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The Gasmask posted:Hmm, I never thought about this. I don't believe my system has onboard graphics, but I'll check that out. If it does, this might be an easier fix than I thought. Install SPTD 1.60 before you install Daemon Tools. Done deal. http://www.disc-tools.com/download/sptd
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Is there some way of restoring the XP style "Picture and Fax Viewer" so that I can open .gifs without it loading IE?
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Sep 22, 2009 11:23
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^^^ Right click a GIF, Open With, Choose default program, pick "Windows Photo Viewer" and tick "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file"The Gasmask posted:Hmm, I never thought about this. I don't believe my system has onboard graphics, but I'll check that out. If it does, this might be an easier fix than I thought. quote:Yeah, that and Alcohol 120%. I had Alcohol installed, it was working, but for some reason (I can't figure out why), I uninstalled it. Going back and trying to reinstall, I ran into the issue of the SPTD driver not installing properly. I found some instructions saying to delete a registry key and delete the SPTD.sys file, before installing the drivers with the official SPTD tool, but that didn't work. Then tried Daemon Tools, but I hit the same issue. The problem isn't Windows 7 failing to continue setup properly, it's due to the way these two installers are written. When you start the Daemon Tools setup, it works something like this. code:
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Sep 22, 2009 13:30
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Lum posted:^^^ Right click a GIF, Open With, Choose default program, pick "Windows Photo Viewer" and tick "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" Great, thanks. Another quick question though, will it play animated .gif images properly or will IE or another image viewer still be necessary there?
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Sep 22, 2009 13:40
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CitrusFrog posted:Great, thanks. Another quick question though, will it play animated .gif images properly or will IE or another image viewer still be necessary there? I believe the Windows Photo Viewer can't play animated GIFs, which probably explains why IE is the default.
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Sep 22, 2009 13:56
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Lum posted:I believe the Windows Photo Viewer can't play animated GIFs, which probably explains why IE is the default. Oh well, it's not critically important so I can live with it. Thanks again.
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Sep 22, 2009 14:29
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To anyone hosting a Windows 7 Launch Party, I hope you read the details.http://www.houseparty.com/windows7usa/faq posted:The 25 character product key included in the inside left panel of the 32 bit Signature Edition (black sleeve) should be used for either 64 or 32 bit installation. The key is only good for one installation.
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Sep 22, 2009 15:07
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illicitporpoises posted:To anyone hosting a Windows 7 Launch Party, I hope you read the details. I see where you're coming from, but I'm pretty sure they just mean you can only have it installed and activated on one computer at any one time - just like a regular product key/license. With that said, I'm second guessing myself now so I might try to contact Microsoft tomorrow to clarify it with them.
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Sep 22, 2009 15:58
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illicitporpoises posted:To anyone hosting a Windows 7 Launch Party, I hope you read the details. Yeah, I saw that. I'm planning on doing a keyless install until I figure out where I want it permanently installed. If it turns out to just be a regular key, though, that'd be pretty cool.
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Sep 22, 2009 16:01
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Hell even if it's a 1 time use key it's still free.
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Sep 22, 2009 16:02
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Well, as with all keys, if it doesn't activate after you've used it on a few hundred systems, just call the 1-800 number and tell the automated system that this is the FIRST and ONLY install, and they will activate it for you. They have a very iron-clad system there. They are hoping that the annoyance of slowly typing in a 100-digit number (or however long it is) will deter enough people away from doing multiple installations. When the fact is the phone activation system is just a minor annoyance to be able to install and activate an unlimited number of Windows installations without paying.
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Sep 22, 2009 16:18
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Baby Hitler posted:Haven't found the answer in the thread, so I'll ask. How would that work? Many apps change their window title depending on which content is shown. For example, if you combined 5 firefox windows, you'd have 5 different labels depending upon which web page was open in each.
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Sep 22, 2009 16:46
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I like the fact that I can now use the WindowsOne ID system(or whatever it's called) and be able to setup media to stream my library wherever I am. I set it up on my home computer and yesterday I brought my laptop to work to see if it would really link up and it did without any problems.
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Sep 22, 2009 20:06
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I've just got around to downloading my MSDN copy of 7, and I'm curious - any goons have luck getting Acronis True Image Home 2009 to run on it? I have the 64 bit copy of 7, and I've read that it doesn't play nice with 7 just yet (although the posts I read were from January of last year.)
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Mensur fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jun 14, 2013 |
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Sep 22, 2009 21:38
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KaLogain posted:I had this exact same problem. I installed the latest Intel Matrix Storage Manager and it solved it. Ok so it seems to have solved the problem with the SATA drives but now my IDE is missing, not a huge issue since I already pulled the things off it I wanted but any suggestions on how to make that one reappear?
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Sep 22, 2009 22:24
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Thermopyle posted:How would that work? Many apps change their window title depending on which content is shown. For example, if you combined 5 firefox windows, you'd have 5 different labels depending upon which web page was open in each. At a guess, the same way it worked in XP if you enabled the always group taskbar icons option in Tweak UI. Probably worked the same in Vista too. I think MS are trying to subtly push you into what they think is the best way to work, hence the removal of the Up button in Vista's explorer and file dialogues to force you to use the new breadcrumbs stuff. That one actually worked on me and now I prefer the breadcrumbs to the old XP way of navigating upwards. Now they're trying to push it with the new start menu and taskbar. I suspect we'll see a lot more resistance on these ones, however.
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Sep 22, 2009 22:34
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jassa posted:Product keys I think what it means is that the code is good for linking the copy of windows to 1 PC only. This has always been the case. If you put it on a different machine you just call the number and cite hardware upgrades. As both the 64bit and 32bit versions come in the package I wonder if you can uninstall the 32bit version and install the 64bit one at a later date with the same key. macka_x fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Sep 22, 2009 |
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Sep 22, 2009 23:07
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macka_x posted:I think what it means is that the code is good for linking the copy of windows to 1 PC only. This has always been the case. You can, you might have to activate it (I don't see why, as it is just the second time being used) but I don't see any problems with this.
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Sep 22, 2009 23:11
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Thermopyle posted:How would that work? Many apps change their window title depending on which content is shown. For example, if you combined 5 firefox windows, you'd have 5 different labels depending upon which web page was open in each. Firefox changes its name on whatever tab you have currently in focus, so thats not really an issue. I guess I could move completely to tabs inside programs as Firefox, IE8, Trillian, etc all seem to have it as a mainstay, but it'd be nice to tweak legacy programs or something with multiple instances to use windows 'tabbed' taskbar.
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Sep 23, 2009 00:21
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Baby Hitler posted:Firefox changes its name on whatever tab you have currently in focus, so thats not really an issue. That's exactly why it's an issue. If you have more than one Firefox window open each one will have a different name unless you have each one with the same website open in a focused tab.
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Sep 23, 2009 03:56
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Quick question regarding VMs: I want to set up a couple of VMs in VMware for occasional tasks, like music editing. For the guest OS, should I go with XP (lighter, stable, maybe quicker) or Win7 (heavier, but more recent)? Hopefully if it all works with Unity I'll have an awesome portable working platform I can move around with ease
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Sep 23, 2009 05:08
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grrowl posted:Quick question regarding VMs: I want to set up a couple of VMs in VMware for occasional tasks, like music editing. For the guest OS, should I go with XP (lighter, stable, maybe quicker) or Win7 (heavier, but more recent)? Hopefully if it all works with Unity I'll have an awesome portable working platform I can move around with ease Windows 7 is lighter, more stable, and quicker than XP in everything but memory and disk space.
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Sep 23, 2009 05:13
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Thermopyle posted:That's exactly why it's an issue. If you have more than one Firefox window open each one will have a different name unless you have each one with the same website open in a focused tab. Don't like the idea of stacking (intra and inter app) tabbing? 7 does it anyway, the only vector that prevents XP style button grouping it from running all the time is the taskbar-space, which only groups similar apps when taskbar space has run 'low.' Lets say I have 2 separate firefox icons in the taskbar, A and B. If I hover over EITHER A or B, both instances are shown in Aero Peek. With the default windows 7 behavior, they are grouped like I want, but the text is removed which I don't like as something sites have updating titles and such, also showing tab focus. Is it that hard to be able to change the requirement of the the number of taskbar buttons to always group all windows from an application. Application specific grouping is the default, just does something I don't want (textless button). That might be a little confusing. I want the default setup BUT I don't want it to remove the button text. Make sense? That should have been a fourth option to group but keep text.
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Sep 23, 2009 05:22
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(image removed) edit: ugh nevermind I'm retarded edit 2: vvvv Erase traces of my stupidity! Johnny B. Goode fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Sep 23, 2009 |
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Sep 23, 2009 06:03
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Johnny B. Goode posted:If I have the x64 version of Win 7, why does my graphics card say it's running at 32 bit? That's 32 bits of color per pixel, the card isn't running a 32 bit driver. Very few monitors can handle more than 32 bits of color information per pixel.
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Sep 23, 2009 06:05
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Thermopyle posted:That's exactly why it's an issue. If you have more than one Firefox window open each one will have a different name unless you have each one with the same website open in a focused tab. Well, IE 8 currently has support for the extra taskbar functionality that allows you to get thumbnails of every tab that's open (source). I'm assuming it'd be a matter of time, once Windows 7 officially launches, before Firefox/Chrome/whatever also get this functionality. Winamp and Foobar seem to be 2 of the early adopters, albeit through user-made extensions. Edit: Wait, that's not exactly what you were complaining about, was it? Well, it's still a neat feature to have, so I'll leave that paragraph up there.
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Sep 23, 2009 06:55
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I thought I read somewhere that Internet Explorer wouldn't be included with Win 7 due to some kind of monopoly on the market share? Or at least it would prompt you to check out alternatives? This didn't happen at all for me.
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Sep 23, 2009 07:00
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That was just for europe, because they suddenly care about monopolies where Microsoft is concerned. You can get rid of IE front end, but the core of IE is still built into Windows.
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Sep 23, 2009 07:01
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Cojawfee, yeah but that got canceled.
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Sep 23, 2009 07:02
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Not "they suddenly care", it's "Microsoft agreed to it or else they'd get royally hosed into oblivion by the EU." They've been doing similar things since at least Vista, and I'd have to check if they ever did it with XP. It's the origin of the "N" versions of software, they've been having to remove Windows Media Player for some time now in Europe.
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Sep 23, 2009 07:03
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Mo0 posted:Not "they suddenly care", it's "Microsoft agreed to it or else they'd get royally hosed into oblivion by the EU." They've been doing similar things since at least Vista, and I'd have to check if they ever did it with XP. It's the origin of the "N" versions of software, they've been having to remove Windows Media Player for some time now in Europe. Microsoft didn't agree to anything, removing IE was going to be a gently caress you to the European Union's request.
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Sep 23, 2009 07:04
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Except they only care when Microsoft does it. They don't care about all the Apple branded things that come with OSX that could squeeze out competition.
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Sep 23, 2009 07:05
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fishmech posted:Microsoft didn't agree to anything, removing IE was going to be a gently caress you to the European Union's request. Oh, that'll learn me to read.  I thought that WAS the EU's request.Cojawfee, Apple never went to quite the lengths Microsoft used to to ensure that you wouldn't try to install alternative software.
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Sep 23, 2009 07:10
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Is that from the Windows 9X era? I've never had any problem installing anything in XP or later, and I wasn't really allowed to install things when we had Windows 95 and 98.
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Sep 23, 2009 07:32
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Mo0 posted:Oh, that'll learn me to read. Uh, no, Microsoft never did anything against CONSUMERS installing poo poo. In 1998, Microsoft pressured OEMs installing Netscape on new computers by threatening to charge them full price for Windows licenses. That's all they did and was all that big federal case was about. They had stopped doing it by 1999.
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Sep 23, 2009 07:44
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I need to stop posting before reading, I'm making an rear end of myself.
Celery Jello fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Sep 23, 2009 |
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Sep 23, 2009 07:49
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Cojawfee posted:Except they only care when Microsoft does it. They don't care about all the Apple branded things that come with OSX that could squeeze out competition. There was an entire thread about this, no need to go into it here.
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Sep 23, 2009 11:36
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I've recently solved a problem with my sound randomly going quiet or muffled after being idle for about 10 minutes. The problem was caused by Windows 7 turning multimedia devices into a low powered state when idle. Solution: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprohardware/thread/77807e20-a172-46ed-9038-acbecddb131c After changing a few registry values and rebooting, I no longer have this problem! Hopefully someone else will find this useful. 
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Baby Hitler posted:Don't like the idea of stacking (intra and inter app) tabbing? 7 does it anyway, the only vector that prevents XP style button grouping it from running all the time is the taskbar-space, which only groups similar apps when taskbar space has run 'low.' You're right. That is confusing and I don't understand what you want. Say you have two firefox windows. They're grouped together. They both have different titles. What would you have happen here? Mo0 posted:Well, IE 8 currently has support for the extra taskbar functionality that allows you to get thumbnails of every tab that's open (source). I'm assuming it'd be a matter of time, once Windows 7 officially launches, before Firefox/Chrome/whatever also get this functionality. Winamp and Foobar seem to be 2 of the early adopters, albeit through user-made extensions. 1. You're wrong. It's not even close to what we're talking about. 2. I'm not the one complaining about anything. I'm just trying to understand what Baby Hitler sees as a solution to what he is complaining about.
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