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LooseChanj posted:This bugs the hell out of me, especially when xscreensaver provides me with endless entertainment on 'nix. Why the hell does windows have poo poo for screensavers? Because you should have your display go to sleep instead of showing a screensaver!
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Aug 15, 2009 15:52
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GreenNight posted:7 is loads faster than Vista, I'm glad they didn't include tons of extra poo poo. Why would having more screensavers, or anything else that is only on disk until the user decides to use it, make the OS load slower?
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Aug 15, 2009 16:11
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poo poo, if the worst thing about 7 is lack of screensavers ( ), then MS did a pretty good job.
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Aug 15, 2009 16:27
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Mensur posted:yes, it was sarcasm Anyway, I installed Windows 7 RC on my dad's netbook after the XP install stopped shutting down properly and I couldn't get it sorted - and holy poo poo, it runs well! This isn't a Rolls Royce of netbooks either - only 1GB RAM, but it pretty much runs on par with XP. Even has Aero functioning fully. Colour me impressed.
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LooseChanj posted:This bugs the hell out of me, especially when xscreensaver provides me with endless entertainment on 'nix. Why the hell does windows have poo poo for screensavers? I've been insulted before for using Screensavers.
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Aug 15, 2009 17:00
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Xenomorph posted:I've been insulted before for using Screensavers. What the gently caress is wrong with you, using screensavers, you idiot! Jesus Christ, some people and their using loving screensavers! gently caress. I think they're nice :3
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Aug 15, 2009 17:30
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Stuntman Mike posted:I think they're nice :3 They're a waste of energy, especially given that many LCDs wake up from powersave within a second or two.
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Aug 15, 2009 17:36
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At my job I was told to set group policy to turn off monitors after 10 minutes of no activity due to power savings.
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Aug 15, 2009 17:42
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-Dethstryk- posted:I'm having a rare but odd problem that I'm curious to see if anyone else has seen. drat you. drat YOU. I haven't had a BSOD on Win7 yet. A couple of hours after I read this post of yours, I had a BSOD with the exact same symptoms (except I don't remember what the actual error message was). Windows would just kind of sit there with no hard drive activity after I typed in my password. A single boot in to safe mode fixed it.
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Aug 15, 2009 18:48
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Why doesn't Windows Explorer show how much free space the drive has?  Is it possible to enable it?
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Aug 15, 2009 20:44
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PirateBob posted:Why doesn't Windows Explorer show how much free space the drive has? Where would you like it to show that information? It already does at the Computer view...
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Thermopyle posted:Where would you like it to show that information? It already does at the Computer view... It should show in the status bar thingy at the bottom while browsing any folder. Or at least when browsing the drive root.
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Aug 15, 2009 20:51
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Thermopyle posted:drat you. drat YOU.  For reference, I didn't have a single stability issue with 7100 aside from tinkering around with drivers. edit: oh yeah, the last lockup somehow resulted in all my login cookies/saved passwords getting deleted, yet my browser history remains untouched 
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Aug 15, 2009 21:31
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BOOM! DOCTA WATSON posted:I honestly can't imagine anyone not being able to figure out how the taskbar works after about 90 seconds. I thought, based on 10 minutes with the beta, I would hate it. Within 30 minutes of installing the RTM, it was the most natural thing in the world.
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Aug 15, 2009 21:36
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I've had Windows XP since about 2002. The same XP install. It's been repaired, moved and been through Intel->AMD->Intel, but I've never reinstalled. Now I've gone to Win7. It's pretty darn nice. Just wondering, the little preview of the window you get (Aero Peek?), is there anyway to detach this and put it somewhere else, always on? So I can have a little WoW preview window in the corner of Firefox that I can keep an eye on.
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Aug 15, 2009 22:32
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Armourking posted:I've had Windows XP since about 2002. The same XP install. It's been repaired, moved and been through Intel->AMD->Intel, but I've never reinstalled. http://ontopreplica.codeplex.com/
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Aug 15, 2009 22:37
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c0burn posted:http://ontopreplica.codeplex.com/
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Armourking posted:I've had Windows XP since about 2002. The same XP install. It's been repaired, moved and been through Intel->AMD->Intel, but I've never reinstalled. Same here. It's almost sad to finally let it go. c0burn posted:http://ontopreplica.codeplex.com/ Lakitu7 fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Aug 15, 2009 |
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Aug 15, 2009 23:22
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I'm having a really strange problem where nothing is showing up on my desktop, though things should. I have no recycle bin, none of the files there. Nada. However, there are items in my User/Desktop folder. If I move stuff to the actual desktop they show up in the window of the desktop folder but not on the desktop itself. I guess it's time to reinstall?
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Aug 15, 2009 23:23
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You people who don't like screensavers are dead on the inside. 
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Aug 15, 2009 23:28
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Craptacular! posted:I'm having a really strange problem where nothing is showing up on my desktop, though things should. I have no recycle bin, none of the files there. Nada. right click desktop -> view -> show desktop icons
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Aug 15, 2009 23:38
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PirateBob posted:It should show in the status bar thingy at the bottom while browsing any folder. Or at least when browsing the drive root. I miss the old status bar, that's one of the few issues I have with 7. Even if you turn on the status bar now, it doesn't show the same details XP's status bar did, and it's completely redundant with the details pane anyway... which still doesn't show what I want, i.e. total size of the files in that folder when nothing is selected. I sent a couple of feedback notes in the beta with this request, but I guess I'm not important enough.
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Aug 15, 2009 23:40
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Just chiming in to give a big Thank You to R-Type for giving me direction in finding drivers for my wireless card! The links he posted didn't work, but I did some digging after discovering the chipset manufacturer, and this website: http://www.phildawg.com/?p=50 had drivers that worked! Anyone that has a linksys WMP54G V4 (NOT 4.1) and wants to use it with Windows 7 64 bit, I highly recommend getting the drivers from the link on that site.
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Aug 15, 2009 23:54
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I searched the most recent 6 pages -- can someone confirm my reading of the OP that I'll need Ultimate if I want to boot from VHDs? Pro won't do this?
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As far as screensavers go, electricsheep > *
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A couple pages ago there were some users having issues with Nvidia board NICs. I had this same issue today after installing the RTM. Instead of using the Win7 drivers from Nvidia, I'm using their Vista x64 driver and it works fine so far. I'm not sure why, as I bet they are the same exact thing.
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On the screensaver tip, is there ANY free Windows clone of OS X's Mosaic screensaver?Joe Don Baker posted:A couple pages ago there were some users having issues with Nvidia board NICs. I had this same issue today after installing the RTM. Instead of using the Win7 drivers from Nvidia, I'm using their Vista x64 driver and it works fine so far. I'm not sure why, as I bet they are the same exact thing. My problem went away when I switched my local network IP from a DHCP-issued IP to a static one (which I had done on Vista for port-forwarding and hadn't done it in 7 yet)
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I just realized I may be hosed, but I want to make sure. I currently have 2 OS' installed - the w7 beta, and Vista Ultimate. I have w7 home edition preordered, but I can't install it, can I?
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frunksock posted:I searched the most recent 6 pages -- can someone confirm my reading of the OP that I'll need Ultimate if I want to boot from VHDs? Pro won't do this? You need Ultimate to do this.
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The Wonder Weapon posted:I just realized I may be hosed, but I want to make sure. I currently have 2 OS' installed - the w7 beta, and Vista Ultimate. I have w7 home edition preordered, but I can't install it, can I? Yeah you can, you just have to do a custom install from your Vista Ultimate version. The upgrade key will work even though you have to wipe out your old Vista install.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:On the screensaver tip, is there ANY free Windows clone of OS X's Mosaic screensaver? Yeah? I'll have to try that out.
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chizad posted:As far as screensavers go, electricsheep > * I would love to get in on this screen saver, but their loving server went down a couple weeks ago and hasn't come back up yet, so anyone who doesn't already have it can't run it.
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Looks like my networking problem from the earlier Windows 7 build was never addressed - I'll ask away and maybe someone has found a decent solution... I have a Belkin Wireless N adapter (F5D8053). While this adapter doesn't have any drivers that are compatable with Windows 7, it does work with other, similar drivers. However, I can't seem to connect to my router - it gets stuck at "Identifying..." and "Limited Access". A few Google searches pulled up some interesting ideas about disable IPv6, but even that doesn't seem to do the trick. Any ideas?
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kapinga posted:Yeah you can, you just have to do a custom install from your Vista Ultimate version. The upgrade key will work even though you have to wipe out your old Vista install. What exactly does this mean? I have to wipe the drive, install the full version of home premium 7, and then put in the upgrade key? Or does it mean that I can put the w7 cd into vista, and it will install, but it will do a full wipe and install instead of just an upgrade install?
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mfaley posted:Looks like my networking problem from the earlier Windows 7 build was never addressed - I'll ask away and maybe someone has found a decent solution... http://www.belkin.com/support/article/?lid=en&pid=F5D8053&aid=8343&scid=223 These don't work?
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The Wonder Weapon posted:What exactly does this mean? I have to wipe the drive, install the full version of home premium 7, and then put in the upgrade key? Or does it mean that I can put the w7 cd into vista, and it will install, but it will do a full wipe and install instead of just an upgrade install? The latter.
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fishmech posted:http://www.belkin.com/support/article/?lid=en&pid=F5D8053&aid=8343&scid=223 These don't work? Unfortunately not - en error comes up saying that "This operating system isn't supported". When I try to run it in compatibility mode with a previous OS, it doesn't recognize the adapter.
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c0burn posted:http://ontopreplica.codeplex.com/ This is awesome, thank you for the heads up! LooseChanj posted:You people who don't like screensavers are dead on the inside. Seriously! Where would we be without the AfterDark series, and Johnny Castaway? In a world I would not want to live in, that is for sure.
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