Windows 7 thread!

[Solaris17]

can someone tell me how to cange this UBER GAY taskbar and change it to the regular vista one some of you have?

 

[pantherx12]

Disagree with you, love the new taskbar XD

Right click the task bar, click small icons, then change " always combine hide labels" to one of the other two.

 

[Solaris17]

Disagree with you, love the new taskbar XD

Right click the task bar, click small icons, then change " always combine hide labels" to one of the other two.

omg thank you

 

[Mussels]

but isnt directx implimented on everything visual? i no im not using 11 its kinda obvious ifd you saw the specs on my lappy thats why i was wondering why dxdiag says 11 is there. One question then i wannatry out directx 10 ive finally got a card to handle it so if i buy a directx game crysis for example will i be playing it in directx 10 on windows 7?

card + directx + game all need to support the same standard to use it. If one doesnt, then it drops back.

using a DX 10.1 card with a DX11 OS and a DX 9 game, the lowest denominator would be DX9 therefore, running in dX9.

 

[frankie827]

How do you guys think 7 would function on an xps from a few years ago w/ a Pentium M @ around 900mhz (it should be 1.7, it keeps downclocking for a reason I have not been able to discover yet, haven't looked into it too much though), 1gb ram, and integrated gfx, I think a 915/945? That's somewhere around the minimum specs I think, but it's my gf's laptop that I also use sometimes and I'm not particularly interested in putting an OS on there that's gonna slow it down significantly. Also I like the pretty stuff, so if that can't work then there is no point (I like the functionality of 7, but the look is what will really be cool for her).

it should work just fine
btw its probably downclocking because of speedstep...if you try to disable it on a laptop it will most likely keep the cpu multiplier at the lowest possible number...

 

[farlex85]

it should work just fine
btw its probably downclocking because of speedstep...if you try to disable it on a laptop it will most likely keep the cpu multiplier at the lowest possible number...

That's what I thought at first too, but it actually shows up at that speed in the bios. I believe it's power related. Like I said I haven't fooled w/ it much. I'm gonna put 7 on there soon.

 

[ste2425]

using a DX 10.1 card with a DX11 OS and a DX 9 game, the lowest denominator would be DX9 therefore, running in dX9.

right thanks, so i gather from that if i use a dx10 game then it'l run in dx10?

(and i thught crysis was dx10?)

 

[A Cheese Danish]

Yes, if you run a DX10 game, it will play in DX10. And yes Crysis can be played as DX10 or DX9

 

[boise49ers]

Lost Dual boot option

Well I have 7 on a partition and XP on the other. I caught a visus on my XP partition so I reformatted the XP side, but when I boot now it just goes to XP. How do I get the window back that gives me the option to go to Windows 7 or as the window says an Older version of Windows. Can I get it back with out totally reloading 7 again ?
Any help would be wonderful. Thank you

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

When you formatted the XP side you likely removed the boot manager that was in the same partition. You should put the Windows 7 disk and and try the repair function from the disk.

 

[boise49ers]

When you formatted the XP side you likely removed the boot manager that was in the same partition. You should put the Windows 7 disk and and try the repair function from the disk.

Thanks, That was my next plan when I got home.
Hopefully that will reinstall the boot manager.

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

well it should put the boot record for W7 into the boot manager... then when the PC boots you will see the familiar prompt to select and OS. You may have to reactivate W7 though, I remember I did that with a Vista/XP dual boot and I had to reactivate Vista.

 

[boise49ers]

Re-Activate

well it should put the boot record for W7 into the boot manager... then when the PC boots you will see the familiar prompt to select and OS. You may have to reactivate W7 though, I remember I did that with a Vista/XP dual boot and I had to reactivate Vista.

So does that mean all I will have to do is boot to 7 again via-disk and it should re-activate it ?

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

So does that mean all I will have to do is boot to 7 again via-disk and it should re-activate it ?

You have to get 7 to appear in the boot manager agian by using the repair function on the disk. Once you can boot into 7 you do not need the disk any more. 7 MIGHT ask to be reactivated but I dont know for sure.

 

[boise49ers]

Done

OK did it that way and it just started booting to 7 instead. No choice. So I repaired XP also and it started booting to XP with no choice. I just went ahead and reformatted the 7 side also and all is good now. Guess I better use a anti virus program now. I hate running them on gaming machines though and dealing with blocks.
Some one told me earlier, I think in this thread about a d-links driver from some one else that work great. If some one knows which it is Please post up. I can't find it. I may end up hardwiring this machine so it willl smooth out the Lan Gaming.
Thanks !

 

[frankie827]

i've been doing alot of gaming in 7 recently
like GTAIV, Crysis, Crysis Warhead.
and tbh, everything seems smoother in 7 than it does in vista.
i think im becoming a windows 7 fan boy XD

 

[Mussels]

i had to move back off 7 on my LAN rig.

For whatever reason it was corrupting all LAN traffic to file shares, which umm, kinda defeated the purpose of the PC.

 

[pantherx12]

Both my laptop and desktop are still working great.

( We need positives too right? )

 

[frankie827]

i had to move back off 7 on my LAN rig.

For whatever reason it was corrupting all LAN traffic to file shares, which umm, kinda defeated the purpose of the PC.

thats very strange hahaha
ive had 7 on my rig since the public beta came out and i havent had any problems with it

 

[farlex85]

I lost the gadgets ability for some reason. It's getting a tad sluggish also. Potential, but it's not there yet, RC1 should be nice.

 

[frankie827]

I lost the gadgets ability for some reason. It's getting a tad sluggish also. Potential, but it's not there yet, RC1 should be nice.

well its certainly better than vista

 

[farlex85]

well its certainly better than vista

Perhaps, I still like vista more, but hopefully on final release 7 will be better, it's headed in the right direction.

 

[ShadowFold]

well its certainly better than vista

The 7000 build is nowhere near as good as Vista. I wasn't very impressed with it. I'm stickin with Vista until 7 goes retail and they iron out all the problems with it.

 

[johnnyfiive]

I've been running it for a while now without issues. I DID have an issue when I upgraded from Vista 64 to Windows 7 64. It would randomly blue screen for no reason. I reinstalled Vista 64 and my machine was working fine. The blue screens may have been caused by the upgrade, usually upgrades suck. Now, with a full clean install of Windows 7, everything is working fine.

 

[frankie827]

The 7000 build is nowhere near as good as Vista. I wasn't very impressed with it. I'm stickin with Vista until 7 goes retail and they iron out all the problems with it.

well we all have our own personal opinions. but ya, im also going to stick with vista as my main o/s until retail version of 7 comes out. i dont believe that its ready to come out as a retail version right now.