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Windows 7 Features

Try Windows 7 Beta Safely Using Virtual Install Method

Windows 7Microsoft Windows 7 is still in preview stages but has already gained quite a substantial amount of users trying its first beta, if you are willing to try the new beta without taking any risk with your existing computer configuration, installing it on a virtual machine is the best option, the whole process is very safe and takes around 40 minutes to get completed on a decently powered P4 computer.

A virtual machine installation lets you try Windows 7 inside your existing OS as a guest operating-system, Both Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Sun VirtualBox can be used for this purpose, I will be using Sun VirtualBox for this demonstration.

  1. Download and install Sun VirtualBox if not already done.
  2. Download and obtain a license key for Microsoft Windows 7 Beta using instructions provided in the earlier post here.
  3. Now launch VirtualBox and click the New button to start setting up our Windows 7 virtual machine.
  4. VirtualBox

Windows 7 Beta Leaked Version Could Corrupt Your MP3's

Windows 7Microsoft Windows 7 Beta 1 which got leaked and cracked a few days ago, is being reported to corrupt some MP3 files when used via included Windows Media Player 12, users on forums are reporting data corruption issues because of this bug in Windows 7 beta 1 build 7000 while playing MP3 files using Windows Media Player 12, Approximately 2-3 seconds data will get cut-off from the beginning of MP3s as Windows Media Player 12 tries to retrieve meta-information from internet and write it to any MP3 file with a Meta data header larger than 16KB.

Windows Media Player 12 Bug
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