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Xenomorph posted:Well, going from XP to Vista rocked for me. I know exactly what you mean. I only know about 3 people that run Vista. The main reason from everyone else was "I heard it sucked". It totally didn't. Even pre-SP1, I never had any issues at all. I kept my old XP install in case I had some programs that wouldn't work. I only booted into XP twice, both times just to transfer settings/configs across. I still use XP at work though, so every time I come home, it's like an upgrade. If you really want your socks blown off, go from XP on an HDD to Win7 on an SSD. Holy loving poo poo. I can't recommend this highly enough. And it's still working out my patterns, so when prefetch catches up to my style, it'll be even better. And by better, I mean insane. I just started Photoshop CS4, which I haven't run for 3-4 days, and it started in less than 6 seconds. If I quit and start it again it's about 2.5 seconds. I can open files in photoshop quicker than I used to be able to open them in Windows image viewer. ^^ File checking: You can turn on checkboxes next to files, and select files by clicking the checkboxes. And no, you can't select from multiple folders as far as I can tell. frankenbeans fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Sep 25, 2009 |
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Sep 25, 2009 17:25
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Xenomorph posted:Well, going from XP to Vista rocked for me. I've also been annoyed by the Windows 7 "new features" list and the talk of "Windows 7 is Vista done right". Vista was and remains a great OS. A worthwhile successor to XP in every respect. Windows 7 is great and I'm excited to install it on my main machine next week (my new SSD!) but this making GBS threads on Vista has been annoying ever since the first Windows 7 beta.
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Sep 25, 2009 17:45
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frankenbeans posted:I know exactly what you mean. I only know about 3 people that run Vista. The main reason from everyone else was "I heard it sucked". It totally didn't. Even pre-SP1, I never had any issues at all. I kept my old XP install in case I had some programs that wouldn't work. I only booted into XP twice, both times just to transfer settings/configs across. Every time I use XP, I always think "I wish it did this. I wish I could do that. Why can't we just force all users to Vista?" Security in XP scares me. It defaults to admin, with no confirmation when anything destructive tries to run. You can try running as a "Regular" user, but then it breaks so much. You'll end up with "Access Denied" errors over and over when trying to do stuff. You have to log out of a User account and back in as Admin, or dick around with "Run as...", which doesn't always work. I would try to do a Run As on explorer.exe, so that things I launched from there would have admin rights. Logging in as a regular user in XP is just so crippling. In Vista, it simply prompts and auto elevates if you need additional access. It makes working on a system so much easier. So if you hop on a user's computer to make some changes, you DON'T have to log out - EVERYTHING is available to you from their account, thanks to UAC and auto elevation.
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Sep 25, 2009 17:45
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Xenomorph posted:Well, going from XP to Vista rocked for me. This post owns and I agree with everything you wrote.
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Sep 25, 2009 18:19
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It's kinda funny, my sister just got a laptop with Vista and a free 7 upgrade. I asked her how she felt about Vista, "It's awesome, I don't know what the people at my office were complaining about". Vista was an awesome step in the right direction.
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Sep 25, 2009 18:49
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The worst is people who dual boot their Macs, refuse Vista, put XP on there then hoot and holler about how much better Snow Leopard is than XP. Right, excuse me while I make comparisons of
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Sep 25, 2009 19:06
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Johnny B. Goode posted:This. WMP12 uses the Windows default codecs that come with Win 7, which are pretty terrible, even if you install your own codecs. So far, I haven't figured out how to turn them off, and I can't find anywhere that explains it either. Like I said, I can play the file and so can the PC I want to stream to. The problem only arises when I try the 'Play To' function to stream video from one of the PCs to the other.... As far as processors go, I don't think there's a problem. E6600 in one and an E8500 in the other.
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Sep 25, 2009 19:43
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Suddenly my windows 7 system will not suspend anymore. You can hit suspend, it cranks disk for a few moments, screen turns black and then it comes back on with the login prompt. I checked HID complient keyboard and mouse under the device manager and told it to not allow them to turn the computer on. But I cannot figure out what the hell broke suspend. Any help? [edit] just uninstalled the last few programs I installed and it turns out it was DVDFab 6.0. GAH redeyes fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Sep 25, 2009 |
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Sep 25, 2009 19:53
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redeyes posted:Suddenly my windows 7 system will not suspend anymore. You can hit suspend, it cranks disk for a few moments, screen turns black and then it comes back on with the login prompt. I checked HID complient keyboard and mouse under the device manager and told it to not allow them to turn the computer on. But I cannot figure out what the hell broke suspend. Any help? If you try to suspend, and it wakes up again, launch a command prompt and type powercfg -lastwake. It will output some debug info, showing what it was that caused the system to wake.
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Sep 25, 2009 19:55
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NFX posted:If you try to suspend, and it wakes up again, launch a command prompt and type powercfg -lastwake. It will output some debug info, showing what it was that caused the system to wake. Cool I was trying to remember that command. Thanks
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Sep 25, 2009 20:24
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Anyone having problems with video? I tried installing CCCP but it didn't help. I just switched from XP and now my fullscreen videos have an increased amount of pixelation, especially around edges of objects/people. Any ideas? It isn't the video quality, this happens on a 720p vid as well. Edit - These issues appear in VLC and MPC. aksuur fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Sep 25, 2009 |
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Sep 25, 2009 22:06
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I upgraded my Nvidia 8600 GT to a GTS 250 and I lost the ability to do non-native resolution scaling. When I apply anything other than the do-nothing "display's built-in scaling" option in the control panel it just goes right back to "built-in". I installed the latest driver from nvidia.com but that did nothing. I googled a bit and found lots of people with the same issue. Anyone know if there is a fix?
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Sep 25, 2009 22:41
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Grey Area posted:I upgraded my Nvidia 8600 GT to a GTS 250 and I lost the ability to do non-native resolution scaling. When I apply anything other than the do-nothing "display's built-in scaling" option in the control panel it just goes right back to "built-in". I installed the latest driver from nvidia.com but that did nothing. I googled a bit and found lots of people with the same issue. Anyone know if there is a fix? Yeah, this is a stupid problem that's come up with at least nVidia and intel packages. (No word from ATi users, and I don't know how many other companies make 7-compatible video cards.) I have to think it's a policy decision. Try doing it when you're in the resolution you're working on. Even then, you might be stuck with 1:1 and built-in.
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Sep 25, 2009 22:48
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Grey Area posted:I upgraded my Nvidia 8600 GT to a GTS 250 and I lost the ability to do non-native resolution scaling. When I apply anything other than the do-nothing "display's built-in scaling" option in the control panel it just goes right back to "built-in". I installed the latest driver from nvidia.com but that did nothing. I googled a bit and found lots of people with the same issue. Anyone know if there is a fix? About every other release of the nvidia control panel software fixes/breaks this.
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Sep 25, 2009 22:51
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The solution is to set your desktop resolution to a 4:3 resolution (e.g. 1024x768) and set the scaling to what you want (1:1). It should stick now and you should have black bars on the sides of your monitor, then change your resolution back to normal and never open that menu ever again or until you have to (i.e. when it breaks again).
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Sep 25, 2009 23:00
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How many machines is a Windows 7 key good for? Will it immediately freak out if I install Windows 7 on two machines with the same key? It's an MSDNAA key if that matters.
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Sep 25, 2009 23:32
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Legally, one, try your luck with another I guess. Worst case scenario is that the first one is unactivated.
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Sep 25, 2009 23:34
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Ziploc posted:How many machines is a Windows 7 key good for? Will it immediately freak out if I install Windows 7 on two machines with the same key? It's an MSDNAA key if that matters. If it is an MSDNAA key then it is single-use, so you can only activate once.
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Sep 26, 2009 00:28
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aksuur posted:Anyone having problems with video? I tried installing CCCP but it didn't help. Same thing happened with me until I installed CCCP and CoreAVC. It's probably using the Windows default codecs, which are terrible. Go into settings and make sure CoreAVC is an "external codec" and ffdshow does the audio.
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Sep 26, 2009 00:46
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I have an old computer with an AMD Athlon ( ) X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.20 GHz on it. Anyone know if this is powerful enough to view 1080p video?I use CoreAVC and MPC-HC/CCCP and can play 1080p with no stuttering, but sometimes the video will kind of lag and look choppy but not actually stutter or whatever. Think that may be because of my TV's automotion 240hz stuff though. But I want to know if it may be my processor chopping it up.
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Sep 26, 2009 01:00
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It mainly falls to your video card. If you have a decent video card, and you aren't running to many things, 1080p should be able to play.
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Sep 26, 2009 01:02
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My video card is a 9600GT :/ How's that for that.
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Sep 26, 2009 01:12
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Cojawfee posted:It mainly falls to your video card. If you have a decent video card, and you aren't running to many things, 1080p should be able to play. If you're using a 3d accelerated video player, yeah. CoreAVC supports it via CUDA now, but before was CPU limited. Make sure you're using the latest version and a CUDA capable video card and you should be churning out 1080p without much problem.
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Sep 26, 2009 01:12
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Biodome posted:I have an old computer with an AMD Athlon ( In addition to what others said, it could be your network if you're streaming to your television. Yes, CoreAVC makes it where you can view 1080p on shittier processors, but streaming them is a whole separate bag. If you are streaming and the video is laggish, or of the audio/video goes out of sync, you might want to drop the bitrate down a bit and change it from 5.1 audio to stereo.
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Sep 26, 2009 01:44
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CoreAVC using CUDA has nothing to do with most GPUs accelerating h264 playback, which they have been able to do through DXVA (WMP11+ supports this) since Vista, namely radeons since 2600 series and nvidia since G92 core 8800s.
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Sep 26, 2009 01:46
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Swilo posted:CoreAVC using CUDA has nothing to do with most GPUs accelerating h264 playback, which they have been able to do through DXVA (WMP11+ supports this) since Vista, namely radeons since 2600 series and nvidia since G92 core 8800s. Not everyone uses WMP11 
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Sep 26, 2009 01:48
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WMP is such a fine piece of software yes
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Sep 26, 2009 01:49
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Casao posted:Not everyone uses WMP11
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Sep 26, 2009 01:51
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Xenomorph posted:Well, going from XP to Vista rocked for me. You're right dude. I definitely heard a lot of bad poo poo about Vista and stayed away. We can only speculate if it were to run as smoothly as Windows 7 does for me.
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Sep 26, 2009 02:02
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Bozz posted:You're right dude. I definitely heard a lot of bad poo poo about Vista and stayed away. We can only speculate if it were to run as smoothly as Windows 7 does for me. Win 7 and Vista are so much the same OS the performance difference is minor on modern hardware. I actually think it's funny that people love Win 7 so much because I've been using Vista since the day the RTM showed up on MSDN and while I quite like Win 7, it's pretty much a reskinned version of Vista with a few new features.
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Sep 26, 2009 02:21
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Going from 7 --> vista has made me notice that 7 runs a lot better. That or right after I went back to vista my computer decided to poo poo itself (which would not surprise me)
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Sep 26, 2009 02:56
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Shadowgate posted:Win 7 and Vista are so much the same OS the performance difference is minor on modern hardware. I actually think it's funny that people love Win 7 so much because I've been using Vista since the day the RTM showed up on MSDN and while I quite like Win 7, it's pretty much a reskinned version of Vista with a few new features. 7 Does do a lot of things better (which it should). While Vista is nice, I used it for a while, but eventually switched back to XP. 7 has everything I wanted out of Vista and more, while running better on the same hardware.
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Sep 26, 2009 02:58
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Cojawfee posted:7 Does do a lot of things better (which it should). While Vista is nice, I used it for a while, but eventually switched back to XP. 7 has everything I wanted out of Vista and more, while running better on the same hardware. While 7 does have some nice changes I only notice maybe a slight speed increase in general over Vista. On this machine Win 7 also boots a bit slower than Vista did so I guess I'm not seeing much difference in performance between the two.
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Sep 26, 2009 03:10
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Shadowgate posted:Win 7 and Vista are so much the same OS the performance difference is minor on modern hardware. I actually think it's funny that people love Win 7 so much because I've been using Vista since the day the RTM showed up on MSDN and while I quite like Win 7, it's pretty much a reskinned version of Vista with a few new features. I never tried Vista because it had mixed reviews and if you guys tried it anyway and loved it then good for you. The fact that a new version of Windows shipped 2 years later is a testament to it's unreliability. I'm not going to sit around and curse the last two years because it may not have been so bad running it. Bozz fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Sep 26, 2009 |
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Sep 26, 2009 03:53
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Bozz posted:The fact that a new version of Windows shipped 2 years later is a testament to it's unreliability.
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Sep 26, 2009 04:01
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Bozz posted:I never tried Vista because it had mixed reviews and if you guys tried it anyway and loved it then good for you. The fact that a new version of Windows shipped 2 years later is a testament to it's unreliability. I'm not going to sit around and curse the last two years because it may not have been so bad running it. 2 years and 10 months is just about 3 years, pretty standard for a software life cycle. I (and others) have mentioned this before: A huge part of the problem with Vista was Microsoft's complete and utter lack of response to the Mac ads. By the time MS had any kind of response at all, it was far too late for Vista to be saved in the public mindset.
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Sep 26, 2009 04:01
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I still laugh every time I hear "Windows 7 is just a renamed Vista because no one likes Vista. They had to come out with a new one after just two years because it sucks so much, and no one would buy it.  "
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Sep 26, 2009 04:04
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Cojawfee posted:I still laugh every time I hear "Windows 7 is just a renamed Vista because no one likes Vista. They had to come out with a new one after just two years because it sucks so much, and no one would buy it. It is somewhat true though. Sure Windows 7 has some very nice changes and new features but they didn't change all that much. It was definitely a smart move for MS to make some changes to Vista and release a new version due to all the negative publicity Vista received. I still maintain Vista was a fantastic OS and by default Windows 7 is too because the two are extremely similar.
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Shadowgate posted:It was definitely a smart move for MS to make some changes to Vista and release a new version due to all the negative publicity Vista received. Uh no. Windows 7 follows the same release schedule AS ALL THE PREVIOUS WINDOWS VERSIONS. XP was a huge exception, and XP SP2 was practically a new OS.
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