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Yeah, sorry, I'd assumed that people in this thread knew it was in RC stage and were just somehow really bad at Google searching or something. My bad! 
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is there a way to change the icon and text of an item in the taskbar? For example, you open up Notepad, it shows up on the task bar with wordpad and the wordpad icon. Possible somehow?
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Feb 4, 2011 16:01
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Assuming it's an icon you've pinned to the taskbar, you can change the icon of it's shortcut (place it on the desktop and set the property there so it'll stick) and then pin it back to the taskbar and it'll keep the shortcut icon when it's launched. Otherwise you'll have to always launch it from a shortcut where you've set its icon. If you mean the text that displays when you've got the taskbar in icon&text mode, the text is set on a per-application basis, so it depends on the program, by default.
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Feb 4, 2011 16:08
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GreenBuckanneer posted:is there a way to change the icon and text of an item in the taskbar?   You shouldn't have to create new shortcuts or anything, as far as I can tell. Toast Museum fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Feb 4, 2011 |
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Feb 4, 2011 16:21
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Yeah, I thought of those, but nothing to change the text that displays. I suppose I could go icon based for the taskbar...
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Feb 4, 2011 16:26
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Stacked no-title icons is totally the way to go. I hated stacked taskbar items in XP/Vista, but it's awesome in 7.
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Feb 4, 2011 16:30
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Toast Museum posted:You shouldn't have to create new shortcuts or anything, as far as I can tell. I didn't think so either, but changing it just via that led to the icon not actually updating. I wasn't suggested the desktop-method because I didn't know any better, but because the taskbar doesn't seem to actually update when asked to.
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Feb 4, 2011 16:52
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Wondering if the academic Windows 7 Pro full install is the best bang for the buck still. I think it is $129-$139 or similar ($99 for upgrade). I want it for VMWare and bootcamp specifically, though I know Windows XP would be the best VMWare option for speed the OS is just too drat old.
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Feb 6, 2011 21:40
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Toast Museum posted:Stacked no-title icons is totally the way to go. I hated stacked taskbar items in XP/Vista, but it's awesome in 7. Yeah with the large icons and no text, that's the default in Win7 isn't it? Works fantastically.
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Feb 6, 2011 21:53
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NerdPolice posted:Wondering if the academic Windows 7 Pro full install is the best bang for the buck still. I think it is $129-$139 or similar ($99 for upgrade). You can use the OEM loophole through Newegg to get it for around that price (order a mousepad or something). I think I paid $149 for OEM Pro when I was building my new computer.
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Feb 6, 2011 23:22
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big mean giraffe posted:Yeah with the large icons and no text, that's the default in Win7 isn't it? Works fantastically. Yeah, it's the default, and with good reason. I think the thumbnail previews are a big part of why I like it better than the earlier implementations. NerdPolice posted:Wondering if the academic Windows 7 Pro full install is the best bang for the buck still. I think it is $129-$139 or similar ($99 for upgrade). If you're a student, $65 for 7 Pro upgrade is the best deal I've seen. First do a clean install without giving the product key, then run the installer again, this time as an upgrade (and providing the key), from within the new install.
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Feb 6, 2011 23:34
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Toast Museum posted:If you're a student, $65 for 7 Pro upgrade is the best deal I've seen. First do a clean install without giving the product key, then run the installer again, this time as an upgrade (and providing the key), from within the new install.
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Feb 7, 2011 01:56
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NerdPolice posted:Except I want to use it for bootcamp and VMWare, and an upgrade process with bootcamp is more painful than a full install. Even though it starts out as a full install? I've never used Bootcamp or VMWare, so I'm not entirely clear on where the complications creep in.
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Feb 7, 2011 03:58
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Also you don't even have to install it twice, you can just change a single registry key.
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Feb 7, 2011 04:23
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big mean giraffe posted:Yeah with the large icons and no text, that's the default in Win7 isn't it? Works fantastically. Small icons all the way. I just wish the task bar could be narrower running on the left edge with small icons.
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Feb 7, 2011 17:09
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Srebrenica Surprise posted:Also you don't even have to install it twice, you can just change a single registry key. Seriously? I've been wasting a lot of time, then. Have any details?
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Feb 7, 2011 17:11
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Toast Museum posted:Seriously? I've been wasting a lot of time, then. Have any details? http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows-7/clean-install-windows-7-with-upgrade-media.aspx
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Feb 7, 2011 17:18
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Toast Museum posted:Even though it starts out as a full install? I've never used Bootcamp or VMWare, so I'm not entirely clear on where the complications creep in. The version I was sold at the large academic institution where I work was upgrade only and required a previous install on the disk to continue (it wouldn't take a Vista disc I had dying around). He may be in the same boat.
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Feb 7, 2011 17:32
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AlexDeGruven posted:http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows-7/clean-install-windows-7-with-upgrade-media.aspx I can personally vouch that the registry hack works. Of course, only do this if you have a legit previous license to upgrade from, or else poor Bill Gates will cry and wind up homeless because you stiffed him like thirty-fifty bucks.
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Feb 7, 2011 19:58
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I have a Windows 7 Pro computer (a Dell) that I am trying to join to the companies network. I am able to join the domain but for some reason it doesn't pull down my roaming profile. It tries to but then it just creates a temporary profile that is discarded after I log off each time. It's kind of an annoying problem that I don't know how to fix. Anyone have an idea on this issue?
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Feb 7, 2011 20:18
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univbee posted:I can personally vouch that the registry hack works. Of course, only do this if you have a legit previous license to upgrade from, or else poor Bill Gates will cry and wind up homeless because you stiffed him like thirty-fifty bucks. When are we going to stop picking on Bill Gates? He put his foot in his mouth a few times, but he's much less of a douchebag than Steve Jobs. poo poo, he's promised to give away his billions to charity before he dies, and has always supported hardware independent computing, where Jobs has marked up everything 300% and if he had his way there would be one form factor for every PC until you had to buy a whole new PC as an "upgrade". Gates has also for the most part stepped out of the picture concerning Microsoft, so we never have to hear his nerdy speeches, while Jobs is still wearing blue jeans and black turtlenecks preaching about magic devices like it's 1999. Bill gates has also said, he'd rather you pirate Windows and stiff him that 35 bucks than not run Windows at all, hell MS provides updates/service packs for non-genuine copies of Windows. Is there something barbaric Gates has done I shouldn't let him off the loose for? I know the old IE monopoly poo poo, but what else? edit: I'm just curious if Microsoft is still seen by most as the rear end in a top hat software giant that pushes every little guy out of the picture? revolther fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Feb 7, 2011 |
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Feb 7, 2011 22:23
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That's the dumbest poo poo I've ever heard. Who cares. I'm sure the guy is crying a loving river.
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Feb 7, 2011 22:27
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My comment was in jest and was more because he'd be most likely NOT to care (or at worst let you pay the price difference and square things up). Bill Gates is pretty much the nicest celebrity billionaire there is, giving away millions for medical research, education, and technology in countries and areas that would otherwise be SOL. He's only perceived by some to be a typical super-rich guy because "omg Microsoft's so expensive and I called their support line when my internet was down and they wouldn't help me" or something stupid like that; I can't think of anyone who's familiar with his humanitarian efforts who has anything but good things to say about him. Having said all that, I'm not going to advocate piracy on SA, especially in my own thread. 
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Feb 7, 2011 22:57
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AlexDeGruven posted:I just wish the task bar could be narrower running on the left edge with small icons. This. It would be perfect if I could use small icons with a thinner task bar. As it is, I just stick with large icons because I think the small icons look dumb if you have the bar on the side of your monitor.
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Feb 7, 2011 23:12
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Thermopyle posted:This. It would be perfect if I could use small icons with a thinner task bar. As it is, I just stick with large icons because I think the small icons look dumb if you have the bar on the side of your monitor. Theres just too much whitespace in the icon panel itself with small icons. For that matter, why isn't there just a slider to adjust icon/bar size anyway?
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Feb 8, 2011 04:38
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thrawn86 posted:Theres just too much whitespace in the icon panel itself with small icons. For that matter, why isn't there just a slider to adjust icon/bar size anyway? You can drag the taskbar to make it bigger if you have it unlocked, but the minimum size is just too big for small icons. 
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Feb 8, 2011 06:30
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revolther posted:Here's a vaguely Windows related question. MS had a lot of hate back in the day and not entirely unjustified. A lot of Window's stuff was quite clunky and painful for the users. Plus, MS's dominance of the marketplace made people feel that they had to use MS products due to their business practices which unfairly prevented the competition from offering better products. I can't say that this was entirely justified. What I do find odd is that the MS stuff that comes out now is pretty decent and they seem to care about the users a lot more. Things like free upgrades of Windows components (eg Media Player), easy roll back of updates and good support for older products. Compare and contrast to the Apple way of doing things (do it the way we want you to do it) and frankly, I have a lot more affection for MS than Apple now. Win7 really seems to show that they now listen to the users and offer them as much help as they can. Things like free downloads of good tools, plentiful help resources, multiple, supported methods of completing a task all are to the credit of MS. Plus, as you say, who can really hate a guy who decides to spend all his money helping sick children?
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spog posted:MS had a lot of hate back in the day and not entirely unjustified. A lot of Window's stuff was quite clunky and painful for the users. Except the alternative was early Linux (a war crime) or OS 9 (awful) or perhaps OS X 10.0 (a disaster). You know, just for perspective here.
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fishmech posted:Except the alternative was early Linux (a war crime) or OS 9 (awful) or perhaps OS X 10.0 (a disaster). You know, just for perspective here. Oh yeah, sure. I should have made that clearer. A lot of MS stuff *was* horrible and clunky...but the alternatives were just as bad, or worse. So, people were rightly bitching that they were using nasty software but incorrectly blaming MS for the piss-poor state of the competition, which was 'forcing' them to use the MS versions. Sure, anti-competitive (or 'savvy', depending on your viewpoint) business practises made it harder for alternative companies to get their products off the ground, but just look at Mozilla to see that it is not a great excuse for lack of decent competition.
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Feb 8, 2011 08:41
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Wasn't it some quote by Bill Gates (excuse the paraphrase just going on memory of meaning.) such like "You don't have to be the best, just the least-worst." ?
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Feb 8, 2011 08:44
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I don't know about that one, but it brings to mind the older one of "You don't have to run faster than the bear, just faster than your friend."
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Feb 8, 2011 09:38
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What's a good free program for cleaning out spyware and other garbage from my computer? I have an Asus 1215N and it's running pretty slowly, especially internet video.
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Feb 9, 2011 20:43
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MalwareBytes Anti-Malware. Run a full scan a few times and it should clean up most everything. In other news, Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 SP1 was given a release date today - Announcement.
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Feb 9, 2011 20:54
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Belligerent Monk posted:What's a good free program for cleaning out spyware and other garbage from my computer? I have an Asus 1215N and it's running pretty slowly, especially internet video. Also add CCleaner in that mix as well. I would run that first then Malwarebytes so it isn't scanning through temporary files etc.
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Feb 9, 2011 23:02
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Well this is neat, according to that link, that leaked build has the same build number as this (7601.17514.101119-1850)
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Mr Bike posted:I have a Windows 7 Pro computer (a Dell) that I am trying to join to the companies network. I am able to join the domain but for some reason it doesn't pull down my roaming profile. It tries to but then it just creates a temporary profile that is discarded after I log off each time. It's kind of an annoying problem that I don't know how to fix. Anyone have an idea on this issue?
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Feb 10, 2011 00:21
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Does anyone know if there is a way to use the power settings available on a laptop on a pc? Specifically the ability to dim the screen /adjust display brightness after a specific amount of time?
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Feb 10, 2011 03:14
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Is there a site where I can get direct downloads of Windows 7 updates in a nice little list or something? I'm getting poo poo speeds from microsoft through every single program I've tried that says it does this, when the downloads don't time out entirely.
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Feb 10, 2011 04:31
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WorkingStiff posted:Does anyone know if there is a way to use the power settings available on a laptop on a pc? Specifically the ability to dim the screen /adjust display brightness after a specific amount of time? Whatever your hardware supports, it should all be there in the power options, just not with the option of a second set of settings for battery mode (unless you have an UPS). Dimming depends on the display, though - obviously, desktop monitors tend to have brightness adjusted by buttons on the front rather than software control. Display dimming requires an interface to backlight controls controlled by the computer itself.
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TOOT BOOT posted:Is there a site where I can get direct downloads of Windows 7 updates in a nice little list or something? I'm getting poo poo speeds from microsoft through every single program I've tried that says it does this, when the downloads don't time out entirely.
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