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revolther posted:How else can you max-out Crysis 2 on your 45 minute train ride to university? Pity your battery probably lasts only 23 minutes. Then again, any longer than that and your testicles would be baked.
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PopeOnARope posted:Trip Report: Windows 7 on a D830. I'm running almost identically spec'd (2.4GHz, rather than 2.0, and my 120GB drive is 7200, rather than 5400) D830. I run all day at full blast (It's my primary workstation at work) without the fan ever running on full. This is also with at least 2 apps running under XPM at all times.
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Nov 3, 2009 14:44
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I have an Acer Revo 330 that I'm using as an HTPC, but all of the extraneous poo poo that Acer has shoved on this computer is driving me insane. Is there a way I can install a fresh copy of Windows 7 by booting from a USB drive?
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Nov 3, 2009 15:05
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drat, I have been running the Retail version of Windows 7 Ultimate from MSDN since around Augast, and Its been pretty awesome. I never really had any problems with vista on my desktop, but I know Windows 7 seems to run allot faster. No complaints from me really at all. Just glad Windows 7 wasn't crap like Vista kinda was. Seems like all anyone did for that launch is complain. (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 3, 2009 15:27
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John4767 posted:drat, I have been running the Retail version of Windows 7 Ultimate from MSDN since around Augast, and Its been pretty awesome. I never really had any problems with vista on my desktop, but I know Windows 7 seems to run allot faster. No complaints from me really at all. Just glad Windows 7 wasn't crap like Vista kinda was. Seems like all anyone did for that launch is complain. It wasn't crap though. Most of the people complaining never used it.
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Nov 3, 2009 15:30
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Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but what's the recommended backup solution for a personal laptop? My girlfriend will be getting a new, Windows 7 equipped laptop and I want to make sure we've got sufficient backups of her work. I'd like something like the Time Machine on OSX, but all I really need is reliable, incremental backup to a network share.
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Nov 3, 2009 15:56
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Mathturbator posted:Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but what's the recommended backup solution for a personal laptop? Built into Windows 7. It'll harass you about setting up a backup in the system tray, just go with it.
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Nov 3, 2009 15:58
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Casao posted:Built into Windows 7. It'll harass you about setting up a backup in the system tray, just go with it. What exactly is this about? How big of a storage device do you need to backup? I'm assuming it's just talking about system files and not anything on an slave drive?
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Nov 3, 2009 16:08
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Johnny B. Goode posted:It wasn't crap though. Most of the people complaining never used it. Totally this! I ran vista on my home machine, as well as on my work laptop since it's launch. I didn't have a single complaint after SP1 was released. I adopted Win7 much faster, and have to completely agree that it works better than XP and Vista on identical hardware, even on stuff that could NOT handle Vista. The ONLY thing Vista did wrong was not work as well as 7 (or even xp) does on minimal hardware. MS did a smart thing and is practically giving 7 away to students and such, who are the perfect age group to not resist the change, and be advocates/installers for their parents and friend's machines. E: Also, I remember reading MONTHS ago that Win7 was supposed to support multiple video cards with different drivers, ala XP. I can't find a single success story of this in Win7, though, and is the only thing keeping one of my work machines on XP 
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Nov 3, 2009 16:15
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Johnny B. Goode posted:What exactly is this about? How big of a storage device do you need to backup? I'm assuming it's just talking about system files and not anything on an slave drive? http://lifehacker.com/5144757/first-look-at-windows-7s-backup-and-restore-center Defaults to system image + libraries, you can add or remove individual files as you choose.
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Nov 3, 2009 16:21
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AlexDeGruven posted:I'm running almost identically spec'd (2.4GHz, rather than 2.0, and my 120GB drive is 7200, rather than 5400) D830. I run all day at full blast (It's my primary workstation at work) without the fan ever running on full. This is also with at least 2 apps running under XPM at all times. So, as I had the CPU at redline and was loading it earlier, rightmark was throwing a loving fit about temps being at 90+ C. Time to re-apply thermal grease.
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Nov 3, 2009 16:31
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Johnny B. Goode posted:What exactly is this about? How big of a storage device do you need to backup? I'm assuming it's just talking about system files and not anything on an slave drive? Backup to dropbox. 2GB free online.
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Nov 3, 2009 16:47
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PopeOnARope posted:So, as I had the CPU at redline and was loading it earlier, rightmark was throwing a loving fit about temps being at 90+ C. Time to re-apply thermal grease. Yeah, definitely something not right there. I rarely ever hit the redline of utilization unless I'm doing flash streaming (outbound) or something similar.
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Anyone find a resolution for GPO .bat login scripts for drive mappings not working in Win 7? http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?s=b2bcafad22f1f2d063015b1c387a25bf&showtopic=721482&pid=590412788&st=0&#entry590412788 I could probably use group policy preference extensions instead of a login script, but that's currently what the policies are set for...
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Nov 3, 2009 17:33
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installed 7, and it went fine. was concerned because I had heard some horror stories about bad reg. keys. happy so far with it
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Nov 3, 2009 17:35
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ashby posted:installed 7, and it went fine. was concerned because I had heard some horror stories about bad reg. keys. happy so far with it 
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Nov 3, 2009 17:50
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AlexDeGruven posted:Yeah, definitely something not right there. I rarely ever hit the redline of utilization unless I'm doing flash streaming (outbound) or something similar. I decided to give my laptop a physical. Opened it up, cleaned off the CPU and GPU, and cleaned out the heatsink's fins. There was dust solid the way through, and the thermal pads looked pretty dry. Current operating temps have dropped 30c.
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Nov 3, 2009 18:01
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Having used VLC to solve my codec woes for so long, can someone recommend me a a good codec pack so I can go back to using WMP when I install my Windows 7 Pro later?
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^^^  for Shark007. There's a base package and then a 64bit add-on pack. Plays most everything thru WMP and MCE natively after installationUserNotFound posted:Totally this! I ran vista on my home machine, as well as on my work laptop since it's launch. I didn't have a single complaint after SP1 was released. I adopted Win7 much faster, and have to completely agree that it works better than XP and Vista on identical hardware, even on stuff that could NOT handle Vista. The ONLY thing Vista did wrong was not work as well as 7 (or even xp) does on minimal hardware. I swear, even after just those couple months, XP seemed totally retarded in the "little things" department and seemed almost unusable for my home/entertainment PC. Reinstalled Vista about a week later and didn't look back.
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osigas posted:Having used VLC to solve my codec woes for so long, can someone recommend me a a good codec pack so I can go back to using WMP when I install my Windows 7 Pro later? http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/ ?
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osigas posted:Having used VLC to solve my codec woes for so long, can someone recommend me a a good codec pack so I can go back to using WMP when I install my Windows 7 Pro later? Media Player Classic Home Cinema I usually snag it from http://www.xvidvideo.ru/
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Nov 3, 2009 18:17
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ashby posted:installed 7, and it went fine. was concerned because I had heard some horror stories about bad reg. keys. happy so far with it What the hell does this mean? "bad reg. keys"? Bad registration keys? Bad registry keys? What horror stories?
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Nov 3, 2009 18:44
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incoherent posted:Backup to dropbox. 2GB free online. This is a terrible idea. Dropbox is slow, it's a free service with no guarantees and it's designed to sync files between systems, not be used as a backup. osigas posted:Having used VLC to solve my codec woes for so long, can someone recommend me a a good codec pack so I can go back to using WMP when I install my Windows 7 Pro later? Seconding the Shark007 codec pack thing - it works, it's mindlessly simple. I use it for streaming via MCE to my 360. MPCHC is definitely the way to go for watching videos on the pc though.
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Xenomorph posted:What the hell does this mean? I think what he's referring to is that there are a lot of people using the upgrade media to upgrade, and some are finding that when they blow away the old windows installation that they can't activate 7 with their registration key. It can't find the old version of windows, or it thinks it's supposed to be for a full install, or something. It's really unclear what's happening because it's not well documented.
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thedavid posted:I think what he's referring to is that there are a lot of people using the upgrade media to upgrade, and some are finding that when they blow away the old windows installation that they can't activate 7 with their registration key. It can't find the old version of windows, or it thinks it's supposed to be for a full install, or something. It's really unclear what's happening because it's not well documented. I recommend staying away from Upgrades and even upgrade licenses. Upgrade installs can be a lot of trouble. Upgrade versions of an OS not only are not "full" licenses that can be easily transferred, but the only way to make them valid will invalidate your previous Windows license as well, preventing it from being used for another system.
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Xenomorph posted:I recommend staying away from Upgrades and even upgrade licenses. That would be why they cost less than any other license type, yes. Of course, Windows 7 has had so many deals and freebies available that the price difference was negligible, but as time goes on, I think you'll see that there is a price difference large enough to justify.
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Casao posted:This is a terrible idea. Dropbox is slow, it's a free service with no guarantees and it's designed to sync files between systems, not be used as a backup. Data backup is actually exactly what it's for. I've been using Dropbox for backups for over a year now with zero problems.
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Xenomorph posted:I recommend staying away from Upgrades and even upgrade licenses. Maybe if you did it the default way, but unless it's checking the key before formatting the partition via the manager on the CD it's not invalidating keys. I held out on installing until a week before the release, took the RTM, booted from the CD, formatted and installed without a key and put it in a week later after I received the upgrade CD and it went fine. I figured I would had to do the registry trick but didn't. I believe the invalidation bit came into being because, well yes, just because you upgraded does not mean that your old license is now usable elsewhere. It's a matter of legality, not that the old key is permanently banned.
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Ryokurin posted:Maybe if you did it the default way, but unless it's checking the key before formatting the partition via the manager on the CD it's not invalidating keys. I held out on installing until a week before the release, took the RTM, booted from the CD, formatted and installed without a key and put it in a week later after I received the upgrade CD and it went fine. I figured I would had to do the registry trick but didn't. I believe the invalidation bit came into being because, well yes, just because you upgraded does not mean that your old license is now usable elsewhere. It's a matter of legality, not that the old key is permanently banned. I don't think Windows has ever actually invalidated keys, merely that you lose the legal right to use them. Huge hassle to reinstall too, though with the imaging options available, it reduces this a lot. Apparently, despite Microsoft's saying otherwise, the self-Upgrade trick still works (buy an upgrade, install the proper edition without a key, put in the key and it counts as a valid upgrade license), so it's a way to save some money. Goes against the spirit of the license though. BOOM! DOCTA WATSON posted:Data backup is actually exactly what it's for. I've been using Dropbox for backups for over a year now with zero problems. I can only speak from personal experience, but when I used it, upload speeds were less than 10k/s, despite having a wide open connection that could do a lot more, the interface wasn't particularly attractive, and it didn't deal with multiple folders well. This could've all changed, but I'd still pick something using Amazon S3 for online backup.
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Casao posted:I can only speak from personal experience, but when I used it, upload speeds were less than 10k/s, despite having a wide open connection that could do a lot more, the interface wasn't particularly attractive, and it didn't deal with multiple folders well. This could've all changed, but I'd still pick something using Amazon S3 for online backup. I know this is pretty much just anectodal evidence vs. anecdotal evidence, but Dropbox uploads and downloads almost always max out my connection. I don't really get your complaint about an unattractive interface, since it's literally just the Windows shell, and folder management has never given me any headaches.
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BOOM! DOCTA WATSON posted:I know this is pretty much just anectodal evidence vs. anecdotal evidence, but Dropbox uploads and downloads almost always max out my connection. I don't really get your complaint about an unattractive interface, since it's literally just the Windows shell, and folder management has never given me any headaches. I used it right after it came out last October, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were changes. It's useful as a way to sync files across the web, but I don't see it as backup. I have gone over to the Live Mesh side though, so I'm basing what I want from a UI on that. Nice list that lets you show where/when changes were made, Devices list that shows when a computer is connected (and gives you a very nice RDP client which I think uses VPN?).
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Will Windows Live Mesh let you upload folders full of files now? I tried it out a while ago, but found it annoying lacking that function.
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revolther posted:Will Windows Live Mesh let you upload folders full of files now? I tried it out a while ago, but found it annoying lacking that function. I'm not entirely sure what you're saying, I've got it set to sync my Eye-Fi directory, which is a Folder which contains sub-folders which contain files, and it works fine. Is that what you were asking?
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Casao posted:This is a terrible idea. Dropbox is slow, it's a free service with no guarantees and it's designed to sync files between systems, not be used as a backup.
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Casao posted:I'm not entirely sure what you're saying, I've got it set to sync my Eye-Fi directory, which is a Folder which contains sub-folders which contain files, and it works fine. Is that what you were asking?
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PopeOnARope posted:Now that I've (finally) upgraded my work D830 to 4GB ram, I think it's time to load 7 x64. Is there anything I should know or watch out for?
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revolther posted:Will Windows Live Mesh let you upload folders full of files now? I tried it out a while ago, but found it annoying lacking that function. I have mesh back up my documents folder and several others. Its a great service. 5gb of space too!
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Also don't forget Windows Live SkyDrive. 25 Gigs of space on that. You have to do it manually and there's a 50 MB filesize limit but it's still pretty rad. Also, there's this little thing I just found that seems pretty rad if you use online services like this. Gladinet lets you mount online filestorage like google docs and skydrive as drives. Echophonic fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Nov 4, 2009 |
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Whats the best software to image my entire HD before an upgrade?
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