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MjolnirMan posted:Yeah, as has been demonstrated by a few people, 7 can be made to look almost identical cosmetically to Vista, and most of the underlying software is changed in only a positive direction (including, thank god, the HDD footprint). http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/12/30/workaround-to-run-windows-vista-bar-style-sidebar-in-windows-7/ Have this running on my laptop. Only glitch with it when you mouseover the desktop button in 7 you don't see them, but if you're like me and have it permannetly welded to the right of the screen anyway it won't make a blind bit of difference.
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Another problem. I cant get stereo mix to come up as a recording option, I'm familiar with the old trick in Vista, going into recording devices and selecting show disabled devices, but stereo mix still dont show up. Any ideas?
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Kynetx posted:I miss my quick-launch bar. I know I can "pin" poo poo, but the QL was better IMO. As has been discussed recently, you can easily use the quicklaunch bar on Win7... From this post forward. Thermopyle fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Aug 3, 2009 |
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Flex Mentallo posted:It's still there with show desktop icon and all. Just right click on the taskbar and go toolbars->new toolbar and point at %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch is shorter and easier to remember. 
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Aug 3, 2009 17:17
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codo27 posted:Another problem. I cant get stereo mix to come up as a recording option, I'm familiar with the old trick in Vista, going into recording devices and selecting show disabled devices, but stereo mix still dont show up. Any ideas? I had to install the drivers from realtek instead of using the built in windows one, Microsoft disabled stereo mix to plug the analog hole or something. Once i did that i was able to record with audacity again
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Aug 3, 2009 17:33
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Here's a tip for people, since Logitech don't have Win7 drivers yet and some people are having difficulty getting SetPoint to install, the installer bombs out half way through with no error message or anything. Use 7-zip to extract SetPoint472_x64.exe into a folder, then edit setup.ini and comment out the line "Conditions=OS_Future,OSCheck_xp_thru_70,OS_Bitness,BrowserCheck_IE5,SetPointVersionCheck,RebootChecking" You can then run setup.exe and SetPoint will install just fine and work without problems. also, all the people linking to articles on that mydigitallife site, I'd probably remove the links as that site hosts  with a link to such at the bottom of pretty much every article on there.
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Aug 3, 2009 18:25
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Retrograde posted:I had to install the drivers from realtek instead of using the built in windows one, Microsoft disabled stereo mix to plug the analog hole or something. Once i did that i was able to record with audacity again Yes, I got the Realtek drivers on the go and now it works fine. For some reason MediaMonkey decided not to work though, but I restarted it and now its fine, so nothing needs to be incinerated.
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Aug 3, 2009 18:45
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Xenomorph posted:What the gently caress is the point of the Win95 style Start Menu? Heh, you're an IT-tech and you go to the start menu and right-click Computer with your mouse? Try pressing Win+Pause, smartypants. Or Win+M to minimize all windows, Shift+Win+M to undo the minimize, or Win+D to toggle show desktop. CORRECT - hitting Win+R and then typing "inetmgr", "control" or "services.msc" is much, much faster than crawling with your mouse and right-clicking some icon in the start menu. You sound like someone who'd come off as an amateur to me.  We just want a drat option to revert to the old start menu, that's what the rage is about. It's simple and single column - multi-column is a huge, huge design flaw for keyboard users. I'll be first in line looking for old-school start menu emulators.
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Aug 3, 2009 19:56
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This site posted on the last page does actually contain a link to a classic start menu emulator for Windows 7
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Aug 3, 2009 20:00
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Pilsner posted:CORRECT - hitting Win+R and then typing "inetmgr", "control" or "services.msc" is much, much faster than crawling with your mouse and right-clicking some icon in the start menu. You sound like someone who'd come off as an amateur to me. Save yourself some extra keystrokes on Vista/7, mister! Skip the "R" and just hit Winkey. The Vista/7 search box pretty much replaces the Run dialog.
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Aug 3, 2009 20:20
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Any tips for someone building a new machine? Should I buy an upgradable copy of Vista, or would it be fine to skip Vista completely, just install the RC and then buy Win7 when it's released?
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Aug 3, 2009 21:00
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Does anyone know if the AMD Dual Core Optimizer is still recommended? I thought it was only needed in XP, but now I'm reading random things that recommend it for Vista & 7.
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Aug 3, 2009 21:06
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nrr posted:Any tips for someone building a new machine? Should I buy an upgradable copy of Vista, or would it be fine to skip Vista completely, just install the RC and then buy Win7 when it's released? Buy vista and get a free Win7 Upgrade? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116677 *edit* This will allow you to do an in-place upgrade without performing any hackery. The RC is Windows 7 Ultimate and unless you are getting ultimate when 7 comes out, you cannot do an in-place upgrade, you need to do a clean installation. Frabba fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Aug 3, 2009 |
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Aug 3, 2009 21:18
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Ok thanks, I was seeing if I could put that $100 into something else for the time being, and as an added bonus never have to deal with vista.
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Aug 3, 2009 21:35
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nrr posted:Ok thanks, I was seeing if I could put that $100 into something else for the time being, and as an added bonus never have to deal with vista. You can still download and run the RC in the meantime, but this would appear to be the most cost efficient method of getting Windows 7 unless that pre-order deal is still going on somewhere (is it?). Frabba v 2.3.77 Bugs Fixed - Now reads the OP
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Aug 3, 2009 21:42
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Ok I screwed something up and I need help. I was loving Windows 7 so much that I wanted to give my system partition more space so I converted it to dynamic, merged it with the rest of the disk, and then re-partitioned the disk giving more space to my system partition. I had no idea what I was doing but it seemed ok. Guess I was wrong. Anyway now when I try to boot up I get "ntldr is missing" and Windows won't boot. tried the repair tool from the install CD to no avail. Does anyone know if there is a way to use the Recovery Console to fix this? The system is perfectly fine I just can't get it to boot. All my data is safe on a different drive so a reinstall is fine, but I'm hoping for an elegant solution perhaps!
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Aug 3, 2009 21:45
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frabba posted:You can still download and run the RC in the meantime, but this would appear to be the most cost efficient method of getting Windows 7 unless that pre-order deal is still going on somewhere (is it?). hurrrr I didn't even think of not installing it. I've missed the boat on the pre-order deal for Canadia by the looks of things.
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Aug 3, 2009 22:24
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wang souffle posted:Does anyone know if the AMD Dual Core Optimizer is still recommended? I thought it was only needed in XP, but now I'm reading random things that recommend it for Vista & 7. Not needed. it just specifically fixed a timing issue in XP that could slow some programs down. I believe in Vista and 7 the only thing is really does is make sure the processor drivers are up to date which Microsoft periodically send updates for in windows update anyways.
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Aug 3, 2009 22:38
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Has anyone gotten CoreAVCDecoder.ax to install? I used run -> 'regsver32 CoreAVCDecoder.ax' but it spouts some nonsense error. If I can't install CoreAVC what will I use to watch HD video? 
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Aug 3, 2009 22:50
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Lum posted:This site posted on the last page does actually contain a link to a classic start menu emulator for Windows 7 Something tells me that's a joke. "Compatible with all 16 bit versions"
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Aug 3, 2009 22:53
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Mogomra posted:Has anyone gotten CoreAVCDecoder.ax to install? I used run -> 'regsver32 CoreAVCDecoder.ax' but it spouts some nonsense error. However feel free to check out ffdshow if you need a free h.264 codec.
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xamphear posted:Just run the installer of your legitimately purchased copy of CoreAVC. That's what I've been doing with my copy since the RC and it installs fine every time. I've actually been using a version from before they started charging for it, but I'll gladly lay down the money if it definitely plays nice with Windows 7. Thanks!
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Pilsner posted:Heh, you're an IT-tech and you go to the start menu and right-click Computer with your mouse? Try pressing Win+Pause, smartypants. Or Win+M to minimize all windows, Shift+Win+M to undo the minimize, or Win+D to toggle show desktop. Then I'm a 13-year amateur system admin that likes using a mouse.
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LooseChanj posted:Something tells me that's a joke. He said "link to" - their link to "other one" is a legit (pay!) program.
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LooseChanj posted:Something tells me that's a joke. It is a joke, but in the bottom right is a link to a company that sells classic start menu for win7.
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Pilsner posted:Heh, you're an IT-tech and you go to the start menu and right-click Computer with your mouse? Try pressing Win+Pause, smartypants. Or Win+M to minimize all windows, Shift+Win+M to undo the minimize, or Win+D to toggle show desktop.
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What is there in the classic start menu that isn't in the Vista/7 menu and that can't be accessed with a simple key combination?
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Mogomra posted:I've actually been using a version from before they started charging for it, but I'll gladly lay down the money if it definitely plays nice with Windows 7. Thanks! Since you didn't say you were using it, I'm just going to throw it out there. don't use windows media player to play the files if you are, because it will try to use the built in mediafoundation codecs over what you have installed. Other players will use directshow instead. You still should go ahead and buy the newer codecs however. That old one has graphical glitches and other problems, and as long as you have a recent Nvidia card you have CUDA acceleration.
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BOOM! DOCTA WATSON posted:What is there in the classic start menu that isn't in the Vista/7 menu and that can't be accessed with a simple key combination? Fear of change.
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Casao posted:Fear of change. But-but-but the new start menu steals valuable screen real-estate and it's never in the same order and-and-and indexing steals valuable CPU cycles so I turned it off with most of the other services like it says on this tweak site!!! Not representing the views of anyone here on this forum, necessarily, just repeating what I've seen on other forums
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What exactly is so valuable that you can't afford to miss it while the start menu is open for 3 seconds? If anything it takes up less screen real estate because it keeps all the Program Files stuff in the same window instead of popping up trees all over the screen.
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Mogomra posted:Has anyone gotten CoreAVCDecoder.ax to install? I used run -> 'regsver32 CoreAVCDecoder.ax' but it spouts some nonsense error. You need to run that command from an administrator command prompt
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c0burn posted:You need to run that command from an administrator command prompt He'll also need to take ownership of the msmpeg2vdec.dll file and rename it so the Microsoft codecs don't take precedence over CoreAVC, more info here: http://forum.corecodec.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1917
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So I'm forcing myself to work with the new taskbar without any form of quicklaunch or other quick access to shortcuts, and I feel like I'm getting used to it. I'm still not completely sold on the concept, as I REALLY don't like having all of my windows grouped. But I'm going to try it for a bit longer. My only real remaining complaint is WMP12. Not only is it horrifically slow, it doesn't save things the way I like them. I don't ask for a lot in my media players. I don't want any loving library or organization system to be constantly on top, as I do that myself (they're called directories). A playlist visible at all times when not in fullscreen mode (and the ability to sort and repeat said playlist). And navigation integration so that I can either right click on a directory full of files and hit "play with (X) player" or the ability to drag a list of files into it. I've tried several other players (including nerd favorite VLC - hated it), and other than Winamp, I can't find a player I like. Winamp has a LOOOONG standing bug of choppy fullscreen playback in Vista (or in this case Win7), so it's out, that leaves me with WMP12. The problem with WMP12 is that it's unbelievably loving slow. The rest of the computer is pretty darned snappy, but WMP12 loads slow and changes files even slower. This is in contrast to XP in which WMP11 did pretty much everything I wanted it to, and didn't fight me about it. Additionally, MS is clearly pushing the media library. I don't want, or loving NEED the library, but it seems like if I want to do anything at all wiht the new media player, I have to go through the media library to do it. Suggestions?
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Winamp for music, media player classic for movies. sorted.
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Does Windows 7 have any type of a built-in virtualization host? I'd like to run certain questionable (or one-time use) applications under a virtual machine so I'm protected and/or don't need to clutter the main operating system. I'm guessing that VMware works but that installs a whole bunch of extra drivers and it would be nice to have something supported natively by Win7...
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Vinlaen posted:Does Windows 7 have any type of a built-in virtualization host? Virtual PC is available on Professional and up.
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Ahhh, that looks perfect! Do you know if the virtual machines are isolated completely from the host system? Could files (viruses) be transferred between them? ...or can the virtual machine be completely locked down to isolate the two environments?
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scarymonkey posted:He'll also need to take ownership of the msmpeg2vdec.dll file and rename it so the Microsoft codecs don't take precedence over CoreAVC, more info here: That works, but you may end up breaking acceleration of those formats over remote desktop and a few other programs. There is a utility that works and shouldn't throw off any other programs that require mediafoundation in the process. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=146910&highlight=windows+7
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Vinlaen posted:Ahhh, that looks perfect! Anything is possible. I'm not sure just how isolated the virtual environment is, but a lot of malware will refuse to run if it detects it's inside a virtualized environment. Malware would also have to be coded to figure out which virt. env. it's running under and know of possible ways to break out.
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