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What are your Windows 7 annoyances?
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SundaySounds
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CryptiK said:
Install this: (http://www.citadelindustries.net/readydriverplus/) It's called ready driver plus. When you boot your computer it will automatically select to allow unsigned drivers to be used so you don't have to. Readydriver plus + MotionJoy = Dualshock 3 controller on PC
That's how I get the job done, anyway. I promise it works awesome. Enjoy!
Mr. B Natural
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I got Windows 64-bit 7 when I built my new computer for 800 bucks about a month ago. My old computer was a 800 dollar refurbished dell and was 5 years old 32 bit xp.
Some programs like Sonar run just as slow on my brand new computer as it did with my old. Sure, windows loads super fast...10 seconds and i'm at the desktop ready to go, but a lot of these programs run very slow. Even things like virus check are just slow. Obviously, for games, this thing will kick some butt compared to my old system but I haven't done that yet and this computer was built around music applications, and yet, it's slow and i'm 99% sure it's because things are technically compatible with Windows 7 64 bit, but not optimized. That or the performance boost for your average extensive non-game application has hit a wall. I dunno.
Regardless of the reason, this is the first time in my life where the 5 or 6 years go by, and I make myself a new mid-level computer and I'm completely underwhelmed by the overall performance. Not the numbers, the numbers say one thing, the reality says another.
Some programs like Sonar run just as slow on my brand new computer as it did with my old. Sure, windows loads super fast...10 seconds and i'm at the desktop ready to go, but a lot of these programs run very slow. Even things like virus check are just slow. Obviously, for games, this thing will kick some butt compared to my old system but I haven't done that yet and this computer was built around music applications, and yet, it's slow and i'm 99% sure it's because things are technically compatible with Windows 7 64 bit, but not optimized. That or the performance boost for your average extensive non-game application has hit a wall. I dunno.
Regardless of the reason, this is the first time in my life where the 5 or 6 years go by, and I make myself a new mid-level computer and I'm completely underwhelmed by the overall performance. Not the numbers, the numbers say one thing, the reality says another.
Mr. B Natural
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Amir0x said:
Copy paste this from my newegg email -
CPU AMD|PH II X4 955BE 3.2G AM3 - Retail
MEM 2Gx2|ADATA HY63I1B16K R - Retail
MB ASUS|M4A785TD-V EVO 785G RT - Retail
CASE ANTEC|SONATA III 500 BK RT - Retail
HD 640G|WD WD6401AALS % - OEM
WIN HOME PREM 7 64-BIT ENG 1PK DSP - OEM
CPU COOLER CM| RR-910-HTX3-G1 R - Retail
And a ATI 4850
Stuff like the DVD RW, SD card reader, sound card I gutted from my old computer.
The computer is really fast...as I said before, count to 10 and I'm on the internet. Never thought I'd say that while spending well under a grand. And Windows 7 for the most part is pretty reliable. I am not Control Alt Deleting like I used to. The box runs cool as a cucumber too. But things like Firefox...still a little buggy and hitches. As I said before, I'm using it mostly with Sonar and cpu/memory extensive vsts and the performance may be a little better, but it's minute. I still get dropout with 8 gigs ram and a am3 quad core just like I did before with only 3 gigs ram and a dual core 5 years ago. I still get jittering because the pc gets caught up. Virus check and loading the extensive vsts still takes what feels like to me, roughly the same amount of time.
I've had it for about 6 weeks and my only issues have all been Firefox related. Mostly the memory issue which was resolved with an add-on. I've tried to use other browsers, I just always end up going back to FF. Otherwise, Win 7 runs great on the new laptop and I haven't had any problems with other programs.
TouchMyBox
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It's still not open source?
I guess it's pretty good for a microsoft product.
I guess it's pretty good for a microsoft product.
Struct09 said:
Pretty much the same thing although it started taking up that much or more immediately upon restart. I think I used this add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11922?src=api
I'm not 100% sure since my laptop is at home.
Mr. B Natural
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I had NO idea.Ceres said:
See, I think this kinda stuff is what is bothering me about my first foray into a new-ish OS and 64 bit. Any benefits I'm getting with my hardware is being nullified by lack of support. I've downloaded so many updates and patches for my applications that are literally a month old that finally allow those programs to be compatible with win 7 64 bit, but I know that they're just sloppy patches that just appease the people complaining.
And then there are some old programs that aren't compatible at all. I really didn't plan on updating some of my old stuff (some of these programs run at 500+ bucks), but now it's either upgrade or no grade.
I'm sure this is just the growing pains of a new OS, but this is my first time being early to the party rather than late and I'm just not use to dealing with this stuff.
CurlySaysX
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Corrupt files tend to make folders load reeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallly slow and sometimes it just makes the folder not respond at all. Sometimes files aren't even corrupt but W7 can't read the header or some crap and it takes 5 minutes to open a file.
'Open with' command is gone. I think with XP you could press Control + right click.
Corrupt files tend to make folders load reeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallly slow and sometimes it just makes the folder not respond at all. Sometimes files aren't even corrupt but W7 can't read the header or some crap and it takes 5 minutes to open a file.
'Open with' command is gone. I think with XP you could press Control + right click.
Houston3000
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Windows 7 has 'Open With'... maybe if the file has absolutely no associations it'll just show 'Open' but even in that case it will bring up a list of programs to browse.CurlySaysX said:
Say your program is floating on the right monitor. Pressing win+left once will snap it to the left of the right monitor. Again and it will snap to the right of the left monitor. A third time and it will snap to the left of the left monitor.Milpool said:
It works pretty much perfectly. (if you like snapping.)
The Lamonster
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Okay sorry about the bump, but 1) how do you get the "quicklaunch" on the lower left to look like Vista? 2) how do you get the "show desktop" button back to the left hand side like Vista?dudeworld said:Do you guys like the way I have mine set up?
And yes, I realise that there's a "Show Desktop" button to the right of the clock, but I prefer it on the left side of the screen.
Honestly... Nothing. I have never been happier with an operating system. I have had 0 issues (outside an occasional firefox lag but that's common across all operating systems)
This coming from someone who stripped out the useless programs and services in XP Pro to make it run smoothly (Did same thing on 7 but there wasn't much to remove/disable). I also owned a macbook pro with OSX for 2-3 years and this is better than OSX. Best of both worlds, which it did by first copying a bunch of features/look of OSX (Vista) than improving the quality/coding and taking in user requests (7)
This coming from someone who stripped out the useless programs and services in XP Pro to make it run smoothly (Did same thing on 7 but there wasn't much to remove/disable). I also owned a macbook pro with OSX for 2-3 years and this is better than OSX. Best of both worlds, which it did by first copying a bunch of features/look of OSX (Vista) than improving the quality/coding and taking in user requests (7)
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
My only complaint would be that Win 7 doesn't show my webcam as a device under my computer, like it did in XP 
Otherwise it's been a dream, runs stable and no hassles of any kind.
Otherwise it's been a dream, runs stable and no hassles of any kind.Oh and before anyone mentions a Linux distro. I absolutely f'ing hate any variant of Unix (except as a backbone) just because I had to support an application that ran on SCO UNIX only and SCO UNIX was evil. I know that's like judging Windows 7 on Windows 3.1 but I can't help it.
vodka-bull
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My only complaint is that I still can't put a question mark in a data's name.
The Lamonster
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Anybody?The Lamonster said:
Schrade
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The Lamonster
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You are the man. Thank you!Schrade said:
lucablight
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Is it just me or is the Windows 7 file search horrible?
I could have one item in a folder but when I type in the file name it will say nothing found. If I have alot of files it'll just highlight all these words documents I have and make it even harder to locate than if I searched for it manually by scrolling through a list.
I could have one item in a folder but when I type in the file name it will say nothing found. If I have alot of files it'll just highlight all these words documents I have and make it even harder to locate than if I searched for it manually by scrolling through a list.
Schrade
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I'd disable it.lucablight said:
That's the first thing I do on any Windows 7 system. Just right click on "Computer" and select Manage. Then go to Services and then stop and disable "Windows Search". Horrible piece of crap.
Once you've done that, go get Everything and witness lightning fast non Microsoft search: http://www.voidtools.com/
harriet the spy
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Like 7 a lot. A bit less than os x, but it's for very particular reasons that probably wouldn't apply to many other people.
My only gripe is their activation stuff. I don't know how many pirates it encouraged to actually purchase a copy, but i just think it's annoying to have to activate constantly (I have a university copy, and it asks me once in a while to vpn to the uni and activate the copy over and over. it's not a big deal but it's tiresome)
My only gripe is their activation stuff. I don't know how many pirates it encouraged to actually purchase a copy, but i just think it's annoying to have to activate constantly (I have a university copy, and it asks me once in a while to vpn to the uni and activate the copy over and over. it's not a big deal but it's tiresome)
harriet the spy
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To be fair, my only fear is that once i leave the uni, I will be left with a useless system. I'd be glad to buy the licence to purchase it for myself, but the uni copy is enterprise, so i am not even sure that's possible. I don't mind paying, but I don't want to reinstall :/Schrade said:
(can't open a new thread yet, sorry)
I had to change my Windows Live Messenger account and I just exported the old contacts and added them with the import option on the new account. As I can see right now, only a few people received my friend request yet. Is this normal to happen? Are the other people going to receive the request later or something?
I had to change my Windows Live Messenger account and I just exported the old contacts and added them with the import option on the new account. As I can see right now, only a few people received my friend request yet. Is this normal to happen? Are the other people going to receive the request later or something?
The Lamonster
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yep, happened in Vista as wellalr1ghtstart said:
Schrade
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Use Everything: http://www.voidtools.com/alr1ghtstart said:
You can right click on any folder or drive and choose to search everything below it. Everything is better than Windows' default search because it won't hide certain files from you like Windows will (even if you have it set to show all)
Boss Doggie
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I suppose this is the best place to post this instead of making a new thread
Anyone else having problems of Explorer not refreshing whenever you move/delete/copy files?
Anyone else having problems of Explorer not refreshing whenever you move/delete/copy files?
My complain about Win7 i how backwards the windows photo viewer has become. Dunno if Vista is the same but Win7 cannot play gifs like Xp can. Gifs when you scrolling through images with it just appear as a static image of the first frame. Clicking on a gifs itself will open IE to view it in motion....wtf?
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