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2/23/2009 9:00:30 AM

Anyone successfully gotten Ventrilo to work? I'm getting a HR=DSERR_NODRIVER error. I can hear people, but I can't talk, test, monitor the input, or create any special effects for individual people.

2/23/2009 3:25:37 PM

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"lol...I find it amusing that M$ is STILL trying to make a stable OS"

It only took Apple 17 years and 10 major releases to get their's stable. Microsoft managed to keep the lapse to one release cycle

2/24/2009 3:55:01 AM

kind of annoying thing here.. every time i make a directory i usually just hit enter after i'm done typing the name then enter again real quick to get into that directory. in all other OS's this hasn't been a problem but in windows 7 it freaks the fuck out and tries to go into a folder named "new folder" instead of what i just renamed it to. i have to wait a second or two between enters before it will work right.

not a big deal..but a definite annoyance.

2/27/2009 11:25:51 AM

^ I have had the same issue... definitely sucks that you have to "slow down" for the race condition. Submit feedback on it, I know I have.

In related news, did yall see the article responding to the silence around feedback? That MS is getting a bug request every 15 seconds, and have already put over 2000 user submitted bugs into process to be fixed before the next ship date? Probably most importantly, EVERY submission gets human read and dealt with

Pretty cool stuff to hear publicly, nice to see some of the good stuff we do get transparency.

2/27/2009 12:24:09 PM

Anyone experiencing a weird disappearance of the start menu every time your computer is idle for an extended period of time? I can't believe I haven't snapped a screenshot yet, but basically the start button is functional but if you click anywhere to the right of it, you just get the standard desktop click options.

I made sure that it wasn't my current screensaver and the only other thing I can think of, might be beta forceware drivers? Any thoughts? Rather annoying to have to kill explorer this often.

[Edited on March 8, 2009 at 2:41 PM. Reason : .]

3/8/2009 2:38:37 PM

It's the beta driver. I would higly recommend avoiding beta video drivers fir nvidia and ati cards. They both have a lot of problems.

3/8/2009 4:58:49 PM

Has anyone had issues getting the album art from music while using WMP12? When I find the correct album, it changes all my music correctly, but doesn't download the album art. Pretty annoying considering I have over 40 gigs of music that I REALLY don't want to manually add.

3/16/2009 1:20:37 PM

My guess: It's beta, and album art isn't hooked up yet (just a total guess). Have you checked MSDN yet?

3/16/2009 3:56:16 PM

Sorry, it appears some of the album art is gathered, 1 out of 10, but I'm going to go with beta. It sucks because watching MCE' album art on my 360 is soooo much better than the visualizer, even with 1/2 of them being generic.

3/16/2009 4:57:57 PM

^I meant to say that some album art is recovered like every 1 out of 10 albums. But its probably just because its beta. Does anyone have any alternatives for organizing music and getting album art?

3/16/2009 5:36:08 PM

i've been going about 2-3 weeks on 7 now and have had one recoverable driver hiccup, where vista would have crashed a half-dozen times on me by now

suck it vista

3/16/2009 5:38:50 PM

i have used vista for a year with no crashes, what are you doing to yours?

3/16/2009 7:27:01 PM

not a damn thing

something about the ati card in it just makes it shit itself every so often

3/16/2009 7:59:35 PM

yeah i havent had any issues with vista either, im hoping to skip 7 altogether and wait out for the next next release

3/16/2009 8:07:59 PM

^Not a chance ... 7 is worlds better than Vista.

3/16/2009 8:10:21 PM

but i wont know that if i never use it

just let me be happy in my ignorance

3/16/2009 8:13:38 PM

Windows 7 and RDP?

Improved? Um, yea, just a bit

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/03/16/windows-7-rdp-changes-improve-virtual-desktop-performance

3/16/2009 10:56:48 PM

7 has been great, on my work PC. My home PC still hasn't run in weeks on my 7 copy. Just booting to XP instead.

Also wish I knew why my GPU can display dual-screens properly in XP/Vista, but 7 will only clone my desktop onto the other and not recognize the second display. At home it works fine, but I have a halfway decent video card.

[Edited on March 16, 2009 at 11:08 PM. Reason : ]

3/16/2009 10:57:36 PM

^^Yep, because it uses client hardware passthrough now.

Streaming video is sent as data, and rendered on the client machine.
3D is handled (basically) the same way, as is all the hardware accelerated Aero.

3/16/2009 11:02:31 PM

Yea, I caught that much ... just saying: I like it, and it's about time.

In other news, we can finally do a simple change on the background image for the logon screen again:
http://www.withinwindows.com/2009/03/15/windows-7-to-officially-support-logon-ui-background-customization/

[Edited on March 16, 2009 at 11:06 PM. Reason : direct link]

3/16/2009 11:05:34 PM

bttt

Before I blow away my XP install and start running 7 on my HTPC, can anyone tell me if Windows 7 (out of the box) supports the ability to create RAID5 volumes? I'd prefer not to create one on a hex edited Windows XP.

3/26/2009 4:13:22 PM

so what are the differences b/w windows 7 and xp? short and dirty descrip plz
why would i want to change to this other than it looks different?

3/26/2009 4:50:02 PM

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"short and dirty descrip plz"

Improved:
- Security
- Functionality
- Usability
- Stability

3/26/2009 5:05:31 PM

k maybe not that short

security, meh yeah ok i get it. what makes it more usable and functional? xp has always been pretty stable for me.

3/26/2009 5:09:36 PM

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"Before I blow away my XP install and start running 7 on my HTPC, can anyone tell me if Windows 7 (out of the box) supports the ability to create RAID5 volumes? I'd prefer not to create one on a hex edited Windows XP."

Only if your raid controller has Windows 7 drivers (or vista drivers that aren't shitty). Microsoft has never, and likely will never support raid controllers OOB, but you can use non-floppy discs now to load the drivers

3/26/2009 5:13:37 PM

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"security, meh yeah ok i get it. what makes it more usable and functional? xp has always been pretty stable for me."

If you are asking this question, you haven't done your due diligence. Go pick a tech site of choice (ars) and read the writeup. Stability != usability or functionality.

3/26/2009 5:14:50 PM

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"Stability != usability or functionality."

yeah, i didn't say they were the same. the guy said "Security, Functionality, Usability, Stability" in that order and i was addressing them in that order.

anyway, i was just being lazy and hoping someone would just tell me so i didn't have to look it up

3/26/2009 5:18:26 PM

I just tried to re-do my Windows Experience Index and after sitting a while on the Testing CPU part, it tells me it can't complete because a device or driver reported an error.

But the computer is otherwise working perfectly fine. Then it disabled Aero Glass. I had to revert to a System Restore point (a painless procedure), and got Glass back. BUt, what a strange error...

3/26/2009 5:43:53 PM

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"Only if your raid controller has Windows 7 drivers (or vista drivers that aren't shitty). Microsoft has never, and likely will never support raid controllers OOB, but you can use non-floppy discs now to load the drivers "

I'm talking about Windows software based RAID, not hardware based.

3/26/2009 7:01:09 PM

^no idea, just try it and see.

3/26/2009 8:06:17 PM

Just installed on my mini 9. So far so good.

3/26/2009 11:42:28 PM

Is build 7057 actually the RC1, or is the actual RC1 being released in April/May?

3/27/2009 1:04:17 AM

^it's not a RC. It's an internal build from several weeks ago. Microsoft will announce the RC long before it leaks to the internet.

I'd recommend sticking to the public beta 7000 build. It's the only one with any windows update support, and interim builds aren't going to be anything more than a headache.

3/27/2009 1:50:35 AM

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"It's the beta driver. I would higly recommend avoiding beta video drivers fir nvidia and ati cards. They both have a lot of problems."

same problem with nvidia's latest windows 7 forceware driver 181.71 3/3/09

[Edited on March 30, 2009 at 9:35 AM. Reason : /]

3/30/2009 9:31:30 AM

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"In other news, we can finally do a simple change on the background image for the logon screen again:"

And it looks like you are limited to an image that is 256kb or smaller? I guess you can still customize what color the login screen will be.

3/30/2009 1:11:58 PM

Click to download the driver from the Intel Corporation website

I AM CLICKING, WHY WONT YOU DO ANYTHING?

3/31/2009 7:25:42 PM

All my adobe products just went all to hell..dammit. and none of the cleaning utilities from adobe seem to work on windows 7. i've been needing to reinstall anyways so it looks like i might be doing that later today/tonight.

ah well

4/2/2009 9:26:20 AM

got the script to work finally.

wonder if it'll help..bout to find out

4/2/2009 10:41:04 AM

mine froze up yesterday and I did a hard restart, now it won't start up normally or in safe mode. Any ideas?

4/2/2009 10:58:05 AM

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/02/04/a-closer-look-at-the-windows-7-skus.aspx

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"…for Windows 7, we are using a single image for all SKUs. This means the bits for all the editions are already on your computer if you are running Windows 7. With Windows Anytime Upgrade, users can unlock and upgrade to a different SKU much easier than before."

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"…in Windows 7, each SKU is a superset of the previous SKU. No features are lost on upgrade. "

4/6/2009 11:37:11 AM

window steam blog

4/6/2009 11:38:57 AM

so will my beta key activate the RC ?

4/20/2009 11:30:53 PM

my guess would be yes. Since there is no RC yet, it's just a guess.

http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/

See there for pre-emptive information about the coming RC (which, based on the public info I've been reading, is May 5th)

[Edited on April 21, 2009 at 1:00 AM. Reason : .]

4/21/2009 12:36:31 AM

I haven't checked WinBeta releases, but am I to assume this author is just misinformed?

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"Microsoft has released the long awaited release candidate build of their upcoming Windows 7 operating system according to a post on Windows 7 News. The post refers to a page on the Microsoft Partner Program website containing a download link for the Windows 7 release candidate that is currently only available to selected partners. It is however very likely that it will be activated for all partners soon. Interested users without a subscription to MSDN or Technet will have to wait until May 5 before they can download the release candidate as this is the date when it will be publicly released by Microsoft. The page containing the download link does not contain any additional information about the release candidate but the race has begun to post the first screenshots and information about the release candidate. It is very likely that the release candidate will leak to P2P networks (most likely originating from Russia or China as the other leaks came from those countries as well) soon and that many users will start downloading the new build from there. "

4/21/2009 7:54:09 AM

Everything I've read says May 5 everyone gets it and partners get it before then. Its not a stretch to imagine "selected partners" getting it before everyone.

However I wouldn't trust anything from p2p.

4/21/2009 9:23:35 AM

obviously i'd grab a copy that's barely trickled down from a WinBeta affil and not kazaa

4/21/2009 9:24:41 AM

Anyone here using windows 7 with a SSD?

4/21/2009 12:46:06 PM

well this makes a lot of sense.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/windows-7-starter-edition.html
"MS-Windows 7 started edition can only runs 3 apps at a time."
the excuse that Starter Edition is for Asia and Africa, and therefore has this limit, just doesn't make any sense

4/21/2009 3:29:31 PM

Considering that the started edition won't even be sold in North American markets, I can't bring myself to care what they do or do not do with it.

4/21/2009 3:32:22 PM