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Here's a third way: Why not use x64 Win 7 Pro and use XP mode for your various tools and gizmometers? Or do you know it wouldn't work virtualized?
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Factory Factory posted:Here's a third way: Why not use x64 Win 7 Pro and use XP mode for your various tools and gizmometers? Or do you know it wouldn't work virtualized? I only got a Home Premium OEM (Builder  ) license right now, so no XP mode for me. I can probably get my tech studies buddy to get me a Professional or Ultimate license if he still has one to spare, but then i might as well go for 32 bit in the first place. 
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Feb 14, 2011 00:16
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HenryEx posted:Some discontinued tools or programs i occasionally use that are cockblocked by the x64 kernel patch protection. Virtual PC, VMWare, VirtualBox, all are free.
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Feb 14, 2011 00:27
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HenryEx posted:Some discontinued tools or programs i occasionally use that are cockblocked by the x64 kernel patch protection. It might be time to find some new applications if they won't work on a 64-bit OS in 2011. You really should look into running a virtual machine before you dual boot. quote:So this probably isn't Win7 exclusive, but i was kinda surprised to hear that the User files directories are symbolic links and that i can place my User profiles anywhere i want on the hard disk, outside the boot partition, too. I don't see why this would be a problem.
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Feb 14, 2011 02:14
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Anyone know why my Win7 bootable USB drive errors out on my Atom netbook? the installation is working fine on an old P4 but it says it's missing files when I try it on the Atom. EDIT: nm works now SnatchRabbit fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Feb 14, 2011 |
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Feb 14, 2011 16:28
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SnatchRabbit posted:Anyone know why my Win7 bootable USB drive errors out on my Atom netbook? the installation is working fine on an old P4 but it says it's missing files when I try it on the Atom. Why are you booting Windows 7 off a USB stick? Especially on two different computers, apparently, which Windows is really not designed to handle.
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Feb 14, 2011 19:52
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fishmech posted:Why are you booting Windows 7 off a USB stick? Especially on two different computers, apparently, which Windows is really not designed to handle. He might have meant installing from a USB drive.
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Feb 14, 2011 21:43
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HenryEx posted:So this probably isn't Win7 exclusive, but i was kinda surprised to hear that the User files directories are symbolic links and that i can place my User profiles anywhere i want on the hard disk, outside the boot partition, too. Symbolic links? You can move the Users directory anywhere you want, but unless you edit the registry path, Windows will just make another Users folder at that default directory the reg. directs it too, and your other folder will just be a folder that happens to be called "UsernameHere". Unless of course I'm misreading this.. Personally I'm using an SSD for my OS, so I had to swap around alot of registry locations for default folders, and installation paths, but switching out the users folder, for another folder is definitely possible. As I actually reformatted my SSD, then just changed the reg. paths, and popped in my old Users file.
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Feb 15, 2011 18:19
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So who else is F5ing the VLSC to grab SP1? I'm thinking it won't pop until 11 am eastern, as that will be 8 am redmond time. Yeah the final leaked build is out there but seeing as i'm in a corporate environment i'm not about to download an OS service pack from anywhere but microsoft, no matter how legit-looking the site is.
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Feb 16, 2011 15:16
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Is there a way to change the color of the unskinned Win7 theme? I have to use the unskinned version every so often to save battery power but I'd really like to have it a darker color instead of the near-white.
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Feb 16, 2011 18:06
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devmd01 posted:So who else is F5ing the VLSC to grab SP1? I'm thinking it won't pop until 11 am eastern, as that will be 8 am redmond time. Yeah the final leaked build is out there but seeing as i'm in a corporate environment i'm not about to download an OS service pack from anywhere but microsoft, no matter how legit-looking the site is. Every version of Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 is now downloadable from MSDN, along with an ISO containing the three versions of the update (32-bit, 64-bit, Itanium). univbee fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Feb 16, 2011 |
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Feb 16, 2011 18:18
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flatluigi posted:Is there a way to change the color of the unskinned Win7 theme? I have to use the unskinned version every so often to save battery power but I'd really like to have it a darker color instead of the near-white. Unless your graphics adaptor consists of a small gnome with a pencil then turning off compositing will probably end up costing you power. What you want to do is turn off all the effects but leave compositing on, because your graphics card is much more efficient at doing graphics than your processor is. Try setting it up like this: 
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Feb 16, 2011 18:53
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univbee posted:
Yeah I can't grab poo poo, it's waaaaay overloaded.
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Feb 16, 2011 22:12
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devmd01 posted:Yeah I can't grab poo poo, it's waaaaay overloaded. Really? I'm pulling at 360 kilobytes per second at my work, which I think is as fast as this work connection gets.
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Feb 16, 2011 22:14
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Someone tell me if the leak I got a while back matches the official ISO: FILE: 7601.17514.101119-1850_Update_Sp_Wave0-GRMSP1.0_DVD.iso SIZE: 1,545,795,584 byte SHA-1: 9D85703A456B79FC295BE24E797367F032FE947B MD5: AE635827CA85D35EAC36B44F5064CD4B CRC: 59CF095B
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Feb 16, 2011 22:15
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univbee posted:Really? I'm pulling at 360 kilobytes per second at my work, which I think is as fast as this work connection gets. I just tried again and it's working now. For some reason HTTP kept erroring out as was the download manager. edit: Got to 60% and failed again. Guess I'll download it tomorrow. devmd01 fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Feb 16, 2011 |
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Feb 16, 2011 22:32
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c0burn posted:Someone tell me if the leak I got a while back matches the official ISO: They skipped the whole "Wave 0/1" stuff and the only ISO that's up is basically equivalent to Wave 1. I'm not sure if Microsoft will officially push out the Wave 0 installers ever.
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Feb 16, 2011 23:37
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Downloading it from Technet at the moment. It's a 1.91GB ISO, supposedly covers Win 7 and Server 2008 both 32 and 64bit versions in the one ISO
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Feb 17, 2011 01:00
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One thing that I noticed is that the service pack itself dates back to November 19th, 2010. That's a healthy amount of testing time, not that I'm complaining.
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Feb 17, 2011 01:33
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Is the service pack just a collection of previous updates or is there new stuff? If it's cumulative I might just roll my computer back to the factory install on the HD and patch it with the SP to fix an annoying lack of icons on my taskbar from a certain .ico vulnerability hotfix that never would uninstall. Although that would mean reinstalling all of my applications though, right?
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Feb 17, 2011 02:27
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JustFrakkingDoIt posted:Is the service pack just a collection of previous updates or is there new stuff?
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Feb 17, 2011 02:31
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How long is it usually until SP1-integrated install ISOs would go up? When a Service Pack comes out I prefer to be ridiculously anal about it and do a fresh integrated install, rather than just install the service pack.
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Feb 17, 2011 04:39
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:How long is it usually until SP1-integrated install ISOs would go up?
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Feb 17, 2011 04:41
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nevermind (i know this post is quoted ahead of me, wasn't asking for files though, i swear!)
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Feb 17, 2011 06:01
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CUMGUARD posted:I'm really sorry if this is the wrong place for this, I looked around and couldn't really find anywhere better to ask, though. Unless I'm really misunderstanding your post, what you're talking about is  Tell her to pony up the $100 and get an actual "legit" copy instead of all this convoluted retardation.
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quadratic posted:Unless I'm really misunderstanding your post, what you're talking about is Yeah, it just occurred to me that it could look like I'm asking for here, which I'm really not. This is really stupid, though, I'm just gonna tell her to either take what help I can give her or else just buy her own copy.
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Feb 17, 2011 06:10
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That is not legit, it won't work anyways, and she is not going to sleep with you.
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Feb 17, 2011 06:13
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tk posted:That is not legit, it won't work anyways, and she is not going to sleep with you. 1. realized that 2. realized that 3. already has many times, that's not what this is about
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Dammit, the ei.cfg removal tool doesn't seem to work on SP1 discs yet. Whoever works on it updated it a few weeks ago, though, so hopefully that means he's on-the-ball enough to update it.
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univbee posted:Dammit, the ei.cfg removal tool doesn't seem to work on SP1 discs yet. Whoever works on it updated it a few weeks ago, though, so hopefully that means he's on-the-ball enough to update it. Can't you just delete ei.cfg to get the same effect?
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Feb 18, 2011 00:51
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Yep. Just delete it. If you're installing from USB it's easy enough, but if you're using DVD you can rebuild the image with PowerISO, UltraISO etc.
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Feb 18, 2011 00:59
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On behalf of everyone without MSDN (or with a slow MSDN AA server  or something), I'd like to ask whether checksums for the official SP1-integrated images are now.If they aren't, you'll probably spare a lot of goons a lot of frustration by posting them.
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Well for people without MSDN I've extracted the x64 and x86 SP1 installers and am hosting them: windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe windows6.1-KB976932-x86.exe These are the installers that Windows Update will probably have up soon, not images of SP1 integrated DVDs. If there's a problem having these posted I'll edit it out but I don't think there should be.
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fishmech posted:These are the installers that Windows Update will probably have up soon, not images of SP1 integrated DVDs. If there's a problem having these posted I'll edit it out but I don't think there should be.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Nah it's cool. Thanks. Do you mind if I edit it into the OP? No problem!
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Sir Unimaginative posted:On behalf of everyone without MSDN (or with a slow MSDN AA server You don't need to have a technet account to view file information on their downloads. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx Navigate on the left to get to 7, click on view to view lots of info including the sha1 sum for the download.
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fishmech posted:Well for people without MSDN I've extracted the x64 and x86 SP1 installers and am hosting them: Thanks for these, I'm pulling good download speeds on that first link.
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I had some weird error installing on one machine, apparently my PC was no longer configured to mount hard drives automatically(?) and required me to set automount to true using diskpart. All good otherwise.
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Feb 18, 2011 03:13
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Couldn't you put those on alluvion.org or something? That's an awful lot to host.
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Xenomorph posted:Couldn't you put those on alluvion.org or something? That's an awful lot to host. I have plenty of bandwidth to hand for now. x64 is only 900 megabytes and x86 is 550 megabytes or so, my hosting will be fine.
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