Hi All Just A Little Info As Any Member Tried Out The Beta Release Of SP1 For Win7 The Reason For My Question Is That My Toshiba Laptop That As Bios Modd & Running Win7 Often Keeps Freezing When on-line Everything Sort Of Locks Up For 3-5mins Then Its Ok But This Can Happen Quite A lot During A Nighttime I Wonder If There was any update that is part of sp1 to reslove the problem As i did a google search for my Tosh problem & Got Pointed to Beta SP1 Which i have but would like so info first So if anyone as tried it any info would be helpful Many Thanks
ive installed it in vm with no issues. but sounds like you may have something unrelated going on to cause your lappy to freeze up. is it a new laptop? or an older one with a modded 2.1 slic bios?
I did install SP1 beta on a physical machine but that was a few weeks back. I prefer to now keep beta SP1 on a VM. Install is slower on a VM but still quicker than downloading/manually installing updates.
I'm testing SP1 Beta on Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit with no issues, except for one, that is incompatibility's with Command & Conquer Generals and Zero Hour. Incompatibility's have already been reported to MS.
ive installed it in vm with no issues. but sounds like you may have something unrelated going on to cause your lappy to freeze up. is it a new laptop? or an older one with a modded 2.1 slic bios? Its This Model Equium P200 series /Equium P200-1ED An older one with modded 2.1 slic bios that i got on this site Check Toshiba Website For Drivers But Cant Find Anything there if anyone could advise Thank You
I was curious how SP1 beta sets the rearms to 5. I tested it to see for myself and SP1 wants reboot so somehow rearms can be changed without RE/PE. Then I uninstalled it and rearms when back to what they we're before SP1...lol I mean the network service isn't running at reboot yet so kinda curious Any ideas?
^^are you talking about rearming the grace/trial period?, if so do this; (works with 7 & Vista) 1. Install Windows 7 without any product activation key. 2. After installation is completed, use the Windows 7 for 30 days and wait for the remaining days left to activate Windows counting down to 0, or almost zero. 3. When the activation grace period (or evaluation trial period) is almost expired or ended, log on to Windows 7 desktop, and open a Command Prompt window (i.e. type Cmd in Start Search and hit Enter). 4. Type any of the following commands into the command prompt, and then hit Enter: sysprep /generalize slmgr.vbs –rearm rundll32 slc.dll,SLReArmWindows slmgr /rearm 5. Reboot Windows 7 to enjoy another 30 days of free usage. 6. When the activation grace period countdown timer almost running down to 0 again, repeat the ‘rearm’ trick to enjoy another 30 days of Windows 7 for free. 7. After 3 rearms and nearly 120 days usage, Open regedit and go to; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ SL 8. In right-side pane, change value of SkipRearm to 1. 9. Now you'll be able to use the slmgr -rearm command 3 more times (steps 3 to 6).. 10. Then after 90 days (30 day rearms) do steps 6 to 8 again. there is a similar thing for Office 03 & 7 so its probable Office 2010 has a similar reg key, my script making is poor but I don't think it would take muck to put it in a batch file.