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  I was having problems with Hibernation on build 7077. Seems to be fixed in 7100. : tboomer2
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    Actually I had to turn off hibernation on 7100, not sure why won't start back up after now. : stonedonkey
    • I've had no problems with either x86 on the netbook or x64 on the workstation. Odd. : tboomer2
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  Loving it so far, but can't seem to get the beta nvidia drivers installed without borking my dual monitor... : stonedonkey
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    Are the native multi-monitor features pretty cool? : WhatIsThisFor
    • beats having to install ultramon :) : steve_o
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      It doesn't extend the task bar to the second monitor, and further keep the apps on the task bar correspon... : stonedonkey
      • there are some excellent WinKey shortcuts to move windows across monitors (winkey + shift + arrows) which... : derelict515
      • ultramon work on it? : podizzle
  • I installed it without any problems with my dual monitors. 8800 GTS 640mb : glio1337
• Just a couple issues. My install was bluescreening but was resolved with new video and network drivers. ... : stump
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  the mouse acceleration on my macbook drives me insane. I need to install the updated drivers to see if t... : mikecyb
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    did you get bootcamp to install properly? there are a few tricks to get around the way the dicks at appl... : smacknca
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      links plz : derelict515
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        Ok I'm a little fuzzy on how I did the order but I think its as follows: Download: http://support.app... : smacknca
        • Oh thank god you posted this. I'm glad I'm not the only BootCamp user with multiple drivers installed. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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      I just installed the 32-bit version of win7 because I didn't feel like dicking around. that works fine :... : mikecyb
      • though I just used the OSX disc that came with my macbook so I guess I'm still running 2.0. windows upda... : mikecyb
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        are you getting two finger right click? i dont have any mouse acceleration that im noticing but i rememb... : smacknca
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          yeah I have that, though it's bizarre. on the taskbar two-finger click seems to be a regular click and t... : mikecyb
          • i have the scroll speed problem as well, have yet to figure out how to fix that one. its fun to watch th... : smacknca
• Working pretty well so far. Glad Windows Backup will save backups on network drives that aren't NTFS for... : Arcanum
• No problems at all. It's a good OS. : Nitrium
• It runs really well on my 6 year old Inspiron 8500 with 2 GB of ram. I was pleasantly surprised : m0nkz
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  HELP ME: File sharing. I have a windows XP box with Professional Sharing enabled. From the Win7 box all i... : MaverickOrig
  • maybe it's the NTLM2 thingy? : Clay
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    Did you try changing the WORKGROUP to whatever your XP box is on? (not the HOMEGROUP) : pyide
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      yes. the workgroup matches. (good point though) : MaverickOrig
      • can you get there via IP? can you do the reverse share? : hamachi
  • turn of the homegroup stuff and disable passworded sharing : moshman
• Digging it so far. Got it hooked up to my HDTV, and it works great. : Conan
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  Installed it yesterday. I put it to sleep when I went to bed and in the morning it was back on again whic... : OverloadUT
  • it had a nightmare and something touched its mouse tail and woke it up. It could have been a bright ligh... : MaverickOrig
  • I have this too! Really annoying. : uncleanmonkey
  • I noticed I couldn't put Vista to sleep when it was set to always be available to share files or somethin... : hoov1185
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    Apparently you can run "powercfg lastwake" to see what caused the system to wake, then you can disable "allow this device to wake the computer from sleep" in the device manager.

    May 07, 2009 12:38pm PDT
    Apparently you can run "powercfg lastwake" to see what caused the system to wake, then you can disable "a... : uncleanmonkey
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  -Radmin server doesn't work at all which kind of sucks though it works great on '08 servers. -The 'int... : Scotty22
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    I don't understand your quicklaunch comment. : derelict515
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      Neither do I. You can pin shortcuts to the taskbar. They're not explicitly defined as a "quicklaunch ba... : Arcanum
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        Not a typical 'quick launch' bar where you can have little bitty tiny icons apart from the icons that are... : Scotty22
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          But that serves no purpose... you've created a separate toolbar with less functionality just for smaller ... : derelict515
          • I too missed the Quick Launch (and have seen a bunch of people saying that's retarded!) - I use the quick... : cause&effect
  • You don't just use the group policy drive maps? : rosewood
• - Windows Explorer froze the first time I run an EXE file. Killed the explorer process, run another one a... : vx2o
• Does shockwave + firefox not work in Windows 7? I'm getting a platform not supported message. : judoka2
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  I'm still on the Windows 7 release from January. I haven't read much about the RC, but is there any compe... : hohoh0
  • Native h264 support : phokz
• Posting here in the event that someone can help me: When you have multiple windows minimized to the tr... : hoov1185
• zero problems other than a sound issue, which was just a system setitng everything has worked : EvilDolemite
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  How many of you upgraded from Vista? : WhatIsThisFor
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    I did : skinlab133
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      Everything still working okay for you? What happened to the gadgets on your desktop after the upgrade? ... : WhatIsThisFor
      • I upgraded and nothing really changed. I think the only improvement I've noticed is that I can pin stuff... : handofthrawn
  • I did. Had to reinstall the Bootcamp software, but no problems otherwise. : Arcanum
• Things I don't like or haven't figured out yet: 1. Can't go \\computername and take a look at the sche : ghost in my shell
• I just noticed that the new version of RDP supports DirectX. Connected into my main workstation (which h... : tboomer2
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  Working great for me on a fairly new Toshiba laptop, except none of the media keys on the keyboard work b... : reznory
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    Have you tried the Vista driver? : WhatIsThisFor
    • the .exe from Toshiba wouldn't install on win7, and I don't know anything about manually extracting it an... : reznory
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  Feels exactly like the latest version of Vista to me, only a bit slower. : skinlab133
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    You're doing something seriously wrong. It's waaaaay way faster in every way. You have some weird har... : uncleanmonkey
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      waaaaaay faster is a bit of an exaggeration is it not : Yanks
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        Nope. : uncleanmonkey
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          Benchmarks seem to indicate it is, along with my experiences? : Yanks
          • Benchmarks indicates that it's waaaaay faster, yes. : uncleanmonkey
          • Please leave your experiences out of this experiences thread. : emcea
  • What? I dunno man, you must have installed something totally different than me, or your PC is pretty shi... : kainen1
• skype locks my computer up when it logs me in. pos. must be my soundcard or some other component. and old... : moshman
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  Been without fault for me, boots in 20 seconds, file I/O hell of a lot smoother than Vista. One thing I'v... : Kolpath
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    it _is_ immediate? : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
    • Correction, it IS immediate. : Kolpath
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    I get the impression the memory management is a LOT better than both XP and Vista x64 - I run both at hom... : cause&effect
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      Are you running a DX10 capable card? : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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        On the previously XP machine, got an 8800GTS 512mb, on the previously Vista machine, got a 7900GS. Both h... : cause&effect
        • I'm just wondering if the instant alt-tab is due to the Win7 driver model improvements which are only ava... : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
• It's been a couple of months (well, using 7000 and other beta builds) and no hiccups so far. : slax0r
• I had to install directx to get some games working, and the errors i got weren't much help at all at poin... : nem00
• Besides the fact that every file dialog I open crashes the program I open it from it's running fine :( : ysbreker
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  I've been using it the past couple days, and it seems pretty damn awesome. I've never used Vista and have... : one baby to another
  • Here's your expose clone: http://insentient.net/ : WhatIsThisFor
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    PDF: Quite possible. Adobe brought out the lawyers when MS tried to bundle save-to-PDF in Office so I wou... : nudel
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      MS have actually bundled save-to-PDF again with SP2 of Office 2007, so I'm assuming they've come to some ... : cause&effect
      • it's not that big of a deal to install Foxit anyway : Slowtreme
    • I really wonder who Apple blew at Adobe to incorporate native PDF support in OS X. It really should be fu... : emcea
• Preparing to do the install this afternoon. : ErikTehRed
• When my computer wakes up from sleep the mouse and keyboard and any USB devices don't work. And I finally... : menar003
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  Couldn't launch any Steam games, uninstalled, reinstalled, couldn't launch any Steam games... back to Vis... : deafstarr
  • Yikes, were you upgrading or installing from scratch? Were you getting any particular error messages? : WhatIsThisFor
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  Can't install :( I have an Asus DRW-2014L1T DVD-RW drive. The beta would not boot up at all; the RC bo... : chiisu81
  • Do you have a decently sized flash drive handy? http://www.thinkcomputers.org/index.php?x=articles&id=117 : AgentPothead
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  Ok, so don't pin something to the Start Menu and then remove it. The Start Menu stops displaying its con... : Arcanum
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    Yeah, open the start menu properties, change a setting and they'll reappear. : mrasparagus
    • As much as I wish this worked...it's not working. :( : Arcanum
• I just rolled it out to an office for their workstations. They love it too. : rosewood