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WillieWestwood: Jun 23, 2004; Happy Thanksgiving!

Xithyl posted:

Program Files hold 64-bit programs. Program Files (x86) house 32-bit programs.

I think.

I have

Program Files
Program Files (x86)
Program Files (x86) (x86)

What's the third folder for? (this is not a Win 7 question, as these folders were in Vista as well)

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WillieWestwood: Jun 23, 2004; Happy Thanksgiving!

kapinga posted:

Never seen the third one. What's in it, if you don't mind?

Lakitu7 posted:

I want to know this too, so we can point and laugh at the poorly coded installer.

Well, since inquiring minds want to know...

core (for Leafchat client)
help (for Leafchat client)
Lexmark 2400 Series
Lexmark Toolbar
lib (Nokia stuff)
plugins (empty folder)
themes (for Leafchat client)

# ¿ May 21, 2009 00:40

WillieWestwood: Jun 23, 2004; Happy Thanksgiving!

BeastOfExmoor posted:

Lexmark, talk about your all time non surprises.

Wait, one of your programs installs into 4 subdirectories of the wrong program files directory? (ie c:\Program Files (x86)(x86)\Themes\, etc) That's double extra retarded.

I went back and deleted that folder, since I wasn't using leafchat or the Nokia software. The Lexmark sofware is now in "Program Files". Thanks for checking it out for me.

# ¿ May 21, 2009 06:55

WillieWestwood: Jun 23, 2004; Happy Thanksgiving!

hobb posted:

I wonder if this is just a weird typo. I have a different monitor and nvidia graphics card and it also gets stuck on 59hz.

Unless you're using a CRT monitor, refresh rate is irrelevant.

# ¿ May 22, 2009 18:54

WillieWestwood: Jun 23, 2004; Happy Thanksgiving!

Serak posted:

Weirdness: Windows 7 (No codec packs installed) will generate thumbnails for VOB files, but doesn't know how to run them.

Associate them with WMP or WMC. But I could be wrong - I have the CCCP pack, which made the transition just fine, and VOB files play nicely.

WillieWestwood fucked around with this message at Jun 4, 2009 around 05:55

# ¿ Jun 4, 2009 05:49

WillieWestwood: Jun 23, 2004; Happy Thanksgiving!

CheeToS posted:

Well, I just got my first bluescreen using RC1 by trying to play this OGG file with Windows Media Player. Anyone else want to try it?

No BSOD here. The file played well in WMP despite the pop-up warning, but I played it in MPC as well to be sure. It works.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2009 11:08

WillieWestwood: Jun 23, 2004; Happy Thanksgiving!

Mierdaan posted:

Is there some sort of well-known stability problem with 7 64-bit and Office 2007? Both on 7100 and 7600 now, Word and Excel like to crash

When I open them

When I click on anything in the app

When I save a document

When I close the app

Office 2007 is updated to SP2, completely fresh install, no addins... can't see what I could be doing wrong here.

Mine works fine. When I went from Vista to 7 RC, it even repaired itself, and it's been fine ever since, including the Office updates.

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WillieWestwood: Jun 23, 2004; Happy Thanksgiving!

PDP-1 posted:

What does 'hosed' mean in this case?

It means it will start nagging you to reactivate with a product key (you can reactivate three times - one month each time - without a key using "slmgr -rearm" for the second and third times). I've also read that it will shut itself down after two hours as part of the nagging, making you reboot and pick up where you left off when it rebooted, but I haven't had that experience.

Or it means you can reactivate a genuine install three times before you have to wipe the hard disk clean and reinstall Windows, but I haven't reached that point, meself.

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