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Hell, I only have three gigs of RAM on my laptop and I rarely break 50% on 32-bit. Come on 7, fill that poo poo. I shouldn't even have to WAIT to open stuff with that much free RAM, get to work SuperFetch.
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| # ¿ May 17, 2009 16:45 |
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| # ¿ May 24, 2013 06:51 |
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-Dethstryk- posted:Check the resource monitor. It might actually be using more than that. My physical memory is at 20% use right now, but the resource monitor shows that it's using about 70% of my RAM to cache things it knows I might load. I had no idea this program existed, I'm sitting at about 70%. Awesome, thanks for pointing this out.
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| # ¿ May 17, 2009 16:55 |
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KublaKhan posted:Can I turn off UAC for an individual program? I get the prompt every time I try to open a .pdf (Foxit reader). I was getting this too. Apparently it's an issue, I checked their forums a few weeks back. It's probably something loving stupid like wanting to mess around in its install folder for ad downloads or something. This also breaks the Firefox plugin. I tried giving myself write permissions, etc to the folder and it didn't fix it. You know what I did? Installed Adobe Reader Lite, which I can't link to because it's a hack on Adobe's installer, but it's really nice and quick. I also switched to STDUViewer for PDFs and comic archives from my machine. FreewareGenius review
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| # ¿ Oct 27, 2009 19:36 |
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Also don't forget Windows Live SkyDrive. 25 Gigs of space on that. You have to do it manually and there's a 50 MB filesize limit but it's still pretty rad. Also, there's this little thing I just found that seems pretty rad if you use online services like this. Gladinet lets you mount online filestorage like google docs and skydrive as drives. Echophonic fucked around with this message at Nov 4, 2009 around 00:59 |
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Avian Pneumonia posted:well of course i have daemon tools lite (how else would i have been mounting the .iso files) I think Media Browser ( http://www.mediabrowser.tv ) is supposed to let you do that using Daemon Tools. I'm not totally sure how to go about it, but I think it's a setting in the configuration where you point it at your DT install. Also, Media Browser is awesome.
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| # ¿ Nov 6, 2009 03:51 |
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fishmech posted:Have you noticed that it's possible to customize the ribbon yet? I'd say that's the best change. I'm waiting for the Beta to download (gently caress that java download manger), but I really liked the Office Button that replaced the orb in the tech preview. That was loving sweet to have all of your options laid out on a screen. The print preview stuff is really nice. Makes me sad I have to use Office XP at work.  This is called "Backstage View" apparently. Echophonic fucked around with this message at Nov 20, 2009 around 01:11 |
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Essobie posted:I just recently noticed some weirdness with my mouse sensitivity today when I came back to my machine after it had apparently gone into sleep mode. It required me to enter my password and when it showed me the desktop my mouse was moving way slower than it normally does. I have this in XP for my MX518, but I've never actually looked for a solution. I think it's related to SetPoint not resetting the adjustable DPI on wake, so you get the Windows default. SetPoint is awful.
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| # ¿ Nov 21, 2009 05:10 |
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Speaking of which, what programs that put Windows 7's taskbar enhancements to good use? Stuff like jump lists and controls on the Aero preview? I know the Zune software does, foobar can do controls with a plugin, there's that Gmail app that is pretty cool, the Jumplist Launcher software that seems redundant with the way the start menu works and Steam added some jumplist functionality. I know a bunch of programs use the progress bar functionality such as ImgBurn and, again, Steam. So what else is out there that puts this stuff to good use?
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| # ¿ Dec 14, 2009 07:18 |
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Casao posted:AVG has gone to crap recently, and it's particularly bar with Windows 7. If you insist on using a codec pack, for using Media Center, as an example. The Shark007 codec pack and it's x64 extension work very nicely for me. Plays everything I've thrown at it. MSE is pretty good, I don't see much reason to use anything else, my like of Avast aside.
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| # ¿ Dec 21, 2009 23:20 |
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IntoTheNihil posted:Is there a way to buy and install Windows 7 digitally? The disc drive on my laptop won't read discs for some reason. Joe Don Baker posted:As has been mentioned recently in this thread, you can buy and download the ISO. Mount the ISO with d-tools or whatever. Then you can use a flash drive to install the OS. Instructions: http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345 You an also just mount the ISO and install from there. You don't actually need the disk once you've started the process, it puts all the files it needs on the hard drive you're installing to. I upgraded at least once during the beta/RC period like that.
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| # ¿ Feb 28, 2010 00:35 |
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Joe Don Baker posted:Wouldn't that only work during an upgrade install? I think I did a clean install from the Beta to the RC using Virtual Clone Drive. It's been a while, so I could easily be wrong. I mean, it doesn't access the disc after the initial setup from what I could tell on the installs I've done.
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| # ¿ Feb 28, 2010 04:36 |
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Keito posted:Both hibernate and sleep mode won't work on my computer. I've got enough space on the system drive, but it just goes black for a brief moment before I'm greeted with the lock screen. powercfg /lastwake gives me zero. Any ideas? I had to disable "allow wake timers" under my power settings to get my media pc to stay hibernated. I sort of disabled any way for stuff to wake the machine, so maybe my scorched earth policy isn't the best, but I think that wake timers did the job.
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| # ¿ Apr 19, 2010 00:21 |
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| # ¿ May 24, 2013 06:51 |
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Cojawfee posted:You just have the video open and then hover over its task bar icon. I think it only works if the video is open in the background, not if it is minimized. So you can have your browser open and then hover over the icon to see something interesting. Or even better, you can use OnTop Replica and just have a little always on top aero preview.
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| # ¿ May 3, 2010 02:34 |
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