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Grawl posted:I got another problem right now. Almost every window now has a diagonal line of dots, from the lower left to the upper right side of the corner. The dots are just a pixel big, and they're transparent. So if I move the screen around, the color of the dots change, making me think this is not a hardware failure but somehow software related. This happened yesterday, when I installed the latest updates Windows gave. I think I also got some small thing for my monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 22NW), but I'm not sure how that'd affect this all. This looks like the leaking you have when two polygons the window is rendered on don't line up properly; the changing in color is probably that you see right through those "holes" in the application I would guess? I would also guess you don't see them if you turn off Aero? Try rolling back your graphics card driver/update it with a new one from Ati/Nvidia/whoever 
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I've look over the past several pages and couldn't find an answer to this, so if I've missed something I apologize: I like to run games windowed but maximized (WoW, TF2, etc.) so there isn't any wonkiness when I alt-tab out to AIM or my internet browser. In previous versions of Windows, when I did this the taskbar would stay behind the window and not interfere with anything, but in 7 it looks like there's no longer an option to disable "always on top," which is really infuriating. When I'm in Photoshop with a document full-screened, the taskbar also appears over what I'm working on, and this is not what I want at all. My question is: is there any way, ANY way, such as hacking the registry or downloading a separate program, that would disable the taskbar's need to always be on top of anything I'm doing? Edit: Just to nip this in the bud, "auto-hide" is not a viable alternative. In previous versions, you didn't run the risk of the taskbar popping up when your hidden cursor was near the bottom of the screen, but with auto-hide it tends to happen and it's not what I'm looking for. turnways fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Nov 15, 2009 |
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That's odd, I play both TF2 and WoW in the manner you describe- windowed but at fullscreen resolution. The taskbar doesn't appear over the applications. I'm trying to think of what settings could affect this and all I can think of is the border settings. For instance, do you have TF2 running with the -noborder parameter? WoW has a similar setting called "Maximized" under the "Windowed" option in video options. What are your taskbar settings? I can compare those to mine and see if there's something different.
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Nov 16, 2009 01:29
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You could set the taskbar to autohide.
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Ariza posted:Does anyone know of a useful remote desktop solution I can use that will activate UAC prompts? I don't want to turn it off, but if I set winrar.exe to have administrative privileges, everytime I try to extract something remotely I get a UAC prompt that won't let me click yes or no over VNC (I tried UltraVNC and RealVNC). I used Remote Desktop with the RC but I installed the Home Premium so that's not an option anymore. This is my first time using VNC so I might be missing something stupid. RDP is fantastic so if nothing else I guess I'll be upgrading again. I'm using UltraVNC and it is letting me escalate admin privs over the VNC. I'm not in the admin account, so I have to enter password, but its working on secure desktop. In fact I just started a system image remotely. I've also installed and tried out the patch here: http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/t/79427.aspx That allows RDP on home premium, works great!
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How do I install asian language packs on my copy of windows 7 professional?
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Tried Windows Update?
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revolther posted:Tried Windows Update? Theres no options like that for me, I just checked. Theres only one update that's hidden (i did that on purpose) because it's optional and when I tried it, it hosed up my onboard nic, "realtek rtl8168C(P)/8111c(p)" Rolled back to the default win7 driver for it.
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Hung Yuri posted:Theres no options like that for me, I just checked. Theres only one update that's hidden (i did that on purpose) because it's optional and when I tried it, it hosed up my onboard nic, "realtek rtl8168C(P)/8111c(p)" The language packs are only available to Ultimate.
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Casao posted:The language packs are only available to Ultimate. Why? Why is something like a different language blocked out?
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Nov 16, 2009 06:25
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Hung Yuri posted:Why? Why is something like a different language blocked out? If you want all of your menus in another language, buy that country's edition of Windows, or buy Ultimate. I mean you realize you can see Japanese text or whatever just fine without the pack right?
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The real reason is "socialism", all other countries have it, so pay more and buy ultimate or get the gently caress out you Marx reading pussy. BALD EAGLE GUITAR SOLO! Actually it appears there is some convoluted way involving googling the specific language packs you want.
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Nov 16, 2009 06:46
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revolther posted:The real reason is "socialism", all other countries have it, so pay more and buy ultimate or get the gently caress out you Marx reading pussy. BALD EAGLE GUITAR SOLO! I don't have that option since I don't have ultimate.
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One of the things I disliked about UAC in Vista Home Premium is that there was no way at the unelevated command prompt to do the equivalent of Linux's sudo command. I now have Windows 7 Ultimate, and have figured out that you can use su from the Subsystem for Unix-Based Applications to run a Win32-based application elevated. Only problem is, MS-DOS applications don't work with it. I get16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem posted:NTVDM has encountered a System Error I copied c:\windows\sua\bin\su to su.exe and executed code:I guess with 64-bit windows dropping support for 16-bit applications, this isn't too important, but I'm still on 32-bit.
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Nov 16, 2009 06:49
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Hung Yuri posted:I don't have that option since I don't have ultimate. Why do you want your menus to be in Japanese/Chinese/Korean? You realize that's all the packs will do right?
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madprocess posted:Why do you want your menus to be in Japanese/Chinese/Korean? You realize that's all the packs will do right? It doesn't matter why he wants it.
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Drox posted:That's odd, I play both TF2 and WoW in the manner you describe- windowed but at fullscreen resolution. The taskbar doesn't appear over the applications. I'm trying to think of what settings could affect this and all I can think of is the border settings. For instance, do you have TF2 running with the -noborder parameter? WoW has a similar setting called "Maximized" under the "Windowed" option in video options. What are your taskbar settings? I can compare those to mine and see if there's something different. Can anyone answer this? Sounds like an awful problem.
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You could download PowerMenu, and then set whatever game as "Always on Top". Or just set your instant messenger to away then play games full screen(with better performance), or update drivers to fix whatever driver issue is causing the games to crash, or complain to the developer about crashing when alt-tabbing. There's also this fix, though I haven't personally tried it. I imagine this is more a problem of apps not playing well while in fullscreen mode rather than a problem with Windows 7. For example, often times my dev build of Chrome will stay on top of the taskbar to great irritation.
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lavhoes posted:I like to run games windowed but maximized (WoW, TF2, etc.) so there isn't any wonkiness when I alt-tab out to AIM or my internet browser. In previous versions of Windows, when I did this the taskbar would stay behind the window and not interfere with anything, but in 7 it looks like there's no longer an option to disable "always on top," which is really infuriating. 
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Just to clarify; Are you guys saying that when you play a game in windowed-full screen, that the task bar is always there no matter what, or it only shows up when you press the windows key /alt tab etc.
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4 Day Weekend posted:Just to clarify; Are you guys saying that when you play a game in windowed-full screen, that the task bar is always there no matter what, or it only shows up when you press the windows key?
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I said come in! posted:It doesn't matter why he wants it. Well, actually it might, since the functionality he's looking for (input methods?) might already be in Win7 without needing to download any sort of language pack.
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Schpyder posted:Well, actually it might, since the functionality he's looking for (input methods?) might already be in Win7 without needing to download any sort of language pack. Yes. If he wants to install language to type in then it's as simple as typing "Input method" in to search. If he wants to make Windows be displayed in Japanese or whatever other language then according to Microsoft you are meant to use Ultimate. http://blog.freakz1.de/?p=310 seems to think you can do it with Professional.
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madlobster posted:One of the things I disliked about UAC in Vista Home Premium is that there was no way at the unelevated command prompt to do the equivalent of Linux's sudo command. I now have Windows 7 Ultimate, and have figured out that you can use su from the Subsystem for Unix-Based Applications to run a Win32-based application elevated. ... This just reminded me of that part of ultimate. I was thinking about getting ultimate just for this, then I realized my linux VM's do everything I need, but I'm still curious. Has anyone tried out the unix subsystem? How exactly does it work? Can you install & run any unix app? I'm assuming you'd need to compile from source. Is it debian based or red hat or (shudder) some alien microsoft version of linux?
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madlobster posted:One of the things I disliked about UAC in Vista Home Premium is that there was no way at the unelevated command prompt to do the equivalent of Linux's sudo command. I now have Windows 7 Ultimate, and have figured out that you can use su from the Subsystem for Unix-Based Applications to run a Win32-based application elevated. Only problem is, MS-DOS applications don't work with it. I get What does su do that runas doesn't do for you?
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Not sure what to make of this one... I ran Windows update last night. No new updates. This morning I installed Microsoft Silverlight, so that I use the Netflix instant-viewing thing. Suddenly, Windows Update has 10+ updates for Microsoft Office, all of which were released long ago. Silverlight said it would use Windows Update to look for updates, but why that effect Office?
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Bobulus posted:Silverlight said it would use Windows Update to look for updates, but why that effect Office?
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hirvox posted:Windows Update has two modes: Windows only, and everything MS-related (Microsoft Update is the official term). The Silverlight installer must have toggled it to the latter. This. Unless you are running Office 2007, which should have asked you to toggle that the first time you started it up. Office 2003 does not have this option, and won't toggle it unless you specifically ask it to.
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Good to know. Odd that that's not On by default.
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PBCrunch posted:I bought a laptop for my sister and my brother in law as a Christmas gift. It has an Athlon II 64-bit CPU and comes with Windows 7 32-bit. Can I clean install Win7 64-bit? I installed Win7-64 because this machine can hold up to 8GB RAM and someday after memory prices drop it probably will.
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Bobulus posted:Good to know. Odd that that's not On by default. It can't. You have to tell Windows Update to look for updates outside of Windows. 2003 can't flip that bit, where 2007, silverlight, and some other things can.
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darnzen posted:This just reminded me of that part of ultimate. I was thinking about getting ultimate just for this, then I realized my linux VM's do everything I need, but I'm still curious. Has anyone tried out the unix subsystem? How exactly does it work? Can you install & run any unix app? I'm assuming you'd need to compile from source. Is it debian based or red hat or (shudder) some alien microsoft version of linux? It's not Linux at all, it's a POSIX-compliant subsystem.
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darnzen posted:This just reminded me of that part of ultimate. I was thinking about getting ultimate just for this, then I realized my linux VM's do everything I need, but I'm still curious. Has anyone tried out the unix subsystem? How exactly does it work? Can you install & run any unix app? I'm assuming you'd need to compile from source. Is it debian based or red hat or (shudder) some alien microsoft version of linux? Maybe it's Xenix 
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PBCrunch posted:To answer my own question this laptop came with Win7-32 Home Premium. I grabbed a disc and installed Win7-64 Home Premium using the code on the bottom of the laptop. It accepted the code and activated, though I did have to call the activation phone line because the online activation wouldn't work. So Windows 7 accepted a Windows Vista code??!! I gotta call BS on this.
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redeyes posted:So Windows 7 accepted a Windows Vista code??!! I gotta call BS on this. As would I, except that's not what happened.
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BOOM! DOCTA WATSON posted:As would I, except that's not what happened. Ok, except he said thats what happened.
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redeyes posted:Ok, except he said thats what happened. Ok, except that it is not.
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redeyes posted:Ok, except he said thats what happened. Quote where he mentioned Vista, ta.
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redeyes posted:Ok, except he said thats what happened. Dude, not once did PBC mention Vista.
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In any case, redeyes I have been looking for you. Send me an IM or an email. treowayne at gmail dot com
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