you want to delay the introduction of the new browser you can install their “IE8 Blocker Toolkit”. For more information, goto ie8-blocker-toolkit-available-today 

Note: If you are opted into Automatic updates, IE8 will not get automatically installed, as the installer requires user interaction. The Welcome screen will appear and the installation won’t proceed until the user agrees to install IE8.

IE8 is still in Beta, but the final version may be coming in a few months time.