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I just got my first "Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown." Where do I go to find more information about what happened? Is there an event log somewhere?
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Oct 15, 2009 16:32
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Jam2 posted:I just got my first "Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown." Where do I go to find more information about what happened? Is there an event log somewhere? It's in the same place it's always been. Right click Computer, choose Manage. Then look for event viewer > windows logs and it's one of those, most likely System. Also, I'm going to say it was the trojan that installed AV2010.
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Oct 15, 2009 16:56
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Is it possible to still download the Windows 7 RC somewhere? A mirror maybe? A friend of mine wants to try it out and he says Microsoft is still giving away CD Keys but the download has been taken off. I can't seem to find the ISO on my computer and I highly doubt I'll find the DVD I burned it onto to install. If this is considered  then just ignore me.
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Oct 15, 2009 18:48
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Ziir posted:Is it possible to still download the Windows 7 RC somewhere? If there is, there shouldn't be. Just do a keyless install of the RTM.
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Oct 15, 2009 19:00
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Got my free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate edition at the Dublin launch today. Gonna install it tomorrow.
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Oct 15, 2009 19:42
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Xenomorph posted:AntiVirus Pro 2010 (and its many variants) are annoying, but they can NOT install themselves under Windows Vista or Windows 7 without someone giving them consent first. I don't know what the program name was that asked permission and installed it, but it sure didn't call itself AntiVirus Pro 2010. And I certainly could have gotten it from the corrupted download on the Razer site, which makes sense if by me allowing the Razer driver setup program to make changes to my computer allowed AntiVirus Pro 2010 to install itself. I would have hoped that the real-time protection from Nod and SuperAntiSpyware would have blocked installation of the trojan and rogue antivirus but it seems that even updating the virus definitions daily just doesn't keep up with the malware crap out there. Add in the fact that the file came from an established website like Razer makes it easy to see why so many people get these problems even when they are trying to be careful.
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Oct 15, 2009 20:01
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coldsnap posted:I don't know what the program name was that asked permission and installed it, but it sure didn't call itself AntiVirus Pro 2010. If your UAC as not at maximum, it's possible to trick the whitelist. If it's lowered at all, it could get by without even getting a prompt. If your Flash/Browser were running elevated or if they weren't sandboxed properly, it could get by without a prompt. UAC is security in name only unless you max it out, and even then, there might be a hole or two. Of course, it's not designed as security but to train developers to stop writing lovely code, so who knows?
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Oct 15, 2009 20:04
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coldsnap posted:I don't know what the program name was that asked permission and installed it, but it sure didn't call itself AntiVirus Pro 2010. Because it was a trojan... trojans disguise themselves as something else to insert a malware payload. It's like if you let some dude into your house and then he pulled a gun on you, you probably wouldn't have willingly let him in would you?
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Oct 15, 2009 20:07
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Casao posted:If your UAC as not at maximum, it's possible to trick the whitelist. If it's lowered at all, it could get by without even getting a prompt. I bumped up the UAC from the default setting to the max after I cleaned out the malware. Most likely I only needed to give the mouse driver setup.exe file permission to run for the malware to get the green light to install without further notification. A week after I cleaned out the stuff, Nod found the trojan in the mouse driver setup file that was sitting on my desktop. Nod downloads and scans every night, so it apparently took Nod a week to get the definition into the scanner database.
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Oct 15, 2009 20:17
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Rort posted:I apologize if this has been brought up before, but there's been 2000 replies since I've last checked this thread... The answer is use small icons. Right click taskbar, check use small icons. Also, has their been any good words about microsoft security essentials? The help desk guys here are now recommending it over AVG for student PCs now (but mostly because AVG thinks maple is a virus).
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Oct 15, 2009 20:23
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Sojourner posted:The answer is use small icons. He's using small icons. His whole post is him complaining because he's using small icons & can't get the taskbar to resize itself. JoeCitizen posted:I've been using Shark007's Windows 7 Codec Pack. It is hands down the best there is. Is it even necessary to use a codec pack if you're using MPC-HC? I'm getting tired of VLC, and was going to switch over. I'd read that MPC-HC, like VLC, doesn't really need codec packs. Are they worth installing for something like that, or only if you want to use WMP/WMC?
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Oct 15, 2009 20:40
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Stunt Rock posted:He's using small icons. His whole post is him complaining because he's using small icons & can't get the taskbar to resize itself. It's necessary for Media Center or WMP, and the codecs are nicer than the built in one occasionally. If you're using Shark007, it disables ALL WMV acceleration, was wondering why my system was choking. Hopped into FFDShow and changed it to WMV9 and it worked fine.
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Oct 15, 2009 20:49
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So far, MPC-HC, a recent ffdshow tryout, and Haali media splitter have handled everything I've thrown at my Win7 box.
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Oct 15, 2009 20:56
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Stunt Rock posted:Is it even necessary to use a codec pack if you're using MPC-HC? I'm getting tired of VLC, and was going to switch over. I'd read that MPC-HC, like VLC, doesn't really need codec packs.
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Oct 15, 2009 21:30
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Swilo posted:VLC has its own decoders built in and no method to load external filters. MPC-HC has no decoders built in and depends on external filters, but with the EVR renderer on Vista/7 will use DXVA hardware decoding of VC1/VC2 video depending on your graphics card. no MPC-HC has internal filters built in and will also use system filters
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Oct 15, 2009 21:32
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That's news to me, I didn't know they were going that route; MPC only had enough to run DVDs. Any idea what they're using for that?
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Oct 15, 2009 21:59
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I've been having more success with ZoomPlayer than anything else.. It's got quite a lot of control over your codecs too.. At least in a much easier sense than I ever found with MPC-HC or VLC
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Oct 15, 2009 22:26
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MPC-HC includes libavcodec/libavformat, which is about 90% of ffdshow. In terms of playing video the main advantage of using ffdshow instead of the build-in decoders is that it lets you use ffdshow's filters.
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Oct 15, 2009 23:29
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Jam2 posted:I just got my first "Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown." Where do I go to find more information about what happened? Is there an event log somewhere? Try typing "event log" into the Start Menu. Use start menu search more, people! 
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Oct 16, 2009 00:04
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Crazy. A couple of weeks ago I was grousing at how long it takes the "Welcome" process to work on my computer. I didn't do a scientific timing but it was roughly 25 seconds. Incredibly annoying and it didn't seem to do that the first few times I booted after install. The drive light blinks briefly but other than that, the span is spent doing nothing but showing me "Welcome". I spent time turning off services that given past experience cause the boot to slow but nothing helped. Thanks to Google, I discovered the problem; I use a solid color background for my desktop. For whatever reason that is the cause of the slow down. I changed it to a random canned picture and the Welcome screen only seemed to last 4 seconds. My best guess is that with a solid color they create an image on the fly using the worst algorithm in the world.
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Oct 16, 2009 00:20
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Aindriu posted:Got my free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate edition at the Dublin launch today. Gonna install it tomorrow. reely i dont get mine for a week or so
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Oct 16, 2009 00:29
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Cheesus posted:Thanks to Google, I discovered the problem; I use a solid color background for my desktop. For whatever reason that is the cause of the slow down. I changed it to a random canned picture and the Welcome screen only seemed to last 4 seconds.
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Oct 16, 2009 01:48
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Stimm posted:reely i dont get mine for a week or so What did you do wrong?
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Oct 16, 2009 03:00
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Swilo posted:Try making your own background image of a solid color in paint? That's really annoying if true, because I do the same thing.
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Oct 16, 2009 03:21
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Make a smaller gif and tile it?
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Oct 16, 2009 04:34
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Cheesus posted:Yes, I ended up making a .gif the size of my desktop with my desired color. Very annoying to have to do that.  (This is a joke, I could never figure out how to solid color a desktop (if there's a way))Cojawfee posted:Make a smaller gif and tile it?
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Oct 16, 2009 05:12
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LooseChanj posted:If there is, there shouldn't be. Just do a keyless install of the RTM. Well where can I download the RTM? I'm not a Technet subscriber.
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Oct 16, 2009 07:04
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Ziir posted:Well where can I download the RTM? I'm not a Technet subscriber. Torrents.
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Oct 16, 2009 07:16
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fishmech posted:Torrents. can you imagine if only people who had actually paid for W7 could post in this thread... no one would post in the threaded edit: it's a joke guys echinopsis fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Oct 16, 2009 |
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Oct 16, 2009 07:19
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echinopsis posted:can you imagine if only people who had actually paid for W7 could post in this thread... Does paying for MSDN access count? That's how I have it.
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Oct 16, 2009 07:26
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echinopsis posted:can you imagine if only people who had actually paid for W7 could post in this thread... I paid money (thought not much) and have a valid key for Windows 7. Lots of people have the final version of Windows 7.
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Oct 16, 2009 08:29
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I'm having a weird issue with the Windows 7 RTM. Twice (the first time while I was installing a program and this time while I was loading a web page) the mouse pointer has become absolutely enormous for no apparently reason. It looks completely normal on my second monitor, but on my primary display it looks like a partially blind person is trying to use the computer from across the room. I've tried Google and every possible setting in Windows but I'm having no luck. In order to fix it, I need to restart the computer. I'm getting fearful that I burned the Technet ISO too fast and my installation is corrupted.
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Oct 16, 2009 09:34
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I just took the plunge and installed Windows 7, and I have two questions that I didn't see answered in the last two pages - I used RocketDock on Windows XP for all my launching needs*. Will it still work, or is there a better alternitive? My only requirement is it have Stacks capability. I used LClock to hide my start button and make it display from the system clock with the Windows key, is there a way to do that here? Googling "Windows 7 hide start menu" brings up a program called Start Killer, but the sites it's on don't fill me with fuzzies. Any options? *I know the superbar will do the same sort of thing with pinning, but I like having a seperate dock to launch things from and a taskbar to see my running applications.
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Oct 16, 2009 10:32
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Xenomorph posted:Well, then leave it on. Instead of stopping a service or opening Group Policy editor and digging through its structure, I've had a Reboot disable thing in XdN Tweaker for a while that makes the same policy change. 
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Oct 16, 2009 13:08
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Swilo posted:Just like OS X! 
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Oct 16, 2009 14:29
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quick and stupid question: is the XP virtualization in windows 7(x64) x32, x64, or both? I have some software that absolutely _will not_ run in any 64 bit OS, and right now I'm looking at using vista64 as my primary OS and an XP32 on a VMWare to run my legacy apps.
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Oct 16, 2009 15:43
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IcedPee posted:quick and stupid question: is the XP virtualization in windows 7(x64) x32, x64, or both? I have some software that absolutely _will not_ run in any 64 bit OS, and right now I'm looking at using vista64 as my primary OS and an XP32 on a VMWare to run my legacy apps. It's for both 32 and 64 bit. If you're going to use XPMode for older software, there's really no reason at all to run 32-bit on the host system. Anything that can't run in x64, toss it into XPM and be done with it. The only restriction is that you have to run it on Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise. Edit: And yes, the XP install in XPMode is 32-bit Professional. AlexDeGruven fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Oct 16, 2009 |
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Oct 16, 2009 16:05
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IcedPee posted:quick and stupid question: is the XP virtualization in windows 7(x64) x32, x64, or both? I have some software that absolutely _will not_ run in any 64 bit OS, and right now I'm looking at using vista64 as my primary OS and an XP32 on a VMWare to run my legacy apps. From TechNet: "Windows XP Mode provides a 32-bit Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (SP3) environment pre-loaded on a virtual hard disk."
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Oct 16, 2009 16:10
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real_scud posted:Hey Xenomorph I just wanted to let you know that as of 0.9.2.0 on Win7 x64 v7600 there is no option to disable reboot on automatic updates. So could you turn it on for Win7 as well? That's weird. I don't know why I didn't have it enabled under Windows 7. I can only assume it wasn't working as expected in a beta or something, and I disabled the feature then. I just tested it under x64/7600, and it set the policy fine. It will be there in 0.9.2.1. Thank you for the feedback.
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Oct 16, 2009 16:53
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Xenomorph posted:That's weird. I don't know why I didn't have it enabled under Windows 7. I can only assume it wasn't working as expected in a beta or something, and I disabled the feature then.
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Oct 16, 2009 17:09
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