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Windows 7
Group dedicated to Microsoft's Windows 7. Let's focus here on advice along with tips and tricks.
I have a couple of my startup applications loading up twice (only 2 out of all of them). They are not in the two different startup folders (for my user and for all users). I've had this before and it required a simple registry edit I think. Can anyone help?
Nispell and Alex Scoble liked this
If I put the two apps in one of the startup folders they don't load up at all, if I put them in the other startup folder I get them twice. I've cleaned up the startup apps with msconfig too but no joy.
- Kol Tregaskes
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- Victor Ryden
INSHA ALLAH i will be pleased to know that i am vista user but when i use ie8 it does not work while google chrome goes and when use firefox it does not let ie8 work.thank you indeed if you please suggest for me the better browser
- Nawabikramullah khan
Give Startup delayer a try. That's what I use to manage startup apps.
- Rohit
winpatrol is another good tool to manage all this (and free)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
you could check the services manager from computer management snap in. Check to see if there's multiple entries in there too.
- alphaxion
Thanks everyone. It's definitely a registry edit I'm after but none of the ones mentioned above.
- Kol Tregaskes
hkey_local_machine/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/startup?
- alphaxion
Thanks, alpha. already looked there. The registry edit I'm after was to edit a folder name, I'm pretty sure of that.
- Kol Tregaskes
This is beginning to frustrate me, my SATA II HD drive is still not working (under Windows 7). I've seen it once be listed under Device Manager, now it's not. Now I have 2 devices without drivers: Serial ATA Controller and Unknown Device. I've gone into Computer Management and it cannot even see it in there.
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I've activated *all* the SATA connections in BIOS and it finds it on boot-up.
- Kol Tregaskes
What I currently have is 2 drives, 150Gb and 300Gb drives and a new Blu-Ray drive (all SATA - so it's found the Blu-Ray drive and drivers fine).
- Kol Tregaskes
Hi kol, you should update your mainboard drivers. I think that's the problem.
- `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN
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The issue might be that the 2 current drives are in a RAID though they appear separate in Windows (and have done for a long time). So a little confused there. They appear as one in Device Manager though: "NVIDIA JBOD 393.9G".
- Kol Tregaskes
I'll grab the latest nForce drivers and give that a go.
- Kol Tregaskes
I remember having read about this again (sorry, don't remember where!) an someone mentioned a solution involving XP- installing XP on a partition so you can see the disk and then run the 7 installer, or something like that.
- Citronella
Updating the nForce drivers fixed it. Thank you, should have tried that myself. :-) Yippee, 1TB of extra space. Let the games begin. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Now I need to move my Steam installation to the new drive, hmmm....
- Kol Tregaskes
Hi Kol, Maybe you have a Windows. All the problem is this :)
- Osman Üngür
Hehe, Windows is a painless but you can normally get it working. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Interesting a netbook good enough to run Windows 7: Samsung N140 Netbook - http://www.ebuyer.com/product...
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A little dear but still cheaper than a new Nokia phone. Should I get something like this?
- Kol Tregaskes
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A few more here: http://www.ebuyer.com/search... Cheapest one for £272.
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm leaning more towards a netbook now (over a mobile phone). I'll be able to work on a netbook far faster than I ever could on a mobile phone.
- Kol Tregaskes
I think most netbooks run Win7 pretty well. I was running it on a Dell Mini 9 with 1GB ram and an 8GB SSD and it wasn't terrible. Win7 is the first version of windows that's more efficient than it's predecessor.
- invariant - farewell FF
Yeah, it's the best OS from Windows.
- Kol Tregaskes
Go for it. I had a NC10 before upgrading to an Insprion 11z. Great build quality and overall look.
- Adi
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What is the best way to buy Windows 7 (I'm currently using Ultimate RCs on all my computers) for 3 (potentially 4) PCs?
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I see I can get a OEM upgrade for £150 but that totals up with you times that by 3. I have 2 Vista discs already and I think my laptop came with Vista installed so I *think* I can upgrade on all 3 but what's the best deal for me?
- Kol Tregaskes
I was planning on buying one at a time over a period (as I can only afford £150 every so often) but if there is a saving in buying a 3-5 PC license then I'll do that instead.
- Kol Tregaskes
Your license is for up to 3 PCs. At least it is here in the US.
- Admiral Anika
Not sure it is here. It says 1 PC license here: http://www.ebuyer.com/search... for example.
- Kol Tregaskes
you can only buy OEM copies if you're buying some core system hardware at the same time... so you'd have to buy a HDD with each, that'd add £50 to each purchase at least
- alphaxion
If the Home Premium version was good enough for you, the best buy would be to purchase the family pack. That's for up to 3 PCs, but it's only available in the Home Premium variety. http://www.microsoft.com/windows...
- Curtiss Grymala
alpha, well never needed to do that before. Anyway, I'll be buying some RAM and a gfx card anyway.
- Kol Tregaskes
It's actually more expensive to get a 3 pack: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp... :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol - Not if you compare it to the price Amazon is currently giving for the one-pack (172.37) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microso...
- Curtiss Grymala
Curtiss, sure but you can get the 1 pack for under £150. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Go to microsoft.co.uk and buy an upgrade license from there. Then just download the ISO and burn it. You can still perform a full, clean install from it, even though it's an upgrade. I just formatted the HD and went ahead with it.
- Adrian Scicluna
Ade, but it's nearly £200 there? I can get it for under £150 above.
- Kol Tregaskes
Uhm.. You're planning to get the Win7 Ultimate? Do you really need it? The home premium version is only £79.99!
- Adrian Scicluna
personally, I refuse to guy any of the "home" versions of windows because of the crippled networking - I like to add my machines to my own AD domain. But that's just me.
- alphaxion
Alpha, agree. With 3 machines here and 2 mobiles (and potential a netbook) I definitely need good networking.
- Kol Tregaskes
What crippled network, exactly? Granted, you can't attach a home edition to Active Directories, but unless you plan to go to that extent Home is usually enough. And don't forget that new homegroup feature thingy. Home edition has it too - unless you plan to share files with anything that's not Win7 driven, in which case forget about it..
- Adrian Scicluna
I have a network that comprises of linux, osx, my win2k3 servers and XP. I did say "personally", as in it's my own personal choice that I don't like versions of windows that are crippled from the point of view of adding a machine to a domain, using simple SMB shares and blind to my group policies. I'm fully aware that other people best suit the home versions and they can stick with that, it's not everyone who has a use for communicating between systems. It's my personal choice.
- alphaxion
What is Windows Ultimate N?: http://emea.microsoftstore.com/UK...
Roberto Bonini liked this
It's the same price as the standard Ultimate pack.
- Kol Tregaskes
Is it worth getting a netbook to use while commuting? If so, what one? I'd like it to run Windows 7 if possible.
Steven Perez liked this
I tend to go with whatever PC Pro says: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/alist... and they've recommended a Samsung netbook (which doesn't appear to be available now but there are newer versions). I don't want to spend more than £300 machine (in fact a lot less would be good) but I would like to use it on the train and train station to work.
- Kol Tregaskes
most netbooks are atom powered and i don't think they can run 7 well, XP runs slowly get one with higher processor
- ffcode
All the Samsung netbooks from eBuyer: http://www.ebuyer.com/search...
- Kol Tregaskes
There was a post by Mona awhile ago here about this and it had some really good comments. I'll see if I can dig it up.
- Rochelle
Thank you, Rochelle. That reminds me, was there some Microsoft tablet thing the other day?
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm tempted to pick up a netbook this year due to portability factor. If the netbook can run XP it ought to run at least as well or better on Windows 7.
- Eoghann Irving
I'm wondering though (since I plan on keeping the laptop, desktop and N800) about putting linux on the netbook so I can play around a bit.
- Eoghann Irving
I hear good things about the Samsung NC10, and of course, the EEE series are still wildly popular...
- Tyson Key
Eoghann, exactly. WinXP machines should have no problem with Win7 too.
- Kol Tregaskes
What is the difference between this NC10: http://www.ebuyer.com/product... and this NC10: http://www.ebuyer.com/product...? All I can see is the screen is slightly bigger and it has WWAN but that's a big price difference!
- Kol Tregaskes
Nope, I cannot see anything difference when I use eBuyer's comparison option.
- Kol Tregaskes
Hi guys, about a week ago I posted a link to a survey about Microsoft's logo for a groupwork in my university. :) Now, I have the results and I want to share with you to say "Thank you!". Here the link to the report (it's 8 pages, with images of course :P ) http://tiziano.me/today-w... and you can see the new logo. Feedbacks are welcome. :)
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- Tiziano Tassi
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- Don Bonaddio
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I was so busy loading 7 today, that I missed all the hoopla. I wonder how many new posts there are in the Windows 7 room today:)
- Michael Fidler
Not many!
- Michael Fidler
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The cheese is now a downloadable feature. They were getting in trouble with the EU.
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- Don Bonaddio
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Thank you, obviously :)
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