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I can't login to windows 7 at all right now. When I enter my password it hangs at the welcome screen, and no amount of time produces an error. So far I have tried restarting in safe mode (which works) and creating a new Admin account... however that account also freezes at the welcome screen. I have also tried using the repair option on my disk, but it claims nothing is wrong. Turning off all services / startup programs aside from the regular MS ones does nothing too. No new hardware. What is the next step?
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Oh My Science posted:What is the next step? Check disk? You can run it from safe mode. It also could be a driver or software problem, though you disabled startup programs.
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Jul 29, 2010 23:37
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LoKout posted:Check disk? You can run it from safe mode. It also could be a driver or software problem, though you disabled startup programs. It was a fairly new install so I decided to reinstall. I'm almost certain it's a software problem, I just don't really know what could have caused it. I used check disk & didn't find anything abnormal either. Bad luck I guess.
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Jul 29, 2010 23:42
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m2pt5 posted:The GUI option will be fine, I don't need to bomb it from orbit. Thanks. Thanks, I wrote it  . (That XP dialog was removed in Vista.)
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Jul 30, 2010 00:19
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Factor Mystic posted:Thanks, I wrote it Those are awesome and bullshit, respectively. I quite liked that dialog. Also I skipped directly from XP to 7.
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Jul 30, 2010 00:24
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Why it was removed
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Jul 30, 2010 01:20
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Why is Windows 7 reminding me about backing up my file encryption? I haven't encrypted any files.
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Jul 30, 2010 03:59
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Been up and running for a few days now and I'm pretty much liking everything so far. There's a ton of tutorials on Youtube that I have yet to go through, but I'll get around to it pretty soon. There does seem to be a few things off the top of my head that I would have changed if I was one of the developers. That "show desktop" button in the lower right hand corner is useful, especially the preview feature, but an option to put in the lower left hand corner where Windows users have been clicking the "show desktop" quick launch icon for years seems like a rather obvious omission. It feels unintuitive having spent so many years doing most of my clicking in the lower left hand corner. I also haven't been able to figure out how to manually drag around and/or arrange files in a folder. I can still do it on the desktop but not in folders. And after some googling it seems that Microsoft actually took that feature out. I almost don't believe it given how it was such a basic, useful function. I'd love to read an article like the one Plorkyeran posted about why they thought this was an intelligent design decision. Anyway, apologies for the slight rant. I imagine I'm probably just rehashing a bunch of stuff that everyone already went through when Windows 7 first came out. -Blackadder- fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Jul 30, 2010 |
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Jul 30, 2010 08:26
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That was also my biggest gripe with new OS's, is that you get used to doing something an old way, from the old OS, and then you always have to relearn new ways of doing things with the new OS. I usually don't upgrade OS for a long rear end time simply for the sake of keeping my way of running things, but I've found that with each stable upgrade it becomes more and more and more intuitive. I went from 95 to 2000 to XP to 7 without dealing with all the poo poo in between just because I didn't want to learn how to deal with new OS's every year, but each slow, reluctant jump I appreciated it after a month or so. Just takes time to get used to it. p.s. <3 7
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Jul 30, 2010 09:40
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-Blackadder- posted:I also haven't been able to figure out how to manually drag around and/or arrange files in a folder. I can still do it on the desktop but not in folders. And after some googling it seems that Microsoft actually took that feature out. I almost don't believe it given how it was such a basic, useful function. I'd love to read an article like the one Plorkyeran posted about why they thought this was an intelligent design decision. [e] Oh, there's a link in that thread to a post by a shell dev that says almost no one used it so it wasn't worth reimplementing. Plorkyeran fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Jul 30, 2010 |
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Jul 30, 2010 10:31
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Plorkyeran posted:My unsubstantiated guess is that very few people actually want to manually rearrange items in folders, but a lot of users accidentally moved files around then could not find them. Alternatively, they simply didn't have time to reimplement it before beta started, and there weren't a lot of complaints about it during beta. Didn't mean to put you on the spot. That last post wasn't directed at you or anything. Just the article you posted. And yeah, I saw that link they posted as well. Considering how many people in that thread are complaining about it I don't know how much I believe that. Regardless the OS is already miles better than XP so it's not like it's anywhere near a deal breaker or anything it's just like Guilty said; it's incredibly irksome when you're used to using a specific feature and they decide to take it out of the next version. -Blackadder- fucked around with this message at 11:24 on Jul 30, 2010 |
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Jul 30, 2010 11:20
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Is there any setting or programme I can use that will stop other programmes from stealing focus? I use my PC as my HTPC and occasionall something is stealing focus from XBMC. On XP I would have used TweakUI but that doesnt seem to be an option on Windows 7.
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Jul 30, 2010 17:45
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-Blackadder- posted:Been up and running for a fewThat "show desktop" button in the lower right hand corner is useful, especially the preview feature, but an option to put in the lower left hand corner where Windows users have been clicking the "show desktop" quick launch icon for years seems like a rather obvious omission. It feels unintuitive having spent so many years doing most of my clicking in the lower left hand corner. While you do have the learned behavior of show desktop next to the Start menu, the corner is a better place for it. You don't have to be near as precise with your mouse movements to use it, since you can just shove over and down and you'll be on it without having to click on a tiny icon located between other icons.
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Jul 30, 2010 19:25
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Thermopyle posted:You don't have to be near as precise with your mouse movements to use it, since you can just shove over and down and you'll be on it without having to click on a tiny icon located between other icons. It's a pain if you've got a dual monitor setup though, since the cursor just slides off onto the secondary. Well, if the secondary is the right one and you keep your taskbar on the left monitor.
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Jul 30, 2010 20:09
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Plorkyeran posted:Why it was removed What a bunch of poo poo. "We didn't want to bother making it trigger UAC, so we just removed it." All the other stuff they mention is irrelevant. People just want to change a file association every now and then. Maybe change an icon, change a file type description, or remove an incorrect association. Third-part apps have proven the old method is STILL valid with Vista/Windows 7. Removing an invalid file type association for the current account doesn't even require UAC to be triggered (since it is saved in HKCU, as are many file type settings). That article is a cop-out and a lie. The DDE / Windows 3 stuff could have easily been left out of a "modern" file-type manager.
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Jul 30, 2010 20:20
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-Blackadder- posted:Considering how many people in that thread are complaining about it I don't know how much I believe that. Xenomorph posted:All the other stuff they mention is irrelevant. People just want to change a file association every now and then. Maybe change an icon, change a file type description, or remove an incorrect association.
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Jul 30, 2010 21:47
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Plorkyeran posted:When something is used by hundreds of millions of people, something which annoys a thousandth of a percent of the users will annoys thousands of people. 50 people complaining in a thread that's a high google result doesn't really indicate that it's a common problem. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who were annoyed by it that didn't bother to complain either. Regardless dragging files around to where ever you want them in a in a particular folder was a pretty basic part of previous versions of Windows. I would've thought it's inclusion would've been a no brainer. I haven't spent more than a few days with the OS but so far I'd say the removal of that option is easily the biggest disparity I've noticed from previous versions.
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Jul 30, 2010 22:01
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Plorkyeran posted:You can change file associations in Windows 7 by just right clicking on a file then clicking on "Choose default program". Being able to change the icon for a file type would be sort of nice I guess, but it's a pretty niche thing that seems reasonable to dump off on third-party programs. I don't know why you'd want to outright remove incorrect associations for files other than if you managed to associate executables with a program, and adding an easy way to fix that is solving the wrong problem. Yes, incorrect associations. That is exactly why you'd want to remove a file association. For example: Microsoft used ".SYS" for some text files before. Double-clicking a SYS file would ask which program you want to open with the file-type. Previous versions of Windows would allow you to select "Notepad" to open the file. If you somehow made the mistake of checking off the "always open" option, you could delete the association later. Vista/Windows7 has that option checked off by Default (BAD), and will NOT let you remove the (incorrect) association (double BAD). This is stupid on so many levels, that at least three different programs were released to try to correct the fuckery.
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Jul 30, 2010 22:28
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What exactly is the point of deleting the association for .sys? All that'll do is make the dialog asking you which program you want to use to open it the next time you double click it, which you can access at any time without deleting the association. I really don't understand how having .sys files associated with notepad is a problem in the first place.
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Jul 30, 2010 22:53
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Anyone know where I can get a driver for my Jabra BT8010 bluetooth headset? It's a few years old so I'm not sure it works on Win7 x64. Is there a generic bluetooth driver I can get to work?
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Jul 30, 2010 23:07
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SnatchRabbit posted:Anyone know where I can get a driver for my Jabra BT8010 bluetooth headset? It's a few years old so I'm not sure it works on Win7 x64. Is there a generic bluetooth driver I can get to work? You did try to pair it first right? There may already be a driver in 7 for it.
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Jul 30, 2010 23:10
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fishmech posted:You did try to pair it first right? There may already be a driver in 7 for it. Yes, it seems to pair Ok, but when Windows attempts to find a driver it just kicks an error. I've downloaded and installed the software from Jabra but still no luck.
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Jul 30, 2010 23:13
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Xenomorph posted:Previous versions of Windows would allow you to select "Notepad" to open the file. If you somehow made the mistake of checking off the "always open" option, you could delete the association later. MS probably should have idiot proofed it with a "Open once with..." but at least it's not hidden under Shift-Right Click anymore.
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Jul 30, 2010 23:17
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I don't know if this is Windows 7 related (perhaps a new feature) but is there any way to access the files of a sleeping computer? I have 3 HTPCs in my house, 1 of them has like 4tb of hard drive space, the others have barely anything because they all get the video files from the main HTPC. But when the HTPC goes into sleep mode, I cannot access that PC anymore. They are all running Windows 7. Please don't tell me I have to keep this monstrosity on all day to keep it accessable to the other computers?
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Jul 30, 2010 23:36
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Hamburglar posted:I don't know if this is Windows 7 related (perhaps a new feature) but is there any way to access the files of a sleeping computer? Sleep by definition puts the computer in a state where essentially everything but the RAM is turned off, so no, this is impossible. You're going to either have to leave it on or get a NAS or equivalent to be left on instead.
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Hamburglar posted:I don't know if this is Windows 7 related (perhaps a new feature) but is there any way to access the files of a sleeping computer? You could try using Wake On LAN.
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Jul 31, 2010 01:46
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So for the second time in a row after un-hibernating, I've gotten a "Hard drive not located, reseat hard drive and reboot computer" error. I wouldn't think it was a windows 7 problem, but it's been freezing a lot during the restore so I don't know.
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Jul 31, 2010 03:09
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LoKout posted:I think Trillian can change where the popups display. If not, it should
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Jul 31, 2010 06:18
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. You could always set the primary to be the other monitor and then move the taskbar to the secondary monitor. Not sure if that would launch games on the secondary monitor, but you could probably get that working somehow too.
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change my name posted:So for the second time in a row after un-hibernating, I've gotten a "Hard drive not located, reseat hard drive and reboot computer" error. I wouldn't think it was a windows 7 problem, but it's been freezing a lot during the restore so I don't know. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977178/
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Kynetx posted:You could try using Wake On LAN. I don't know why I didn't think of this. Thank you.
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Jul 31, 2010 15:29
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Can anyone recommend any slowdown utilities for Windows 7? The ones I've tried (CpuKiller and Mo'Slo) don't seem to work for Windows 7.
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Jul 31, 2010 18:47
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JosephWongKS posted:Can anyone recommend any slowdown utilities for Windows 7? The ones I've tried (CpuKiller and Mo'Slo) don't seem to work for Windows 7. What do you need to do?
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Jul 31, 2010 18:50
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c0burn posted:What do you need to do? I'd like to slow down my computer so that I can run an old PC game which would otherwise run too fast to be playable.
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Jul 31, 2010 19:14
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JosephWongKS posted:I'd like to slow down my computer so that I can run an old PC game which would otherwise run too fast to be playable. Is it a DOS or Windows game?
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Jul 31, 2010 19:33
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c0burn posted:Is it a DOS or Windows game? It's a Windows game. An 10-year old Chinese-language RPG/sim that I suddenly wanted to play again in a rush of nostalgia.
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Jul 31, 2010 19:42
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Nomenclature posted:This might be an issue where particularly large SATA hard drives might not be able to become ready in the 10 seconds allowed by the driver, so Windows doesn't have access to the drive when it tries to resume from sleep or hibernation. MS released a hotfix for it that you might want to try: It's only a 120gb though.
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Jul 31, 2010 21:32
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I'm finally upgrading to Windows 7 and since I'll need to do a clean install, I was just wondering if there's anything that I absolutely need to download beforehand. I also had one more question, if I've got Office 2007 installed will I be able to reinstall it from my original CDs, using my original license key?
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Aug 1, 2010 02:19
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JosephWongKS posted:I'd like to slow down my computer so that I can run an old PC game which would otherwise run too fast to be playable.
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Aug 1, 2010 02:38
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Dendra posted:I'm finally upgrading to Windows 7 and since I'll need to do a clean install, I was just wondering if there's anything that I absolutely need to download beforehand. Make sure you have drivers for all your installed hardware, especially if going 64-bit. Older stuff, such as scanners, may be a problem for 64-bit Win7. You'll be able to reinstall Office 2007 with the original license key.
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change my name posted:It's only a 120gb though. And if I were you, I'd also start backing up data on that drive. If the problem only started recently, I'd suspect that the drive is on its way out.
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