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Exioce posted:My old old wireless USB adapter (Win XP and 2K drivers only) naturally doesn't work with Windows 7. I messed about with Compatibility mode too, but no joy. I just need to ensure a new one works with Vista and i should be good, right? Additionally, any recommendations on adapters? I don't mind paying a little more for something known to be a quality product. Try and have Windows7 automatically search for drivers, you might get lucky.
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Shannow posted:I am going to throw it on my main machine soon, the only thing i want to know is if it's possible to have the sidebar from vista back, as I'm used to having that permanently on top and would miss not having my wee clipboard history gadget always there. I don't think so, but the sidebar has been replaced with the ability to put those same gadgets anywhere on the desktop.
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Jun 9, 2009 16:08
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Relambrien posted:^^^^^^I'll try that if things don't work out here. But I like the secure desktop functionality. Sounds to me like it was installed in compatibility mode or has messed with permissions by having been run in those modes, now effectively requiring you to use them to access all game content. I know how long it takes to reinstall, but $5 says removing and reinstalling WoW entirely without ever using compatibility mode makes it work properly.
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Jun 9, 2009 16:15
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m2pt5 posted:I don't think so, but the sidebar has been replaced with the ability to put those same gadgets anywhere on the desktop.
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Jun 9, 2009 16:17
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wolrah posted:Sounds to me like it was installed in compatibility mode or has messed with permissions by having been run in those modes, now effectively requiring you to use them to access all game content. I know how long it takes to reinstall, but $5 says removing and reinstalling WoW entirely without ever using compatibility mode makes it work properly. Setting it into compatibility mode was actually the response to the game beginning -not- to work. It installed just fine, and played just fine for a couple times without being run as administrator or in compatibility mode. So I poked around in a bunch of settings, and eventually found that running in compatibility mode was the only way to reliably make it work. Note that the UAC prompts were still happening before making the compatibility mode changes.
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Jun 9, 2009 16:19
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Speaking of gadgets, do you guys have any good recommendations? Right now I only have the weather one, but last time I tried to look for one in the MS website, the only thing I could find were some lovely RSS readers that wanted to charge me for daring to put in my own RSS feeds instead of the default ones. Edit: also, is the Device page kind of random on whether it recognizes the devices plugged in. Some days it will be able to tell that my mouse is a Logitech MX518, and that my phone is an iPhone (and give it the right pictures and name, which is really cool), and then it'll just assign them as generic devices. dpkg chopra fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jun 9, 2009 |
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Jun 9, 2009 17:05
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Shannow posted:Wacom drivers -> show-desktop-button-zilla That's a side effect of installing pen or tablet functionality. You're stuck with it unless you suddenly don't want your Wacom drivers installed anymore.
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Jun 9, 2009 17:12
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Sir Unimaginative posted:That's a side effect of installing pen or tablet functionality. You're stuck with it unless you suddenly don't want your Wacom drivers installed anymore. There must be a registry value to kick this in the nuts.
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Jun 9, 2009 17:47
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All you people talking about "elevating privileges" and all this UAC discussion about having it on yet not getting any prompts is confusing the hell out of me. Is there a general guide out there to keep UAC on but not get any prompts? Do you have to do it folder by folder and tick "Run this program as an administrator" on the program's .exe? For WinRAR, I have it ticked, get prompted every time I open an RAR file, but then I can extract it wherever the hell I want, but with other programs like Paint, "Run this program as an administrator" is greyed out.  I didn't realize how important UAC was, because I had it disabled in Vista. Now I have it at the default level in Win7, and I would like to learn all this file permission stuff so I can keep it on.
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Jun 9, 2009 18:00
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Shannow posted:edit - also, what earthly need is there for there to be so much space on either side of the clock?! Most people run the taskbar on 7 with large icons so you're missing the date etc from your clock.
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Jun 9, 2009 18:08
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c0burn posted:Most people run the taskbar on 7 with large icons so you're missing the date etc from your clock. Indeed, and there is the option to have the date in that space, but there's no reason to keep so much space when you've opted to turn it off. I'd like to be able to narrow the space between icons in the notification area anyway though, the feel a bit overly sread oout, though i suppose that's to do with it's 'reinvention'.
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Jun 9, 2009 18:22
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Charles Martel posted:All you people talking about "elevating privileges" and all this UAC discussion about having it on yet not getting any prompts is confusing the hell out of me. Is there a general guide out there to keep UAC on but not get any prompts? Do you have to do it folder by folder and tick "Run this program as an administrator" on the program's .exe? Not getting any prompts would really defeat the main purpose of UAC. I think a lot of people have problems with UAC prompting for them where it doesn't for others is because they turn it off, and then later turn it on after they've installed stuff. Pretty much the only time I get UAC prompts is when I want to write to Program Files. I'd agree with the earlier statement about a couple of UAC prompts a day and I run all sorts of poo poo on my system. I run multiple games through steam every day. I use Ventrillo extensively. I do lots of development in various programming languages. Basically, I'm a heavy user of all sorts of software, and I constantly try out beta software. I've got an addiction to trying out all the stuff they mention on Lifehacker.
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Jun 9, 2009 18:34
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free bowl of soup posted:I have an old as hell Linksys wireless pci card. It didn't work at all. I hooked up direct to my router instead. Somehow, Windows 7 automatically downloaded some Dell drivers that work on my card, and now it works perfectly. Of course, win7 now things my Linksys card is a Dell card, but it works. I bet Dell has a card with the same chipset as your Intel card (which makes sense because Dell tends to use Intel chipsets for wireless anyway), and Dell was still selling the card recently enough to have updated drivers for Vista and therefore 7.
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Jun 9, 2009 18:59
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WoW likes to write to lots of files in its program directory, which doesn't combine very well with UAC. Either installing it to somewhere other than Program Files or granting your account admin access to WoW's folder should make it work correctly without compatibility mode.
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Jun 9, 2009 19:26
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Xenomorph posted:doPDF is what I've been using for a while. It works fine on all systems I've put it on. XP/32, Vista 32/64, and Win7 32/64.
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Jun 9, 2009 19:50
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Plorkyeran posted:WoW likes to write to lots of files in its program directory, which doesn't combine very well with UAC. Either installing it to somewhere other than Program Files or granting your account admin access to WoW's folder should make it work correctly without compatibility mode. Also don't use that lovely launcher.
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Jun 9, 2009 20:06
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Ugh, XPMode is driving me nuts. If it didn't come with a free version of WinXP, I'd ditch it for VMWare right away. My Win7 partition is pretty small (only 30gb), so I don't have much spare room to create a virtual machine on it too. However, XPMode doesn't seem to support storing virtual machines anywhere but your c: drive (somewhere in AppData, specifically). It let's you move your 'parent disk' (which is the equivalent to the install CD, I think) wherever you want to, but it doesn't give you a choice as to where you want your actual VM's disk to install to. What makes matters worse, is that once you get it installed, there's an option to move the HD file in the VM's settings. However, if you move it out of its default location, VirtualPC won't load it and makes you re-install XP next time you try to start up your VM! syphon fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Jun 9, 2009 |
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Jun 9, 2009 20:15
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Josh Lyman posted:doPDF is giving me weird PDFs where text isn't smooth and everything looks like it has been poorly resized. How about CutePDF Writer?
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Jun 9, 2009 20:31
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fishmech posted:I bet Dell has a card with the same chipset as your Intel card (which makes sense because Dell tends to use Intel chipsets for wireless anyway), and Dell was still selling the card recently enough to have updated drivers for Vista and therefore 7.
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Jun 9, 2009 20:47
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Is anyone having trouble with the screensaver not starting? Because mine isn't. I googled and it seems to be a common problem in XP/Vista (didn't happen to me in XP before I upgraded though) related to wireless mice or keyboards. I have a (wired) G5 Logitech mouse but tried unplugging it...and voila, the screensaver starts! Anyone has any idea how to fix this? Or will I have to unplug my mouse every time I leave my computer? 
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Jun 9, 2009 20:51
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Is 7 64bit going to care where I put my games? Will they perform differently depending on whether or not I put them into 'Program Files x86' 'Program Files' or 'Game Files'? I asked this in the Windows thread and never really got an answer. But I still don't understand what the point of the x86 Program Files folder is for.
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Jun 9, 2009 23:28
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Ziploc posted:Is 7 64bit going to care where I put my games? Will they perform differently depending on whether or not I put them into 'Program Files x86' 'Program Files' or 'Game Files'? Program Files (x86) is for 32 bit apps, when install an application to the environment variable for program files the OS will return Program Files for 64-bit or Program Files (x86) for 32-bit. Guessing it's so you can have both 32 & 64 bit versions of apps installed side by side, but I don't know the official reason.
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Jun 9, 2009 23:43
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Any game that installs I put it in the correct program files folder, but I made a separate games folder in my user folder for all the poo poo that I just have to unarchive so I don't have to deal with the UAC prompts.
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Jun 9, 2009 23:44
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I really like it when my c: drive looks like this: Program Files Game Files Users Windows This is a bad idea? I don't really care about the (x86) directory. I just like having a separate place for my games. Ziploc fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Jun 9, 2009 |
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Jun 9, 2009 23:47
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Ziploc posted:I really like it when my c: drive looks like this: There's nothing wrong with that. I put all of my games onto a totally separate drive. Install them where you want, I was just explaining why there's two Program Files directories.
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Jun 9, 2009 23:59
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Ziploc posted:Is 7 64bit going to care where I put my games? Will they perform differently depending on whether or not I put them into 'Program Files x86' 'Program Files' or 'Game Files'? No, Windows doesn't care at all about where a program is. Things only break if the program uses hard coded paths or you move it after installation.
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Perfect. Thanks. I wanted to know this before I started all the Steam downloads.  I'm really enjoying Windows7. Its a shame I'm graduating before I'll be able to MSDNAA it. Cheers.
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I purchased a new drive, so I get to have all my games on a drive separate from Windows. C: \Users \Program Files \Program Files (x86) \Windows D: \Games Setting D:\Games to have an owner of "Administrators" and then giving the "Everyone" group full access means I never worry about games triggering UAC because of a protected path issue. Works great, unless the game had lovely programmers. In the 3 years of using Vista, I've only seen "Warhammer Online" and "Savage 2" trigger UAC for absolutely no reason. My daughter loves fantasy online games, but I hated that I couldn't let her play Warhammer Online without it prompting for the Admin password on her system every time she tried to load it up. Bringing up the fact those games trigger UAC needlessly on either of their support forums resulted in many people saying "just disable UAC" and "this is why Vista sucks". I believe the developers' official stance with Savage 2 is to disable UAC or simply stick with XP. And that is just great; after over a decade of poo poo programming allowed by Windows, Microsoft tries to fix things only to have developers recommend people use older versions of Windows so they can continue their poo poo programming.
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Ziploc posted:Perfect. Thanks. I wanted to know this before I started all the Steam downloads. You can do that no problem, but one thing I've found I like about 7 is the libraries. You can pin the libraries folder to the task bar, and set any folder as a library. I make a game library, and can have any folders I want in that library. Steam is one, and I also link other game install folders. So I click the libraries icon, then games, and all my games are in their default install folders (helpful for mods sometimes) and conveniently listed for me in my Games library.
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I just got around to popping this on to try it out and I'm really liking W7 (it runs as good and snappy as XP on this hunk of junk)...except for one thing. I am getting this bizarre network issue where, for whatever reason, the DNS will not resolve and the internet generally ceases to function. It seems to work by typing IPs in. I can connect to my router and anywhere else if I use the IP but it wont connect normally. Firefox and IE times out. Also, the network stuff says that everything is connected fine but when I run a diagnosis it tells me it mysteriously cant connect to the internet. I've tried 4 different drivers for my on-board nic, an Nforce4: 32bit in compatibility mode, vista x64, W7 x64, and the ones W7 comes with and they all act the same. Even manually setting IPs and DNS servers doesn't work at all. It acts the same. I managed to find a work around, though. by disabling and re enabling the connection then unsettling and resetting a DNS server (I used opendns in this case)and verifying the connection by checking the box, eventually it starts working normally until you turn it off and then goes back to its previous behavior. Anyone got any ideas on how to permanently fix something like this? Its tarnishing what would otherwise be the smoothest OS install I've ever done. I would've dumped this in the support forum but this place seems more appropriate. I've also been hearing others have been having similar networking issues.
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El Diabolico posted:I just got around to popping this on to try it out and I'm really liking W7 (it runs as good and snappy as XP on this hunk of junk)...except for one thing. Does it still happen if you set your DNS servers to 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2?
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Are there any significant problems with running W7 without Aero? I want to put it on my mom's computer, but that machine only has a GeForce 4 MMX.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:Are there any significant problems with running W7 without Aero? I want to put it on my mom's computer, but that machine only has a GeForce 4 MMX. I've run Win 7's Aero on a GeForce 4 MX just fine, after turning off glass. Assuming what year that computer is likely to be form, Aero will make Windoiws 7 run great on that piece of poo poo compared to Windows XP (which is probably on there).
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fishmech posted:Does it still happen if you set your DNS servers to 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2? Yeah, just tested this out. It acts the same way. I also would like to note that I can ping sites (i.e. ping <sitenamehere>.com) via console and it goes through, but when I toss that site into firefox or ie, nothing connects and it times out. I turned off all firewalls too just in case that was it but that's not the problem. also, after i use the little trick to get it working it sometimes drops the connection after a while. Its all kinds of weird, really.
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univbee posted:Q: Should I install 32-bit or take the plunge to 64-bit? Holy poo poo my Core 2 Duo T5750 is actually a 64-bit processor? Why the gently caress did I think it was a 32-bit processor when I bought 32-bit Vista Home Premium the year before?  Edit: Actually, this laptop came with 32-bit Vista when I bought it a year a go. Why, Best Buy, why. Edit 2: If I have 32-bit Vista, can I still download 64-bit Windows 7 and install it on a new partition to dual boot? Ziir fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Jun 10, 2009 |
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Ziir posted:
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fishmech posted:I've run Win 7's Aero on a GeForce 4 MX just fine, after turning off glass. Assuming what year that computer is likely to be form, Aero will make Windoiws 7 run great on that piece of poo poo compared to Windows XP (which is probably on there).
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Ziir posted:Actually, this laptop came with 32-bit Vista when I bought it a year a go. Why, Best Buy, why. Because A) the myth of driver issues was still alive (and a year or two before that it was still real and not just a myth), and describing changes in corporate culture as glacial would be generous B) not having 4 GB is an excuse to throw 32 bit on there so their precious subsidyware doesn't break C) they probably still had people whining at them about how their own crappy software wouldn't work in x64, and D) if you haven't gathered it from Best Buy yet, their personal opinion is probably "Because gently caress you, consumer". quote:Edit 2: If I have 32-bit Vista, can I still download 64-bit Windows 7 and install it on a new partition to dual boot? No reason you shouldn't be able to.
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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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El Diabolico posted:I just got around to popping this on to try it out and I'm really liking W7 (it runs as good and snappy as XP on this hunk of junk)...except for one thing. I've had the exact same thing happen on an oldder AMD system (Nforce chipset, socket 939 processor). I eventually pegged it down to a windows update patch breaking browsing. I could still ping sites via domain name or ip, but nothing worked in any browser. I have no idea what could be causing that on Windows 7? :|
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