{"id":328497,"date":"2010-02-16T15:30:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T20:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/article\/q110-windows-7-rc-expiration-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2010-02-16T15:30:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T20:30:27","slug":"still-running-windows-7-rc-time-to-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/328497","title":{"rendered":"Still running Windows 7 RC? Time to upgrade!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you got in early on the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/windows+7\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 7<\/a> thing with the RC and never upgraded, you may wanna get cracking with that, because as of yesterday, Windows 7 RC will be bugging you a few times a day leading up to the expiration of the product. Here&#8217;s the rundown:<\/p>\n<p>As of February 15, 2010, Windows 7 RC users will receive the following alerts:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 7 RC users receive an expiration notification in the task bar one time per day.<\/li>\n<li>Windows 7 RC users are presented with the Notification Wizard one time every four hours and then one time every hour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not annoying enough, starting March 1 (that&#8217;s two weeks from now,) the next phase of the expiration process begins:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 7 RC users receive an expiration notification in the task bar one time per day.<\/li>\n<li>Windows 7 RC users are presented with the Notification Wizard one time every four hours and then one time every hour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yup, your computer will restart every two hours, no matter what you are in the middle of doing. Your work won&#8217;t be saved or anything. Of course, we can&#8217;t blame Microsoft, since the product has been available at retail for month. Still, there&#8217;s one more phase to the expiration process, and that happens on June 1:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows starts to a black desktop.<\/li>\n<li>Windows 7 RC users are presented with a Windows Activation screen. The screen states that the Windows that you are running is not genuine.<\/li>\n<li>Computers that are running Windows 7 RC restart every two hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there you have it, a friendly reminder that if you are on Windows 7 RC, it&#8217;s time to make some decisions. Things are about to get very annoying, very quickly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/operating+systems\" rel=\"tag\">operating systems<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/os\" rel=\"tag\">os<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/software\" rel=\"tag\">software<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/windows\" rel=\"tag\">windows<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/windows+7\" rel=\"tag\">windows 7<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/windows+7+beta\" rel=\"tag\">windows 7 beta<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/windows+7+beta+expiration\" rel=\"tag\">windows 7 beta expiration<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/windows+7+rc\" rel=\"tag\">windows 7 rc<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/windows+7+rc+expiration\" rel=\"tag\">windows 7 rc expiration<\/a>,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#FFCC66; padding:5px; margin-top:5px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/article\/q110-windows-7-rc-expiration-upgrade\/\" title=\"Still running Windows 7 RC? Time to upgrade!\">Still running Windows 7 RC? Time to upgrade!<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/\" title=\"Gear Live\">Gear Live<\/a> on Tue, February 16, 2010 &#8211; 12:30:27\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tUEzcHeH9bkOyNiDJO0G8cmgqZ0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tUEzcHeH9bkOyNiDJO0G8cmgqZ0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tUEzcHeH9bkOyNiDJO0G8cmgqZ0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tUEzcHeH9bkOyNiDJO0G8cmgqZ0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gearlive.com\/~ff\/rss_2?a=M1KEFsdTn2E:zqID1CUmdrY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rss_2?i=M1KEFsdTn2E:zqID1CUmdrY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gearlive.com\/~ff\/rss_2?a=M1KEFsdTn2E:zqID1CUmdrY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rss_2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/rss_2\/~4\/M1KEFsdTn2E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you got in early on the whole Windows 7 thing with the RC and never upgraded, you may wanna get cracking with that, because as of yesterday, Windows 7 RC will be bugging you a few times a day leading up to the expiration of the product. 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