05
May 2009
14 Comments
Short: Windows 7 Release Candidate now available to all

The folks a Seven Forums shot me a note regarding the public availability of the Windows 7 Release Candidate build. As mentioned by forum member ‘Howdr’, you can now sign up for your beta kit or simply leech the build directly using the links below.

x86 build
http://wb.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/release/windows7/4/0/c/40c1e714-7910-4b38-9b5e-67fa522e6a44/7100.0.090421-1700_x86fre_client_en-us_retail_ultimate-grc1culfrer_en_dvd.iso

x64 build
http://wb.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/release/windows7/e/b/5/eb58e76e-17fa-409b-855f-11fbe84d1c93/7100.0.090421-1700_x64fre_client_en-us_retail_ultimate-grc1culxfrer_en_dvd.iso

  • Danny

    The download links are working for me as of 11:56pm PST (windows7.com). I am downloading x32 and x64 averaging 1.4mb/s.

  • salami

    looks like they learned from the beta disaster and are now using akamai :)

  • Dan
  • http://www.maximum-jackson.com Moi

    Direct links no longer work :(

  • 7Deserts

    I though these required a cookie and otherwise they redirected to the RC page.

  • 7Deserts

    Hmm. They require copy-pasting.

  • darkfire

    It is not resumeable
    Ill just wget it to my ftp then download from there

  • http://www.judeibe.com darkfire

    I uploaded it to a resumable area. You still need to retrive a key thouh. http://www.judeibe.com/windows/

  • mike

    You dont need to go to untrusted or “other” sources to get keys. You can get your legit keys from the website as always. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx

  • Bydia

    Sounds like your the man for getting into Windows and fixing things. Any fix for the following problem?:

    I have a factory install of Vista on C: done by Acer. I installed Win7 on my D: partition which when actually boot into Win7 became C: and my C: became D:. So to get my 150 greenware programs installed in less than 20 seconds (cause the shortcuts expect the programs to be on C:) I had to create a hardlink to my greenware folder on C: (I mean D: ) and make it look like it was on C:. Now my greenware can be used from one ‘location’ in both Vista and Win7. However, I cannot add these hardlinked folders to the favorite list. Sure wish I could have folders in the favorites that allow me to group my favorites. Sure wish MS would let me control whether I want Win7 to change my drive letter or not.
    Do you know of any way to do it?

  • jake

    oi. you guys know that beta keys still work as well as the new rc keys (activate it and everything). well fo me the beta keys did untill i found the rc key then i changed the product key just to be safe

  • PiLLo

    Could you please make an Uxtheme patch for Windows 7 7100 AMD64 plz? ç.ç

  • Jules

    What does the “fre” in the ISO file name mean? I always see that in all their builds for OS’ past and present and assumed it was to do with the language French but I’m assuming not because a few characters further it actually tells the language EN.

  • http://wacker.is-a-geek.net pizzaboy192

    The FRE stands for “free” (not as in it is free) but as in it is a consumer build instead of a build for debugging…
    (a quick google search can do you well)