Comment Feed for Windows 7 RC (Coffeehouse on Channel 9)

Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

JeremyJ — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:40:26 GMT

I still haven't figured out what is causing this but it does happen consitantly.

I log in as me with nothing running (except for messenger). I switch users to my wifes standard account and everything is unresponsive. I try to open up file explorer and it won't open. I try to search in the start menu and it will only let me type one letter. Very annoying. I don't really have many apps installed... mainly things like messenger, live mail, zune, and office. Has anyone else ran into this issue?

Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

stevo_ — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:25:18 GMT

Probably some app or driver keeping the system from idling.

Re: Windows 7 RC

Rickc — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:10:03 GMT

I installed Win7 RC last week and it's running well, but the screensaver doesn't work. It works when you preview it, but after the set time elapses it doesn't automatically start the screensaver. Any ideas?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

JonathonW — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:53:39 GMT

Up and running... drivers installed and all that good stuff.

Aero Glass works... window dragging is somewhat choppy with transparency turned on, but with it turned off, everything is pretty smooth.

This is on a Mini 12 with GMA 500... I'm surprised that it works as well as it does.

Experience Index of 2.2 (limited by the processor, which is a 1.6 GHz Atom); Aero graphics subscore of 2.9.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

JonathonW — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:58:31 GMT

I'm installing right now on my Mini 12 using a flash drive... Seems that installation from a flash drive is quite speedy.

Might be a neat feature to include in the next version of Windows: have a utility included on the DVD that automatically prepares the drive and copies the DVD's contents over. This will be even more important as dvd-drive-less machines (like netbooks) become more and more popular, as installation from Flash on those machines isn't just something that would be nice; you can't install without it.

(edit: at Completing Installation now... while composing this post, I went all the way from about 50% on Expanding files to the reboot. Not too shabby.)

Re: Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

intelman — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:29:20 GMT

Well, I sent in problem reports, it is all in Microsofts hands now. At least tab recovery works well.

I think perhaps my issue was related to

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=970858

Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

JonathonW — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:01:13 GMT

The new Paint icon is totally a throwback to Windows 3.1 Paintbrush:

Therefore, it is automatically awesome in my book ;)

I like the new control panel icon; at least it kind of resembles a control panel now. I'm indifferent on the Calculator and Notes icons... it's a little clearer what they are and they fit better with the refreshed Windows 7 icons, but since there are (I believe) only about 10 different icons, I'd expect them to fit... they're kind of defining the style :P

As soon as I do a backup and get my USB drive prepared, I'm going to be pulling the trigger on Win7 on my Mini 12. Wish me luck!

Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

stevo_ — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:44:43 GMT

Yep.

Re: Windows 7 RC

brian.shapiro — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:41:47 GMT

The RC is a lot faster for me than the beta. And thankfully, while the beta rated my disk transfer rate at 2.0, the RC rates it back at 4.5 where it should be.

The only thing I really don't like about the RC are the new icons for things like Paint, Control Panel, Calculator, Notes, etc... Does anyone here think they look better?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

webmonkey — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:27:07 GMT

I'm now on my 5th download. Download manager hasn't resumed it just started the whole thing all over again, I don't think I can actually be bothered any more so if it doesn't work this time I'll wait a few weeks.

Re: Windows 7 RC

Go Microsoft !!!!!!! — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:37:40 GMT

New Nvidia Driver for Notebook (Windows 7 )

GeForce Release 185 for Notebooks

185.81

April 30, 2

Link

This driver supports GeForce 8M, 9M, 100M, and 200M-series notebook GPUs. Refer to the Products Supported tab for the list of supported GPUs and notebooks. Some notebooks are not supported by this release.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

webmonkey — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:41:21 GMT

Downloaded again through the DL manager, it got to the end and told me that was corrupt too.

Let's hope it's third time lucky.

Re: Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

webmonkey — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:34:38 GMT

Thanks, my file is indeed corrupt.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

CreamFilling512 — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:24:22 GMT

They have not doubled. Anyway I can't think of a scenario where you'd want to disable the paging file. The system is broken without a page file, and you will get out of memory errors and performance degradation.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

Sven Groot — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:22:09 GMT

Virtual PC 7 requires VT, period. It won't work at all without it. It's a lot slower than VPC 2007 though, and with the new integration features enabled the guests are limited to 16 bit colour. With the integration features disabled there is no way to get files from the host to the guest because folder sharing is gone and dragging files into the VM also doesn't work anymore.

It also still doesn't support x64 guests which is really annoying because it means I can't install Windows Server 2008 R2 in a VM (unless I use VMWare instead).

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

JonathonW — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:06:51 GMT

Debating whether or not to try it on my Mini 12... is it worth a try on such a limited machine? (Windows XP works fine on it, but Vista is supposedly unacceptably slow)

Better yet, has anyone tried it themselves (on the Mini 12 or on a similarly specced machine)?

1.6 GHz Atom, 1 GiB RAM (non-upgradable :(), Intel GMA 500 (on which Aero wouldn't work on the Beta... the DWM would crash when using the Vista drivers).

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

Elmer — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:59:08 GMT

Yep, that's the Win7 VPC beta, which is fine if using Win7 as a VPC Host, but not much use for using Win7 as a guest on VISTA.

Still, I wonder why, if they can make Win7 VPC support transparency and aero (even if emulated) VPC-2007-SP1 on VISTA doesn't provide similar functionality.

Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

CKurt — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:27:52 GMT

It loads superfast using Windows + E and remembers the view settings. Libraries is a nice addition to (you might have read something about that). The Favorits pane is integrated with the tree view wich is nice. It looks a lot cleaner too.

Re: Windows 7 RC

rhm — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:48:12 GMT

I haven't had a change to check out win7 yet, but I'm curious to know if Windows Explorer has been improved at all from the horrific usability mess that it is in Vista? Please say yes. please.

Please noone claim that there's nothing wrong with windows explorer in Vista - there's virtually nothing right with it.

Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

CKurt — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:35:58 GMT

Very stable with me to!

Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

PaoloM — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:08:01 GMT

Funny, as IE was quite unstable in the Beta and never crashed on me in the RC.

Re: Windows 7 RC

intelman — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:37:00 GMT

IE8 is horrible in RC1. It crashes quite a bit.

Re: Windows 7 RC

sushovande — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:52:40 GMT

I was really excited by this post highlighting that the "New Folder" button would be always be available in Explorer. But I hadn't counted on it being the last item! Now every time I want to create a folder, I have to hunt on the toolbar for the location, whereas in the Beta, it was consistently in the 2nd position.

Windows Explorer team: if a button does the same thing and does not change in appearance, could we have it in a fixed position please?

Re: Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

androidi — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:45:53 GMT

Just edited my post to include the 32 bit sha1 after dl finished. It's a match.

Re: Re: Windows 7 RC

sushovande — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:37:15 GMT

Long posted the MD5 a while ago (though it was the hash from a non-official source) - here it is, can someone confirm though?

CRC32: E8A1C394
MD5: 8867C13330F56A93944BCD46DCD73590
SHA-1: 7D1F486CA569EFFFFB719CFB48355BB7BF499712