[WIN7] Dedicated Windows 7 Discussion - Page 659

the scotsman · 29th October 2010, 4:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Punster

Any download link?

Link

hate-xfiles · 29th October 2010, 9:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Punster

Any download link?

Windows 7 SP1 RC

petercr · 29th October 2010, 9:55 PM

Just bear in mind that the SP1 RC expires in Nov 2011 and MUST be un-installed prior to installation of the final release of SP1...

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Originally Posted by Microsoft

The software will stop running on November 30, 2011. You may not receive any other notice. You may not be able to access data used with the software when it stops running.It is important to note that you must uninstall the Service Pack 1 Release Candidate prior to installing future builds, including the final release, of the Service Pack. Upgrades from the beta or release candidate will not be supported.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/e...jf%2fHkg%3d%3d

the scotsman · 29th October 2010, 10:03 PM

I'm in the beta program, and I'm usually first to install this kind of thing, but to be honest there's not much interesting stuff in there.

A collection of updates/fixes and some updated features:

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Additional support for communication with third-party federation services

Additional support has been added to allow Windows 7 clients to effectively communicate with third-party identity federation services (those supporting the WS-Federation passive profile protocol). This change enhances platform interoperability, and improves the ability to communicate identity and authentication information between organizations.

Improved HDMI audio device performance

A small percentage of users have reported issues in which the connection between computers running Windows 7 and HDMI audio devices can be lost after system reboots. Updates have been incorporated into SP1 to ensure that connections between Windows 7 computers and HDMI audio devices are consistently maintained.

Corrected behavior when printing mixed-orientation XPS documents

Prior to the release of SP1, some customers have reported difficulty when printing mixed-orientation XPS documents (documents containing pages in both portrait and landscape orientation) using the XPS Viewer, resulting in all pages being printed entirely in either portrait or landscape mode. This issue has been addressed in SP1, allowing users to correctly print mixed-orientation documents using the XPS Viewer.

Changes common to both client and server platforms

Change to behavior of “Restore previous folders at logon” functionality

SP1 changes the behavior of the “Restore previous folders at logon” function available in the Folder Options Explorer dialog. Prior to SP1, previous folders would be restored in a cascaded position based on the location of the most recently active folder. That behavior changes in SP1 so that all folders are restored to their previous positions.

Enhanced support for additional identities in RRAS and IPsec

Support for additional identification types has been added to the Identification field in the IKEv2 authentication protocol. This allows for a variety of additional forms of identification (such as E-mail ID or Certificate Subject) to be used when performing authentication using the IKEv2 protocol.

Support for Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

There has always been a growing need for ever more computing power and as usage models change, processors instruction set architectures evolve to support these growing demands. Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) is a 256 bit instruction set extension for processors. AVX is designed to allow for improved performance for applications that are floating point intensive. Support for AVX is a part of SP1 to allow applications to fully utilize the new instruction set and register extensions.”

hate-xfiles · 29th October 2010, 11:11 PM

Windows 7 SP1 RTM in Q1 2011

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windo...1-148260.shtml

Digit · 8th November 2010, 8:22 AM

Hey guys just a quick Q,

My movies folder (pretty decent size) whenever i open its window, has to re-sort all the movies, i've no idea why, even when i haven't restarted it, it shows it as being completely unorganised and decides to organise it again, which takes at least 2 minutes

And it lags if i try to create a new folder, takes around a minute when it should only take what, a second ?

Any idea's on how to make it remember how it was ordered ?? it used to before i reformatted . . . and just generally speed up

Darko · 8th November 2010, 7:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Digit

Hey guys just a quick Q,

My movies folder (pretty decent size) whenever i open its window, has to re-sort all the movies, i've no idea why, even when i haven't restarted it, it shows it as being completely unorganised and decides to organise it again, which takes at least 2 minutes

And it lags if i try to create a new folder, takes around a minute when it should only take what, a second ?

Any idea's on how to make it remember how it was ordered ?? it used to before i reformatted . . . and just generally speed up

Same thing always happens for me too, previous OS XP and Vista never did this, so hope someone can up with an expalianation and fix for this.

chargin · 8th November 2010, 7:51 PM

Me too, on my htpc the TV recording folder takes ages to open, is that what its doing? "re-sorting" the files?

Tenoq · 9th November 2010, 7:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Digit

Hey guys just a quick Q,

My movies folder (pretty decent size) whenever i open its window, has to re-sort all the movies, i've no idea why, even when i haven't restarted it, it shows it as being completely unorganised and decides to organise it again, which takes at least 2 minutes

And it lags if i try to create a new folder, takes around a minute when it should only take what, a second ?

Any idea's on how to make it remember how it was ordered ?? it used to before i reformatted . . . and just generally speed up

This will be a bugged/incompatible codec and/or a broken context menu item.

What applications are installed? In particular, what applications that add themselves to the context menu or have Explorer extensions? And what codecs? I saw this problem most recently on a machine with VirtualCloneDrive (an older version).

Digit · 9th November 2010, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Tenoq

This will be a bugged/incompatible codec and/or a broken context menu item.

What applications are installed? In particular, what applications that add themselves to the context menu or have Explorer extensions? And what codecs? I saw this problem most recently on a machine with VirtualCloneDrive (an older version).

umm . . . Fusion Media Explorer has been directed to the folder to get its media from but other then that . . .

Codecs divx . . . that's it

I don't have VCD

osmodiar · 9th November 2010, 1:26 PM

One minor thing that's annoyed me about win7 is losing the ability to drag the task bar down out of site. Probably doesn't bother most users but I use an application in windowed mode and the task bar gets in the way. It annoys me that I'm not allowed to pull it down anymore like you can in XP, i'm guessing too many pleb users accidentally hid their task bar and didn't know how to get it back or something so they locked it at a minimum height.

I can auto-hide it through the task bar properties, but then it pops up all the time while i'm using the app whenever the cursor goes near the bottom of the screen.

Would be great if there was a way to unlock this old windows capability.

Digit · 19th November 2010, 4:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Digit

My movies folder (pretty decent size) whenever i open its window, has to re-sort all the movies, i've no idea why, even when i haven't restarted it, it shows it as being completely unorganised and decides to organise it again, which takes at least 2 minutes

And it lags if i try to create a new folder, takes around a minute when it should only take what, a second ?

Any idea's on how to make it remember how it was ordered ?? it used to before i reformatted . . . and just generally speed up

so anyone know of a fix for this ??

CAPT-Irrelevant · 22nd November 2010, 10:06 AM

So... W7's first birthday.

HeXa · 18th July 2011, 11:58 AM

heads up for the IEEE student members who joined for MSDN access

Windows 7 is once again listed for us!!!

not sure how long it has been like this.... I only noticed because MS pissed me off with the itsnotcheating price increase

EDIT: Office 2007 as well? "MSDNAA - Office Suite 2007 Service Pack 1 32-bit" dl file size seems too large for just the SP

EDIT #2: bleh.. is just the office 2007 SP bundled with other shit.. no actual office

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8th November 2010, 8:22 AM	#9876
Digit Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Sydney Posts: 1,154	Hey guys just a quick Q, My movies folder (pretty decent size) whenever i open its window, has to re-sort all the movies, i've no idea why, even when i haven't restarted it, it shows it as being completely unorganised and decides to organise it again, which takes at least 2 minutes And it lags if i try to create a new folder, takes around a minute when it should only take what, a second ? Any idea's on how to make it remember how it was ordered ?? it used to before i reformatted . . . and just generally speed up __________________ PhenomII 955 \| 790XT-UD4P \| ATi 5850 \| 8GB DDRIII @1333Mhz \| 7TB \| 9---------------\|-} Trades: lost count http://www.turnedon.com.au \| DiRT Showdown Review Home grown non heat treated honey from the Sydney region for $10/kg.

9th November 2010, 1:26 PM	#9881
osmodiar Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: SA Posts: 458	One minor thing that's annoyed me about win7 is losing the ability to drag the task bar down out of site. Probably doesn't bother most users but I use an application in windowed mode and the task bar gets in the way. It annoys me that I'm not allowed to pull it down anymore like you can in XP, i'm guessing too many pleb users accidentally hid their task bar and didn't know how to get it back or something so they locked it at a minimum height. I can auto-hide it through the task bar properties, but then it pops up all the time while i'm using the app whenever the cursor goes near the bottom of the screen. Would be great if there was a way to unlock this old windows capability. __________________ i7 Digital Audio Workstation \| Motu 828mk3 \| Mackie MR8's \| Access Virus TI KB \| Roland TD9 \| 2 x Dell U2410

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18th July 2011, 11:58 AM	#9884
HeXa Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Canberra, ACT Posts: 7,819	heads up for the IEEE student members who joined for MSDN access Windows 7 is once again listed for us!!! not sure how long it has been like this.... I only noticed because MS pissed me off with the itsnotcheating price increase EDIT: Office 2007 as well? "MSDNAA - Office Suite 2007 Service Pack 1 32-bit" dl file size seems too large for just the SP EDIT #2: bleh.. is just the office 2007 SP bundled with other shit.. no actual office Last edited by HeXa; 18th July 2011 at 12:11 PM.

8th November 2010, 7:51 PM	#9878
chargin Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Adelaide Posts: 1,317	Me too, on my htpc the TV recording folder takes ages to open, is that what its doing? "re-sorting" the files?