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WizardShotFood posted:Is that from ebuyer? Seems places are offering their own discounts on top, amazon is doing it for £89. Yes, but my order then said "Stock warning" and claimed both were out of stock while the product pages still showed units available for pre-order, so I don't know what the gently caress. To be safe I've ordered the same again on play.com for slightly more money, so if ebuyer have screwed up them I'm still good and if they haven't I'll cancel the order on play.com.
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Yeah I tried amazon and they had a Pre-Order Now button and it was in my basket but now its gone again, so I think I'll wait till tomorrow when the dust has settled. Hope everyone doesnt go nuts and the 350 units or however many stores have sell out overnight...
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Jul 15, 2009 00:52
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Home Premium's £45 on Amazon at the moment. Can't go wrong with that!
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Jul 15, 2009 01:14
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I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but it doesn't look like it's in the OP: Microsoft confirms upgrading Windows 7 RC to final which, unfortunately means a fresh install with a folder that says 'windows.old'
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Jul 15, 2009 03:14
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Is it possible I can make a single button click, make a window disappear? like on the task bar. say I middle click something, like windows media player or notepad, and have it close.
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Jul 15, 2009 03:27
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Priapist posted:You need to install the driver patch released on 6/16 at Asus' support site. It's actually under the Vista section but you'll need it for Windows 7 as well. This finally fixes the issues with DS3D that were causing apps to hang under Vista. It also fixes the issue under Win7. It wasn't included in the recent beta drivers for some reason. That worked. Thanks again.
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Jul 15, 2009 03:34
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Gvaz posted:Is it possible I can make a single button click, make a window disappear? like on the task bar. say I middle click something, like windows media player or notepad, and have it close. This exact method actually works with the Aero thumbnail previews; middle-clicking on one of them closes it.
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Jul 15, 2009 03:39
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m2pt5 posted:This exact method actually works with the Aero thumbnail previews; middle-clicking on one of them closes it. Oh sweet! Yeah, I hadn't noticed this, that works just as well.
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Jul 15, 2009 03:40
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Are there any virtual drive programs that work with win7 that can emulate anchient (~11 years old) copy protection. Daemon Tools could do it if I enabled the safedisk/secuROM/whatever options, but that doesn't work. I just want to play Twinsen's Odyssey again 
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Jul 15, 2009 04:35
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Captain Novolin posted:Are there any virtual drive programs that work with win7 that can emulate anchient (~11 years old) copy protection. Daemon Tools could do it if I enabled the safedisk/secuROM/whatever options, but that doesn't work. I just want to play Twinsen's Odyssey again The safedisk etc part doesnt work or daemon tools doesn't work? Daemon Tools works on Win 7 as of 1-2 months ago.
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Jul 15, 2009 04:59
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I convinced my roommate to install Windows 7 on his computer and despite all his bragging about how amazing his setup is with his two video cards and poo poo (and how much he paid for it), mine scores better on every single rating in the Windows Experience Index. He is now threatening to downgrade back to XP because apparently he can't both run WoW and iTunes at the same time without the game freezing completely. Plainly it is all Microsoft's fault that he scores worse than me and his games crash, not his overpriced hardware, Blizzard, or Apple's fault. 
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Jul 15, 2009 04:59
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Hamelin posted:I convinced my roommate to install Windows 7 on his computer and despite all his bragging about how amazing his setup is with his two video cards and poo poo (and how much he paid for it), mine scores better on every single rating in the Windows Experience Index. He is now threatening to downgrade back to XP because apparently he can't both run WoW and iTunes at the same time without the game freezing completely. What is his setup like?
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Jul 15, 2009 05:17
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NoArmedMan posted:The safedisk etc part doesnt work or daemon tools doesn't work?
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Jul 15, 2009 05:18
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Sir Nigel posted:What is his setup like?
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Jul 15, 2009 05:25
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Captain Novolin posted:Whenever I try to install it I get stuck in an infinite loop of run setup, "setup needs to restart to continue", restart, setup, and so on. Am I doing something wrong? Are you using a pirated copy of Daemon Tools Advanced? If so its probably not the latest version and if its not the latest version then it won't work with 7.
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Jul 15, 2009 05:32
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Sir Nigel posted:Are you using a pirated copy of Daemon Tools Advanced? If so its probably not the latest version and if its not the latest version then it won't work with 7. Nope, just a fresh download of lite.
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Jul 15, 2009 05:33
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I've switched over to the free version of Alcohol 52% from Daemon Tools and am enjoying it more.
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Jul 15, 2009 05:39
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Captain Novolin posted:Nope, just a fresh download of lite. Try the trial of standard. I just installed it literally like 3 days ago.
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Jul 15, 2009 06:05
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WizardShotFood posted:Yeah I tried amazon and they had a Pre-Order Now button and it was in my basket but now its gone again, so I think I'll wait till tomorrow when the dust has settled. Hope everyone doesnt go nuts and the 350 units or however many stores have sell out overnight... Do they only have 350 units available under the preorder promo? gently caress, I'm waiting till I get a job sometime in the next month before buying it. Leaving it to the last minute. drat, I hope I can scrouge up enough money before they run out - I dont wanna pay double.
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Jul 15, 2009 07:23
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univbee posted:While it could theoretically be done with the product key somehow, no one I know of has ever done this. They will make it a pain in the rear end for you to get it, what with several companies not shipping software internationally (and it may even be against their Microsoft reseller agreement), but assuming you can get around that and get your hands on a copy it should install and play fine. Isn't there DVD region coding and stuff too? I have some R2 discs and I recall there being issues trying to play some of them even after I set one of my DVD drives to R2 in firmware.
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Jul 15, 2009 07:32
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EX-GAIJIN AT LAST posted:Isn't there DVD region coding and stuff too? I have some R2 discs and I recall there being issues trying to play some of them even after I set one of my DVD drives to R2 in firmware. DVD Region codes are strictly a video thing, and not even a very effective one. It's a single byte in one specific file in the VIDEO_TS folder that determines region code. DVD discs that contain data (like software installation discs) do not have any region coding whatsoever. There are only two ways to do region coding for software: Method 1: Make the game only work if the Country/Region setting in Windows is set to a specific country. This is, of course, laughably easy to circumvent if you know this. As I said before, Activision games like Quake 2 did this. Method 2: Use some kind of I.P. address check to ensure complacency. Of course, this requires an active internet connection wherever the software is installed. Excluding MMOs (many popular MMOs like WoW and Age of Conan have separate North American and European servers, that are typically only accessible if you bought the client from those respecitve areas), the only case I know of this happening is with Valve's Orange Box, as there were a rash of people importing the game from Russia for like $5 when it $50 at that time, so they started region-locking those keys. Again, I can't think of any reason why an OS vendor would have any desire to do this, especially since that would stand a good chance of loving over someone who was traveling.
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Charles Martel posted:I've switched over to the free version of Alcohol 52% from Daemon Tools and am enjoying it more. Sir Nigel posted:Try the trial of standard. I just installed it literally like 3 days ago. Neither of these are working for me. It gets past the SPDT install, asks to restart, then repeats on startup. I've tried just installing SPDT, but it doesn't help either.
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Jul 15, 2009 07:57
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Xachariah posted:Do they only have 350 units available under the preorder promo? No I didnt mean that was the total amount, I was just going on the number ebuyer had available for preorder last night (which has sold out now), the other stores may have different amounts I'm not sure 
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Jul 15, 2009 08:13
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Sir Nigel posted:What is his setup like? Sounds like he's talking about a unibody Macbook Pro, he needs to make sure his friend has the latest nVidia drivers or else it'll run like poo poo. That's what happened to me and now it runs great in Win 7. Edit: For reference, this is what his WEI should look like if it is an MBP.  Click here for the full 839x197 image. 1997 fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Jul 15, 2009 |
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Jul 15, 2009 08:27
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I'm still unsure what's going on with ebuyer. Going to phone them to find out if my order actually worked when they open in an hour or so.
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1997 posted:Sounds like he's talking about a unibody Macbook Pro, he needs to make sure his friend has the latest nVidia drivers or else it'll run like poo poo. That's what happened to me and now it runs great in Win 7. Somehow I don't think so. He's probably got some system off of some prebuilt site that has two 9800GTs or something.
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Hamelin posted:I convinced my roommate to install Windows 7 on his computer and despite all his bragging about how amazing his setup is with his two video cards and poo poo (and how much he paid for it), mine scores better on every single rating in the Windows Experience Index. He is now threatening to downgrade back to XP because apparently he can't both run WoW and iTunes at the same time without the game freezing completely. Are you using the experience index from vista? That gave much higher scores.
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Sir Nigel posted:Somehow I don't think so. He's probably got some system off of some prebuilt site that has two 9800GTs or something. Well Hamelin named Apple and I assumed he meant for a Macbook, but I forgot he was talking about iTunes as well. Also I'm not wondering why that guy was using XP on a new machine with dual graphics cards. Why didn't he have Vista?
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NoArmedMan posted:I spoke to a senior MS manager and he informed me that theres no plans for a similar promotion in Australia. On the plus side, he just told he'd hook a brotha up. I wish I had buddies who could hook me up. Unfortunately, I'm a plebe so I have to fork out the arm, leg and 4/5th of a soul to buy it 
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Amazon UK says here that "At present in the EU, all versions of Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate) are the full product. This means that to install Windows 7, you do not need any previous version of Windows installed on your computer." Is that accurate? Basically, I want to be able to do a clean install straight from booting off the DVD. I know this has been discussed recently but I've read conflicting things about it.
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Jul 15, 2009 11:20
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The €50 preorder version went on sale in Germany today and was sold out within the first ten minutes at Amazon and most other online retailers.
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Jul 15, 2009 11:40
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John Wayne Gacy posted:The €50 preorder version went on sale in Germany today and was sold out within the first ten minutes at Amazon and most other online retailers.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Try again later - same thing happened on Amazon UK before I knew it was available, then it reappeared in an hour or two. Obviously they got more "stock" in. Also, Professional might still be up? It's available now for ~120 EUR instead of ~50. I don't think it will be available again any time soon, unless MS wants to lock in more customers. The funny thing is that the whole sale probably cost the online retailers more money from lost sales due to their sites being hammered and unavailable than they recouped by selling Windows 7. Some e-shops are still not back up properly although the sale has been cancelled by now. There is a huge shitstorm over at Amazon now. Well over 150 one-star product reviews had to be removed at 9:30 a.m., 30 minutes after the sale started (I got two copies before it completely went nuts, yay!)
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Xachariah posted:Do they only have 350 units available under the preorder promo? If its anything like the American sales (it should be) your card won't be charged until the product ships. WattsvilleBlues posted:Amazon UK says here that "At present in the EU, all versions of Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate) are the full product. This means that to install Windows 7, you do not need any previous version of Windows installed on your computer." Is that accurate? Basically, I want to be able to do a clean install straight from booting off the DVD. I know this has been discussed recently but I've read conflicting things about it. It's correct, since MS took IE out they also are not releasing any upgrade versions of 7 to the EU for several months after GA. They supposedly reduced the price of the full versions to compensate, but its still gonna be expensive.
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Jul 15, 2009 13:43
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kapinga posted:If its anything like the American sales (it should be) your card won't be charged until the product ships. Thanks! I tried pre-ordering it, my debit card doesn't have the cash right now but I'll undoubtedly be able to get the money in before it officially ships. Seems to have been successful, thanks man. Probably saved me over £100.
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amazon.de has ultimate listed at 319€ I'd but the german version happily, if it was at a discount price. I can't get to the ultimate version on .co.uk (edit: found it, and yeah i forgot that ultimate is not discounted.) url fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Jul 15, 2009 |
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Jul 15, 2009 13:57
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kapinga posted:It's correct, since MS took IE out they also are not releasing any upgrade versions of 7 to the EU for several months after GA. They supposedly reduced the price of the full versions to compensate, but its still gonna be expensive.
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Having spoken to ebuyer, apparently the 'stock warning' business is normal for preorders so if anyone else is ordering from them i guess you can expect that too.
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Jul 15, 2009 15:17
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Oops, double post.
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So, if I have a copy of vista business edition, can I upgrade to W7 Ultimate? The first post in this thread seems to indicate that:quote:Q: Can I upgrade from Vista Business to Windows 7 Home Premium? quote:# Running Windows Vista? Also, where is currently the best place to purchase Windows 7? I'd like to get a key to use for RTM when it's released.
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