Windows 7 SP1 Release Dates announced - Who's going in?

When it's hit RTM I'll update, as it's quicker than downloading all those updates.
But while it's just a RCx I won't be touching it...

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It is RTM. it will be out on the 22nd for everyone.

Ill have it on the 16 and installed on both server and 7.

MSDN info on virtualization..?

joedymueller said:

It is RTM. it will be out on the 22nd for everyone.

Ill have it on the 16 and installed on both server and 7.

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Some of what I am reading on SP1 re: Virtualization tech updates looks interesting to me. If anything else I just want to see how overhead and the new cpu/memory harware virtualization behaves after setting up a VM. Right now on the -bigadv machine I easily have enough memory overhead to run a 1 to 2 GB XP virtual machine..I am still not 100% convinced there is not a solution for GPU folding in a well set up XP VM in Windows 7 - I want to see if isolating the GPU client(s) in a VM, away from the main task scheduler working environment, (or vice-versa w/ isolated SMP in an XP VM) will help -bigadv frame times/ppd. I have not been able to find anyone who has tried it out and posted about thier results. I have tried to see if it is worth looking into or not. Who knows, it may be a total bust, or a big win..but I must know

It's just a lot of downtime to explore that, and I don't have another i7 available to test with..


-TG


edit- what's up with 58 ppd today..

tested a beta and was fawless for me. Will wait for official relase to update all systes but I will asap

I have it now and I'll install it later tonight

I can't say where, but it was from a respectable site.

I'm sure you can find it using Google.



But it's best to wait for the official release as it's a safer bet.

Do I dare ask where to get it?

I am going to hold out for a bit, until I am ready to reinstall Win7. At that time, I will be slipstreaming it on to my install disc, which always seems to take up less HDD space than installing a Service Pack from a download or WU. I have some shrinking down that I am working on for my Win7 install anyway, due to the fact that I am running on a 30GB Vertex, so space is at a premium.

I hope this fixes what ailed my Win7 installation. Took 25 minutes on my Asus Commando sig rig. I'll also scan the partition from XP with Avira AntiVir Personal - FREE & malwarebytes in case some bugs were slipped into the SP1 update files.

Excited! Definitely thinking about reformatting and then giving her hell!

Tleilaxu Ghola said:

Some of what I am reading on SP1 re: Virtualization tech updates looks interesting to me. If anything else I just want to see how overhead and the new cpu/memory harware virtualization behaves after setting up a VM. Right now on the -bigadv machine I easily have enough memory overhead to run a 1 to 2 GB XP virtual machine..I am still not 100% convinced there is not a solution for GPU folding in a well set up XP VM in Windows 7 - I want to see if isolating the GPU client(s) in a VM, away from the main task scheduler working environment, (or vice-versa w/ isolated SMP in an XP VM) will help -bigadv frame times/ppd. I have not been able to find anyone who has tried it out and posted about thier results. I have tried to see if it is worth looking into or not. Who knows, it may be a total bust, or a big win..but I must know

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Interesting, I make heavy use of Windows XP mode to run some 32-bit software that doesn't play nice with 64-bit windows, and we won't have v3 (64-bit happy) until we spend ca. £200,000 on a new NMR spectrometer (http://www.bruker-biospin.com/topspin3.html).

A bit O/T: Student edition for 99 euros!? How much money do they think students actually *have*?

Only takes 15 minutes to apply sp1 to a new Win7 installation