Vista and Windows 7 - reactions

[Camrada]

heyCamrada,
what i mean is all the WLM conversations are under one stack WLM icon. on every version of windows except windows 7 every conversation had a seprate window. that way i know who sent me a message. when every conversation is under one icon and the icon flashes i have to hover over the icon and look at all the windows to find out who sent me a message. do you know what i mean?

Yep, right-click on taskbar, properties, look at the options for "Taskbar buttons" - combine when full, always combine or never combine... combine = group

[Camrada]

woop learned something new in vista. step 5. i had no idea you could open up the the directory in cmd using the context menu.

pretty cool huh...

what i think is pretty cool and possibly new with W7 is the "open in new window" option on the context menu of directories, which takes this a step further... I've found that incredibly useful and only been playing with it a couple days, lol...

[Camrada]

oopsie, so excited posted msg twice, lol

[format]

Windows media player is now completely broken - not only does it not respond to any clicks, it won't shut down in the task manager, and it stops windows like the control panel and my computer loading up.
Wonder if it's got something to do with drive emulation.

[dangel]

That's no happened to me and i'm using it full-time at work now

[format]

I think these problems only appeared after I installed drive emulation software... I can't be sure of it though.

[Splash]

Uninstall the drive emulation software or system restore to find out

Then submit a bug report to Microsoft.

[format]

The uninstall program crashed, and the bug submitter crashed too, back on vista now.
I'll have another crack later.

[arthurleung]

I managed to get a number of things to crash in Windows 7.

After a week of "normal" use with windows explorer, firefox, Live messenger, I've had:
2 User Profile thingy stop responding
3 Windows manager thingy stop responding
4 windows explorer crashes (mostly with copying over network shares, also crash with Vista)

[j.o.s.h.1408]

i have been using vista ultimate at work since early last year and i admit i have not have any issues with it so far besides it wanting to update itself from time to time preventing me from start doing my work until the updates finished.

other then that its been fine and very fast indeed.

because of my experience with using it at work, i know took the plunge and installed it on my home machine last weekend. still early days but i did have a horrible time getting it to work from my i7 rig.

i had to reinstal and format for vista twice as the first time i got a BSOD whilst installing my mobo drivers,doing a bit of overclocking and forcing the resolution to my native settings without installing the GPU drivers

at first i thought it was my OC but even when i put it back on stock, vista still would not load, even on safe mode so reckon it was the OC that made my pc crash whilst installing an important driver that messed up my OS.

2nd time round i learned my lesson, no OC and no playing around with any other settings untill all drivers were installed and so far, it has been running fine. firefox works, office works and a couple of games such has crysis and cod4 worked(fallout3 had issues starting, apparently i have mounted a dvd image of the game according to securom. how can i when fallout 3 was teh first thing i installed straight off my retail disk?).

so far vista is running really well but i am considering installing xp again if vista gives me more headache's.

o the joys and wonders of pc's eh

[TheAnimus]

o the joys and wonders of pc's eh

Only when you take them outside their spec!

[dangel]

..

So to summarise:

1. should set updates to notify before download/install
2. shouldn't overclock your PC until you've got everything running first

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Only when you take them outside their spec!

o if you mean by overclocking stuff then dont worry. im going to play around with that this week

the thing is, my wife doesn't like me tweaking it just in case i break it and have to format it again even though its my bloody pc!

[Lee H]

2. shouldn't overclock your PC until you've got everything running first

Yeah, I've always done this and never had issues installing windows... well unless you class the "press F6 for drivers SCSI" a small issue

[arthurleung]

Yeah, I've always done this and never had issues installing windows... well unless you class the "press F6 for drivers SCSI" a small issue

When I get a new system I install XP64 for overclocking. When it get so unstable there would be some random system file corruption that XP64 would notify me on the taskbar.

Then a week of overclocking-priming test to get it to 99.99% stability (72 hours stable then a click up on voltage).

After that I reinstall windows to whatever version I want, no problem with installing overclocked.

I find that is actually more stable, since if I go back to stock, then go back to overclock, most of the time it would screw up even though the settings are the same.

[Deadlight]

I installed the Win7 beta on my lappy last night, and I was surprised to see that this is all but Vista with a lick of paint.