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I feel the urge to share my opinion Installed 64bit build 7201 few hours ago (need... sleeep... damnit!!!) onto my C2D E8400, 4GB RAM, ATI 4870 and Samsung SpinPoint. The installation was pretty good, the installed looks visually good. The only trouble was when I wanted to select my own AHCI driver - the one I used in Vista gave an error, although it was correctly identified. The funny part was that all disks disappeared after that because the installer is obviously unable to revert back to the default driver Nothing much to say about the installation process after this point. It works and doesn't take too long. But then I booted into the system for the first time. First off - I like the new animated logo that shows during boot Second - I am orthodox fan of classic Windows look. But I must say I REALLY LIKE what they did here!!! It's visually perfect!! Few tweaks into the annoying animation of everything and I can imagine using the theme. Did I mention it's fast, too? Yeah, speaking about fast - the whole **** system is fast as hell! Someone did a hell of a job tweaking the baby. Microsoft apparently finally found out how to do stuff right, because I didn't have to chenge anything after I booted in. It's no major things, BUT it's those minor improvements that make you enjoy life again. For example desktop automatically set to resolution native to your monitor (which is - at least in my case - identified as well). Drivers are quite up to date - in fact suspiciously well! I have not too old driver for my Intel network card, and the driver present in the system refused to update because it didn't need to! Yay. Same goes for Intel chipset drivers - but I am a bit confused about this bit because there is no official support for W7, judging from download options at Intel. Software works. Pretty well. No problems at all. Ok and now what I dislike. No, what I HATE. The new Start menu!! Oh my, oh my, oh my! This hurts. I really like the right side of it, that's actually pretty useful - but the main part, that's terrible. I really don't like the approach of list of recently/frequently used programs. I like to have access to stuff that's installed, just like the old times. It's very easy to navigate in and I can reach anything in about three seconds. Now it is hiddden at the bottom, uses ultra miniature icons and the submenus open in totally useless way. Ouch. The pin function is nice, BUT why the hell I can't create menu levels in there? What kinda point is to drag sh**load of programs in there? If that doesn't result in a mess sooner or later, I am a pope. I used to have extra menu in XP and Vista where I put all the programs that don't install and which I frequently (like, system tools etc.). Impossible here. Also, I would prefer classic view of Control panel more - but luckily I can access it from Start and it's ok. Aside from the **** Start, I really like it! I was also really surprised how I didn't mind the new taskbar AT ALL. Half the community curses about it, but I started to actually like it a LOT after initial ten seconds of confusion. I know where will my money go around the end of the year!

Why would anyone want to add more than one anyway?

Yet another dumb topic.

geoffchappell must be popular, two posts and banned? :-O

I don't even know what 7zip is and I don't care RAR is the best! But seriously, more people use RAR so... Unfortunately there are still loads of individuals who have no idea what to do with rar files, which I don't get, because they are capable of using zip up to some point (at least unzip a file).

I will have to wait few more months for localized version Beheee

I opened the Rarlab site after a long time and really went WTF!!!, because beta of new 3.90 version is available, and it also comes in 64bit!! Do we say hooray!! ? From the changelog or whatever: 1. WinRAR version for Windows x64 is available. If you use Windows x64, it is strongly recommended to install 64 bit WinRAR version. It provides a higher performance and better shell integration than 32 bit version. 2. RAR compression speed is improved for multi-core and multi-CPU systems. This improvement is most noticeable in Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. Can't wait for final! http://www.rarsoft.com/rarnew.htm

As was written in the above links in the comments, this has nothing to do with Comodo sw at all. The firewall is perfect.

I would like to see a test of the latest version of Comodo - there have been a LOT of changes.

Ok Slashdot is out of question, because it looks like it's more about quantity at any cost to me. Plus I get annoying flash popups there all the time. **** I hate ads of any kind. MSFN has that kind of news I like, only there is too little of them Anyway thank you for input guys

Actually I didn't! Cool! Right, MSFN homepage is not bad at all, only that the amount of news is not that huge. That said, I don't need to know which programmer farted at 4:18AM from his sleep either

I was thinking a little. There are hundreds of wannabe tweaks for Windows systems, one of them being classical "myth" about disabling the page file completely. The argument against that is more or less like this (no idea where I found it anymore): Myth - "Disabling the Paging File improves performance." Reality - "You gain no performance improvement by turning off the Paging File. When certain applications start, they allocate a huge amount of memory (hundreds of megabytes typically set aside in virtual memory) even though they might not use it. If no paging file (pagefile.sys) is present, a memory-hogging application can quickly use a large chunk of RAM. Even worse, just a few such programs can bring a machine loaded with memory to a halt. Some applications (e.g., Adobe Photoshop) will display warnings on startup if no paging file is present." Notes - "In modern operating systems, including Windows, application programs and many system processes always reference memory using virtual memory addresses which are automatically translated to real (RAM) addresses by the hardware. Only core parts of the operating system kernel bypass this address translation and use real memory addresses directly. All processes (e.g. application executables) running under 32 bit Windows gets virtual memory addresses (a Virtual Address Space) going from 0 to 4,294,967,295 (2*32-1 = 4 GB), no matter how much RAM is actually installed on the computer. In the default Windows OS configuration, 2 GB of this virtual address space are designated for each process' private use and the other 2 GB are shared between all processes and the operating system. RAM is a limited resource, whereas virtual memory is, for most practical purposes, unlimited. There can be a large number of processes each with its own 2 GB of private virtual address space. When the memory in use by all the existing processes exceeds the amount of RAM available, the operating system will move pages (4 KB pieces) of one or more virtual address spaces to the computer's hard disk, thus freeing that RAM frame for other uses. In Windows systems, these "paged out" pages are stored in one or more files called pagefile.sys in the root of a partition. Virtual Memory is always in use, even when the memory required by all running processes does not exceed the amount of RAM installed on the system." Allright. Naturally, in 64bit system things are a bit different. Can anyone put a bit of light on this? How much different the situation is etc.?

more tips please

I know lots of people who just CAN'T use newer version than 6. Like my father. He is that kind of user who forgets how to send an email with an attachment if he doesn't do so for a week. He calls me that the f*cking PC stopped working and swears he doesn't know how it happened. He has a habit of pressing buttons or clicking on stuff without noticing... These people will NEVER manage to get used to the completely different interface of IE7 or anything. So I think this is a bad idea in a way

When I slipstreamed SP1 into my Vista DVD, it took me about um... two hours on Core2Duo and 2GB of RAM. I think. It definitely takes lots of time, but 19 hours seems suspicious!

Can anyone recommend me a web where I can get enlighted about IT news? There's plenty, but the quality and quantity of the stuff vary a lot! And I sure don't feel like browsing 5+ sites a day. I don't feel like scouting around too much, because I guess I can get enough quality tips right here! Thanks ahead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions some info as well

Oh, this. This has been plagueing me ever since I moved onto Vista. I don't even think it's vLite's problem btw. Also, why would it work on 32 and not on 64bit version?

Ah thank you, I was looking for some kind of report button within the PM page, but couldn't find any.

How or who to report crap like this? darkseaker Hey, Today, 11:31 AM Group: Members Posts: 0 Member No.: 237128 Joined: 21-March 09 Just made a forum about software and I need moderators and more people so I need someone to be a moderator and help me with the forum and to get more people to join the forum. The forum I made is powered by IPB like this one. Would you like to join my forum and be a moderator?

so not even the 65nm technology and maybe? the ICH10R controller aren't worth it?

I seriously hope Nuhi will find time to do that once Win7 hits the market

Oh this is kinda retro I can't even remember when I quit doing it... But back then I used the GUI version and one unit took me like 3 days to complete lol.

It's alive!! I am sure he will not abandon his masterpiece, so at some point we will see new version.

So has anyone found a solution yet? Sorry for necroing old threads.