deltawing posted:

Josh Lyman posted:

Is it just me or does Java run like horseshit? It auto updated a few days ago and now it runs like rear end in IE.

Ziir posted:

What about moving the show desktop button to be next to the start button?

grrowl posted:

if LYX = WOW, it was mentioned somewhere in here earlier that you have to manually pin the wow.exe by navigating to its folder, right click, "pin to taskbar". What's happening here is the WoW shortcut points to a Launcher.exe, which in turn loads the game. If it isn't WoW i'd have a look around in its program directory anyway, to see if there's a "real" exe that gets spawned from something on the shortcut.

bazaar apparatus posted:

1) On a laptop, is there an easy way to disable the "tap-to-click" crap? It's getting really annoying having things get clicked on accident all the time and there are no settings that I can find for it in Win7 itself. I'd imagine it would be a setting in the driver itself but I can't find where those preferences would be, if they exist.

Gooofy posted:

Yep.
I assume you are talking about this:


http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/007dbf629e.jpg

BIOJECT posted:

If I upgrade from Vista to Windows 7, will I experience any compatibility issues with games and other software or is the capability about the same as Vista?

bradzilla posted:

So are you trying to say that I'll essentially need to buy a copy of Vista and a copy of Win7 if I want to use retail Win7?

If so, gently caress that poo poo I'll just go back to Vista.

everyone posted:

EU browser poo poo

MEAT TREAT posted:

I really doubt this will affect the majority of EU users since the OEMs will probably bundle a browser. Really this will only inconvenience users that go out and buy an install disc.

kapinga posted:

JESUS CHRIST WE ALREADY HAVE A THREAD FOR THIS poo poo. STOP loving UP THIS ONE!!!!

BonoMan posted:

So I just realized that that Windows 7 logo seen on some of the boxes (the kind brush stroke-esque looking one on the ugrade box), is just the upper right area of the upper right "window" of the Windows logo!

Beforan posted:

Rather than wade through *all* 64 pages of this one, have people seen http://www.sevenclassicstart.com yet? Where some people decided it was totally 100% worth putting the "classic" start menu back in, as if people haven't gotten used to it since XP, 8 years ago? Furthermore, they're charging for the privilege.

quote:

This page is not compatible with Internet Explorer 6 or earlier.

Full Circle posted:

Hes guys how many times should I zero pass my hard drive to make sure it cannot be recovered?

c0burn posted:

Flash is basically terrible

See also: Quicktime, Adobe Reader

BonoMan posted:

I'm always shakin' windows and throwing them to the side to do the "snap to half the frame" thing in XP at work. gently caress I can't wait until we upgrade.

Lum posted:

Ahh, I've never really bothered with the gadgets, are they actually worth it?

Only bandwidth meter I've ever used is Task Manager, and even then only if something is acting up.

BOOM! DOCTA WATSON posted:

I've started having a problem wherein my laptop's keyboard randomly stops working until I reboot. I thought it was just the keyboard itself failing because everything else on this piece of poo poo is disintegrating now that it's two weeks out of warranty, but I tried opening the onscreen keyboard and it just hangs at a blank window indefinitely, leading me to believe that the keyboard driver might be loving up. I've been running Windows 7 since January and am only just now having this problem, but the only new thing I've installed recently is Virtual Clone Drive and I don't see how that would gently caress with the keyboard drivers. Has anyone else run into this?

Avian Pneumonia posted:

i'm going to format the hard drive of a new laptop and install 7

what's the story on drivers? do i use vista drivers?

Compo posted:

This has probably been answered, but this is a really long thread.

If I buy this for $189.99: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116678

Then I will get a free upgrade coupon to this $319.99 version of Windows 7: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116678 ??

fishmech posted:

This is what happens when the EU shits itself over Microsoft.

Xenomorph posted:

What does this mean?

Are you asking if a Windows 7 key will work with Windows 7?
What else would a Windows 7 key be for other than Windows 7?
How did you get a key already if you don't know what it's for?

Xenomorph posted:

But there will be multiple Upgrade versions of RTM.

RTM has nothing to do with Upgrade.

Fawkes posted:

It's not a big thing, of course, but superficial things like it -- and, say, a short tutorial of the new taskbar for casual users -- go a long way. And the OS doesn't feel as polished as I expected because of it.

Dogen posted:

Did iTunes always have a jumplist, or did that update that added appletv 3 support and broke pre syncing that came out today add it?

wintermuteCF posted:

Technically, without derailing this thread into a copyright and IP discussion, downloading or possession of digital content is only illegal if you don't have the rights to that content.

Which, if you own a key for Windows, makes it legal. It's only if you don't have a key that makes you be in trouble.

Casao posted:

This is a terrible idea. Dropbox is slow, it's a free service with no guarantees and it's designed to sync files between systems, not be used as a backup.

Casao posted:

I can only speak from personal experience, but when I used it, upload speeds were less than 10k/s, despite having a wide open connection that could do a lot more, the interface wasn't particularly attractive, and it didn't deal with multiple folders well. This could've all changed, but I'd still pick something using Amazon S3 for online backup.

Factor Mystic posted:

It replaces numbers that people don't understand, like gigahertz and megabytes with an ordinal scale. So while a processor that labels itself 1.8Ghz isn't necessarily "slower" than a processor that labels itself 3Ghz, a 6.5 rating is better than a 5.5 rating.

Avian Pneumonia posted:

i have a big folder full of (legally obtained) dvd movies in .iso format
is there a way to make them show up in windows media center?

Avian Pneumonia posted:

eeeh, no thanks
WMP is great but not great enough for me to convert all of my .ISOs

Mr E posted:

I just got the Ultimate 64-bit version of Windows 7, and really love it, especially the new taskbar. I have a Palm PDA, and was wondering if there was any way for it to sync with the computer as no new drivers or devices are being made or if I should just get another PDA.

LoonyLeif posted:

So I get the impression I'm totally hosed.

I bought a Windows 7 64-bit Professional from the student offer, for 30 bucks. Didn't know this was JUST an upgrade. I only have valid copies of 32-bit XP home and pro, like many do. Can't go back and buy the "backup DVD" and I can't get a refund.

Glad the upgrade paths were so totally clear and simple when I bought it, I pretty much wasted a whole weekend dicking around.

Help?

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?

redeyes posted:

So Windows 7 accepted a Windows Vista code??!! I gotta call BS on this.

Waltzing Along posted:

I apologize if this has been covered but at the size of this thread it is a bit daunting to search for such a specific question.

I had to rebuild a dell laptop. I ordered the win7 upgrade disks and they are yet to arrive. I really want to get the system set up. Should I continue to wait for my disks and then do the Vista install and then immediately run the upgrade? This seems to be the ideal way of running the upgrade as there is nothing else on the system.

On the other hand, I really want to use that system. If I were to set up Vista and install drivers and some basic operating software would I notice much difference with the upgrade?

Edit for clarity: 1 - should I do a clean install of Vista and then immediately run the Win7 upgrade or 2 - should i just set up the system on Vista and then upgrade to Win7 when I am able?