tzirean posted:

I updated Windows, and now AIM crashes every time it reaches the "Starting Services" step. Yes, I still use a 5.x version of AIM, so I suppose I should have expected this to happen sooner or later. I just figured if it didn't happen when I installed 7, I was safe until at least a service pack.

Now to figure out which chat client is the second-least terrible.

change my name posted:

If you're watching a movie you can see a minimized version if you mouse over the taskbar too. I don't really know what the point is but still!!

Sweeper posted:

win+r notepad

Sweeper posted:

What? Is he trying to use a different notepad than the one that comes with windows? Does this not work in 7 or vista anymore? I thought it did

Hung Yuri posted:

How do I make windows reboot but re-open any programs I had open at the time, like folders and pdfs and poo poo

rugbert posted:

Im not sure where I should post this but, Im having trouble getting mySQL running with IIS7.

The service IS running but I cant connect to any databases through my wordpress install or phpmyadmin. Or should I move this over to the home server thread? I, just using plain ol Win7

-Blackadder- posted:

If I do upgrade what am actually getting that XP doesn't have?

GreenNight posted:

I had that with wireless and I had to install the latest Intel drivers because the HP drivers had the bug.

berserker posted:

Alright, this is driving me loving mad. I've had Win7 Professional 64 bit on my computer for about the past month. Almost every day in the morning after I wake up I will go to my computer and find that the internet connection is apparently nonexistent. Of course, I can still get onto the internet with other devices, so its not the actual connection or something with my router. Once I restart Win7, the connection is back up like nothing was wrong.

After doing some research on this, I found that some people were having this problem when their computer would go into sleep mode. Well I had turned sleep (and hybrid) mode off entirely shortly after I installed the OS.

I found out last night that in the Device Manager you can right click on your network adapter and see that by default it is set to "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power". Of course!!! So I switched that off. I then proceeded to leave my computer on overnight on a huge 16GB download.

I wake up today, and the loving internet connection is not there on my PC again, and the download stopped after something like 200MB. Incredibly frustrating; if I download something overnight when I'm not using my PC it is losing the internet connection - and if I download during the day it will be fine but it will eat up a huge chunk of my bandwidth that I am trying to use!

Anyone have any clue as to what could still be causing this?

TwoKnives posted:

Thanks for the heads-up. Skype is getting shittier and shittier each update.

Zorak of Michigan posted:

What do you need that PuTTy doesn't have? Your mention of copy/paste makes me wonder whether you know that Putty copies text automatically when you highlight it, and pastes when you right-click inside the window.

Mr. Crow posted:

So I didn't realize you had to completely re-install Windows after a motherboard upgrade (thought I'd just have to repair it or something), I'm reading in the OP that doing a clean install will move my old data into a Windows.old folder, is this just /windows/ and /my documents/ essentially?

Thermopyle posted:

Still mIRC after all these years.

Toast Museum posted:

Smoking_Dragon posted:

I got a question about setting up user accounts in Windows 7 Ultimate.

I want to set up my computer so when somebody turns it on it automatically logs on to a default "standard user" profile. If I want to use the computer I want to be able to simply log off and enter my password to get into my administrator profile. Is there a way to set this up?

HalloKitty posted:

Or: win+R
control userpasswords2
Then uncheck "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer."
Apply, then it'll ask which username and password you want to use by default.

Shaocaholica posted:

The drag to the side thing doesn't quite work well with multi-monitor setups

Trinitrotoluene posted:

Is there any tool that I can run on a Windows 7 machine that will simply fully update it, quietly, until it is happy and fully upto date?. From a standard build of even 7 with SP1 the update needs to be run over 9-10 times recursively until you get all the updates. WSUS is no good for us we are an MSP building laptops for clients.

Nenonen posted:

Can you recommend a software for editing movies for Windows 7 64-bit? I used to like the XP's bundled Windows Movie Maker, but the Windows Live Movie Maker that comes with W7 is a piece of crap in comparison when it comes to functionality.

The thing is though, I don't want to be paying zillion bucks for some Adobe product, just something more like XP's WMM with some more features. Is eg. Corel VideoStudio a good choice or do you have better suggestions?

BadLlama posted:

Excuse my ignorance but If I have two harddrives can I install windows 7 on the second harddrive, switch it to the bootable drive, then when it boots to that copy of windows format my other drive? So, basically I want to switch the drive my windows is on to by bigger and faster drive but want to get rid of all the poo poo on my old drive and start fresh. Will this work with no complications?

Toast Museum posted:

1. Run the installer
2. There is no step 2

Seriously, though, you don't have to do anything special for x64 or for SSDs on a clean install. Windows will handle all that.

bowmore posted:

If you just bought Windows 7 what programs would you install on it? My friend moving from a MAC to Win 7 has no idea what's available and the OP is hideously outdated.

Mak0rz posted:

Most people don't need CCCP et al. to play music. Do you seriously use Media Player Classic to manage your music library? bowmore: Windows Media Player is an okay music player for most people. I prefer simple and feature-rich, which is why foobar2000 is my player of choice.

Mak0rz posted:

Neither of these are great. Real pros use PDF X-Change

Guy Axlerod posted:

Why this over the built in .iso burning utility? (I do use it on my XP computer at work.)

lonters run around posted:

uTorrent is becoming more and more bloated and now it's possible to upgrade to a pro version, and it has apps. Is there an alternative to uTorrent that is being updated regularly ?

Thermopyle posted:

I use Evernote and Toodledo. Works awesome.

I have copies of every website I've found interesting, photos of anything I've found interesting, notes, and pdfs all archived in Evernote for the past several years.

They have a great web interface, and great clients for Windows and Android (and other platforms that I haven't used it on.)

Toodledo is a website for tracking tasks.

Xenomorph posted:

Evernote is kinda lovely.

I use it on Mac OS X, Windows, and iOS.

On Mac OS X, I guess it is sorta OK. You hit "New note", type a title, hit Tab, start typing a note.

On Windows, you hit "New note and it drops you in the message body. You have to click back to type title for the note. Not a huge deal, but why would they make the Mac & Windows clients inconsistent like that in the first place???

On iOS, Evernote is a nightmare. Formatting is screwed up, extra carriage returns are randomly entered, extra spaces are added to ends of each line every time you save, viewing the note and editing the note are two completely different screens. Even though it is a "universal" app, the interface is different depending on if you load it on iPhone/iPod or iPad. Load it on iPhone/iPod, you have a "Favorites" folder where you can bookmark important notes. Load the SAME .app file on iPad and there is NO Favorites folder.
Putting in a note where it thinks some text you typed should be a hyperlink is a one-way change. You cannot change that hyperlink, ever. You have to delete it completely and re-type it.
Previous versions for iOS would double-space ALL notes, really loving with the formatting.
The current version adds "predictive note titles", which means your new notes get RANDOM titles, based on things like location or other factors that are completely out of your control.

I can't even copy & paste my notes out of Evernote into other programs, since the formatting is always hosed. I have to email notes to myself, as that is the only way to get them back to close to a normal formatting.

I have over 1,000 notes in Evernote, and I've been using it for years.

Gromit posted:

I don't know if anyone really cares any more, but I moved the data recovery wiki that used to be at shsc.info/DataRecovery to http://data.steveshouse.org
Right now it's just a quick and dirty paste of the old data, pretty much. I plan to make something better and more up-to-date in the near future, though. And better-looking.

tater_salad posted:

I am looking for a utility that I use to migrate an entire drive (os drive) to another hard drive.