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Casao posted:Vertical taskbar in between two monitors? You've done bad and you should FEEL bad.
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Oct 12, 2009 19:52
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Footboy posted:So, is the RTM only for clean installs or would it remember that I had XP installed if I upgraded to 7? I'd love to get 7 up and running without having to wait for my Home Premium Upgrade license, but not if it means I'll have to wipe, reinstall XP, wipe again, and reinstall 7 in 10 days. We don't know.
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Oct 12, 2009 19:57
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Footboy posted:So, is the RTM only for clean installs or would it remember that I had XP installed if I upgraded to 7? I'd love to get 7 up and running without having to wait for my Home Premium Upgrade license, but not if it means I'll have to wipe, reinstall XP, wipe again, and reinstall 7 in 10 days. The only possible install going from XP is a clean install, you can use an upgrade license for that tho. Right now I know that you can do an upgrade clean install from XP using the RTM and a non-upgrade license. But you all need to realize that you should stop saying RTM, RTM is the retail release, not a special version. We don't have an retail upgrade disc to look at yet so we don't know how that will work.
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Oct 12, 2009 20:24
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fishmech posted:The only possible install going from XP is a clean install, you can use an upgrade license for that tho. To be fair, it's still technically the RTM until it goes to the public. It's not available for Joe User until 10/22, which is when it will be the retail release.
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Oct 12, 2009 20:25
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AlexDeGruven posted:To be fair, it's still technically the RTM until it goes to the public. It's not available for Joe User until 10/22, which is when it will be the retail release. Yeah, but it's the exact same bits, and I've seen a couple of people getting confused and think here's a difference from the RTM and the retail version.
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Oct 12, 2009 20:28
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revolther posted:Sure sounds like you're running WinCal.exe all the time. Really I'm just frustrated that they didn't leave the Calendar as a stand-alone application. I think Microsoft does a really good job with backward compatability and while all of the Live apps seem to do what their Vista counterparts did, the Calendar functionality is definitely not.
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Oct 12, 2009 20:31
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fishmech posted:Yeah, but it's the exact same bits, and I've seen a couple of people getting confused and think here's a difference from the RTM and the retail version. RTM is shorter  Yeah, it can be confusing and it might be better to say retail, but in a month or so, we can just drop any of that and people still running RC can specify.
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Oct 12, 2009 20:41
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Odd question: are the license keys completely separate now for 32 and 64 bit versions? I picked up 7 from my university today and they'd only sell me one of each version, but I'd like to install the 32 bit key with the 64 bit installer. I know I used my 32 bit key on a 64 bit installer with Vista and it worked fine, but it looks like 7 has started using discrete keys for each: anyone know for sure before I botch a Vista-->7 upgrade?
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Oct 12, 2009 21:46
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I think you can use 32 bid keys on 64 bit and vice versa.
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Oct 12, 2009 21:50
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ZobarStyl posted:Odd question: are the license keys completely separate now for 32 and 64 bit versions? Nope. What I think your college is doing is trying to make sure the students only buy one copy. They probably reason that if you can only buy one of each you wouldn't buy both.
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Oct 12, 2009 21:51
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I'm running into some horrible freezing issues on the 32bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate, which are causing the computer to temporarily freeze anywhere between a couple of seconds to a few minutes - it's possible to move the mouse but nothing else seems to respond during this time. The problem to me seems to be the hard-drive is getting a real thrashing, but i can't see anything running that would be causing it. Anyone else running into something like this? or is my HDD on the way out.
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Oct 12, 2009 22:56
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Supernorn posted:The problem to me seems to be the hard-drive is getting a real thrashing, but i can't see anything running that would be causing it. Anyone else running into something like this? or is my HDD on the way out.
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Oct 12, 2009 23:13
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Supernorn posted:I'm running into some horrible freezing issues on the 32bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate, which are causing the computer to temporarily freeze anywhere between a couple of seconds to a few minutes - it's possible to move the mouse but nothing else seems to respond during this time. I had more than a few delays with my hard drives turning off from inactivity, disable that in power supply and see if it helps.
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Oct 12, 2009 23:13
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Casao posted:I had more than a few delays with my hard drives turning off from inactivity, disable that in power supply and see if it helps. Grr, I hate this being on by default. My games and such are on a separate hard drive from the Windows install, and before I found this Windows kept putting it to sleep, only for it to take forever to do anything whenever I tried to play any games because it had to wake up, and it didn't seem to be a morning hard drive. I thought it was dying, so I unplugged it and considered it a near-brick until I found out about this and turned it off. Now it works just fine.
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Oct 12, 2009 23:52
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Captain Novolin posted:I think you can use 32 bid keys on 64 bit and vice versa. Yes you can, keys are version specific not bit level specific.
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Oct 13, 2009 00:10
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edit: disregard, I'm an idiot. I just found the regional settings and everything was set to English - UK.
two_beer_bishes fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Oct 13, 2009 |
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Oct 13, 2009 00:41
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two_beer_bishes posted:I have no idea what I did to my install but it seems that the "shift-2" and "shift-' " keys are switched. It makes typing in an email address tough since it should be @ and not "... please someone help me
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Oct 13, 2009 00:47
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Casao posted:I had more than a few delays with my hard drives turning off from inactivity, disable that in power supply and see if it helps. You are the best. I upgraded to 7 two days ago and I seriously thought my media drive was dying. It turned out to be this silly default setting.
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Oct 13, 2009 00:52
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fishmech posted:Yeah, but it's the exact same bits, and I've seen a couple of people getting confused and think here's a difference from the RTM and the retail version. Let's just call it the SP0 release and be done with it
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Oct 13, 2009 00:57
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Maybe this was possible in Vista, but I'm asking anyway: is there a way to elevate your Command Prompt privileges while already in a prompt window, like sudo in Linux? I'm doing build/installer development at work, and it's a pain to go to the start menu, type CMD, right click the search result/shortcut and choose "Run as Administrator", because then I have to browse from the new Admin prompt to the directory I want to work with. Instead, I'd prefer if I could shift+right click the target directory, choose "Open a command prompt here", and then elevate myself from within there so that my batch files can modify protected directories as necessary. In theory I will only have to do this once any time our build services exports update, but it will get annoying enough while I"m still in the learning process that I'll want in-prompt elevation if possible.
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SpelledBackwards posted:Maybe this was possible in Vista, but I'm asking anyway: is there a way to elevate your Command Prompt privileges while already in a prompt window, like sudo in Linux? If you use start menu search, ctrl+shift+enter launches anything in admin mode. So does Ctrl+Shift+clicking a shortcut in the taskbar, probably on desktop too. It's not quite what you asked for, but it's an option. Start++ added a sudo command for Vista, I'm not sure if it works in 7/works for individual commands, lemme get back to you on that in a few... Edit: Nope, doesn't work for individual commands or anything that doesn't work directly out of the Run box. Sorry. EVGA Longoria fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Oct 13, 2009 |
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Oct 13, 2009 01:10
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Closest thing I can think of would be pinning a powershell shortcut to the taskbar with the directory selected in "start in" and "run as admin" selected.
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Oct 13, 2009 02:00
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I Dig Gardening posted:I think Windows 7 64 just bricked my brand new computer.. I guarantee that you installed Win7 while your SD card was inserted. The MBR attached itself to the card (more or less) and after removing it, you couldn't boot. The same thing happened to me with an old IDE hard drive when I installed Win7 on my PC. If I inserted the install DVD each time I booted, it would work.
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Oct 13, 2009 03:07
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Question: Does anyone know how to change the location that your "favorites" shortcuts are saved in? Not internet shortcuts, but the shortcuts you can add to your explorer window's left column above your libraries. It's really annoying that it is storing the shortcuts on one of my drive's /.'s. I'm guessing you can change it in the registry...but there has to be a less intrusive way.
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jew$ posted:Question: Does anyone know how to change the location that your "favorites" shortcuts are saved in? Not internet shortcuts, but the shortcuts you can add to your explorer window's left column above your libraries. It's really annoying that it is storing the shortcuts on one of my drive's /.'s. I'm guessing you can change it in the registry...but there has to be a less intrusive way. Uh what? The favorites are stored in Users/*USERNAME*/Links
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DarkPrime posted:I guarantee that you installed Win7 while your SD card was inserted. The MBR attached itself to the card (more or less) and after removing it, you couldn't boot. The same thing happened to me with an old IDE hard drive when I installed Win7 on my PC. If I inserted the install DVD each time I booted, it would work. Hey cool, this was my problem last night. Installed 7 over the wknd and last night I took out the DVD and rebooted. Couldn't find a boot record or whatever it said exactly. Popped in the DVD and it booted just fine. Will do this tonight: [quote="I Dig Gardening"} Running bootrec.exe at the command prompt and using /fixmbr and /fixboot fixed it! YAAAY! Thank you everyone, you guys are great! [/quote] Also, somewhere in this megathread is there a suggestion on Codec packs or a better way to deal with that to make everything playable? Coming up from XP and Vista, I've got a bunch of videos in a bunch of formats
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Cuddly Coach posted:Also, somewhere in this megathread is there a suggestion on Codec packs or a better way to deal with that to make everything playable? Coming up from XP and Vista, I've got a bunch of videos in a bunch of formats I've been using Shark007's Windows 7 Codec Pack. It is hands down the best there is.
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Oct 13, 2009 16:29
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JoeCitizen posted:I've been using Shark007's Windows 7 Codec Pack. It is hands down the best there is. I'm using it too, it's ok, simple no thought required. Wouldn't call it the best, but it's easy and there's no real issues. Did let me play MKV files in Media Center, which CCCP didn't (64bit system). Speaking of MKVs in Media Center, does anyone know why streaming an HD MKV across a wired network to my 360 would end up with it being a blocky, pixelated mess? It's 100mbit and it has played everything fine up until now, but trying that, it comes out looking like absolute crap.
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^^ Ok cool, Shark was the pack that kept coming up in searches. Also that's neato about the MKV in media center, I know that was one type I couldn't get working in vista MC
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Has anyone else experienced issues with Windows 7 and onboard eSata ports using a JMicron storage controller (jmb36x)? There's been a pretty constant stream of new drivers showing up at ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/XP_Vista_Win7/ but none have fixed my issue. I have a WD external drive with esata/usb/firewire hookups and when connected via eSata the drive disconnects when coming back from sleep. Nothing will bring it back besides power cycling the unit. It worked great in Vista after I updated the firmware and got a more recent driver but now I'm stuck using USB. I've tried all kinds of crap including switching my Windows 7 install to AHCI, having device manager rescan via devcon (basically i only need the thing for backups so i could have this run before a scheduled backup) etc etc, it seems like the drive is getting a mal-formed wake command or something from the computer.
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Oct 13, 2009 16:58
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jmu posted:1394 no worky Have you fiddled with the drive's settings in Device Manager >Disk Drives >Properties >Policies? I actually had similar problems along with sluggish transfer speeds with a totally different chipset and ended up just throwing a cheap PCI card in and have had no problems since.
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Oct 13, 2009 17:11
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Yeah I played with turning write caching on and off, having issues with eSata though, not firewire.
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Oct 13, 2009 17:31
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jmu posted:Has anyone else experienced issues with Windows 7 and onboard eSata ports using a JMicron storage controller (jmb36x)? Its some kind of ACHI bug because the Intel controllers do that as well. And with internal SATA connectors too.
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Oct 13, 2009 19:27
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redeyes posted:Its some kind of ACHI bug because the Intel controllers do that as well. And with internal SATA connectors too. I installed 7x64 on a C2D notebook w/AHCI turned on in the BIOS and it detected and installed drivers just fine.
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Oct 13, 2009 19:45
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Josh Lyman posted:I installed 7x64 on a C2D notebook w/AHCI turned on in the BIOS and it detected and installed drivers just fine. Im talking about sleep making 2nd drives disappear.
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Oct 13, 2009 19:57
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jmu posted:Has anyone else experienced issues with Windows 7 and onboard eSata ports using a JMicron storage controller (jmb36x)? I had this exact same problem. I installed the latest Intel Matrix Storage Manager and it solved it.
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Oct 13, 2009 20:33
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I actually haven't had to install any codec packs in Windows 7 surprisingly. WMP12 has handled just about everything thrown at it, and VLC does anything else. Wait, I guess Quicktime is a codec pack.
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Oct 13, 2009 20:49
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revolther posted:I actually haven't had to install any codec packs in Windows 7 surprisingly. WMP12 has handled just about everything thrown at it, and VLC does anything else. I had a lot of stuttering with video playback using the default codecs on two separate Win 7 machines (one of them being a quad core) until I installed a different codec pack. It seems like the codecs that are included are just not very good. I was just trying to play MPEG files and DVDs but the stutter was extremely annoying.
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KaLogain posted:I had this exact same problem. I installed the latest Intel Matrix Storage Manager and it solved it. Thing is that some boards dont have the ICH-R so this wont load...
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