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Thank you for fixing something that yet another dumb ass at MS broke. That really likes to remove good things from their o/s.....
 
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Yeah i know what you mean. They need to "listen" to the feedback that they claim to listen to
 

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Yeah i know what you mean. They need to "listen" to the feedback that they claim to listen to

I sent them feedback about the terrible movie maker they have for 7.. I hope they make the vista one just for it or something
 
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ok so has anyone played left 4 dead on win7 yet. It runs better, in fact the whole operating system is just, better! Its really fast!!!!!!!
 
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AHHHHHHH I love this thing! So many cool little things that aren't life changing but just create a good overall OS. Just loaded it last night and the only time I get back on XP(dual boot) is when I have to play a game or something (only gave partition 15gb, have to change that sometime)
 

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just got 7 :) DVD has burned, installing now. see y'all soon!
 
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Look forward to your impresssions mon.
 
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you will love it, and i jut realised what the joke is with the fish on the windows 7 wallpaper :laugh:
 

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Fixed?

Hey guys I just installed 7 64 but last night and everything is going smoothly..I just have one question. The performance indicator is giving my HDD a rating of 2.0..the one in my specs listed. I ran it twice thinking the HDD was busy doing something the first time, but it came out the same both times. Any ideas?

Ben do this...

1. Control panel>hardware & sound>device manager
2. Under disk drives, find your main drive
3. Right click your main drive and select properties
4. Policies tab, uncheck the "enable write caching on this device"
5. Click ok, and re-run your WEI

Now it's not a great idea to disable write caching unless you are using a UPS or other sort of power backup. If you lose power while the HDD is writing it could mean data loss. Use at your own risk.
 

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Tbh i think i will reinstall vista x64.There are too many irritating bugs in win7,i will wait till its out retail.

I had to end task on ie,now i have a bar stuck on my desktop that says open in new tab,but does nothing.Refreshing the desktop or changing the background deos'nt get rid of it either.I think its a bit of a turd with a shine on it.Vista x64 was waaay more stable than this rubbish.
 
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im installing now ill post my results later, does vantage work on 7?
 
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What's the joke?

I think he means that the fish is actually a Beta fish.... for the beta version of W7. :p



What utility(s) are people using to burn DVDs and such.. Nero has been epic fail for me.
 

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Nice. I love it cause it's such a small app. I am a proud owner of Nero 9 (bought two of them when they were on sale in the online store for $99 for two of them right before xmas) but Imgburn loads faster and does the job nicely.
I have the x64 of Windows7 just waiting to get a few new HDD's I'm ordering so that I can play around with it.
 
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I have a micro version of nero9,which just installs nero burning rom.The program takes up 23mb of space and works perfectly.
 
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I have a micro version of nero9,which just installs nereo burning rom.The program takes up 23mb of space and works perfectly.

I assume you tried on 7... ? can you link me to the download for nero micro9. I was digging around a read that people had the same problem with Nero 7 before Vista went to public release and they had to use the micro/lite versions. I can't find a working link for micro 7 though.
 

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What utility(s) are people using to burn DVDs and such.. Nero has been epic fail for me.

If that doesn't work you could always try CDBurnerXP
It has worked for all the ISO's I've downloaded in the past.
 
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If that doesn't work you could always try CDBurnerXP
It has worked for all the ISO's I've downloaded in the past.

I meant that I was looking for a burning software to use with W7.

I got nero9 installed now and it should be fine.
 
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