Finally finished downloading Windows 7 and installed it on my Dell. Went with replacing Windows Vista. 
For a Beta release Windows 7 feels far more stable and responsive than Windows Vista SP1. It even boots faster than Vista.
Some random things about Windows 7:
- The first thing I did was turn off UAC but apparently that has a side effect. Desktop gadgets cannot be used without turning on UAC. Don’t know why.
- If you are beta testing Windows 7, be sure to read this great list of 30 Windows 7 secrets by Tim Sneath. Its a seriously great article about some cool things that are present in Windows 7.
- If you are annoyed by the Send Feedback link present on all windows, use this simple registry hack from Tech Recipes to get rid of that.
- Love the desktop slideshow feature of Windows 7. Just select a folder containing wallpapers and specify a rotation interval, Windows 7 will rotate the wallpapers. Earlier people used to downloaded third party software for doing this.
- Windows 7 includes DivX support in Windows Media Player. So codec packs are not needed more.
5? Codec packs are needed if you want to play something in Windows and you do not have the codec.
Having a codec to let you play back divx is all well and good, but does anyone use divx? Most movies are encoded in better formats these days. So Windows has been dragged kicking and screaming into 1997. Woop.
including divx codec is a nice touch, actually.
Yeah wtf are you talking about. Almost all dvdrips are in divx still.