[Hard core Rikki]

This one was planned for availability in May 5th, and Technet on 30th april.

Well, it seems its been friendly-leaked onto the net before the time, and starring on torrent sites like its about to be taken down tomorrow.
Its authenticity is also indisputed, apparently.


Go test drive Windows 7 RC (7100) today - istartedsomething

If you’re like me and watched from a distance leaked builds of Windows 7 fly past like water balloons in a water balloon fight, then the time to join the fun is now. The highly anticipated release candidate (RC) build of Windows 7 has been leaked and its authenticity is entirely undisputed. First looks reveal nothing significantly new or different, but if you’ve been wanting to get a vibe of how far Windows 7 has come since the public beta, especially performance, this is the build to get.


For those of you who want to play along at home, pay your favorite “content hub” a visit. The full build string is “7100.0.090421-1700″ and the x86 (32-bit) ISO coming in at a easily manageable 2.35GB (2,530,975,744 bytes).



Furthermore to check if your file has been tampered with, you can easily compare the file hash of your x86 (32-bit) ISO file with HashTab against the following.


CRC32: E8A1C394
MD5: 8867C13330F56A93944BCD46DCD73590
SHA-1: 7D1F486CA569EFFFFB719CFB48355BB7BF499712

Much small and notable details changed/improved between the beta and the RC, in speed, usability, and so on.
As hinted, this is -the- build to try.

 

[makotech222]

i already noted this on the screenshot thread

 

[70597]

Old news, but thanks for posting it. =]

 

[Cheesus]

Just started the torrent.

Been using the beta since its release, so I'm pretty keen on seeing what's improved.

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

You can't upgrade from the original beta without modifying cversion.ini prior to burning.

 

[makotech222]

Yup, just mount the iso, extract the files, change the cversion, then run setup, no need to burn it.

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

thats kind of poor sighted really... most people are expected to be running 7000 and they make the RC only upgrade from 7077?

 

[makotech222]

They want to reduce the number of unseen errors occuring when upgrading from such an old version. They really could care less, since <1% of people will be doing that during final version.

 

[Matis]

Any major and noticeable changes since 7000?

 

[Hard core Rikki]

Some highlights from the Win7 dev blog

Engineering Windows 7 : Some Changes Since Beta for the RC

Engineering Windows 7 : A few more changes from Beta to RC…

 

[Mad]

Ill get my new pc parts tomorrow (http://forums.ngemu.com/hardware-discussion/121530-e5200-vs-x2-3800-worthy-upgrade-new-post.html) and will install Win7 RC1.