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Title: Windows 7 is sexy!
Post by: The Fake Shemp on July 23, 2009, 03:18:19 AM

I feel like my PC can multi task where it couldn't before - if that makes any sense.  I told Prole it used to hang on a lot of stuff, but a clean install of Win 7 is what the doctor ordered.

Title: Re: Windows 7 is sexy!
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on July 23, 2009, 04:32:39 AM

I wish the animations on the taskbar preview stuff were just a little quicker (or you could configure it -- maybe there's a registry setting or something?).  They're not horrible now, but I feel they slow me down a bit.

Title: Re: Windows 7 is sexy!
Post by: Reb on July 23, 2009, 05:31:37 AM

On the RC, my taskbar disappears sometimes, it leaves me with only the Start button. Pretty annoying.

Title: Re: Windows 7 is sexy!
Post by: MCD on July 23, 2009, 05:35:01 AM

Quote from: Rebiak on July 23, 2009, 05:31:37 AM

On the RC, my taskbar disappears sometimes, it leaves me with only the Start button. Pretty annoying.

happens with me with the taskbar previews, have to restart to fix it.

Title: Re: Windows 7 is sexy!
Post by: Reb on July 23, 2009, 05:37:40 AM

Quote from: MCD on July 23, 2009, 05:35:01 AM

Quote from: Rebiak on July 23, 2009, 05:31:37 AM

On the RC, my taskbar disappears sometimes, it leaves me with only the Start button. Pretty annoying.

happens with me with the taskbar previews, have to restart to fix it.

I think it mostly happens after the screen saver, which doesn't work either. Sometimes it magically reappears again.

Title: Re: Windows 7 is sexy!
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on July 23, 2009, 05:52:51 AM

Now that you mention it, I've seen weird taskbar behavior too with the thing getting "unlocked" (so it's not always on top) spontaneously and having to re-lock it manually.  I don't think this started happening until recently, maybe it's a side effect of some update or some software installation/configuration?

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happens with me with the taskbar previews, have to restart to fix it.

I think I've seen this before -- isn't it just Aero that dies for some reason?  You can just restart Aero from the control panel, you don't have to reboot the whole system.

Title: Re: Windows 7 is sexy!
Post by: MCD on July 23, 2009, 05:59:34 AM

I will try that the next time it happens.

thanks man.

Title: Re: Windows 7 is sexy!
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on July 23, 2009, 06:06:36 AM

The control panel selection is called "Find and fix problems with transparency and other visual effects", btw.  searching for Aero apparently calls it up

Title: Re: Windows 7 is sexy!
Post by: MCD on July 23, 2009, 06:18:08 AM

I saw that once via the action center in the beta build.

edit: just ran the windows performance score and taskbar previews got fucked, finding problem with aero didn't help so my guess is that this is related to ati beta drivers.

Title: Re: Windows 7 is sexy!
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on July 23, 2009, 06:32:24 AM

Yeah, I had weird (and jarring) glitching with the previews too until they pushed out an update to my video drivers.

Title: Re: Windows 7 is sexy!
Post by: MCD on July 23, 2009, 07:58:19 AM

just installed ati 9.7, hopefully problem goes away.

Title: Re: Windows 7 is sexy!
Post by: BlueTsunami on July 23, 2009, 09:32:56 AM

The only issue I've run into is something about the file structure being corrupt. It happened as I was unpacking Photoshop CS4 for installing. This setup I've got going now hasn't given me any issues though.

Title: Re: Windows 7 is sexy!
Post by: MCD on July 23, 2009, 09:52:52 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7

Title: Re: Windows 7 is sexy!
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on July 23, 2009, 01:19:43 PM

I have to say that I tried the handwriting recognition in W7 and it's fucking amazing.  It can read my writing better than 90% of human beings can.  It's also totally useless to me of course since I don't have a Tablet PC, but hey.

Title: Re: Windows 7 is sexy!
Post by: The Fake Shemp on July 23, 2009, 03:24:15 PM

This is a much better browsing and operating experience than Vista.