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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
  • 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 haven't used XP much since 2006 when I turned into a macfag.
  
  Couple of questions:
  
  Why is there no out of the box support for viewing PDFs? Something to do with all the antitrust stuff?
  
  What are "Sticky Keys"? Apparently at some point I pressed the Shift key 5 times, which triggers a box to pop up asking me if I want to enable Sticky Keys. wut
  
  Is there some equivalent to OS X's Expose? I feel like I'm handicapped without it.

  May 07, 2009 1:24pm PDT
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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