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Casull posted:Ah, I figured out why my networking card was so bad. It turns out that Windows 7 and Linksys WMP54G don't mix well. The solution is to download the Ralink RT266x driver and use that driver instead. So far, it's actually stable. That driver is buggy as hell too. I have the v4.1 card and the Ralink driver would hard-lock the whole OS randomly with no error messages in the event viewer or crash dumps. *Every* time I ran the Speakeasy Speed Test it would lock the whole OS when it got to the upload part of the test. Through trial and error, I discovered the Linksys netr6164.sys v2.00.03.0 driver was the only one with a modicum of stability. If I install the driver Windows Update is pushing or the newest version from Ralink the hard-locks return. Obviously YMMV.
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If anyone was able to grab the Win 7 Realtek HD Audio driver R2.26, would you mind throwing it up on RapidShare or something or pointing me to a working link? I've been trying to download it from Realtek for two days and keep getting "550 Failed to change directory" ftp errors and timeouts.
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Jun 5, 2009 18:08
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EoRaptor posted:If you can, check the release notes. 99% of the realtek driver releases are just updating the inf file to support new oem's using their chips, and contain zero changes to any of the binary files. You may not need the latest version at all. Yeah, I'm having issues in Win7 with the WHQL drivers, and they are about 5 revisions old so I figured updating would be a good place to start. Treytor posted:I always get my latest drivers from https://www.guru3d.com. Thanks - I forgot about that site. R2.25 will have to do.
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Jun 5, 2009 19:21
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Teenagers posted:Is anybody else finding Win7 RC to be really loving slow? I was previously using Vista 64, and it was a lot speedier than this. Also both of my security packages seem to conflict with the OS - I have Kapersky and ESET Smart Security. Running two AV programs simultaneously (which both companies discourage) could have something to do with it.
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Jun 22, 2009 17:21
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What is the best way to resolve a 10 second lag when browsing or saving files on a different hard-disk? I've disabled the 'Turn off idle hard disks' in Power Management, and never had this problem with Vista on the same hardware...
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Aug 10, 2009 08:40
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Xenomorph posted:The best way is to replace the broken disk. It's brand new?
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Aug 10, 2009 17:56
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Full Circle posted:That makes it all the more likely. I just ran the HD tune error can with not even a hiccup and booted off an Ubuntu live cd. The problem doesn't exist outside of Win7. I'm guessing it's something to do with Nod32, the thumbnail cache or indexing.
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Aug 10, 2009 19:06
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Xenomorph posted:Maybe indexing. Yeah. It was a clean install as well. See any likely culprits?
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Aug 10, 2009 20:48
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Windows Media Player 12's file management is pretty neutered in comparison to Vista as well. Advanced tag editor is gone and Zune playlists are not recognized among several other annoyances.
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Aug 11, 2009 22:24
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mobn posted:These files are all over the place though. They're on three different drives in almost a dozen directories. It would be an insane pain in the rear end to assign all those directories manually again in uTorrent. If those are NTFS drives, make sure you use the same name and password as on your old install or be prepared for some permissions nightmare.
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Aug 21, 2009 00:18
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mobn posted:I won't lose access to anything though, right? Wouldn't the only folders I have permissions problems with be ones that were in the Administrator folder in Users? That's only My Documents and the backed up uTorrent folder. Open up an administrator command prompt and enter: takeown /f DRIVELETTER:\ Hit enter then type: icacls DRIVELETTER:\ /grant YOURUSERNAME:f Hit enter. You should see a window popup changing all of the ownership properties of the files in the drive. Someone double check me here...
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Aug 21, 2009 18:57
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SnatchRabbit posted:Which anti virus should I be running with Windows 7 x64? Is AVG still good? Read a few posts back.
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Aug 28, 2009 02:22
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TLG James posted:Yes, I went and downloaded it. If this doesn't instill confidence nothing will! 
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Aug 30, 2009 07:51
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I know Windows 7 is done with bug-reporting, but where does one give feedback on well... bugs, they find at this point?
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Sep 25, 2009 16:47
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Anyone know of a quick way (without third party apps) to require the F8 boot options to require a password?
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Oct 6, 2009 21:28
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Cuddly Coach posted:Also, somewhere in this megathread is there a suggestion on Codec packs or a better way to deal with that to make everything playable? Coming up from XP and Vista, I've got a bunch of videos in a bunch of formats I've been using Shark007's Windows 7 Codec Pack. It is hands down the best there is.
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Oct 13, 2009 16:29
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jmu posted:1394 no worky Have you fiddled with the drive's settings in Device Manager >Disk Drives >Properties >Policies? I actually had similar problems along with sluggish transfer speeds with a totally different chipset and ended up just throwing a cheap PCI card in and have had no problems since.
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Oct 13, 2009 17:11
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I'm having a problem in Win 7 Pro x64 with my Logitech mouse forgetting all of it's custom settings coming out of sleep mode. I think the Logitech Setpoint software is running in 32bit. Any suggestions on correcting this?
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Nov 2, 2009 19:27
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real_scud posted:Try downloading the Vista x64 version, I think that's what I snagged and my mouse has been working fine since then. Iam! When I look in task manager, it's running as SetPoint32.exe *32... I'm going to try to uninstall /reinstall again and see if that fixes it.
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Nov 2, 2009 20:23
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Casao posted:Setpoint is a 32bit application. The 64bit installs a few things that need to be 64bit but passes it back to the main 32bit app. It'll continue to be 32bit no matter how many times you reinstall. No, not at all. I might fiddle with the UAC settings for it.
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Nov 2, 2009 20:46
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illicitporpoises posted:This is a known issue with SetPoint. I emailed Logitech support and their proposed solution was to RMA the mouse. Thanks. That's what I figured. I'm off to the Logitech forums!
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Nov 2, 2009 21:16
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Is there a way to exclude folders from showing up in the libraries? For example, my "Documents" library indexes an entire disk as does my "Music" and "Videos" libraries. Other than manually entering GB's of folders manually and not entering the sub-folders of midget porn I don't want showing up in the libraries? A work-around is zipping the files with WinRAR, but that's not very elegant.
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Jan 2, 2010 23:06
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fleshweasel posted:As a vista user (now an OS X user) I feel ripped off in spending $100 for a marketing rebrand design to salvage Windows, and essentially what Vista should have been. Idiots are still parroting this bullshit? How much did you pay for OSX?
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Oct 10, 2010 19:19
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Kilometers Davis posted:I'm selling a laptop of mine this week and I realized I have no idea about the best way to wipe the computer completely back to factory. Is it still standard to use the OS disks? fakefastedit: Windows 7 Definitely don't just delete the user accounts. This leaves all kinds of personal data behind, and most people are using the admin account anyway. Make sure you have the license key! Then boot off the install media, then click "Install Now". Choose "Advanced", delete the partitions until it says "Unallocated Space" and then reformat it or just hit "Next" if you aren't concerned about someone doing a forensic analysis of the drive. If you are really paranoid, download DBAN, burn it to a blank disc & write zeros to the disk before reinstalling. Does anyone know how you terminate the install so when the new owner boots up they get the screen which asks for the user name & password, so they can just enter it themselves?
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Nov 8, 2010 04:46
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Rekkit posted:Connectivity issue. Have you gone into the power options and disabled any power management that may be affecting your NIC, as well as gone into Device Manager and disabled "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" under Network Adapter?
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Jan 8, 2011 02:11
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Does anyone know if there is a way to use the power settings available on a laptop on a pc? Specifically the ability to dim the screen /adjust display brightness after a specific amount of time?
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Feb 10, 2011 03:14
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Factory Factory posted:Display brightness. Thanks. I use the Nvidia slider to adjust the brightness normally, but I am looking for a way to gradually dim out my monitors when idle. I was hoping I could do it without a third-party app...
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Feb 10, 2011 05:36
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Factor Mystic posted:I really wish Microsoft would be willing to name and shame. It would divert a lot of consumer frustration in the right direction, I think. Coming back from a blue screen? List the driver manufacturer at fault. Installing a "comparability and reliability" update? Rename it the "Adobe ignored our application guidelines and now Acrobat is crashing" update. Amen to this. 95% of the root cause of Vista bashing I've seen can be directly attributed to Nvidia chipsets and Dell.
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Feb 25, 2011 16:50
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SMP posted:I'm about to install a new motherboard/cpu. One friend tells me I have to do a fresh W7 install, but google tells me I can just call Microsoft and have them reactivate my key for the new board. Which one do I believe? If the chipsets are the same /similar you probably won't even have to reactivate.
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Mar 11, 2011 15:46
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Schubalts posted:Microsoft support has given me reactivation codes after upgrades every time. Just tell them why you need one. Dell on the other hand...
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Mar 11, 2011 19:21
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rolleyes posted:It works with Truecrypt full disk encryption - I know this because that's exactly how my laptop is setup. I'm assuming he was referring to using TrueCrypt rather than BitLocker encryption. BitLocker needs a second partition because the pre-startup verification is stored on the 100MB partition.
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May 10, 2011 19:11
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Sizzlechest posted:It's my understanding that if you create a partition BEFORE you do the install or if you delete the system partition after it's created during the install, then windows will put the recovery info with the regular partition and not create the system partition. You did get an answer, albeit indirectly. You must have the 100MB partition if you are going to use Windows 7's full disk encryption Bit Locker.
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May 11, 2011 21:38
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Sizzlechest posted:My question was the converse. Why the heck SHOULDN'T you let Windows create the partition? Why are people going out of their way to outsmart the installer? Gotchya. Apparently it installs the partition even on versions which don't support BitLocker. Since the Recovery Environment can run off the system partition, it's kind of redundant.
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May 11, 2011 22:22
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bewbies posted:Cool, how do I do this? I am not very computer literate. Also, I tried googling "portable apps media player" and all of the websites that come up are blocked on our network. Beaten by Hed, but VLC Media Player Portable will play it. It doesn't have to be installed, but you'll have to extract it to a thumb-drive or something. Why don't you just use a mobile phone to listen to your streams so you don't bring the ire of the IT Dept down on your head? They can see if you are streaming /wasting bandwidth via the network logs.
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May 12, 2011 17:25
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You can do it via command prompt, or go through all the tabs on the properties and take ownership or you can download & install this. Add "Take Ownership" to Right click.
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May 13, 2011 17:08
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slovach posted:Is there a nice, tiny program for p2p file transfer? I just want to do a straight transfer to another computer. I don't want to share it or anything, just a nice, simple point a to point b transfer. Dropbox?
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May 17, 2011 15:09
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There is a Windows Media Player plugin called dopisp which you could install the trial and then format the ipod via WMP...
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May 20, 2011 06:07
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mastershakeman posted:I'm using an old Thinkpad r51e with Windows XP on it, and was going to rip some dvds. However, when I put the dvd movies in the drive, nothing happens, and windows explorer shows the drive as blank, yet doesn't give the prompt to load a disc. CDs load fine. I recently reinstalled the computer so I'm sure it's something software related, but I made sure to reinstall the Intervideo WinDVD software. Anyone know what gives? What do DVD's do in Windows Media Player?
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May 22, 2011 16:25
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blofeldd posted:Suddenly the Office installs says it's missing some file (that actually is on the folder). I've made a SECOND copy of the CD in the server, but same problem. The solution for now is to install it with the CD, but this takes much more time. Anyone know what's happenning? What file is it? "Detect and Repair" doesn't reinstall from the cab files? Are you running /or do you let users run Ccleaner or any automated clean ups?
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Splinter posted:What's a good page file size for systems with lots of RAM? In the past I've heard 1.5-2x the amount of RAM, but that was before absurd amounts of RAM became dirt cheap. A 12-16GB page file seems like a waste of space on a system with 8GB of RAM that rarely even comes close to using that much. The gospel is to let Windows handle it and place it on a separate disk than your system drive (not a separate partition - a separate physical drive). When Windows has a BSOD, it writes kernel memory crash dumps to the page file, so everything in RAM is written to disk. If you don't know how to troubleshoot these memory dumps, this is pretty much useless and if it happens a lot you will have huge multi-GB files wasting space somewhere. You can turn on performance logging and fire up every app you could conceivably use simultaneously, and then adjust the size according to peak commits if you are pressed for space. If you have a smallish SSD laying around you could always just assign your pagefile to that. WorkingStiff fucked around with this message at 19:37 on May 26, 2011 |
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