Windows 7 Seven

As you've probably read all over the web, Windows Seven (7) has released version RC public. This means that you can also try this OS on your machine.

Two options for you:

  1. You have a little space on your hard drive (empty partition) and in this case you can try installing Windows 7, parallel to your current system.
  2. Your disk is busy in its entirety (my case) and you do not want to risk as to compromise your data due to a crash.

In the second case, as I recall it is only a trial version of Windows 7 which is perhaps not without bugs, use a program virtualization type VirtualBox seems indicated.

So I will detail the procedures below.

Permièrement, it should download Windows 7 RC by visiting this page . A small update date manager will settle for you to download the ISO image.

Then, download VirtualBox and install it. You could for example follow the following tutorial ensuring choose the following options:

  • Windows 7
  • 1GB memory about
  • Virtual dynamic disk of 10 GB (depending on the space you have on your hard drive)
  • Size of the video memory 64 MB +
  • DVDROM CD / DVD breakfast if you burned the iso, otherwise, ISO image file and select the Windows 7

Then run the virtual machine and just start the installation. Then simply follow the instructions on the screen. After two restarts and once your license key entry (received by mail during the download of Windows) you can test Windows 7.

Windows 7 Seven Bureau

My first impressions are pretty good, despite the fact that the system is running in a virtual machine with only 1GB of RAM, and with a minimum graphics card, it runs smoothly.

Level interface, it is very Vista-like ... we like it or not. Windows Media Center is included with, so we just easily test the multimedia content and it runs very well.

Windows 7 Seven Media Center

I am pleasantly surprised!

Ps: this article was written entirely in Windows 7 ;-)

[Edit]

For information, the key provided by Microsoft is valid until June 2010 ...

Otherwise, if you want to go full screen with VirtualBox (CTRL + F) you will notice if you have a wide screen that the image does not take the entire screen.

Two methods:

In the menu "Machine" of your virtual machine window, select "Automatically adjust the screen size guest", then switch to full screen mode (CTRL + F)

Or, if it does not work on the host system to which you installed VirtualBox, when the virtual machine is running (Windows started), start the command prompt, change to the directory where you installed VirtualBox (eg C : Program FilesSunxVM VirtualBox) and enter the following command:

(For a VM called "Windows 7" screen and 1280 × 800)

VBoxManage controlvm "Windows 7" setvideomodehint "1280" "800" "24"

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