You mean Microsoft actually managed to get hibernation to work well? At one point it was pretty unreliable and required a restart to get the computer to wake up?
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You mean Microsoft actually managed to get hibernation to work well? At one point it was pretty unreliable and required a restart to get the computer to wake up?
It may be fine now, but Microsoft had their chance to impress me with Vista's RCs, and--at least on my machine--failed miserably.
I definitely remember what you're talking about, but that's been a while - since before XP SP2, at least. I'm on XP SP3 on my laptop, and I haven't rebooted it in months. I just close it and go. The last time I did reboot it, it was because I installed an update to software that required it, not because it shut down or anything.
I got my windows 7 box to join my network and it's sharing files with my xp boxes just fine. (This was my only problem with Vista.) Overall I'd probably switch to windows 7 full time if it weren't a beta.
Anybody getting a situation where, if 1 or more windows aren't responding, you can't get them to shut down with Task Manager?
I had this the other day while I had a few instances of Firefox running, and one download got locked up, and I couldn't get any of them to shut down.
Times like this I'm glad my tower has a reset button.
I had this the other day while I had a few instances of Firefox running, and one download got locked up, and I couldn't get any of them to shut down.
Times like this I'm glad my tower has a reset button.
Can't say I have. The couple of times I had to use task manager for unresponsive windows they shut down fine.
I got my PC back yesterday and installed the beta on it. The new taskbar isn't quite as flexible as I would like but I do like the windows switching icons. It would be much better though if I could pin the computer, network and recycle bin shortcuts onto it without having to use a complicated toolbar array.
I hate the new explorer, the whole library feature seems to be trying to solve a problem that I just don't have. I store my documents in my documents folder, I store my music in my music folder, and strangely enough I store my videos in my video folder. It may be useful for other people, but for me it just complicates something which used to be simple.
I hate the new explorer, the whole library feature seems to be trying to solve a problem that I just don't have. I store my documents in my documents folder, I store my music in my music folder, and strangely enough I store my videos in my video folder. It may be useful for other people, but for me it just complicates something which used to be simple.
Yeah, I have seen that two or three times. I reported it too, not that they aren't already aware of it, but I thought I would be a good little beta tester and give them some more spam. I imagine it will be fixed soon.
So I want to download 7 and try it out, do I need to copy all of my files or
will they remain on the Hard Drive even with the new OS being installed?
will they remain on the Hard Drive even with the new OS being installed?
OK, new question. I decided to reinstall since W7 was getting extremely flaky.
First time, I only did a reformat from the W7 setup, probably not a good formatting and I continued having problems, especially trying to boot up (it kept wanting to repair, then not really repairing, then BSOD, etc.)
Then, after another reinstallation, I realized I had the HDD order wrong and it wasn't showing my XP as a dual boot, so I switched the HDD order back and it wanted to do a recovery on the W7 and showed "recovered" alongside the W7 option next to the XP.
"Recovered" stayed there, so I decided to reinstall a 3rd time, this time after a full reformat of that HDD from XP. Now it shows "earlier Windows installation", then Windows 7 and then still shows Windows 7 (recovered), even though this one won't do anything.
Question is, how do I get rid of this useless 3rd option from the boot screen?
First time, I only did a reformat from the W7 setup, probably not a good formatting and I continued having problems, especially trying to boot up (it kept wanting to repair, then not really repairing, then BSOD, etc.)
Then, after another reinstallation, I realized I had the HDD order wrong and it wasn't showing my XP as a dual boot, so I switched the HDD order back and it wanted to do a recovery on the W7 and showed "recovered" alongside the W7 option next to the XP.
"Recovered" stayed there, so I decided to reinstall a 3rd time, this time after a full reformat of that HDD from XP. Now it shows "earlier Windows installation", then Windows 7 and then still shows Windows 7 (recovered), even though this one won't do anything.
Question is, how do I get rid of this useless 3rd option from the boot screen?
As far as I know you can do an upgrade from Vista but not XP. I wouldn't advise that though as Win7 should not be run as your primary OS since it isn't all that stable. Most of us have installed it on a separate partition and are dual booting it.
Is this the Windows boot loader screen? If so then press Start in Win7 and type "msconfig" into the search box then press enter. Go to the Boot tab and delete the third entry. Hopefully that should do it.
Thing is, the HDD W7 was on is un/re partitioned and reformatted right now, yet still have 3 choices on what I assume is the boot loader screen, so I have no idea where it's getting that info from. Nothing in the XP boot tab in msconfig except the XP info.
You probably have to configure the bootloader from within Windows 7, not XP.
Right, as far as I am aware the Win7 bootloader is the same one used in Vista, and that was completely different from the XP bootloader. If you still can't edit the list from Win7, you can try EasyBCD which you can download for free. It's pretty easy to use, just delete the entry you want to remove and then upload it to the boot sector.
Is fixmbr in the Recovery Console enough to restore the old bootloader, or does it require something more involved?
After I reinstalled W7, and went into msconfig, the extra line was still in there. Weird that it was coming up even when W7 wasn't installed anywhere and that HDD was blank. Where else would that info be stored?
Now I just hope most of the strangeness is gone and I can get back to using it.
Now I just hope most of the strangeness is gone and I can get back to using it.
Slashdot have an article link up the moment. Apparently Microsoft is going to skip a Beta2 and go straight to a Release Candidate (RC)1 and if that goes well they'll got from RC1 to Release to Manufacture so we could see Windows 7 out earlier than Microsoft originally intended.
While I am keen for this I really hope they don't rush anything. Then again, with Vista behind them I'm sure they're gonna make sure it will all be good before it gets let out the gate.
I still really like Windows 7, hope the release candidate is just as good.
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