Windows 7 installation experience | The Coffeehouse

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

- I throw in my 64 Bit DVD

- BAM "The application failed to initialze properly (0xc0000006). click on to terminate the application" (you cannot click!)

- Restart

- BAM BSoD

- Restart

- throw in my 32 Bit DVD

- Everything works fine (although SLOW)

- Decide I don't want 32 Bit installed...

Now i need a replacement 64 bit DVD. Damn you Microsoft!

LeoDavidson

In reply to ManipUni

#Oct 22nd @ 12:39 PM

Try making a copy of the DVD and booting that.

The Win7 installer seems fragile when it comes to DVD misreads so you might find the same drive can read & copy the DVD fine in Windows itself and then the copy might work better. Could be worth burning the copy at a slow speed, too.

Alternatively, you could make a USB boot HDD or USB stick, if you have suitable one lying around, and install off of that. Assuming the DVD can be read in Windows, of course, and that it is actually the DVD that's causing that error (not some hardware/BIOS/driver issue during the install).

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

In reply to LeoDavidson

#Oct 22nd @ 12:50 PM

I might have to.

Seems like most things Microsoft doesn't support replacement media for non-US/Canada customers. You go around and around in circles on Microsoft.com with A->B->C->A ... Fun.

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

In reply to ManipUni

#Oct 22nd @ 12:52 PM

Just found that Live Mail RSS Reader cannot import any kind of feed list (I have OPML); it expects feeds to be added one at a time.

Sod that for a game of soldiers -- RssBandit install here we go.

Herbie

magicalclick

In reply to Dr Herbie

#Oct 22nd @ 12:54 PM

Couldn't you just copy and paste the Feed Folder from IE? Although I don't know where they store the feeds.

AndyC

In reply to Dr Herbie

#Oct 22nd @ 12:54 PM

Does it not use the Windows RSS platform? If so, you can import OPML in IE, though it's a bit hidden. You have to press Alt to get the menu bar up and from there select Import and Export from the File menu.

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

In reply to magicalclick

#Oct 22nd @ 12:58 PM

Ah! Actually the tricky bit is that you don't import them through Live Mail, you import through IE! That caught me out. Managed to get them up and running after all. A bit more guidance through Live Mail would have been nice.

So RSSBandit is relegated for the time-being while I gove Live Mail a good run. SO far it seems to have everything I want -- I find the 'mark all as read' keyboard shortcut to be the most important for any RSS reader and Live Mail has it, so I'm happy. Big Smile

Herbie

jason818_253.33
Yippi skippy

can i get in on the conversation?

a faverable review here http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/22/windows.seven/index.html

I just might go and get a new computer with win7 installed. It has been 7 years since i last did an upgrade on any of my hardware.

stevo_
Human after all

In reply to jason818_253.33

#Oct 22nd @ 2:01 PM

Holy crap, your running a computer with technology 7 years old?

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

In reply to AndyC

#Oct 22nd @ 1:00 PM

You can also get there by clicking the favorites butting, then the arrow next to "add to favorites", then "import and export". Yes that does feeds also.

Harlequin
http://twitter.com/TrueHarlequin

In reply to Harlequin

#Oct 22nd @ 8:07 AM

Installed nice on my Tablet. The new onscreen keyboard is ugly as &%$# though. Hoping there's a way to get the old one back.

Both boys laptops install went good too, first one was Dell 1525, installed wireless drivers and everything(something that Vista didn't do).

Edit: One of the boys has an older Dell Inspiron 1501, video driver on Dell website didn't work. Running that "find driver on internet" actually worked...never had that before. Installed the ATI driver, rebooted, resolution was nice. ++ for that one.

figuerres
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In reply to Harlequin

#Oct 22nd @ 7:39 PM

well got my desktop almost working, doing creative labs sound drivers right now.

spent a few minutes with safe mode and regedit to move the \users\ folders to my second drive....

wish they made that simpler to do.

jmzl666
Diablo

In reply to stevo_

#Oct 22nd @ 2:08 PM

Mine was 8 years old, P4 3GHZ, 1GB RAM and 120 GB IDE HD, it runs 7 pretty decent (with aereo and all that stuff disabled), my problems is that my MOBO suddenly shutdowns (overheating) if i try to do much things at once, the good news is that i just got a DELL with core 2 duo E8400 at 3GH, 4GB in RAM and SATA II drives, I'm in heaven.

I know that the cool kids have Quadros and at least 8 GB in ram but I'm happy with my new machine.

Juan Zamudio

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Pleasantly surprised by the installation experience on my Dell XPS M1530. I was especially blown away by how it actually got my network card to work and find nearby wireless networks during the installation. Usually the first painful steps after a Windows installation is loading the network drivers from a USB stick, and trying to connect to your WLAN. Now it worked before installation was even done, so it could start grabbing updates instantly. Awesome.

It recognized nearly all my hardware right away, except the fingerprint scanner (the driver for which automatically came down Windows Update on the first search). The only things I had to install manually were the touchpad driver (it wouldn't recognize the scrolling area before) and I had to install Nvidia drivers before Aero Glass would work.

Messenger is a disaster by default though. First thing I did was run it in Vista compatibility mode so that it'd use the old system tray method again. And why does Windows Live Mail still use that system tray icon when it uses the overlay icons too?

Those were the only drawbacks though. Other than that it's smooth sailing so far.

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

In reply to Bas

#Oct 24th @ 3:40 AM

Yeah. Messenger is broken by default.

LeoDavidson

In reply to Bas

#Oct 24th @ 3:40 AM

The only things I had to install manually were the touchpad driver (it wouldn't recognize the scrolling area before)

If your Dell laptop has an ALPS touchpad like mine, and you've found that installing the drivers for it has b0rked your animated wait pointers (so that they no longer animate at all), here's the solution:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=803606

You only have to do the first part, setting the various CursorChangeType registry values to zero. That fixed it for me. Only side-effect is you no longer get a special mouse cursor to indicate when scrolling with the touchpad, but the scrolling itself still works so I don't care.

(This problem also affected Windows Vista when the ALPS drivers were installed.)

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

In reply to LeoDavidson

#Oct 24th @ 5:22 AM

No kidding? I'll look into it. Now I need to find something that takes a while... Didn't have any problems with Vista wait pointers though. Still, thanks for the heads up.

Ian2
Proud to geek ..

In reply to figuerres

#Oct 22nd @ 4:09 AM

Yep, same with my TX2 - I used the Vista drivers for the few miussing items and was all set. (I'm hoping that the TouchPack will materialise for download somewhere as it looks like a nice bit of software!?)

Also upgraded my Netbook (Acer Aspire One) and an old Mac that I use as a Media Centre (previously running Vista under Bootcamp).

All went very smoothly so I think the Dr was maybe a little unlucky.

figuerres
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In reply to Ian2

#Oct 24th @ 7:54 AM

to bad we Lost ink Post Here. l Would Like to see How it Looks Now that Have a Tablet