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    Windows7 issues, post what you found

    I been using windows 7 x64, ever since beta came out on my main pc as my main OS despite MS telling me not to do it,

    So far i have found nothing wrong with it,

    2 small things i found seem buggy are

    I have installed flash player, works in firefox and works in IE but everything else says its not installed
    and the gadgety things dont seem to load up


    i was just wondering what did anyone else find buggy about it? that microsoft are trying to warn us about?
    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    now that i think about the word "throttled" in a certain light... its not so far different to strangled really

    our boiler broke so we has no heating or hot water, this is the bloody result ^^

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    Re: Windows7 issues, post what you found

    the ****in thing would not download and i gave up.

    Sorry for ruining the thread

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    Re: Windows7 issues, post what you found

    The things I have found

    It seems to jump the gun with the 'not responding on programs way to much', I've found that the end task does not always work and in some cases because of a mix of its thinking a app is not responding and the end tank in task mon apps just wont end and the only way is to logoff/hard reset
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    Re: Windows7 issues, post what you found

    On my main desktop (specs in my profile) I'm using Windows 7 x64.

    The graphics drivers are almost constantly reseting. Ati have a prerelease drivers package but it's for the 2000 series and above. If I try to watch a video the picture slowly becomes garbled, then the whole screen goes blank and when it comes back a popup says the graphics drivers had to be reset. It's worst in WMP12 but it happens in other video players. I think it only started happening after I swapped 2 x 1GB RAM for 2 x 2GB. I tried installing the Vista 64 drivers for the x1950 in compatibility mode but it just hangs on installation. Some people say that works.

    I've noticed other things not working but I can't remember what they were now.



    On my laptop, which is fairly old now, the sound driver installs but doesn't work and there are no graphics drivers available so the resolution is wrong. I suppose Windows 7 is not meant for that spec. It works ok on the laptop apart from that. The boot loader won't let me in to Windows XP now, most likely because I am a fool and changed the drive letter of the XP partition from within 7. I've tried a few fixes but none of them work.

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    Re: Windows7 issues, post what you found

    I'm probably really late - but I'm going to give it a try next week on me laptop.

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    Re: Windows7 issues, post what you found

    Photoshop CS4 still isn't quite right but so far it seems better on the new build.

    Graphics drivers for nVidia seem fairly stable. I say fairly, when in comparison to their drivers on Vista's release, which were absolutely terrible.
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    Re: Windows7 issues, post what you found

    Quote Originally Posted by Georgy291 View Post
    the gadgety things dont seem to load up
    This happens if you disable UAC, google for the registry hack to fix it

    AdBlockPro doesn't work too well with Win7/IE8 and I'm suffering from ads again though that is more likely an ABP problem.

    Otherwise I'm pretty happy with it (Win7)

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    Re: Windows7 issues, post what you found

    Quote Originally Posted by ANZAC_ELITE View Post
    This happens if you disable UAC, google for the registry hack to fix it

    AdBlockPro doesn't work too well with Win7/IE8 and I'm suffering from ads again though that is more likely an ABP problem.

    Otherwise I'm pretty happy with it (Win7)

    how did you know i disabled UAC? lol

    as for me the windows is really stable, and for the drivers

    i download vista 64 drivers and install them as if i had vista 64 and everything works
    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    now that i think about the word "throttled" in a certain light... its not so far different to strangled really

    our boiler broke so we has no heating or hot water, this is the bloody result ^^

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    Re: Windows7 issues, post what you found

    Quote Originally Posted by Georgy291 View Post
    how did you know i disabled UAC? lol
    Because it's a well-known bug with the sidebar - and you shouldn't of turned it off whilst we're at it
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    yeh bu it does my head in, with all the confirm windows, specially when its in a middle off a game
    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    now that i think about the word "throttled" in a certain light... its not so far different to strangled really

    our boiler broke so we has no heating or hot water, this is the bloody result ^^

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    Re: Windows7 issues, post what you found

    What the hell are you doing to get a UAC prompt in the middle of a game?

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    Re: Windows7 issues, post what you found

    When turning UAC off i didn't get poked in the eye with a posioned needle. That should happen.

    Also i just can't seam to get FLAC codecs to work on it
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: Windows7 issues, post what you found

    Quote Originally Posted by Georgy291 View Post
    yeh bu it does my head in, with all the confirm windows, specially when its in a middle off a game
    Errr, thats impossible. Unless you are attempting to change system settings while playing a game.

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    Re: Windows7 issues, post what you found

    installing something else?
    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    now that i think about the word "throttled" in a certain light... its not so far different to strangled really

    our boiler broke so we has no heating or hot water, this is the bloody result ^^

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    Re: Windows7 issues, post what you found

    Quote Originally Posted by Georgy291 View Post
    installing something else?
    So... wut? You're playing a game and you decide that it would be the ideal time to install something? Why would you even do that?

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