oh boy, win7 is freezing up during sleep after it randomly reset my wireless power settings...again

9/28/2009 6:40:43 PM

I will say that one thing I dislike about Windows 7 (which has probably been mentioned before) is how I have the folders: Contacts, Desktop, Downloads, Favorites, and Links -- but also My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, My Videos.

Pick a naming convention

10/5/2009 12:25:55 PM

The libraries all have the convention of no My prefix, but the standard My Documents folder is included by default under the Documents library. The idea being the "Documents" contains "My Documents" plus any "Shared Documents" plus any document folders i've added to the library.

If your libraries are named My whatever idk thats wierd.

10/5/2009 1:04:03 PM

in place upgrade instead of new install?

10/5/2009 1:29:08 PM

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"The libraries all have the convention of no My prefix, but the standard My Documents folder is included by default under the Documents library. The idea being the "Documents" contains "My Documents" plus any "Shared Documents" plus any document folders i've added to the library. If your libraries are named My whatever idk thats wierd."

From memory: Somehow, that path is ACTUALLY C:\users\dakotahawkins\Documents, but if you're browsing to it from certain contexts it lies and tells you it's C:\users\dakotahawkins\My Documents.

10/5/2009 2:04:57 PM

is win7 a good idea on a netbook with 4/8gb SSD and 1/2gb ram? will it need moar space/ram

10/5/2009 2:18:13 PM

^ It's possible to get Win7 to install in volumes that small, but from what I've seen 16 GB is the comfortable minimum. YMMV.

10/5/2009 2:30:02 PM

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"From memory: Somehow, that path is ACTUALLY C:\users\dakotahawkins\Documents, but if you're browsing to it from certain contexts it lies and tells you it's C:\users\dakotahawkins\My Documents."

It's not lying to you. Documents is a library, My Documents is a folder. If you save something to "Documents", it's actually being saved to the default path for the library (which is normally My Documents).

The point of the whole library thing is to allow multiple file paths to be virtually indexed into a single path. By default, "Documents" is a composite of your documents and the public documents folder. if you have a homegroup, it will also include all the homegroup documents as well.

10/6/2009 12:00:07 AM

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"why does win7 keep resetting my wireless adapter's power management settings? it's been documented that win7 has problems with sleeping machines when the "allow this device to wake the computer" setting is activated, so i turned it off...win7 is being a bitch and keeps reactivating those settings and locking up my laptop fwiw, it's an intel 4965AGN card"

10/6/2009 7:41:09 AM

im going to go with "Shitty intel device drivers" for 800, Alex.

10/6/2009 10:50:23 AM

i've never had trouble with intel drivers before...this same laptop had vista on it and i didn't have trouble before the win7 switch

*shrug*

10/6/2009 12:01:37 PM

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"It's not lying to you. Documents is a library, My Documents is a folder. If you save something to "Documents", it's actually being saved to the default path for the library (which is normally My Documents). The point of the whole library thing is to allow multiple file paths to be virtually indexed into a single path. By default, "Documents" is a composite of your documents and the public documents folder. if you have a homegroup, it will also include all the homegroup documents as well. "

Mac OS X does that too. You can save searches as 'folders' but by default you have a All Documents, All Images, etc...regardless of what kind of document/image and where they're located. Hardly ever use it though

10/6/2009 12:59:36 PM

I think it'd be better if the Libraries were renamed to something like "All Documents" and "My Documents" became just Documents. It's silly that within your user profile half are named one way and half are named the other.

I understand the difference in functionality, I would just like a little consistency.

10/6/2009 1:22:55 PM

^Then just rename the library

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"i've never had trouble with intel drivers before...this same laptop had vista on it and i didn't have trouble before the win7 switch *shrug*"

I can't speak to wireless drivers, but I know Intel has had a hell of a time getting their video drivers to meet the quality bar for Win7. I still have horrible problems with Intel's video drivers (still using the Microsoft drivers instead)

10/6/2009 1:39:48 PM

Its "My documents" because they're the documents for your profile. Theres also the "public documents" folder which is accessable by all users. The naming convention makes it easy enough to tell that these are documents that are mine that others cant see, and these are the documents that everyone can see without the user having to understand the concept of user profiles and permissions. On top of that you have the Documents library to combine the two into one transparent container.

10/6/2009 1:43:45 PM

My biggest concern in this is that it will start sharing everythign, how easy it it to lock down a drive or your profile in win7

10/6/2009 1:52:01 PM

the ONLY thing i hate about windows 7 (and this was present to some degree in Vista as well) is the new way microsoft is handling volume activations.

you're REQUIRED to have the windows marker in your SLIC table if you want to do volume activation with a KMS. that means, for instance, that you couldn't activate windows 7 no matter what you do on, say, server class hardware despite having a perfectly valid client OS license for it.

10/6/2009 1:56:29 PM

^^Nothing gets shared with anyone unless you explicitly share it.

10/6/2009 2:31:24 PM

http://gizmodo.com/5375623/there-may-be-a-touch-of-anti+microsoft-bias-on-cnbc?autoplay=true

10/6/2009 8:52:37 PM

lawlz

10/6/2009 8:58:26 PM

that guy is a douche

apple fanboy-ism at its worst

also found this LOL: A Review of the Pirated Copy of Windows 7 I Bought On eBay

10/6/2009 8:58:47 PM

Quote :

"It's not lying to you. Documents is a library, My Documents is a folder. If you save something to "Documents", it's actually being saved to the default path for the library (which is normally My Documents). The point of the whole library thing is to allow multiple file paths to be virtually indexed into a single path. By default, "Documents" is a composite of your documents and the public documents folder. if you have a homegroup, it will also include all the homegroup documents as well."

Here's how it is on my system: If I browse to C:\users\dakotahawkins in windows explorer, a folder is listed called "My Music". If I open a command window and dir the same directory, a folder is listed called "Music" (it is also called "Music" if I ls from cygwin). The library name is "Music" and doesn't even include the Music/My Music folder in C:\users\dakotahawkins. If I (as I just did) browse to that folder in iTunes to tell it I want to make it my itunes content library or whatever, the folder you browse to is called "My Music" but then in the path is listed as "Music" when you're finished. I suspect it is ACTUALLY "Music" on the filesystem, but windows explorer for whatever reason is "helping" me by lying, but I guess it could be the other way around.

10/8/2009 12:01:47 AM

Can you run a PC with 3 operating systems? I already have XP and Vista on this one, I have 3 physical hard disks so potentially 7 could go on the 3rd one.

10/8/2009 12:03:38 AM

I sure can.

10/8/2009 12:13:56 AM

just installed on my laptop... a few items (may have been discussed already)

- hate how you cant have the sidebar on top of everything anymore... am I missing something?

- bit annoying having the Show Desktop button all the way on the right, but I am getting used to it

- the biggest gripe, I hate how it groups open windows next to their icon on the quick launch toolbar instead of having them all over to the right of the quick launch bar. Is there some way to change this?

10/9/2009 1:58:21 AM

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"- hate how you cant have the sidebar on top of everything anymore... am I missing something?"

Right click on any gadget and there's a "always on top" option.

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"- bit annoying having the Show Desktop button all the way on the right, but I am getting used to it"

Start key+D is always faster than trying to find the show desktop icon.

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"- the biggest gripe, I hate how it groups open windows next to their icon on the quick launch toolbar instead of having them all over to the right of the quick launch bar. Is there some way to change this?"

You could always re-enable the old quick launch bar and keep the new one too.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/888-quick-launch-enable-disable.html

10/9/2009 2:04:31 AM

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"Right click on any gadget and there's a "always on top" option. "

thats not the same... the gadget is in front of your maxmized window, so you cant see/click what is behind it... I want it where the maximized window goes right to the left of the gadgets and stops.

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"Start key+D is always faster than trying to find the show desktop icon. "

I never use keyboard shortcuts, so wouldnt use that



let me look into that link

10/9/2009 2:08:50 AM

Ah i see what you mean. Could always do it manually.

I thrive on keyboard short cuts. I don't use icons or explorer. Do almost everything with launchy. Can open programs, search google/wiki/amazon/any site you add to it, use gcalc. I can look up a rotten tomato review for a movie without even using the mouse. SOOO much faster. Almost but not quite replaces the start menu search.

10/9/2009 2:18:05 AM

what do you mean manually? like resizing the window each time? or do you mean somehow manually making a sidebar?


thanks for that link though, got my old QL back!

[Edited on October 9, 2009 at 2:21 AM. Reason : d]

10/9/2009 2:21:29 AM

Oh just like resizing the window. I guess it would really matter on a smaller screen. My windows usually aren't all the way up against the sidebar.

10/9/2009 2:25:33 AM

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"thats not the same... the gadget is in front of your maxmized window, so you cant see/click what is behind it... I want it where the maximized window goes right to the left of the gadgets and stops."

i've been using the vista sidebar since day one...i know i should just assume microsoft knows what's best for me, but in this case they can suck my balls

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/12/30/workaround-to-run-windows-vista-bar-style-sidebar-in-windows-7/

10/9/2009 8:15:18 AM

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"Take ownership and grant full control permissions for Administrators user group of the following files located in C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar folder:"

so how do I do this?

10/9/2009 1:30:32 PM

ah, sorry, i couldn't remember which guide i followed all those months ago...this one's better (i used method two, but method one is probably faster and easier)

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/587-vista-windows-sidebar-reinstate-windows-7-a.html

10/9/2009 1:48:49 PM

still cant get the permission thing to work

10/9/2009 2:47:05 PM

It's because you touch yourself.

10/9/2009 3:01:45 PM

^^ the whole process took less than two minutes for me from start to finish...not sure what's causing you problems, so i might have to go with ^

10/9/2009 3:22:05 PM

Do I have to call Microsoft to get the $29.99 student edition of Windows 7? Can't I order it online somehow?

EDIT: I see that I can get Home Premium from Digitalriver.com for $29.99, but what about Professional?

[Edited on October 9, 2009 at 9:20 PM. Reason : ]

10/9/2009 9:14:15 PM

pretty certain you don't. google win 7 digital river student discount or something like that..

[Edited on October 9, 2009 at 9:21 PM. Reason : http://windows7.digitalriver.com/store/mswpus/en_US/DisplayHomePage]

10/9/2009 9:21:34 PM

Well, yes, I saw that. I was wondering if that somewhere applied to Professional as well.

Oh well, I guess I can live with Home Premium. After all, who needs Encrypting File System, Remote Desktop Host, Location Aware Printing, Presentation Mode, Windows Server Domain joining, and Windows XP mode?

10/9/2009 9:27:32 PM

TORRENTS SON

TORRENTS.

10/9/2009 9:38:26 PM

I'd rather get the ancillary benefits of a legal copy when it's only $29.99.

10/9/2009 10:11:54 PM

There's a yellow box before you select 32 or 64 bit version of home premium where you can get the pro version instead.

10/9/2009 10:58:01 PM

"Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade (Details)
* Electronic Download"

10/9/2009 11:16:41 PM

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"^^ the whole process took less than two minutes for me from start to finish...not sure what's causing you problems, so i might have to go with ^ "

I did the take ownership thing, and it shows up as a right click option now, but when I copy over the file it says it needs permission still, so I clicked the take ownership again, and I went under properties to give myself access to change those files but the check box next to my name is grayed out

10/9/2009 11:38:31 PM

^^^ What site is this? And does that include the student discount also?

10/10/2009 5:07:06 PM

Same site:

http://windows7.digitalriver.com/store/mswpus/en_US/DisplayHomePage

10/10/2009 5:57:05 PM

Feels good, man.

10/10/2009 6:21:24 PM

I know this isnt too logical, but mine seems to be working better the more I use it... it was kind of slow the first day or so when it came to opening programs, switching programs etc. Doing much better now

10/10/2009 7:56:08 PM

Can I go from Windows XP Home to Windows 7 Professional using the "Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade?"

I just want to make sure before I pull the trigger on this.

10/10/2009 9:08:20 PM

not promising anything but I read an article by a guy that installed it on 11 different PCs and I think at least one of them was that configuration

10/10/2009 10:58:23 PM