[WIN7] Dedicated Windows 7 Discussion

[Mystery Man]

Originally Posted by the_scotsman

Power saving lol...I always set mine to the high performace profile and turn off all the sleep and hard drive options.

I normally just change the settings in the balanced one. Never set it to high performance.

As for the download for windows 7 this is the page to watch for it apparently

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx

[Zardoz]

Originally Posted by stussy

From further testing, a lot of my laptop's drivers are not supported

And I'm still getting this crazy problem with the text entry being reverted a few words back, or sometimes a few words down

edit: yeah, ive definitely decided to get a better hdd, as the heat produced from this one burns my lap

Hi,

This could be a driver issue with the trackpad i.e. when you are typing, the trackpad is sensitive and treats the movement of your palms as a click, moving the pointer.

Had this one happen a lot, both to myself and other people - but haven't tested Windows 7 on any of my portable gear yet.

[boogerthe2nd]

Originally Posted by Mystery Man

I normally just change the settings in the balanced one. Never set it to high performance.

By default, it is set to Balanced, and in Windows 7, turning off hard disks is enabled by default as opposed to previous Balanced profiles.

[Mystery Man]

Originally Posted by boogerthe2nd

By default, it is set to Balanced, and in Windows 7, turning off hard disks is enabled by default as opposed to previous Balanced profiles.

What do you mean as opposed to previous Balanced profiles? Default is the same as vista set at 20 mins

[boogerthe2nd]

Originally Posted by Mystery Man

What do you mean as opposed to previous Balanced profiles? Default is the same as vista set at 20 mins

Really?
I don't remember noticing that... my bad

[claf-43]

Originally Posted by the_scotsman

In what way?

Minimising things, not always knowing if their running as easy without changing settings.

Originally Posted by Mystery Man

Not hard. Either right click IE icon on task bar and choose internet explorer. Or go to file then new window. Pretty easy. As frustrating as one extra click can be

Having a IE button on the quick launch and on the start menu that opened up a new window in 1 click is alot easier.

[Mystery Man]

Originally Posted by boogerthe2nd

Really?
I don't remember noticing that... my bad

Yeah. The settings turn off display has changed to 10 mins from 20 in vista and sleep mode off in 30 mins as opposed to 1 hour in vista. Hard drive settings same.

[chainbolt]

Originally Posted by Mystery Man

Heres some more info i googled

Got to be quick it will be 2.5 million only


http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/...-get-your.html

and once more confirmed: No upgrade from Windows XP possible.

[Mystery Man]

Originally Posted by claf-43

Having a IE button on the quick launch and on the start menu that opened up a new window in 1 click is alot easier.

Yep already have . If you already got a window open it takes two clicks to open another one

[the scotsman]

You can Shift+click to open a new window.

Or press left + right mouse buttons to open a new window.

[Mystery Man]

Originally Posted by the_scotsman

You can Shift+click to open a new window.

Or press left + right mouse buttons to open a new window.

Doesnt seem to work here. I just go file then new window. Pretty trivial really. May be you got different settings somewhere

[the scotsman]

Originally Posted by Mystery Man

Doesnt seem to work here. I just go file then new window. Pretty trivial really. May be you got different settings somewhere

maybe obvious, but you need to shift+click or left+right click with the cursor over the taskbar button for the browser.

Works for IE and FF.

[MR CHILLED]

Originally Posted by boogerthe2nd

It seems like a bug... especially since it just doesn't work without giving any dialogue or prompts. However, I should think it would've been fixed by now, since it apparently was present in earlier builds as well.

Yes it seems rather strange behaviour if by design. So must definitely be a bug, or that is at least my guessing also.

[ocyrion]

I'm using the 64-bit version

I've got quite a few issues - anyone know the fix?

- Can't get Rivatuner 2.22 to run, it says the rivatuner.sys file is not signed. Where can I disable the requirement for driver signing?
- Lots of disk access even when the machine is idle, is it defragging?
- Leadtek 3200H TV card doesn't work, driver and software installed OK but I get no TV reception, just a blank screen
- Daemon Tools won't install, it just loops the first part before restart
- No X58 chipset drivers seem to be available from Intel
- Tried to bench 3DMark Vantage and it bombed out, and I got green vertical lines down the screen (using Nvidia 185.20 betas)

How do you make the text easy to read like XP? I've tried turning off Cleartype but there's a whole stack of things I have to choose and nothing so far has made the text crisp like XP.

The UAC shit is just as annoying as Vista ... I have to say I liked the Windows 7 beta when I originally installed it, but after a couple of days I'm ready to go back to XP ...

[FLB]

Originally Posted by ocyrion

I'm using the 64-bit version

I've got quite a few issues - anyone know the fix?

- Can't get Rivatuner 2.22 to run, it says the rivatuner.sys file is not signed. Where can I disable the requirement for driver signing?
- Lots of disk access even when the machine is idle, is it defragging?
- Leadtek 3200H TV card doesn't work, driver and software installed OK but I get no TV reception, just a blank screen
- Daemon Tools won't install, it just loops the first part before restart
- No X58 chipset drivers seem to be available from Intel
- Tried to bench 3DMark Vantage and it bombed out, and I got green vertical lines down the screen (using Nvidia 185.20 betas)

How do you make the text easy to read like XP? I've tried turning off Cleartype but there's a whole stack of things I have to choose and nothing so far has made the text crisp like XP.

The UAC shit is just as annoying as Vista ... I have to say I liked the Windows 7 beta when I originally installed it, but after a couple of days I'm ready to go back to XP ...

* Get the x58 drivers, from your mobo maker, and run them in vista compatibility mode.
* Driver signing can't be turned off on a permanent basis, only via the boot menu upon a restart/reboot.
* Daemon Tools has a problem mentioned many times in this thread, use poweriso instead.
* Use the 181.20's, the 185's are alpha quality drivers - some things are broken.
* Lots of Disk access = possibly defrag as well as superfetch & indexing.
* UAC Prompts, are nowhere near as common on 7 as with Vista. Turn it off if you don't like it, or you can tell it to nag you less in the control panel I think.