Microsoft: Windows 7 and Office 2010 Thread
#281
Drifting
Did anyone else install the x64 version? I'm running it on my 3.2ghz P4 machine and I'm having problems with my wi-fi card, I installed the drivers for it but it seems to have problems staying connected to my network. The only fix is to manually disable and then re-enable the wifi card and then it'll work for a while til it does it again. This is the first hardware problem I've had with this PC, the card worked fine with 32 bit win 7. If I installed Vista drivers do think that'd solve the problem? I've heard of people install graphics card drivers designed for Vista and I guess it seems to work but I never tried cause I'm weary of installing drivers from a different OS, program sure, I can use compatability mode but drivers....
I am using a atheros n card in a laptop though, I don't put allot of faith in this companies driver support. I do find that my connection to my linksys 310n router is allot more reliable than my connection to my d-link di-624 54g router though.
No idea if vista drivers will help.
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Vista x64 drivers should work just fine.
XP drivers work too in some cases (this applies to both 32 bit and 64 bit)
XP drivers work too in some cases (this applies to both 32 bit and 64 bit)
#283
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^I was showing my friend (who's a girl that is decently computer literate) Win 7 and she seemed to like it. She thought the Aero Peek and Aero snaps feature were really cool. As soon as she sat down with it she started snapping windows to the sides of the screen and I'm like why are you doing that you don't need to do that right now, she's like "IDK it's fun!" then when I told her about the desktop background can be rotated automatically she got reall excited cause she's taken some good pics of Paris and would love to have them change all the time.
She wants to buy this desktop with Win 7 off of me but it needs to run Office XP and the wifi problem needs to be fixed.
She wants to buy this desktop with Win 7 off of me but it needs to run Office XP and the wifi problem needs to be fixed.
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Yeah I put 7 on my fiancee's computer, she likes how the backgrounds rotate too. We have a lot of pictures of our dog. She also likes how the gadgets can be placed just about anywhere.
Seems like M$ actually took the constructive criticism of Vista to heart.
Seems like M$ actually took the constructive criticism of Vista to heart.
#285
Big Block go VROOOM!
Seriously though, that stuff your friend liked is gadgety tweaks. Those are fine and dandy to place as priorities for the OS choice on a new machine. But c'mon, you're telling me that aero snaps and rotating desktop backgrounds are worth the effort to wipe a functioning Vista machine and install an new OS? I don't think so.
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If you want to remove the "evaluation copy" watermark on the lower right..
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/0...de-on-desktop/
At the bottom it also has a link to remove the "send feedback" at the top of various explorer screens
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/0...de-on-desktop/
At the bottom it also has a link to remove the "send feedback" at the top of various explorer screens
#287
I'm fully working now inWin 7 on my 64 bit 2.8Ghz laptop.
So far so good, the only thing I've lost was my on screen MediaSmart.. On my HP as I glide my hand over, it does change volume, bass, treble..etc...but I do not get a confirmation on the screen. HP does not have MediaSmart available for download. I've cheated, and used the Recovery Drive, and yet it does not like Windows 7, it freezes.
So far so good, the only thing I've lost was my on screen MediaSmart.. On my HP as I glide my hand over, it does change volume, bass, treble..etc...but I do not get a confirmation on the screen. HP does not have MediaSmart available for download. I've cheated, and used the Recovery Drive, and yet it does not like Windows 7, it freezes.
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Seriously though, that stuff your friend liked is gadgety tweaks. Those are fine and dandy to place as priorities for the OS choice on a new machine. But c'mon, you're telling me that aero snaps and rotating desktop backgrounds are worth the effort to wipe a functioning Vista machine and install an new OS? I don't think so.
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Seriously though, that stuff your friend liked is gadgety tweaks. Those are fine and dandy to place as priorities for the OS choice on a new machine. But c'mon, you're telling me that aero snaps and rotating desktop backgrounds are worth the effort to wipe a functioning Vista machine and install an new OS? I don't think so.
#290
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and most people aren't upgrading from Vista they're upgrading from Xp and this is a huge improvement over XP. Not to mention it's faster in virtually every aspect and has better battery life.
#291
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Such as..? I've honestly come across relatively little that says in a straight forward manner "From an end user point of view, here's why Windows 7 is better than Vista." I'm not trying to dump on Win 7 by saying that. I'm just trying to say that if an end user already has a Vista machine, I've seen relatively little that would motivate that average end user to go through the trouble of replacing the OS on their machine.
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Ok a few more questions:
- If I want to install multiple copies of Windows 7, can I use the same key over and over? Like in a VM, on my desktop, on my laptop etc. Is it one key per Windows Live ID or do you need to go back and get more keys?
- I heard of the snap features but what's aero peek?
- What's the background rotation do?
- If I want to install multiple copies of Windows 7, can I use the same key over and over? Like in a VM, on my desktop, on my laptop etc. Is it one key per Windows Live ID or do you need to go back and get more keys?
- I heard of the snap features but what's aero peek?
- What's the background rotation do?
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#295
I definitely noticed the battery life has improved on my laptop. I've spend good 4 hours playing and installing my software.
Believe it or not I still haven't played with the aesthetic of windows, snap to edge, rotating background... Never cared for eye-candy. I wanted a faster and more stable OS.... I think Win 7 is a good start. (The funniest thing that is still Vista's kernel, just much much better coded. B+ for Microsoft)
Believe it or not I still haven't played with the aesthetic of windows, snap to edge, rotating background... Never cared for eye-candy. I wanted a faster and more stable OS.... I think Win 7 is a good start. (The funniest thing that is still Vista's kernel, just much much better coded. B+ for Microsoft)
#296
Big Block go VROOOM!
Quite true and I indeed did ask why one would upgrade a Vista machine. If you think about it though, most of the same principles that would theoretically motivate someone to upgrade a Vista machine could probably also be applied to those people who specifically avoided Vista because it didn't really buy them anything over XP. There's certainly a whole hell of a lot of people (well, users at companies) that are in that boat.
#297
I'm finally downloading the beta. It wouldn't download on my Mac (I'll be running it in a VM), it couldn't download on FireFox on XP, so I finally had to use IE to download it. Annoying, but at least it's finally downloading.
#298
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Ok a few more questions:
- If I want to install multiple copies of Windows 7, can I use the same key over and over? Like in a VM, on my desktop, on my laptop etc. Is it one key per Windows Live ID or do you need to go back and get more keys?
- I heard of the snap features but what's aero peek?
- What's the background rotation do?
- If I want to install multiple copies of Windows 7, can I use the same key over and over? Like in a VM, on my desktop, on my laptop etc. Is it one key per Windows Live ID or do you need to go back and get more keys?
- I heard of the snap features but what's aero peek?
- What's the background rotation do?
Aero Peek is where the open windows turn to glass and you can see right through them. So if you have 5 open windows on your desktop and you want to peek at one of your gadgets floating on the desktop you just take your cursor to the lower right corner and turn all windows to glass and shows you the desktop. this works on all other windows too.
Here's two pics that demonstrate the before and after of Aero peek using that little desktop preview thing in the lower right corner.
And these two show how to use aero peek with an application window
Also if you have all these windows open and you want to minimize all of them except the one you're working on, you just grab the window you want to keep at it's title bar and shake it like a salt shaker and that will minimize all other open windows.
#299
^ You see that little preview box you are getting of your firefox.. I don't get that, I just get a breakdown of the title that's open..
Teach the noob.
Teach the noob.
#301
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The who for the what?
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#304
Big Block go VROOOM!
Smarter Quick Launch? We may be talking about two different things. In the screenshot Doucher posted above, the Paint application has the same ribbon interface that was introduced with Office 2007. On the one hand, user interface consistency is a good thing. On the other hand, I can't tell you how many deer-in-the-headlights looks I've received when showing Office 2007 to average users at work. If the ribbon application interface is even moderately pervasive in Windows 7, that's going to be a pretty damn tall hurdle for deploying it in my organization. I'm starting to foresee myself writing an "everyone needs to just stop bitching and step up to the plate" position paper before the end of Q1.
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I have to say, it would be nice if they included a "classic menu" option in both Office 2007 and whatever new apps will use the ribbon interface. I am not a fan, and not through lack of use, just ease of use (Office).
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Smarter Quick Launch? We may be talking about two different things. In the screenshot Doucher posted above, the Paint application has the same ribbon interface that was introduced with Office 2007. On the one hand, user interface consistency is a good thing. On the other hand, I can't tell you how many deer-in-the-headlights looks I've received when showing Office 2007 to average users at work. If the ribbon application interface is even moderately pervasive in Windows 7, that's going to be a pretty damn tall hurdle for deploying it in my organization. I'm starting to foresee myself writing an "everyone needs to just stop bitching and step up to the plate" position paper before the end of Q1.
#308
Big Block go VROOOM!
OK, here's a question or two that may have already been answered. The machine I have at work that I'd want to test this on has two drives. The first drive (SATA 0 connection) is partitioned into a C: and a D:. I can't really move or rearrange anything on this drive. The second drive has gobs of available space I could use to install the beta.
A) Am I correct in assuming that I shouldn't have any problems installing the Win 7 beta into the unused space on my second (SATA 1 connection) physical drive?
B) If yes to above, am I correct in assuming that I'll still end up with the Win 7 beta boot loader on my first physical drive (SATA 0)?
What I'm concerned about is what's going to happen when the beta expires. The last thing I want to have happen is that I finish evaluating the Windows 7 beta, get rid of it, but then have to redo everything over again just to somehow update the boot loader to RTM code.
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a) No, that is what I did on my home machine. and yes it will update the boot loader on disk 0.
You will just have to go into disk management and assign drive letters to the first 2 partitions if you want them seen by windows 7.
B) yes, but you can change the default option to be vista as the default boot. and it shouldn't matter because looking at what they did, it is just the vista boot loader anyway.
You will just have to go into disk management and assign drive letters to the first 2 partitions if you want them seen by windows 7.
B) yes, but you can change the default option to be vista as the default boot. and it shouldn't matter because looking at what they did, it is just the vista boot loader anyway.
#310
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Yeah, I like the ribbon interface as well and as long as it's just paint and notepad that are using it, then it's a non-issue as far as the OS is concerned.
OK, here's a question or two that may have already been answered. The machine I have at work that I'd want to test this on has two drives. The first drive (SATA 0 connection) is partitioned into a C: and a D:. I can't really move or rearrange anything on this drive. The second drive has gobs of available space I could use to install the beta.
A) Am I correct in assuming that I shouldn't have any problems installing the Win 7 beta into the unused space on my second (SATA 1 connection) physical drive?
B) If yes to above, am I correct in assuming that I'll still end up with the Win 7 beta boot loader on my first physical drive (SATA 0)?
What I'm concerned about is what's going to happen when the beta expires. The last thing I want to have happen is that I finish evaluating the Windows 7 beta, get rid of it, but then have to redo everything over again just to somehow update the boot loader to RTM code.
OK, here's a question or two that may have already been answered. The machine I have at work that I'd want to test this on has two drives. The first drive (SATA 0 connection) is partitioned into a C: and a D:. I can't really move or rearrange anything on this drive. The second drive has gobs of available space I could use to install the beta.
A) Am I correct in assuming that I shouldn't have any problems installing the Win 7 beta into the unused space on my second (SATA 1 connection) physical drive?
B) If yes to above, am I correct in assuming that I'll still end up with the Win 7 beta boot loader on my first physical drive (SATA 0)?
What I'm concerned about is what's going to happen when the beta expires. The last thing I want to have happen is that I finish evaluating the Windows 7 beta, get rid of it, but then have to redo everything over again just to somehow update the boot loader to RTM code.
#311
Big Block go VROOOM!
Thanks for the advice. Of course, this potential play time hits just at the same time as a mountain of actual work landed on my desk. Such is life.
#313
In regards to 2007 ribbon interface, I do not like it. I prefer the 2003 version. Robust yet affective.
Installing Win 7 is a breeze, you should not have a problem installing it in any unllocated space. I shrank my main drive, gave it 50 GB, and install Win 7 on it. As long as you install the older versions first you will have no problem. example Windows XP < Vista < Win 7, Linux is to be installed last.
Installing Win 7 is a breeze, you should not have a problem installing it in any unllocated space. I shrank my main drive, gave it 50 GB, and install Win 7 on it. As long as you install the older versions first you will have no problem. example Windows XP < Vista < Win 7, Linux is to be installed last.
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*cough* flashget *cough*
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I'm just waiting for sarlacc to say he's downloading it