hmm. I checked and yes it is read only, in fact all the folders in there are read only. And, I can't set them to not read only. It says the same permission error.

 

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...I7SNNT_enUS337

 

danke - I'll try taking ownership of my own files. hope it works.

nice feature, there..

 

wow, i just noticed that windows 7 automatically switches over the default audio device when i change it.
(i have a USB gaming headset and regular speakers hooked up)

with vista and xp i had to close the program and restart it for it to switch over.

 

wow really. thats great because i have the same thing.

costco has windows 7 for pre-sale at $114.

 

HP has got really cool stuff coming out with Windows 7. Their Touchsmart software just got updated and adss some cool features including Netflix, Hulu, Recipes, music and of course Windows7 running underneath.

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It comes in a 20 and 23in model priced at $899 and $1049 respectively. HP will release a business oriented version of the touchsmart 9100 as well and it will have real-time info (whatever that means) and HD video conferencing. Also they're updating their existing tx2 multitouch tablet with this software as well. Cool Stuff. I'd only be interested in the tx2 but I'd go to best buy and play with this new stuff.

A review of the Touchspart all in one is here
http://gizmodo.com/5380088/hp-touchs...yline=true&s=x

 

Just for you Stogie there will be a Windows 7 sponsored version of Family Guy

This just screams FAIL! Hopefully it's not as bad as I think it's gonna be. I was however able to find a screenshot from one of the scenes in the upcoming episode.

 

meh

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Well my order is in. I should have all the parts by the middle of next week and I'm assuming the OS pre-order early the following week. Looks like I have a fighting shot of being up and running by the end of the month.

x64 Ultimate (OEM)
X58-based Motherboard
i7-920
6 GB DDR3
AMD 5870 video card (Two! )
150 GB WD Velociraptor for the OS
Corsair 1000W Modular P/S
Coolermaster Cosmos Case

The only bummer was that Newegg was sold out of both the 1 and 2 TB Caviar Black drives that I planned to use for data. Considering what I spent on everything else, I'll probably just bite the bullet and pick them up at Worst Buy.

I decided to stick with the X58/920 combo since it supports full 16x/16x dual GPU operation and that Intel supposedly said the first gen of consumer six core processors would work only on an X58 board and not a P55.

 

 

I'm curious why you chose the X58/i7 920 combo over the P55/i7 860 that I went with? Triple channel DDR3? From the benchmarks I've seen in most cases the 860 outperforms the 920 or the are the same, throw in the cheaper price for the mobos and RAM and I was sold. No SSD!?!?

Speaking of which I got my Intel SSD up and running and this shit is fast. I installed W7 from a USB flash drive to the SSD in about 12 minutes compared to 15min when installing from USB to normal HDD. W7 boots in about half the time and apps open instantly, Photoshop CS4 64-bit opens in about 1 second and Premiere Pro CS4 in about 2-3 seconds. I can go and open apps one after another an they just pop open. Pretty cool! Unfortunately it didn't speed up my internet connection which currently is teh suck. It is free so that's great but hopefully tomorrow I'll find out if I'm gonna get upgraded to something faster than 2mbps ADSL.

Now my i7 860 is pretty sweet, yesterday I was running handbrake and encoded dvd to h.264 at about 115fps and with the same settings my old q6600 quad core only did about 55fps. These two-pass encodes still take forever though.

 

Need to build a new machine. May have to get those specs from you...

 

i think he answered it right there...

 

When are Laptop manufacturers going to get wise to the customization trend and allow people to upload their art/images for use as the cover graphic?

I mean, if Capital One can do it so can Dell.

 

i already patented the idea!!! im going to be rich!!!

 

OH yeah. Sorry. I'm not a gamer so I'm never going to go SLI or crossfire. If they ever release another device that requires 16x maybe I'll care. 6 core, I can't even max out my quad w/HT.

 

MSI p55-GD65 $160

OCZ DDR3 4gb dual channel 7-7-7-20 $80

Core i7 860 $250 that's $40 under list price!

Intel X-25M 80gb $240 Newegg's still selling it for $290 and were selling it as high as $350!

Kept my 550w PS, case, hard dive, and optical drives no need to upgrade those. Still waiting for Nvidia's new GPUs to come out, they're supposed to kick serious ass at GPGPU computing.

I notice that this new system is much more powerful than my last yet at idle it uses 35w less power! I did dismantle my WD Raptor RAID 0 and replaced it with an SSD so that should've saved me a lot of power.

 

The beta build of Firefox 3.6 has tab preview support in the W7 taskbar. It's still a beta so it's got some bugs.



You can download the beta build here
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...1/win32/en-US/

 

So not rendering the AZ page is the only bug or is the most significant bug?

 

I'm sure there's other bugs, all software has bugs but in regards to the tab previews yeah it doesn't display one tab sometimes.

 

I guess I should mention it here. My job is having a Windows 7 launch party (not my idea). They didn't sign up through the launchparty.com website so we don't get a free version of W7 Ultimate but I guess we're getting some shirts, flash drives and a free copy of O2k7 Ultimate. Also MS is covering $200 is supplies including alcohol so my boss went and bought $300 in snack, beer and waffle mix! It's on Oct 22 from 3-7 EST, you guys can come if you want!

The things is no one at my job has really played with W7 it wasn't until just this week that they installed it to start messing with it So I think I'll be doing the demos cause they don't know shit.

 

 

I would go, but I couldn't even get there before 8.

 

If you serve waffles there, it will be awesome.

 

Beer and waffles????

 

Bill Gates just text me and said if there's waffles he'll be there. Oh and I'm making chocolate covered bacon.

 

yeah I thought of inviting you but it's two hours away and probably won't be that fun. Well IDK there's a lot to drink so, maybe.

 

Gosh a Windows release party. Will there be a walkie-talkie giveaway as a door prize?

 

I guess the reason why were doing this is cause we never get to see our clients unless there is something wrong. So it is a chance to hangout and build stronger relationships with our good clients. Hopefully if they like what they see they might put an upgrade to W7 in the budget and that would be increased business for us. Add in the fact the MS is paying $200 for the supplies doesn't seem like a bad idea to have one.

 

Something I just noticed today, you can use it for a demo: try to rename/delete a file that's in use. Win7 now tells you what application is using the file. Sometimes little things like that can make an impression.

Unfortunately, I can't replicate using common Windows programs. WMP lets you delete stuff while it's playing the file. Notepad and picture viewer don't lock files, either. I was able to do it trying to rename a PDF while it was open in Acrobat.

Vista:


Windows 7:

 

I'd like to know quickly what program is using my flash drive that's not allowing me to eject it. I hear sysinternals process explorer will let me know but I'd rather not open that.

 

So in the next few days I'm going to be getting my niece either a thin-n-light which is the product in between netbooks and laptops. I'm leaning towards the new Acer 1810TZ 11.6in Timeline. It comes with:

Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU Type Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo SU4100 (1.3GHz)
Screen 11.6"
Resolution 1366 x 768
Memory Size 3GB DDR2
Hard Disk 320GB
Graphics Card Intel GMA 4500MHD
Video Memory Shared memory
Communication Gigabit LAN and WLAN
Dimensions 11.2" x 8.03" x 0.87-1.18"
Weight 3.08 lbs.
LAN 10/100/1000Mbps
WLAN 802.11b/g/Draft-N
Bluetooth Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
Multi-touch trackpad
Webcam
Multi-Card reader
8+ hrs battery life
MSRP $549

This little thing is sick nasty!

 

hey fucktard! you do know that the resource monitor in Windows 7 will tell you what process is using what file on every disk, right? Who bothered to spawn you, and why!?

 

my work is in the middle of a massive firm-wide reimaging project. the OS? XP. ;p

 

 

i think i might just milk my RC until i HAVE to install a retail version.

i dont want to have to deal with losing my info on my iphone.

 

 

dont know a way around it.

but when i formatted from vista to win7 RC, itunes said that my iphone was already synced to another computer and that i would have to erase all the contents to be able to use it

i did a little hacking and changed the itunes library key or whatever its called to what my old computer had.

i was able to get back all the apps and stuff, but all the information in the apps were gone, it was like starting new.

if you know how to get around it, please share

 

i don't have an iphone but use itunes and i've reloaded my machine numerous times and always had itunes work without issue. I just always copy the entire itunes folder(its in your profile folder) over to the machine which contains the library files.

Did you copy any files?

 

The best way to transfer iTunes is to copy the iTunes folder in that's located in the My Music folder to an external drive. Then once you complete the W7 upgrade you can copy the folder back to the new My music folder BEFORE installing iTunes. Then install iTunes and it should just update the files if needed. I'm not sure if you'll have to delete everything off your iphone or not. I'm not sure, it's been too long. Since I don't use my iPhone as my music device I really don't care about syncing to my PC. I just plug it into my PC to do updates and that's it. I can download apps, music and movies directly to the device and I get my contacts, and calendar updates over activesync exchange connection. If I really need to I can email a note to myself.