(Are you starting to feel as if you were really there)? (Hallelujah)!Īnd for some reason, we’re allowed to go back and look at this status dialog one more time.Īnd then back to the main boot screen. This was an interesting detail during the boot process:Īll of the services apparently start firing up, as the boot process continues. If you click on the link that reads “Drive options (advanced)”, you’ll see some options for managing hard disk partitions:Īt some point, near the end of the installation, Windows boots for the first time. Restarting everything and instead choosing Custom gets us where we want to go: In my first try, I went with the Upgrade option, which only got me this next confusing empty dialog. This next dialog is just as confusing in Windows 7 as it was in Vista. ![]() I once met a guy who actually read these EULAs. This is the spot to insert the angelic music.Īfter picking an install language, you get to the main install kick-off window: Next we get the first Windows 7 install screen. Then we switch from a DOS-looking progress bar to a cute Windows-looking progress bar: You just get shivers as you start to install a new Microsoft OS for the first time, don’t you? Simple fix-just delete the default hard drive and create an IDE drive in VMWare. The only “gotcha” was that VMWare creates a SCSCI virtual hard drive by default-which Windows 7 failed to recognize. I installed my copy of Windows 7 to a VMWare virtual machine. So it’s for them that I’ve suffered an endless series of screen captures. But really-there are people out there who will eat this stuff up. ![]() Ok, admittedly, looking through install screens is about as exciting as watching bacon fat congeal. But this first post will just contain: every damn Windows 7 installation screen. I’ll put up more posts later with screenshots of various bits and pieces in Windows 7. The obvious place to start in Win 7 is with the installation process. ![]() I thought I’d do my part to flood the web with screenshots from the M3 preview of Windows 7 that was distributed at last week’s Professional Development Conference in LA.
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