such a shame for the dropped quality!! but this is windows 7 running aero theme. i use to use vista and everyday tasks were an effort, now it runs perfectly using the same theme, but better!!

Basic theme: http://www.hawkee.com/profile/img/2548/

jonesy, I had to remove that other image, we just can't have sexual images even if they're just your background on a screenshot.

lol ok.... ;p

I'm a married man, so no comment =)

Lol! come on scott ;) what do you think of w7 anyways?

Just hope its not as problematic as Vista, but I don't plan to use it any time soon. I've been a happy OS X user for the past 4 years.

Oh fair enough. i've been a happy vista user to be honest with you. And this is just incredible. runs perfectly on half the "required" specs :) this is the ultimate version too

I think it looks kinda cool. Were you able to dual boot this with Vista?

Nope, unless you use some 3rd party software. it's worth the change though.

i know it's in the very early stages of development, but i really hope they try to make it be based on atleast 10% of performance, rather than vista which was created on 100% of appearance.

I know Windows 7 has alott more BETA's to be produced, but just look at the login screen of Windows 7 & Windows Vista, near on the same.

However, i did like Vista, and won't change from Vista until im completely satisfied that its better than Vista, which in theory, will be pretty easy to achieve.

I think they should get rid of that annoying "delete recycle bin" option, i know we can do it ourselvs, and is exactly what i have done. But for people who don't know how to, i think it would be a good idea to incorporate.

the only apparent fault in vista i find is dont do all the updates do what is inmportant and needed, leave the rest alone as certain updates can and will crash your computer as it had done to mine. But other then that Vista is good!! Well i can recall when XP came out we all went crap ..so same principal with vista LOL.

Not really, when XP came out there were alott of bugs that needed to be fixed which was understandable, and most of them were fixed in service pack 1, but in vista, not even a qaurter of the bugs were fixed in service pack 1, so it just goes to show, they didn't really try with Vista, they also said Vista Ultimate couldn't be cracked, and it was, about 2 weeks after release.

Windows 7 works much better than vista, imo. I find it faster & easier. that's what i think, end of XD and this is just beta1!!

exactly, windows 7 doesn't have all of vista's software/themes/pretty stuff compacted in yet, hence why it runs quicker and easier.

/me is happy with Win95 >.>
/me is joking
/me is not THAT poor
/me has WinXP Pro

I found my Win98 disk while looking for Quake II today. =D
Quake II rocks. :)

lol i remember that game.. used to be good at that online

I'm actually playing it without cheating which is very strange.
Wont try online til my cousin comes over. (And if I find a no-cd crack for him)

lol i used to hack a game called "Warrock" but they changed Anti hacker software and i got IP banned but i could play now.. Proxy = FTW

I attempted to dual boot this with XP but when Windows 7 boots up all I get is a black screen with a small blue strip at the top...

:/ no idea.

beta7025's been leaked

:) finally got it dual booted with XP, I guess it had to do with my video card and I guess you can't use an lcd monitor with it or something...

Now I just have to add my wireless adapter so I can connect to the internet ;)

you can use LCD/TFT/CRT monitors with windows 7, as im using all of them lol.

i just have the built inone of my laptop. LCD?

Well I guess it had to do with nvidia or something and I just had to use a crt monitor to set it up and then update the driver on the card. I donno, it's what someone told me on a help forum and it worked.

Hah, atleast it's sorted now.

winblows... http://www.ubuntu.com/

ubuntu > winblows :)

ubuntu = mainstream shoot

I like them both. They both have their uses. But I find windows 7 SO much better ATM because it's compatible with everything