Mine crashed tonight.


It locked up and then went into hyper-slow mode, having gone into screen save. I had just set it to never go into SBY.

It had downloaded two updates 7672 and ???? and installed them. Prior to that it had stood by with no issues. I forced re-boot and here I am again as though nothing happened.

So, not totally solid yet.

Understood, but the point is that it didn't let me finish using that routine...oh, and I'd had a heck of a time trying to make the old method work with the - probably bogus - XP Pro that I had. But hey, didn't you help me with that one yourself?:ok:

Could you do a restore to a point just before the updates were downloaded? At least you would know if the updates are the issue.

Edited to note that the last updates were 70421-70424.

Windows 7 RC & Power DVD
 

For info - I run Windows 7 on my laptop. I can't fault it in anyway apart from Power DVD 7.3 which wont play bluray discs You now have to upgrade to DVD 9 version. Having done that they play very nicely through my Samsung LCD

Handy

I'm certainly not in full control yet. The upgrades were possibly after the last - indeed only - restore point, but I'm not sure. Good point though.

However, it's going well, and I like it more every hour. Seems so much more intuitive. I seem to be able to wade into the menus without too many references to Search, and when there, the choices seem to be straight off a Vista user's wish-list.



Crew

I suppose your laptop has a good graphics sub-system...question mark.


So far, Skype is still going strong, after loads of noise on the old OS.

Ok, back to playing with Win7. Happier now I figured out how to get ads blocked in IE8 (is quite simple really, once you know the files to look for). No real issues apart from no suitable webcam driver but that's hadly the end of the world

Yes, I have a creative camera that's getting a bit long in the tooth. It works well on XP but wouldn't install on Vista. Haven't tried it on W7


Some of these downloads have made me realize just how slow my Broad Band is. It's on me phone line and reports while loading 140k ish. My mate in the UK is getting 6M out of a promised 8.

A pal came round and tested my line in and out down the road...said it was good for the most expensive speed. Money wise, I'm probably going to have to go back to two tin cans and some string.:uhoh:

ALMOST had it working, after a bit of faffing around. Now doing a reinstall in WinXPSP2 compatibility mode to see if that does it. If not, methinks a tinny or two of "thinking juice" will be in order.

I will not be defeated by a mere computer!!

I'd suggest you use the Vista driver (where it's available) in Compatibility mode first. Right-click on the driver executable/installer file and select the Compatibility tab; click the checkbox 'Run this program in Compatibility mode' and select Windows Vista from the list, then try installing the device driver.

You can try the above for xp drivers and selecting the xp mode from the list.

My Yahoo scanned for viruses on an e with attachments from a friend.

the bar saying it was scanning, turned red, and at the end, there was a small Norton logo and some other writing I think. Where did this come from? Who uses Norton to check my mail? Is it Yahoo or even W7?

I haven't installed anything yet, but the firewall is on in W7



He had and has again scanned it with AVG...no probs.

I did, GG, but W7 recommended XPSP2. Now have it ALMOST working fully (can use the cam in things like Live Messenger) but the standalone proggie doesn't work YET

Loose Rivets, that will be Yahoo scanning with Norton

Edit:

Fully working now, thanks GG. Last time I listen to Microsoft!

That "I see what you're looking for: I'll find it for you" thing is very good, isn't it!

I installed RC1 on a new hard drive in my Thinkpad laptop. First time through, it said it had some problems with some of the hardware. Then it went off and found the drivers for the fingerprint recognition, the Thinkpad keys, and the strange LAN/WiFi stuff. The two printers (HP Laser, Canon colour inkjet) connected to the desktop and "shared" on the network it sorted "on the fly".
Everything is now up and working, and a lot faster than XP Pro, too.

What impressed me most was when I was trying to get some OCR software to work on the desktop. My prehistoric and very expensive ex-work 1990s vintage OCR won't work with Win 7 (it just did, with XP). I downloaded a couple of freebies to try, both of them pretty useless. Then it asked "I see you're trying to set up OCR. Would you like me to do it for you?" And it did! Win7's inbuilt one, which also recognised my antique scanner and found drivers for it.

I'm very impressed.

Anyone know what the price of Win 7 Ultimate released version is likely to be? I've seen Vista Ultimate at under £100 (upgrade version) and around £400 ("new" install).

Expensive :( ..................

Don't you mean "FMBWAS Expensive"?

Now to confuse it by trying my old US Robotics USB wireless doofer. The drivers for that would blue screen XPSP3 so this could get interesting

Well, it picked up the drivers for the WiFi dongle from Win update (something that doesn't happen on XP!!!) and it works with no issues whatsoever.

So, that's been this machine on Win7 since yesterday afternoon, not even felt like going back to XP, everything running sweetly on my system, which I cannot complain about when you consider it's low (for this day and age) specs

(AMD Athlon 2600XP
1GB RAM
Win 7 partition 63.7GB
GeForce FX5500 256Mb gfx card
Cheapo AC97 sound)

Hellsb
Must agree it's good after a spell of use (and trying to fix a friends useless vista laptop
7 rc (64 bit) faster than XP pro 64 bit in the same machine

Would love to set it up on stepkids quad core machine just to see the speed difference between it and Vista.


Oh, someone mentioned prices. I found this on another site, some rumoured prices allegedly leaked.

Windows 7 Pricing Details Leaked | Windows 7 Center

Gosh! I had a forum message from - and I paste - "the head of the marketing communication team at Microsoft so, no surprise, I'm using Windows 7."

I'm assuming this is for the UK, cos turns out he grew up in my home town in Essex. Anyway, he confirms the date above, and lot's of exciting stuff in the pipeline.


Adobe What's the situation with this? It doesn't offer a ver for Win 7, so will it run on another, or are we back to simulation...or worse? :(

What I don't want to do is fill the drive with non functional dross. Even though the idea is to experiment with 7, I still want to keep it reasonably functional as my main OS. XP home just standing by. Mmm...a bit of conflict there.

What will happen to Windows 7 RC after the offical launch?
 

Now Microsoft have indicated they will launch the OS later this year what will happen to everyone using the current RC version as Microsoft have indicated they will remove it by Jul/Aug 2010?

Your RC version will work fine until the trial period is up, and that means you have to buy a copy next year