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Roman posted:Really liking how the taskbar being on the side of the screen no longer feels half-assed. New taskbar rules. My only gripe is the positioning of the start menu. When you do it from the bottom-left, it feels natural where it sits, and doesn't overlap anything. When you do it from the side it does (from what I can remember). If that fixed itself, it'd all be sweet and I'd likely swap to a side taskbar once I get a bigger monitor than a 17" LCD 
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May 19, 2009 01:46
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It seems the first promotion to get Windows 7 Ultimate Edition is through Microsoft's Windows Feedback Program. Anyone who signed up for the Windows 7 Beta Feedback Program is automatically able to sign up for the Windows 7 RC Feedback Program (even if you didn't actively participate in the Beta program). If you use the RC for at least four months and allow Microsoft to monitor your PC usage with their Windows Feedback software, you can get a the Windows 7 Ultimate DVD for free 3 months after the OS is released commercially.
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May 19, 2009 02:18
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ThermoPhysical posted:It seems the first promotion to get Windows 7 Ultimate Edition is through Microsoft's Windows Feedback Program. Where are you getting this from? I'm looking at their website and can't find anything about it.
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May 19, 2009 02:37
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:Where are you getting this from? I'm looking at their website and can't find anything about it. Got it in my e-mail box a few days ago, actually. I'm not sure why it's not up on their site yet.
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May 19, 2009 03:10
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Found this in regards to the last few posts: http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/05/16/windows-feedback-program-participants-can-get-windows-7-gift Note that Windows Feedback Program is not the same as "ran the windows 7 beta and pressed the feedback button sometimes."
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May 19, 2009 03:16
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This may be the wrong place to ask, but has anyone managed to successfully get Ubuntu 9.04 running under virtual PC in Windows 7? I can get it installed with the " vga=791 noreplace-paravirt " trick but once installed I can't get it to come up. Edit: I just successfully got xubuntu running. I guess this will have to do. I know very little about linux and wanted something to play around with. Treytor fucked around with this message at 04:08 on May 19, 2009 |
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May 19, 2009 03:55
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Treytor posted:This may be the wrong place to ask, but has anyone managed to successfully get Ubuntu 9.04 running under virtual PC in Windows 7? I got it running on my Dell e1405 laptop without any special settings. Win 7 x64 on a core 2 duo processor. I haven't tried yet on my desktop. edit: poo poo I didn't read your post, I used virtual box. astr0man fucked around with this message at 04:18 on May 19, 2009 |
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May 19, 2009 04:07
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Treytor posted:This may be the wrong place to ask, but has anyone managed to successfully get Ubuntu 9.04 running under virtual PC in Windows 7?
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May 19, 2009 04:12
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Strabo4 posted:Sounds like Home Premium will be more than adequate for the average user. Good job Microsoft for not making this a confusing fuckup of features. How is Windows 7 Home Premium different than Vista Home Premium? It's Windows 7 Professional that is a step up compared to Vista Business. Vista Business was lacking features Vista Home Premium had. Windows 7 Professional is an actual upgrade to Home Premium.
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This is probably a dumb question regarding installation but oh well. When I try to shrink the C:\ drive to make the partition to dual boot 7, it only allows me to shrink it by the 1.6 GB. Defragging and empty space consolidation didn't do anything. I have over 100 GB free and something like 50GB of consolidated empty space. Anyone know what the issue is?
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How well does Steam work on the Release Candidate? I remember everytime in Vista I exited out of a game, it said HL2.exe crashed.
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Does anyone know if Nvidia will ever allow the user to horizontal span monitors which is supposedly impossible from what they say even though ATI has no problem doing it in Vista?
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May 19, 2009 05:06
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Logostomp posted:How well does Steam work on the Release Candidate? I remember everytime in Vista I exited out of a game, it said HL2.exe crashed.
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Logostomp posted:How well does Steam work on the Release Candidate? I remember everytime in Vista I exited out of a game, it said HL2.exe crashed. If you can wait a number of hours, I'll test it tonight when I get home and report back, as I have TF2/HL2/CS:S/etc installed and was getting the same bug in Vista.
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May 19, 2009 05:09
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osigas posted:Is it wrong that I'm seriously considering using Windows Live Messenger and Mail and my IM and email client on Win7?! The programs have been dead to me all through XP and Vista thanks to Miranda/Digsby and Thunderbird but they look so much sexier now, I think Windows 7 is actually making me feel like programs shouldn't just be functional and a bit drab a la Mozilla's offerings.
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May 19, 2009 05:09
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Logostomp posted:How well does Steam work on the Release Candidate? I remember everytime in Vista I exited out of a game, it said HL2.exe crashed. That was a Valve/Steam/Source issue. They (Valve) fixed a few weeks back I believe.
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wolrah posted:Huh? Mine installed perfectly without any compatibility mode. The only problem I'm having with my G15 is the same one I had on Vista, LCDStudio won't launch on boot as there's some paranoia mode in x64 versions that prevents anything "needing" UAC from launching as a startup app and I can't find a workaround like a whitelist. You can actually set it to launch via the task scheduler. I have process explorer running like that.
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So I used Windows 7 x86 for a while on my desktop before the RC, but since formatting and installing the 64-bit RC I've had nothing but problems. Has anyone else encountered these? If I connect to my wireless router, the router no longer accepts wireless connections and generally stops all wireless functions until it is restarted. If I connect the computer to the router with the ethernet port, the entire computer freezes and occasionally blue screens with the 0x00000124 stop code. I really want to try out x64 but it seems to hate me =\ Edit: D-Link AirPlus DWL-G520 Wireless Adapter and Marvell Yukon Ethernet Controller Radioactive Toy fucked around with this message at 05:31 on May 19, 2009 |
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Logostomp posted:How well does Steam work on the Release Candidate? I remember everytime in Vista I exited out of a game, it said HL2.exe crashed.
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Treytor posted:This may be the wrong place to ask, but has anyone managed to successfully get Ubuntu 9.04 running under virtual PC in Windows 7? I'll add a vote for the VMWare Server suggestion. It's free, and is working well for me under Win 7.
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Regarding VirtualPC for Ubuntu: Some suggestions in this recent thread may also be useful to you, not for specifically getting that running, but for alternative ways that others perform similar tasks.
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ThermoPhysical posted:It seems the first promotion to get Windows 7 Ultimate Edition is through Microsoft's Windows Feedback Program. US loving only. Godfuckingdamnit, why do they do this? It's not as if the RC is officially limited to those locations only.
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Just installed this on my laptop, everything is working fine, I'm really enjoying it. I do have one problem that hopefully someone can help me with--it's not recognizing my touchpad as a touchpad, but instead as a PS/2 mouse. It still works fine for the most part, except that I can't scroll in the pad like I used to be able to. For reference I'm on a Dell Inspiron 6400, 2 years old. Any clues/Drivers I should download? I upgraded from Vista Ultimate Edit: Wasn't using my head tonight, I guess. Downloaded the driver from Dell and it works fine. I do have a general question though. I have all this stuff in my Windows.old folder, but I don't think I want it in there. I got all the stuff I wanted to (music, documents, etc.), but there's a lot still in the Windows.old files. Is there any reason to keep that stuff around? It seems like it's just going to be eating up space on my hard drive. Chemical Shift fucked around with this message at 09:08 on May 19, 2009 |
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Chemical Shift posted:Just installed this on my laptop, everything is working fine, I'm really enjoying it. I do have one problem that hopefully someone can help me with--it's not recognizing my touchpad as a touchpad, but instead as a PS/2 mouse. It still works fine for the most part, except that I can't scroll in the pad like I used to be able to. For reference I'm on a Dell Inspiron 6400, 2 years old. Any clues/Drivers I should download? I upgraded from Vista Ultimate I'm pretty sure that's just a dump of all the old files on your system. If you're sure there's nothing else in there you need to salvage you can delete it.
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Xenomorph posted:How is Windows 7 Home Premium different than Vista Home Premium?
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So is there a reliable way to trick Punkbuster to work?
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What's the PB problem ? If it's getting kicked on some servers for 'windows something something' then try quote:Go to Start -> Run -> Services.msc and find PnkBstrA and PnkBstrB on each of them double click then go to log on then allow them both to interact with desktop then close services. However, PnkBstrA/B are located in C:\Windows\SysWOW64 , for BF2 at least.
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brc64 posted:I didn't notice this. So what the hell do you get with Ultimate? Texas Hold'em 2: Hold'em Harder? It's basically just e-penis rights for the software pirates. Or small business users that don't have a Volume License agreement. Microsoft posted:Ultimate gives users everything Windows 7 has to offer by combining all of the features of Home Premium and Enterprise (without a VL agreement). I still stick by my information that I am pulling directly from Microsoft's partner marketing - Home Premium will be marketed the most to consumers, followed by Ultimate. Hell they have an entire site dedicated to marketing information for Ultimate, there's no way they aren't trying to sell it. The only information I found to the contrary was for OEM system builders. They emphasize selling Home Premium or Professional dependent on what the customer needs. This is pretty awesome: Microsoft posted:Customers of standard PCs (who might otherwise choose Mac) will choose Home Premium because…
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Disgustipated posted:Virtual PC isn't really intended for anything but Windows. You'd be better off using VMWare or VirtualBox or something like that if you want to virtualize Linux. Has this just been the case since Microsoft got their hands on it? Worked fine for everything when it was owned by Connectix. queztal fucked around with this message at 15:45 on May 19, 2009 |
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brc64 posted:I didn't notice this. So what the hell do you get with Ultimate? Texas Hold'em 2: Hold'em Harder? I don't know if there is any reason to get Windows 7 Ultimate. Vista Ultimate was at least Vista "Home Premium + Business". Windows 7 Professional will be "Home Premium + Professional/Business", so why would most people need to bother with Win7 Ultimate? I'm pretty sure *I* don't need it. Hopefully we'll JUST see Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional on store shelves (just like XP Home and XP Pro). No Basic, No Ultimate, etc.
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Xenomorph posted:I don't know if there is any reason to get Windows 7 Ultimate. That's fine with me. I went with Vista Business because I use the remote desktop feature daily (using my home PC while I'm at work), and though I didn't have a lot of use for Media Center, it still would have been nice to have. Sounds like they're doing it right with 7.
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LoKout posted:I still stick by my information that I am pulling directly from Microsoft's partner marketing - Home Premium will be marketed the most to consumers, followed by Ultimate. Hell they have an entire site dedicated to marketing information for Ultimate, there's no way they aren't trying to sell it. The only information I found to the contrary was for OEM system builders. They emphasize selling Home Premium or Professional dependent on what the customer needs. Then why does Microsoft itself say that Home Premium and Professional are the primary editions of 7? http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/feb09/02-03Win7SKU-QA.mspx quote:With Windows 7 there will be two primary editions: Windows 7 Home Premium, and Windows 7 Professional. We think those two SKUs will meet most customers’ needs. quote:And certainly there is also a small set of customers who want everything Windows 7 has to offer. So we will continue to have Windows 7 Ultimate edition to meet that specialized need. Windows 7 Ultimate edition is designed for PC enthusiasts who “want it all” and customers who want the security features such as BitLocker found in Windows 7 Enterprise edition. Paul Thurrott reported from a discussion with Microsoft senior vice president Bill Veghte: quote:For this version of the OS, Microsoft and its PC maker partners will market just two mainstream product editions, Windows 7 Home Premium--the recommended choice for consumers--and Windows 7 Professional, which is aimed at enthusiasts and IT professionals. quote:Windows 7 Ultimate is kind of a wild-card. It will be available at retail and with new PCs, but Microsoft suggested that it will not be heavily marketed and will instead be "offer-based" via occasional promotions and offers from both PC makers and retailers. This stuff was reported around on the tech blogs a couple of months ago. Either Microsoft is lying or your source is lying/confused. I'm gonna go with the latter. As for what's in Ultimate that's not in Pro: quote:Key features: BitLocker, BitLocker To Go, AppLocker, Direct Access, Branche Cache, MUI language packs, boot from VHD Edit:\/\/\/\/\/ Its in one of the quotes in this post. I'll bold it to make it more obvious. kapinga fucked around with this message at 17:02 on May 19, 2009 |
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Sorry for not having a source but I'm sure I read somewhere that the Ultimate edition and some Retail bundles would only be available during promotional periods, otherwise it would just be the Home and Professional packages available.
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MisterSnrub posted:I'm having some weird Permission issues with my Win7 install. Whenever I try to open Itunes, UAC comes up and asks if I want to let Itunes make changes to my computer. It does this every time. Also it complains about not being able to save the library file because it doesn't have the correct permissions, but I made sure that I am the owner of the my user profile and have Full Control. You need to run iTunes as administrator, not sure what's going on with the other issue. Have you tried manually taking ownership of the folder and checking its security permissions?
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Logostomp posted:How well does Steam work on the Release Candidate? I remember everytime in Vista I exited out of a game, it said HL2.exe crashed. This isn't actually a problem, though. Maybe if it had crashed while in-game it would be. But as far as I can tell Steam games work fine.
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Xenomorph posted:I don't know if there is any reason to get Windows 7 Ultimate. Well if there's features in Windows 7 Enterprise that you need, and you aren't a company with an Enterprise volume agreement, thats when you'll get Ultimate. 7 Home Basic is being restricted to emerging markets, like 7 and Vista Starter are or will be.
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deep square leg posted:I'll add a vote for the VMWare Server suggestion. It's free, and is working well for me under Win 7. how did you get networking to work properly in vmware server? when i choose Bridged as Network Adapter 1, i cant get neither internet nor network access in my guest os (windows xp sp3), when i choose NAT, i can ping stuff on the internet, but cant connect to sites with any web browser. any work-arounds you did? edit: forgot to mention that host os is windows 7 build 7100 x64 edit2: gave up and went back to vista 
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queztal posted:Has this just been the case since Microsoft got their hands on it? Worked fine for everything when it was owned by Connectix. It still works just fine. The only thing that's changed is that Linux isn't fully supported. You'll have to make your own profile, which most people using it probably will do anyways, and if you call them they give very basic info on it, none really useful at all really.
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