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| Thread ID: 96640 | 2009-01-17 09:51:00 | Windows 7 Beta | Greven (91) | Press F1 |
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| 739867 | 2009-01-17 21:06:00 | I'm finding the windows 7 beta quite good apart from the odd little quirk. I wouldn't run it on a cheap PC - its not much faster than Vista. I think my firefox bug is the fault of firefox, not windows 7. Bookmarks work as an admin, but not as a limited user. I'm running as a limited user. Are the rest of you using the beta doing the same? |
Greven (91) | ||
| 739868 | 2009-01-17 21:24:00 | I'm using an admin user. | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 739869 | 2009-01-17 21:30:00 | It installed and ran pretty fast on the AMD 754 pin here. No probs at all. Its not exactly the fastest machine around (1.6 ghz, 1.25 GB ram). |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 739870 | 2009-01-17 22:47:00 | So far like what I'm seeing with Windows 7. I have W7 installed on one of the workshop PC's which has changable drives, so I actually have two copies of W7 I play with, along with XP, Vista, Linux or what ever, by simply changing drives. The PC is not exactly top of the range - P4 2.4 CPU 1 Gb RAM - 80Gb HDD and a FX5200 Graphic card. Runs Windows 7 sweet as , no problems at all. I also have Vista on another drive/cradle I can simply throw in so the hardware is exactly the same - Performance wise Windows 7 eats Vista and spits it out :lol: Just today finishished building a new Vista PC for the office ( MS gave me a few copies of Ultimate- so better use them) while not a gaming PC as I dont game - its got a Asus P5QL-E Board - Q6600 CPU - 2Gb RAM - 9600GSO Graphic card - as a test earlier in the week - I pressed the start buttons on the workshop PC and New Office one at the same time - W7 was up and running, fully loaded while vista was only getting to the desktop. If it wasn't for the fact W7 was Beta - I would have no doubts of installing that instead of Vista. Yesterday I installed W7 on another drive in the New PC to see what the differance was--- Holy :eek: Lets say when W7 goes RTM - Vista's comming out - as long as Microsoft dont do something stupid and stuff it up. Antivirus - Been using Nod32 - no problems at all. I did read some do have problems but it was to do with some network drivers - which has now been fixed ?? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 739871 | 2009-01-17 23:02:00 | Been using Nod32 - no problems at all. I did read some do have problems but it was to do with some network drivers - which has now been fixed ?? Umm yes and no for that. I had NOD32 the one you gave me a key for. I was still getting 2 errors in event viewer (when I opened up a networked folder. If this is what youre talking about). This was / is the only time these 2 errors come up (when I did the above) Chillisoft up here, said these 2 errors were fixed in a previous version of NOD32. They were trying to get me to crash the system so they could have a look at the dump file,to see what was causing it. BUT no matter what I tried (they sent me a link how to do it) the bloody thing didnt/wouldn't crash lol Why its still happening here, I have no idea. In the end I got rid of it, (It wasnt easy). The bloody thing uninstalled OK, but left its folders, files, and entry in services lol. I had to search the registry for its service (it was still in services, after I had uninstalled it). Whats the point in having an uninstall option, if all it does is, remove the entry in add/remove programs, and nothing else And went back to Avast. It would have gone sooner or later anyway. I did a clean install 2 days ago |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 739872 | 2009-01-17 23:06:00 | On Windows 7 I'm only using the Nod32 Antivirus, not the Smart Security - I'm using smart security on every thing else though with no problems. From what I read, ESS was the one having problems with the network drivers - it was mentioned in wilder security the fix was meant to be out - but I cant confirm that. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 739873 | 2009-01-17 23:10:00 | Yup thats the site I had a look at, saying it had been fixed. Somehow, they must have missed out NZ or me :lol: |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 739874 | 2009-01-17 23:34:00 | That Firefox bug sounds familiar...I had it after updating to Firefox 3 once. You can fix it in the options, let me just see if I can find which ones you have to change. Ah, here we go. 1. Enter about:config in the Location Bar 2. In the Filter box, type browser.places 3. Context-click (right-click) any preference with a user-set status (e.g., browser.places.importBookmarksHTML) 4. Click "Reset". |
Bussani (14313) | ||
| 739875 | 2009-01-17 23:55:00 | W7 works with MBAM and Spybot too, just tried. Avast works perfectly Edit: The problem troubleshooting recorder thing looks nice.. |
Blam (54) | ||
| 739876 | 2009-01-18 00:04:00 | Anything will probably work in the 32 bit version. It maybe the 64 bit version, that may have probs, with some programs |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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