{"id":966,"date":"2009-10-08T21:41:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T02:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/?p=966"},"modified":"2009-10-08T21:41:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T02:41:57","slug":"my-windows-7-party-has-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2009\/10\/08\/my-windows-7-party-has-started\/","title":{"rendered":"My Windows 7 party has started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Get the party started\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2633\/3992851855_a07f8476cc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>About a month ago I signed up to host a Windows 7 launch party.\u00a0 Officially, Microsoft will release Windows 7 on Octobery 22.\u00a0 Those selected to host a party are suppose to have a party within a week after the launch.\u00a0 My party will be on October 25.<\/p>\n<p>I received a nice box of goodies today from Microsoft including party favors, balloons, napkins, playing card, a jigsaw puzzle and Windows 7 tote bags.\u00a0 Most importantly the box also included a Signature Edition of Windows 7 Ultimate.\u00a0 There were actually two DVDs in the box: 32bit and 64bit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Windows 7 Goodie Box\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3525\/3992850369_cd3bced516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The instructions said to install Windows 7 right away.\u00a0 The host needs to be well versed in the new operating system features before the party gets here.\u00a0 I wasted no time in getting started with the installation.\u00a0 My Dell Studio 17 is less than six months old and runs Windows Vista Home Premium.\u00a0 I did something I never do&#8230; an upgrade (sorry Paul Thurrot).<\/p>\n<p>The Studio 17 is my main laptop.\u00a0 It is packed with everything: pictures, video, music, software and all my documents.\u00a0 A pre-installation scan said there were 930,000 files on the hard drive.\u00a0 I then received a warning that this could take a few hours.\u00a0 No big deal.\u00a0 I had other computers to use while the upgrade progressed.<\/p>\n<p>Before I started, I told Mesh to go offline.\u00a0 Otherwise I left everything running including Symantec Antivirus.\u00a0 The upgrade took five hours but worked perfectly!\u00a0 As soon as everything finished, I logged in and Mesh immediately grabbed all the files I had created while the installation progressed.<\/p>\n<p>I have been using the Beta of Windows 7 for many months.\u00a0 It has worked well even on my oldest computers.\u00a0 Now that I&#8217;m officially using the production version, it looks great.\u00a0 This is my first blog post from my upgraded computer.\u00a0 Plan to see many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago I signed up to host a Windows 7 launch party.\u00a0 Officially, Microsoft will release Windows 7 on Octobery 22.\u00a0 Those selected to host a party are suppose to have a party within a week after the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2009\/10\/08\/my-windows-7-party-has-started\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[157,2,156,155],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-os","tag-technology","tag-upgrade","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}