Well the Hitachi is doing fine for gaming which is really all this rig is for, so I'm not worried
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Well the Hitachi is doing fine for gaming which is really all this rig is for, so I'm not worried
According to this, it should be possible but you'll need to perform a custom installation, not an in-place upgrade.
One thing I have noticed is that if you are in a gaming session in W7 and you are running say Pidgin as your IM client and someone messages you, then the game gets a bit corrupted and it freezes etc etc until you alt tab out and then get back in...very freaking annoying. I dont know why it cant just deal with IM windows!
Well, I do like it, although except for the needed multitasking in I/O, multithreading upgrades and 64-bit, it's mostly eye-candy.
It isn't very stable yet; the certified drivers are buggy, and about twice a week things start crashing because of some ninja-update, while I turned all updates off. But M$ always know better and does as it pleases, of course.
It isn't very stable yet; the certified drivers are buggy, and about twice a week things start crashing because of some ninja-update, while I turned all updates off. But M$ always know better and does as it pleases, of course.
Thanks, I wouldn't want upgrade anyway as from my experience upgrades often caused hardware problems...
But regarding custom installation, if I have to format and then install, does that mean I need to buy full version and not upgrade edition softwares? The logic behind my reason is that you are putting an OS onto HDD that is empties.
I am student and was looking at this http://www.software4students.co.uk/...fessional_32_bit_Upgrade_Edition-details.aspx
Otherwise I have no intention of upgrade really...
Same.
You can hardly blame MS for bad drivers, although providing certified drivers that are apparently buggy seems odd.
What device do you have that is having the driver issue?
I don't have first-hand knowledge but AFAIK, if you format from inside Win7's install procedure it works. See this article for more details (method #1).
Silent_Buddha
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Same, only stabiity problems I've had, have been due almost entirely to the BIOS on my motherboard. The situation has been vastly improved since it was launched with many BIOS revisions.
Reminds me of why I usually avoid buying MB's that are released just weeks prior to my buying them. Much better to wait a few months.
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SB
My suspend mode issues seem to have been resolved in some update or other - my mouse now always seems to work fine after waling up. The only slicht annoyance I have now is that some programs still seem to fail at showing their dialogue in front of all the other windows. It's an issue I have a hard time understanding that it hasnt been fixed yet, as it is definitely an important useability issue.
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Did anyone mention the difficulties in getting a Theatre 650 to work in Windows 7 yet? I'm just discovering it...
Originally Posted by digitalwanderer
Did anyone mention the difficulties in getting a Theatre 650 to work in Windows 7 yet? I'm just discovering it...
I have a S939 Asus mobo and I've found going into suspend mode resets my clocks to default, which is a huge bummer since I oc my cpu by 900mhz.
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
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I'm annoyed that they still haven't got a proper uninstall system. Uninstall something and there's still crap left in the registry, device drivers left in the OS, etc. Is it really too hard to clean everything that was added to the system? Win 7 still behaves like Win 95 in that respect and I expected better given that there is so much room for improvement in this area.
The App-wrapper method (originally from NeXT then transfered to Apple in OS X) beats all others. It takes more drive space, but a single directory with .app extension holds all the libraries, etc. for each app. Uninstall is simple "rm ./*.app"
Sure wish MS would take this route with windows 8...
Sure wish MS would take this route with windows 8...
Silent_Buddha
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Yeah, I keep wishing MS would go back to the DOS ways of program installations, where everything was stored in the directory of the program itself.
Unfortunately, we're still stuck with a system that came into existence due to a desire to conserve (at the time) limited HD space in the face of increasingly large programs. Such that "common" files are stored in one location. Unfortunately, that also makes program uninstallation more complicated as you have to know whether another program requires that file before removing it.
HD's are so large now that I wish they'd go back to the old ways of program installation. But, then MS would probably get blasted by everyone for wasting HD space if they were to do so. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
At least program devs don't rely on storing information in the registry as much as they did with XP, thank god... Although some still use the registry when they don't need to.
Speaking of pet peeves, I also wish MS would have implemented a 3rd party Program Files directory that didn't require admin privaleges to modify.
Regards,
SB
Unfortunately, we're still stuck with a system that came into existence due to a desire to conserve (at the time) limited HD space in the face of increasingly large programs. Such that "common" files are stored in one location. Unfortunately, that also makes program uninstallation more complicated as you have to know whether another program requires that file before removing it.
HD's are so large now that I wish they'd go back to the old ways of program installation. But, then MS would probably get blasted by everyone for wasting HD space if they were to do so. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
At least program devs don't rely on storing information in the registry as much as they did with XP, thank god... Although some still use the registry when they don't need to.
Speaking of pet peeves, I also wish MS would have implemented a 3rd party Program Files directory that didn't require admin privaleges to modify.
Regards,
SB
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Have you seen the unbelievably massive amount of regkeys created by Norton Antivirus? It must be hundreds, if not thousands of entries.Although some still use the registry when they don't need to.
The registry is a completely useless invention anyway, why would separate programs need to put their own private stuff all in one central repository? I see no genuine advantage anywhere, I'd really like to know how MS was thinking internally at the time...
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