what other nifty little short cuts are there?

 

Windows button plus "D" brings you to the desktop.

Windows button plus "E" brings you Explorer.

 

its been like that since... windows 95?

 

Oh.... NEW shortcuts...

I got nothing.

 

7 RTM works great.

 

Thanks.

Welcome.

(despite my current MOD imposed AV, I am the least homo guy around here)

 

so you cant change it?

 

Was going to install win7 64 tonight, but the dvd crack...need to make another one tomorrow.

 

Some corporate related notes...

The Key Management Services 1.2 update that supports Win 7 and 2008 R2 activation has been posted.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=968915

The ability to request a MAK key for Windows 7 has been added to the volume licensing web site.

The v1.0 release of the remote server administration tools for Windows 7 have been posted.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...5-4e344e43997d

 

Mizouse do yourself a favor and go read through the first few pages of this thread. All the new features like these have been listed by me many times. Especially the new "Arrange by: Penis" feature that Stogie was asking for!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQqMR...layer_embedded

 

Also Win+ any number launches the program that corresponds to that position on the taskbar. But that's been there since Vista's quick launch but still was a pretty unknown feature back then.

 

It appears that Win 7 may have reverted back to the OS discs being "tied" to a particular edition and distribution type like XP was. Not really a concern for the average individual, but a moderate PIA if you routinely help on other people's systems. What I want to know is if this only effects reinstalls or if it also effects the recovery console and repair functionality.

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=630

 

Ahh darn. I guess I'll skim thru the thread

 

 

hmm... I just ordered a new computer (Dell), and its coming with Vista, with a free upgrade to 7. When they send me the 7 disk, can I just install it over Vista or is it recommended to do a clean install? Obviously the former would save me a lot of work, but I want to install 7 in the most optimal way possible.

its Vista 64 premium.

thx in advance,

 

clean install is always better but in my experience upgrading Vista to 7 hasn't caused any abnormalties. Aren't you just gonna install XP anyways?

 

damnit.. haha no... 7.

that 3.5GB RAM limitation is a doozy.

 

3.5gb limitation? you talking about 32bit OS memory cap? What dell did you get? SSD?

 

XP Pro 32 can only see 3.5GB of RAM, I thought?

got a i7-975 Extreme with 8GB and 2x320 RAID 0. I'll be using external drives for storage.

Even if XP could support all 8GB's somehow, I think it's the right move to use 7 on this box.

 

yes due to the memory limitation of 32 bit it can only see 4gb. You do know that by going 8gb you're reduced to a dual channel memory setup instead of tri channel that 6gb or 12gb would've given you. How will you be able to sleep at night knowing that your system isn't running as fast as it possible could be? Your 3.33ghz quad core processor will now be starved for memory bandwidth!!!

 

hehe

 

thanks for the info

switching to 12.

 

HAHA! I knew that shit was gonna eat at you!

 

well, I did some reading.. I guess I thought memory = memory. Now, some places say it don't matter, but more places said it does.

 

didnt even realize that 8gb would only be dual channel

math > me.

 

FYI - Legitimate free copy of Win 7 professional if you attend one of Microsoft's "New Efficiency" launch events for Win 7/Server 2008 R2/Exchange 2010. It looks like they're being held in 25 major metro areas.

http://www.microsoft.com/business/thenewefficiency/

 

yeah I saw that! this was how I got my free copy of Office 2007 Pro! I signed up online and said I worked my company and went to a keynote and a couple sessions and then they gave you the free disc and I was out by 1pm. Definitely worth it if you're in the area. You don't even have to be in IT (I wasn't at the time). This time though they aren't coming to Tampa so it's not worth the 8-10hrs of driving to go to Miami and back.

What's funny was that a few months later MS calls for me at work (I was a server at a restaurant) to talk to me about deploying vista, I had to BS that call I get a call from work "umm, some guy from Microsoft called for you."

 

holy sh*t.. seriously? Vista 64 just BSOD'ed on me. WTF. First day of owning this computer. Haven't seen a BSOD on any of my other computers in AGES. Even my EIGHT YEAR OLD P4-2.26 - with XP Pro, of course. lol. Not saying that XP doesn't BSOD, just that I haven't encountered one in ages.

I know, user error, right.



Don't worry, I'll keep my bitching to a minimum. Overall, other than little things, like being unable to run COD4, Vista isn't so bad.

 

You were discussing changes to memory recently. Bad ram is a huge source of blue screens. Just resolved a case of bad ram on a workstation last week. I thought it was a bad driver or malware, but after it crashed during a service pack install on a fresh load, I went looking at hardware.

 

thanks - I havent changed the RAM yet.

 

what's the BSOD error code? Why don't your try bluescreen view.

http://lifehacker.com/5331615/bluesc...creen-of-death

but I'd say either driver or memory is probably your problem, especially on such a cutting edge setup like you got.

 

I will try that out... thanks

 

hey so if I took one of the memory sticks out and arranged the other 3 in the Triple configuration it would be better for my system, eh? I think I could "get by" with 6GB for a while.

I'm annoyed that Dell site says nothing about choosing a Triple config for the RAM on this kind of system - they make "recommendations" about other crap, why not this too.

 

From what I saw on the dell site it said that the 6gb,12 and 24gb was tri channel and the 8gb was dual.

 

I don't think you can even boot to Vista with only 6gb of RAM IDK how you'll survive with JUST 6gb, how primitive!

 

yeah. i know.

 

So what'd the error code say? DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL?

 

Another option for this is to uncheck "automatically restart" under startup and recovery so the BSOD will remain on the screen. doesn't always hold the screen even when you do uncheck it but still helpful in my experience.

 

ok, smarty pants. so, what does it mean.

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