> This is what I am afraid... If this is the case I would rather do a > clean install with Vista now while the computer is new. > > Marcio
Actually, I think Jeff had a great idea. Windows 7 RC1 will be available for free download on May 5 and will be valid for a full year, so it will work until long after the general release. You can do your clean install once, buy Win7 when it comes out, and not have to pay for Vista. Now, Tom is going to splutter and fume and start hyperventilating because we're suggesting that you use a beta version of Windows. He would have been right if we'd suggested this in December. But the current beta is already rock solid, and RC1 is the release candidate--the version that will be sold as Windows 7 with only the most minor of tweaks. Millions of people, including my son, are using the current beta every day. A number of people at my office have been using Win7 since the day the *first* beta was released. I don't use it every day, but I have used it a lot and haven't seen a single problem. No one is having any difficulty at all. Some earlier Windows betas were pretty bad, but Win7 has been trouble-free. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
