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Is there any option to reduce the size of windows 7's enormous taskbar? I'm gonna install the beta this weekend, and it looks like it will be too big even on 1920x1200. Maybe half the size would be nice. Does autohide take focus from fullscreen things?
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Jun 23, 2009 01:07
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Sweet, glad to know it's that easy. I keep hearing how much of a performance boost windows 7 is over vista, without looking at graphs, about how much performance is gained? Is it pretty visible? Does this impact with better overall system performance and better game performance?
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Jun 23, 2009 01:20
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I was only asking for personal opinions anyways rather than facts. Sounds good. What, if anything is the sort of "niggling feeling" you've all felt from using it? Like for me, it's been how much space Vista's UI takes up. It just feels wasteful to me most of the time. Sure it's clean, but I'd prefer it took up less space than it does in Explorer. Also, is the search better in 7? I wish it'd search better when I'm searching for folders rather than files. Like going into a folder, looking at a folder that says "BALLS" (for example) and typing BALLS should return everything that has BALLS in it. But no, it returns "no results found" or whatever. Hung Yuri fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Jun 23, 2009 |
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Jun 23, 2009 01:51
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LooseChanj posted:I'd wonder if speedfan wasn't just full of poo poo, but under heavy load both Vista and 7 top out in the low 140's. I remember reading (back around the time Vista came out) that one of the things planned for 7 was real support for multiple cpus and cores so I'm guessing this is a result of that. Huh?  You mean 140 in Celsius? Hung Yuri fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Jun 23, 2009 |
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Jun 23, 2009 14:53
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oh that's about the same for me then. right now according to my case thingy, i'm idling at 32c, so that's not so bad.
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Jun 23, 2009 15:08
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Say I, right now installed windows 7. On wednesday when I change my cpu/mobo/ram, will that gently caress up everything and I'll have to reinstall anyways? I really hate not having my settings all there and it takes a week to a month to get everything how I want it.
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Jun 23, 2009 18:45
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I'm going from this http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=939SLI32-eSATA2 to this http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2978&ProductName=GA-MA770-UD3 I have no idea how you tell what chip is what.
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Jun 23, 2009 18:50
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Stanley Pain posted:Did you install any chipset drivers, specifically ones for the SATA controller? Are you running SATA in IDE Mode, AHCI, RAID? I run in non-raid mode (whatever my mobo calls it), with all 3 Sata drives. even my dvd burner is sata. No special drivers.
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Jun 23, 2009 19:02
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Dad has like three copies of XP Home, for whatever reason. I was using one of his because well, he's my dad and he let me use one. I bought vista ultimate off some goon who got it for free at a demonstration way back for about the price of a windows 7 home premium upgrade pre-order. I'll probably wait till march 2010 and bum a copy off someone or buy their key for cheap. $319 is steep, way too steep.
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Jun 25, 2009 20:23
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Xenomorph posted:Through doing surveys and other poo poo for Microsoft, they gave me: Two questions, how did they give you free oses? (and so many of them) Other question, why did you pay for linux?
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Jun 25, 2009 20:30
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Alex007 posted:Am I right to assume getting windows updates is a pain in the rear end for them ? If yes, then gently caress them, they deserve to be part of a nice botnet and have their identities stolen or whatever. No, you're totally wrong. They get updates and everything from windows itself. When you have a pirated version, which is just basically an edited version of the WGA that windows uses or whatever is, Microsoft is like "sup, you genuine?" and your computer says "yep no issues here" and their servers gives the green light. That's how I assume it works, because it behaves like a "real" version. As for pirating windows, I haven't pirated windows ever personally, but frankly if I'm not getting the latest "full version" of Windows then I'm not interested. These "value packs" of home, and home premium and buisness and all this other poo poo are for the birds. One pack, that does everything, includes everything. No gimped copies of anything 
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Jun 26, 2009 02:28
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That one apparently has a huge bug that makes you lose data and stuff tho, thats why it's not the RTM. D:
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Jul 1, 2009 18:58
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LooseChanj posted:Does anyone know exactly what this bug is? Something like the one from the original beta that corrupted mp3s, or something that fucks the partition table when you install? I've done some googling, but all I can find is "bug that causes data loss" which could be anything from mildly annoying to aw gently caress my computer's dead. I don't know exactly, just that it's a "showstopper bug with data corruption" v  v
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Jul 1, 2009 22:50
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roadhead posted:How is a 360 controller that I will have to buy "superior in every way" ? They moved the black and white buttons to a less desirable position for Street Fighter playing! I don't know about street fighter, but the button's were replaced with back and start, and placed in an easier to reach spot. My opinion of course, but without a doubt it's an awesomely designed computer. Also I went to sleep and so did windows 7, waking up in about 2 seconds to a mouse shake 
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Jul 2, 2009 17:54
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Has anyone figured out how to display windows side by side? Shift click and right clicking on the taskbar buttons then clicking "display windows side by side" isn't there like in vista :[ In fact, shift clicking brings up another instance of the item you clicked.
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Jul 3, 2009 00:48
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Casao posted:Ctrl-click? I guess? How do I do that?
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Jul 3, 2009 01:11
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Sully posted:When the window has focus, hold your Win button (Big thing... looks like a Microsoft logo!) and use your arrow keys. Left arrow to move it to the left part of the screen, right arrow for the other. OH! Yeah that worked, that's pretty sweet.
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Jul 3, 2009 01:17
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Did you try killing the process 'explorer.exe' and then going to Run and putting in explorer.exe? I find that usually fixes any weird explorer bugs.
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Jul 4, 2009 04:42
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ufarn posted:What the Christ does it mean that one of my folders has a green name rather than the usual black? The folder is encrypted, I believe. It was green in vista.
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Jul 4, 2009 23:30
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Suddenly now when I play a game windows 7 hardlocks on me, to the point where I can't move the mouse, no sound, no anything. So I reset and tried again, still did it after a while of playing. When I went to turn on the computer the 2nd time, it got to the login screen, I got a black screen with a mouse. What do you think could be causing my computer to hardlock? I was running an old age of empires clone, so it's not over heating my CPU I think, plus it would restart if that's the case.
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Jul 6, 2009 03:17
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Casull posted:Out of curiosity, what game? It's been doing this randomly for Left 4 Dead for me. I set mat_queue_mode 0 on my console, and that seemed to have worked. Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds - Clone Wars (a mouthful but essentially Aoe1 with star wars, since it has none of Conqueror's perks)
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Jul 6, 2009 09:23
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Is it possible I can make a single button click, make a window disappear? like on the task bar. say I middle click something, like windows media player or notepad, and have it close.
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Jul 15, 2009 03:27
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m2pt5 posted:This exact method actually works with the Aero thumbnail previews; middle-clicking on one of them closes it. Oh sweet! Yeah, I hadn't noticed this, that works just as well.
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Jul 15, 2009 03:40
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How do I install asian language packs on my copy of windows 7 professional?
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Nov 16, 2009 05:56
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revolther posted:Tried Windows Update? Theres no options like that for me, I just checked. Theres only one update that's hidden (i did that on purpose) because it's optional and when I tried it, it hosed up my onboard nic, "realtek rtl8168C(P)/8111c(p)" Rolled back to the default win7 driver for it.
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Nov 16, 2009 06:22
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Casao posted:The language packs are only available to Ultimate. Why? Why is something like a different language blocked out?
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Nov 16, 2009 06:25
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revolther posted:The real reason is "socialism", all other countries have it, so pay more and buy ultimate or get the gently caress out you Marx reading pussy. BALD EAGLE GUITAR SOLO! I don't have that option since I don't have ultimate.
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Nov 16, 2009 06:49
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Is nvidia being stupid lately? My monitor's max refresh at 1920x1200 is 60hz, but I can only set it to 59hz and whenever I try to set it, it resets to 59hz. Same with nvidia scaling instead of monitor scaling. Any way to force this?
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Nov 19, 2009 01:08
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No, I just want to use hardware scaling because my monitor scales poorly in comparison. 800x600 is already on my list of resolutions, the lowest resolution I have actually.
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Nov 19, 2009 01:41
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Zorilla posted:Oops, you want hardware scaling, not display scaling. Thought it was the other way around. So the "Adjust desktop size and position" panel is totally broken on yours? Yes, it resets to whatever it was on before, not to what I set it. Xenomorph posted:My 1Hz was stolen and I DEMAND it back! It's not a huge deal, but it bothers me.
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Nov 19, 2009 02:01
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How do I get windows to stop reminding me to restart my computer after I update? I updated my computer two weeks ago and it's like restart your computer to apply updates (just one or two things since I'm pretty good with keeping it updated) The most I can set it to is every 4 hours. I don't want to restart my computer, I'll restart when I feel like it (hardly ever because it's too much of a hassle), stop buggin me jerkass! 
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Apr 16, 2010 02:44
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OgNar posted:Wouldn't it be easier to set it to not install any updates until you are ready to restart? I doubt the updates are going to do much for you anyway until you do. How do I do that? I don't see that type of option. I'd prefer that it automatically installed when I go to shut it down or restart and stop nagging me, really.
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Apr 16, 2010 03:01
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Too much of a hassle to shut my computer down and wait 5-10 (tops) minutes for it to start up and everything to be loaded up. Maybe if I set up a thing where I could make my computer restart when I'm not at home...Send a command to it and make it restart or something.
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Apr 16, 2010 14:32
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strwrsxprt posted:How lovely is your computer that it can take 10 minutes to boot into Windows 7? I've a few programs I think that I have to run at start. mIRC Steam Pidgin netmeter tweetdeck xfire setpoint cfosspeed fraps power supply program
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Apr 17, 2010 22:52
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mobn posted:You have to launch a screen recorder, multiple chat clients, and steam at startup? Those are all things you could easily just launch when you need them. I want to use them as soon as my computer goes on. If i dont put on fraps on startup, i'll never remember to turn it on when I'm playing a game until after I was trying to take a screenshot. I also had firefox in my startup folder but ever since firefox's recent 3.6 and 3.7 alphas were performing so poorly and I switched to chrome I haven't really remembered. I use steam for chatting probably more than i use irc now.
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Apr 18, 2010 02:53
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Plorkyeran posted:Chat clients that aren't left running at all times aren't really very useful. Exactly. Srebrenica Surprise posted:I have to bite. What the hell? It's a ups monitor that came with my power supply. It doesn't have to run at startup, but I like that it's there. Plus every now and then the program launches a self-test of the hardware (like maybe once a week that takes 3 seconds) and tells me if it's doing okay and logs any errors it has (no errors in the past 24 weeks)
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Apr 18, 2010 16:57
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I wish I could get rid of the left pane sometimes. Windows feel cramped too much. I wish I could mod the top windows as well and scrunch the space up as well, minimalizing the whole thing. I've never seen a skin for windows 7 that isn't basically just adding some new color or background though, unfortunately.
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May 20, 2010 07:35
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How do I make windows reboot but re-open any programs I had open at the time, like folders and pdfs and poo poo
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Jul 15, 2010 22:57
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IT Guy posted:Sleep. That's not what I was looking for. Setpoint wants me to restart (to update the program) but I hate restarting my computer.
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Jul 15, 2010 23:03
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Unless you have a computer from 2004. Windows 7 will fare better than Vista would but, if you don't have a good enough PC I think you shouldn't even bother really (2.4ghz processor or higher, 2gb of ram or higher) otherwise it'd feel slow. In my opinion that's my ideal minimum.
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