Yea ill see if I can get it to reach, its probably a good 25 feet of cord away. I found this tool for determining your computer's upgrade ability to windows 7, and everything checked out except the internal ethernet card, which it mentioned I might need to get an updated driver for. The internal card is over a year old, and was not the latest and greatest when I got it, so I am probably going to end up buying a new one. My current card does have an antenna, but its not quite as elaborate as the one you pictured there.

8/26/2009 2:03:23 PM

Quote :

"^^You need to set the drive as a removeable drive in your disk management on 7."

Awesome, thanks

edit: is there a way to make it removable in XP?

[Edited on August 26, 2009 at 2:10 PM. Reason : .]

8/26/2009 2:05:34 PM

Quote :

" That's why adding network drives to libraries (non-indexed drives to an indexing view) is difficult"

uh oh. i'm pretty sure i've done this. it's not gonna fubar my network drive is it?

8/26/2009 2:22:25 PM

hasn't yet but it's not straightforward to add one, by default they don't show up as things you can add to a library (unless they're running windows home server or whatever)

8/26/2009 2:44:01 PM

^^It won't fubar the network drive, but it can cause weirdness in Windows Search/Indexing if the drive mapping ever changes (ip changes, hostname changes) or if the drive is offline while you are using the library referencing the drive.

Local drives have indexing on the drive itself.
Network drives are mapped to local drive space, and so indexing is on the local system drive.

That's why it's not a good idea to map network drives to libraries. If you want to do it "right" and "safe" you should have a home server for the network drives that does it's own indexing and then use WHS + Homegroup for the sharing.

8/26/2009 6:50:18 PM

who needs google when we already have Noen

8/26/2009 9:17:35 PM

anyone had any issues running iTunes on Windows 7? I downloaded the latest iTunes, but when I plug in my 3Gs the iPhone stuff doesn't show up in iTunes, even though the Windows autoplay thing pops up for the iPhone...

8/26/2009 10:27:01 PM

no problems here (usually)

try restarting? i've had that issue before when some service got turned off i believe. try restarting though if you haven't already

[Edited on August 26, 2009 at 10:28 PM. Reason : a]

8/26/2009 10:28:33 PM

x64 so far so good

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

8/27/2009 12:51:11 AM

Quote :

"Run a cord to your existing router to figure out whether that is the problem first or not. If the issues go away, get a better internal wireless card. I have the Linksys WMP300N because I needed an external antenna, it works great:"

saw this earlier:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124347&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL082709S&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL082709S-_-WirelessAdapters-_-L7B-_-33124347

$19 for it. looks to be a pretty good wireless card

8/27/2009 8:18:45 AM

Quote :

"That's why it's not a good idea to map network drives to libraries. If you want to do it "right" and "safe" you should have a home server for the network drives that does it's own indexing and then use WHS + Homegroup for the sharing."

While I'm sure there are many valid technical reasons why indexing a network drive would be difficult, I still think this is completely ridiculous. I mean, the drive never moves. It's there as long as the network is up, so I don't see why my computer can't index it and store the index locally if I want it to. I don't want to have to buy the exact same device to do the same job just because I am now required to use something with windows home server (imho all the machines that come with whs have way too much power for the job of holding files).

8/27/2009 11:10:02 AM

^^ i bought one this morning

8/27/2009 11:11:29 AM

bc of my link or otherwise?

8/27/2009 11:59:14 AM

your link. i was in the market for a good internal wifi-n card anyways. thx

8/27/2009 12:02:47 PM

I'm in the market for Noen to admit it kinda sucks for a modern operating system to require a sympathetic OS for simple networking to act right.

8/27/2009 12:22:56 PM

^^ It did not say specifically, but do you know otherwise if it supports 64-bit OS? I have a feeling the 64-bit aspect is what is causing me problems as I downloaded the Vista drivers for my current wireless adapter and am still getting the same problems.

8/27/2009 12:59:22 PM

Quote :

"I mean, the drive never moves. It's there as long as the network is up, so I don't see why my computer can't index it and store the index locally if I want it to. I don't want to have to buy the exact same device to do the same job just because I am now required to use something with windows home server (imho all the machines that come with whs have way too much power for the job of holding files)."

The drive can move at any time. The problem is, with network drives, the impetus is on the USER to determine what drive belongs with what index (since there's no direct access to the drive). Anything causes the drive's mapping to change, there's no way to guarantee data integrity for the index.

As for the WHS argument, HP LX195 is Atom powered and 200 bucks with a 640gb drive. That's less than the cost of most NAS barebones. And you aren't "required" to do it. As you've already pointed out, it's completely possible to use any vanilla network drive. WHS is recommended if you want to use the full power of indexing for search and media applications, which I don't think is unreasonable at all.

8/27/2009 1:29:29 PM

First of all, it's $300 on newegg, "on sale", only 1 bay, and only 640 GB. For the same $300 I can get a 2TB MyBook NAS, or for $179 I can get the same 1TB version I have, which is awesome, except for the fact that windows hates it now.


Anyway,

Let's say I install a new internal HDD for data. Now let's say I take it out for some reason and modify it with another computer, or maybe I don't modify it but I just disable it and re-enable it sometime in the future. How does Windows know that the index is consistent? Why is that different from telling Windows to somehow index a network drive? Is that unsupported?

And it's becoming less possible to do it anyway, because explorer is crashing all the time when I'm doing something in a folder that's mapped to the NAS.

[Edited on August 27, 2009 at 2:09 PM. Reason : Even with more thorough searching, I don't see where you found that HP for $200.]

8/27/2009 2:06:31 PM

lol $29 will buy you the full upgrade for OSX

if Windows didn't make 5 different versions and tier them maybe they wouldn't be so vilified.

8/27/2009 10:02:52 PM

rrrright

you might $29 for OS X but how much of a premium up front did you pay for apple's hardware?

yeah. more than 29 fucking dollars

shut the fuck up.

8/27/2009 10:04:41 PM

we're way past the OSX only on Macs/Windows only on PCs point so that discussion is moot

8/27/2009 10:05:56 PM

Unless you have the next-to-last version of osx. Then they try to sell you the same thing for more money. http://www.pcworld.com/article/170898/tiger_users_can_get_a_cheap_upgrade_to_snow_leopard.html

Edit: plus early reviews have it sounding more like a buggy service pack than a serious upgrade.

[Edited on August 27, 2009 at 10:54 PM. Reason : .]

8/27/2009 10:52:02 PM

Quote :

"First of all, it's $300 on newegg, "on sale", only 1 bay, and only 640 GB. For the same $300 I can get a 2TB MyBook NAS, or for $179 I can get the same 1TB version I have, which is awesome, except for the fact that windows hates it now."

It's $200 at hp.com with the coupon. Durrrr. You wanted low power, I gave you low power. It's not all that awesome if it doesn't do what you need it to.

8/28/2009 1:08:04 AM

with what coupon? It's $399 regular price on hp.com, 50% off would be a pretty good deal I guess - though you'd still get relative crap compared to the mybook.

8/28/2009 10:31:21 AM

can't get a resolution higher than 1280 x 800 now that ive upgraded to W7, HALP

Asus m50sa
ati hd 3650 1024mb

it says "generic monitor" so maybe that's the problem but not sure how to fix

8/28/2009 10:33:03 PM

video driver installed correctly? install the drivers even if it shows up the correct name in device manager

8/28/2009 10:34:08 PM

yeah i used old drivers when i upgraded plus new ones just came out for windows update just now and no difference

8/28/2009 10:38:26 PM

i've never seen the "generic monitor" thing to be the issue. i'd still install the drivers again anyways.

8/28/2009 10:39:35 PM

its not actually terrible, its just when i watch HD trailers i have to resize

i can't say i really even need the extra resolution so im not gonna bother

[Edited on August 28, 2009 at 10:41 PM. Reason : thanks anyway]

8/28/2009 10:40:55 PM

ah i found out what the problem is, forgot it's "Mobility" Radeon 3650 which makes all the difference and needs a workaround from http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php

i actually remember doing it a year ago now

[Edited on August 28, 2009 at 10:57 PM. Reason : eureka! fixed]

8/28/2009 10:47:31 PM

sorry, haven't been reading this thread - is avg free still the best/only-one-that-works antivirus i should be running on win7?

[Edited on August 29, 2009 at 11:51 AM. Reason : installed it when the RC came out to the public]

8/29/2009 11:50:46 AM

there was some AV talk on page 20

8/29/2009 11:56:52 AM

thx, ESET it is.

8/29/2009 11:59:06 AM

DEAR NOEN,

WHAT ABOUT THIS 50% OFF COUPON FOR HP.COM?

WARMEST REGARDS,

DAKOTA_MAN

8/29/2009 12:41:00 PM

^^ESET is your best option.

8/29/2009 12:58:11 PM

yah, $40 is a bit too much - gonna wait for a deal to come out

8/29/2009 1:05:48 PM

thought they had a free trial or something

8/29/2009 2:52:45 PM

I'm using AVG, and it's OK I guess - I'm not sure how I'd tell, it's not hogging resources. The only thing I changed was to turn off the stupid link checker or whatever. I have ESET at work, and it's awesome, I just don't wanna pay the $ right this minute.

8/29/2009 4:45:25 PM

avg slowed my shit down waaay too much. fuck that. i'm back to using nothing.

8/29/2009 4:52:49 PM

This is what it shows for me. Doesn't seem too bad, but it's not really doing anything.

8/29/2009 5:56:33 PM

it never showed it using much in terms of resources but for some reason it took for f'ing ever to access a lot of things when i had it turned on. this was back in the win 7 beta days though if i remember correctly. it may be better now.

8/29/2009 6:17:56 PM

Finally made the move. The install hung for about 5 minutes 'unpacking files... 0%' which made me think I'd run into all kinds of problems, but the install finished in about 20-25 minutes.

Trying to catch up with installing all my software.

8/29/2009 11:07:28 PM

ESET is like 10 bucks all the time on newegg

8/29/2009 11:40:29 PM

Right now I'm having trouble installing Checkpoint Secureclient. I install, reboot, and then the service gives an error saying that one of the dependencies is missing or marked for deletion. Basically this:

http://www.sevenforums.com/software/18789-checkpoint-securemote-windows-7-64-bit-workaround.html

May have to slink back to windows xp.

8/30/2009 12:13:02 AM

meh, stuff like that is why i just use 32 bit.

8/30/2009 11:27:25 AM

Does ultramon work in win7? Any other alternatives?

8/30/2009 6:36:14 PM

ultramon beta works fine

there's an alternative i posted a few (possibly many) pages back but it kept taking up crazy resources for some reason so i stopped using it

8/30/2009 6:37:03 PM

Anyone have trouble with logmein on win7? I installed it just fine and i can see the computer on logmein.com but it keeps saying unknown log in/bad user name.

-nvm figured it out.

unlike vista/xp you have to preface the user name with the computer name

i.e. computername\username

[Edited on August 31, 2009 at 12:15 AM. Reason : .]

8/31/2009 12:12:19 AM

for the login, the user name needs to be like machinename\username

[Edited on August 31, 2009 at 12:15 AM. Reason : yep]

8/31/2009 12:15:40 AM

Has anyone noticed a slight lag when opening up windows? Like it's an aero issue. When you open a window it goes through some visible skips while opening. It's very very subtle but Vista was very fluid. I don't know what's the deal.

This issue:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKNj_90E_PI

Not as bad as he has it, but still slightly noticeable.

-Also no matter what i do i can't get the monitors to switch from 59 hertz to 60 hertz. It's like they're stuck on 59.

Quote :

"Sorry to tell you this but it's caused by a change in the way Windows 7 reads the EDID information from your monitor. If your monitor reports that it is actually running at say 59.94 hz Windows 7 rounds that DOWN to the nearest hz. Currently there is no fix for this. For those of you who don't know, some games have hard coded refresh rates and 59hz isn't one of them. Some other games that are reported to be affected are World in Conflict and Code of Honor "

Grrr.

Guess i'll just have to deal with stuff like this until the drivers get better.

[Edited on August 31, 2009 at 12:38 AM. Reason : .]

8/31/2009 12:25:26 AM