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alkanphel posted:I saw this in the OP Yes.
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Data posted:Can anyone tell me if it's possible to fully disable cleartype in windows 7? You couldn't in Vista (the option only partially disables it, which is infuriating). For that reason, and that reason alone I'm still using XP. Anyone? There isn't a way, just like there wasn't in vista.
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May 22, 2009 09:41
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Factor Mystic posted:I don't call something you do once and then forget about, probably when you install the program, micromanagement. Not to mention that some programs exclusively live in the system tray. One that comes to mind specifically is teamspeak.
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May 25, 2009 00:10
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syphon posted:Weird, I'm running on a system with only 2gb of RAM, and it still runs great. I can't imagine using 5gb just for torrents, browsing, and movies (I have all of that and more running most nights). It's gotta be how Windows handles memory management these days. Hell, I'm doing this on systems with 1gb.
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May 26, 2009 10:46
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BeastOfExmoor posted:4. You can change the login screen picture through the “Personalization” menu. Holy gently caress, it's like they've listened to almost everything anyone has ever wanted.
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May 30, 2009 18:14
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beejay posted:It's fake. They are not going to add things like this at this point. A lot of that stuff would be annoying and they wouldn't change the UI like that post-beta. DAMNIT.
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May 30, 2009 18:26
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Scroll down to "windows explorer". There, the four people who actually give a gently caress can stop complaining about not being able to double-click a dot to go up a level.
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May 31, 2009 23:06
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Network posted:Other than indexing like what routenu said, what are some other things I should disable after installing windows 7? to increase performance of course. You shouldn't turn off anything since it's just going to DECREASE performance in everything that isn't a benchmark.
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May 31, 2009 23:30
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Network posted:Does anyone know how I can remove the windows logo on the bottom left of the taskbar? It's annoying when I have a white taskbar and white background, yet there is this little bugger that stands out from everything. ...You mean the start button?
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Jun 1, 2009 03:13
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Black Pants posted:Coming from a few responses I've seen to the person asking about the Quicklaunch bar thing, what reasons are there for NOT using that and going with the pinning feature of 7? The quicklaunch bar is effectively redundant now because the superbar does everything it did, but without just slapping more and more icons on there.
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Jun 2, 2009 10:19
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I am not going to miss installing drivers. I plugged in a printer I bought just night and Win7 just handled installing it itself without being prompted at all. Had a test page printed out within a matter of seconds.
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Jun 2, 2009 12:01
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DarthBlingBling posted:Also RTM is expected to be just over one month away! Dang yo, MS is moving fast with this one.
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Jun 3, 2009 01:12
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Casao posted:Live Mesh is a much nicer version of Remote Desktop. This is absolutely true for most people. Live mesh is pretty well brilliant and honestly seems to blow stuff like mobile me/.mac/whatever the gently caress that piece of poo poo is called now out of the water.
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Jun 6, 2009 17:52
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My Precious Violin Case posted:This is the only reason I leave it on, but I don't think I've ever said "No" to one of the prompts. Does it do something behind the scenes which is beneficial? Or is it the kind of thing that you put up with for months just so that it saves your rear end that one time? UAC contains a huge amount of security that runs in the background, protecting against things like malware and, yes, the whole conficker debacle without asking you a thing. Not only that but it provides a virtualized filesystem and registry so programs won't take fresh, fragrant shits all over them at the drop of a hat. Really, turning it off is the most stupid thing you can do if you aren't doing it for compatibility reasons.
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Jun 8, 2009 17:30
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Mensur posted:Until I can see processes from all users in task manager with an annoying UAC prompt it's staying off. All that malware protection is great and everything if you're the kind of person who gets malware but I never do. I use FF with adblock plus and a host file. I don't use UAC and I don't even run virus scan at home. A few times a year I'll boot off my thumb drive and scan with avast and malwarebytes just in case but no infected files are ever found. If I need to scan something I'm unsure about I just virustotal.com Jesus gently caress I can't even tell if this is a troll. Malware and viruses don't always manifest as poo poo like giant pop-up windows, sometimes they simply mine for data and mess around in protected areas.
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Jun 8, 2009 21:55
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Relambrien posted:One or two a day? I get much, much more than that. Every time I open World of Warcraft, UAC prompt. Every time I open a launcher program for Starcraft, UAC prompt. Ventrilo, UAC prompt. It would be even worse if I hadn't migrated to MPC from VLC. The only time I've ever had a UAC prompt come up in WoW is when it needs to update.
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Jun 9, 2009 08:34
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Relambrien posted:^^^^^^I'll try that if things don't work out here. But I like the secure desktop functionality. That is colossally hosed up. As I said earlier, the only time I ever get a UAC prompt related to WoW is with the automatic updater. Make a backup of your game directory, reinstall to [home drive]/users/public/games and then copy the old directory over that.
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Jun 10, 2009 11:47
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Casao posted:Because the EU is picking the dumbest solution to the problem. You see, it's Microsoft's fault that most users are idiots, furthermore
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Jun 12, 2009 00:56
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Small posted:The one situation where task merging bugs me is when my Pidgin IM window gets merged in with the buddy list window -- to view a new IM when both are minimized, I have to click twice (or hover for the thumbnails). So I just made a Pidgin plugin that splits the buddy list and IM windows into separate groupings: I'd be very interested in something like this, actually.
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Jun 21, 2009 18:18
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Kali11324 posted:I'm getting ready to do this today. Here's what is probably a stupid question: I'm going from XP so I'm doing a clean install. Do I need to back up all my driver or will Windows 7 take care of that for me? XP drivers wouldn't work in Win 7 anyway.
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Jun 22, 2009 19:50
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Casull posted:Oh hello. Time to try this, thanks. Yeah, alt-tabbing out of fullscreen apps has always been wonky, regardless of windows version. Your luck in XP was probably not mirrored by a lot of people.
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Jun 22, 2009 22:36
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Charles Martel posted:I didn't realize how helpful the whole "pinning programs to the taskbar" would be, but I can't believe Windows never had it before. It sort of did. Quicklaunch. quote:I'll admit that I didn't try the new WMP, but I doubt it has out of the box support for all the various wacky codecs / containers / subtitle formats that the internet has to offer.
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Jun 23, 2009 01:51
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osigas posted:I did post this in the WoW Goon forums but I remembered seeing others having some WoW issues with Windows 7 through the course of these threads so thought I'd ask here too as I suspect it's a permissions problem. I will come right out and say that this is bizarre. I'm running WoW from the same space you are but I haven't had a single problem like this. In fact, the only time I did was when I had it installed to program files.
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Jun 23, 2009 11:41
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MikeJF posted:Hold shift as you position them.  Oh god I love you so much.
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Jun 28, 2009 06:16
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Ziir posted:Should I even bother doing this preorder thing if I am a student? My school has been very generous with Microsoft software (Office Suite for $15). Probably not then, you're getting a great deal.
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Jun 29, 2009 03:21
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SecretFire posted:
Dan Brown? I hold no hope for the future.
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Jul 1, 2009 20:37
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roadhead posted:I've only read the OP not the entire thread, but has anyone had any luck getting a classic xbox controller to work in 7? XBCD sort of installs, but it ALWAYS complains about the driver not being signed, and I ask to install it anyway but still no love. You could just buy a 360 controller? They're superior in basically every way and like $20 for a 3rd party version.
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Jul 2, 2009 04:18
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LooseChanj posted:I've been running 7264 for a few days now, and it's fine and dandy. The big "showstopper" you hear mentioned around the internets really isn't. Care to elaborate?
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Jul 5, 2009 06:55
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Ignited posted:I am thinking about the same thing right now. If you have an XP license the upgrade will work but you will basically be doing a clean install, from what MS has said.
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Jul 7, 2009 08:26
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CitrusFrog posted:I'm running 7100 and I have to say, I really enjoy the general user experience however I've run into the following 2 problems. Well, first thing I notice is your terrible, mismatched, slow as gently caress RAM. That may be an issue.
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Jul 7, 2009 08:57
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Spatule posted:I'd really love it if they could add this feature: when I have one window maximized vertically on the left and one on the right, the middle window resize borders should fuse or something. Is there a place for suggesting stuff ? Yeah, it was the first beta. You're kinda outta luck.
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Jul 8, 2009 09:30
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Ryokurin posted:Remember with OEM versions, it really is supposed to follow the hardware it's installed on. No major upgrades and keeping the same install, even if the upgrade is replacing damaged hardware. It also does not have phone support if that's important to you. Really? I've called MS after major system upgrades for OEM versions plenty of times.
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Jul 11, 2009 23:45
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Ryokurin posted:Yep. They are not supposed to, but that is how the license reads and is probably the reason why a call is triggered. But those are the two main reasons why they say that they can offer the OEM software for cheaper than retail. I just lie and say that I'm doing on-contract repair work at a company and a UPS blew out so we had to replace the motherboard if they start pushing. They just go "Oh, okay" after that.
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kapinga posted:I was going to say we'll likely find out tomorrow, but it looks like RTM is delayed. Honestly, if there are major bugs, I'm glad there's a delay.
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Jul 12, 2009 07:28
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fishmech posted:But that practically is all there is. Home Premium and Business/Pro are all the average person sees or uses. Noone sells Starter in the US, Home Basic practically only shows up on low-end computers that can't handle anything better, and Ultimate is basically the same thing as Plus! used to be, only incorporated into the OS instead of being a separate product. THe most versions of Windows you can reasonably expect to see on a shelf somewhere is 4: Home BAsic, Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate. And I think it's pretty obvious which is which, not to mention that most every store that sells windows has little booklets from Microsoft at the OS section that explain what the versions are, like they have for Office. Not only that, but Microsoft can't do what Apple does, which is use the money they make from selling the only hardware that can RUN their OS to lower the cost of their OS.
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Jul 13, 2009 03:32
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LooseChanj posted:Home, Pro, Media Center and... Windows XP Starter Edition, for new computer users in developing countries Windows XP Home Edition, for home desktops and laptops Windows XP Home Edition N, as above, but without a default installation of Windows Media Player, as mandated by an EU ruling Windows XP Professional, for business and power users (Version number: NT 5.1.2600) Windows XP Professional N, as above, but without a default installation of Windows Media Player, as mandated by an EU ruling Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, for PCs with x86-64 processors (based on Windows Server 2003) Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, for notebooks with a touch screen or a pen-sensitive screen Windows XP Media Center Edition for desktops and notebooks with an emphasis on audio, video, and PVR capability. There are four versions: o Windows XP Media Center Edition o Windows XP Media Center Edition 2003 o Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 o Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Windows XP 64-bit Edition
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Jul 13, 2009 04:14
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fishmech posted:You forgot Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs and XP Embedded, both of which are XP. I forgot a lot of things. I didn't want to scan the wiki article for potential repeats.
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Jul 13, 2009 04:32
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Xachariah posted:Three years just seems pretty short, especially in light of the fact that XP had an official lifetime of twice that (2001-2007), and thats completely ignoring the vast subset of users who haven't even bothered upgrading to Vista for the last 2 years. So basically, you're mad because they're... back on their regular release schedule, seeing as vista was 3 years late?
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Does SteadyState work with Windows 7?
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suction posted:what firewall for w7 do you guys recommend? i used comodo firewall but it hasn't been updated for 7 yet. windows default firewall sucks btw Windows firewall. There's nothing wrong with it, you're just being a baby.
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