Ben_j

Going back to 7 tomorrow... And on raid SSDs, so the reinstall will not have been for nothing at least

Only 5% ? At least I can say that I will be part of those 5%. I will probably get a tablet with Windows 8 though.

Sooo, I just installed Windows 8 Release Preview, am having a bit of a hard time adapting and all, but the worst is that absolute piece of garbage that the Music app is. First off, your own music is off screen when you open the app, with the highlight is on the music store ?! For an OS that is said to be easy to use, intuitive and accessible, that's completely off the target. Then when you browse your own music, I can almost hear Microsoft saying : "we don't want you to find the music you're looking for". Displaying an artist displays ALL of his tracks in a big mess, you can't see the list of the artist albums (not right away anyway)... Then for the worst part of this app. I play my music, then want to go back to discovering the rest of the OS, and then... When the music app is not on the foreground, the sound is lowered at 10% !! It's un-f***ing-believable how badly designed and thought this application is, it actually lacks any obvious feature anyone would want to manage and listen to his music. It's like it was coded by a bunch of monkeys on dope... I seriously hope the final version of the app is better than that.

I have a 5.1 hooked to my media center, and would like to direct my media center app to the 2 front speakers, and iTunes to the 2 rear speakers. Is it possible to do that ?

No, both are Windows 7 (I should have mentionned that) and it was working fine before I changed my computer.

I just got my new PC, and something odd is happening : I can copy from my server (on the same local network. Both in 1000T ethernet) to my computer, but whenever I try to copy from my computer to my server, it's impossible. It displays "calculating" for a few minutes then copies at 15kB/s... It worked fine with my previous computer.

well, it's screwed again :/ I don't know what to do

I did, and I'm wondering if it's not coming from there. The copy rate was fine before I installed the chipset drivers. As for the specs : ASUS AT3N7A-I, Intel Atom dual core 1.6ghz, nvidia chipset, 4GB memory (for some reason only 3 are usable...). They're both in gigabit lan, connected to a simple D-Link 5x switch. The network itself is not the problem since it always worked fine before. Currently, I'm copying 500GB of data at 17.93MB/s, the rate is stable and didn's change for the last hour :/ EDIT : I changed the option to use only 40 bits crypting instead of 128. It seems to have sorted the problem

I just put a Raid 0 configuration on my home server, and installed a fresh new 7. I start copying my backuped files to the server, it goes at ~60MB/s, which is already a bit disapointing because it's not better than the speeds I had when I only had one HDD on the server. Then a few minutes later I copy another directory, and it won't go past 30MB/s. I tried with a lot of files, big iso files, it's still stuck at 30MB/s More info on my configurations : Server : RAID 0 2x WD Caviar Black 1TB (one has 32MB cache, the other has 64... Could it be related ?) PC from where I copied the files : RAID 0 3x WD Caviar Blue 640GB So, in theory, the speed between both PCs should be around 100MB/s. I was already at 80-90MB/s on large files when the server only had one caviar black. And I checked, the speeds are normal when I copy something locally on the server... Any ideas ?

Hm, maybe. If I close the bottom panel with all the file infos, do you think it will help ? Windows won't try to parse the metadata ?

I can give you a wireshark trace of when I unzip a file that is on the remote computer (unziping to the remote computer, not to the local computer) with a filter on SMB2 protocol. Would that be enough ? EDIT : http://benji.ng.free.fr/bad.zip I unzipped in an empty directory, no problem, and then in a directory with a lot of files (that's the trace) and it got stuck like a dozen times (you can see by looking at the time column where it got stuck). Almost every time there's the "Error : Unknown (0xc2ca00c0)" line right before the unzipping freezes EDIT bis : Precision : I have a shared folder mounted as a drive. All the problems happen when I browse this drive. I just tried to do a lot of stuff by accessing directly the folder on the network instead of the network drive (unzipping, playing an MP3, openning a heavy PDF, launching an exe...) and it seemed to work like a charm... So why would it be like that whit the folder mounted ?

Yes they're in a homegroup. The server is an Atom 330 with 2GB of RAM by the way. It happens mostly with stuff that I just created on the other computer from this computer (like, with a freshly downloaded file that I want to open) I could use Wireshark to trace what's happening

Both my PCs have Windows 7, and are plugged in Gigabit Ethernet. Still, almost everytime I want to access a remote folder, or unzip something, 9/10 times I have to wait 30s for the other computer to respond, like it was locked or something... Is there any way to make this better ? It's f**king annoying

it's fine. I eventually managed to get the boot repair screen and after that it worked like before.

So last night, I was listening to music on my media center PC, and Windows just rebooted by itself (I'm not sure why, since I think I deactivated the automatic updates). Now the logon screen won't show up, and since I deactivated the GUI Boot, I have no idea what's going on. Pressing F8 doesn't show the boot menu screen. I don't really know what to do.

I found another solution : at startup I start a batch that kills explorer and starts everything I need.

I'd like to have my Windows starting only MediaCenter/Media Portal on startup, as long as a few softwares in the background (µTorrent, Skype, Soulseek...). I've looked into the registry in Curent_user/Software/Microsoft/WindowsNT/Logon, changed the Shell value to something else, it starts Media Portal instead of Explorer, but then nothing else (all the programs that are supposed to start because they are on msconfig) will start, and then Media Portal just crashes. Is there a way to do what I want to do ?

I still plan to buy an HTPC case sometime later. I think I'll buy a fanless PSU too anyway in the future, so I should take the Asus ion+330 deluxe, it's more expensive but has an included PSU. But then I'll have to buy some DDR3 too

What about performances ? Are you able to play hd videos ? Is Media Center running smoothly ? Have you tried N64 emulation (with Project 64) ?

From what I've read the D510 does not heat up a lot, and I just want a mobo, not a whole box. I will put it in a big box, so the hard drive won't be close to the mobo and the temperature should be fine. My biggest problem right now is the power supply fan anyway, I don't mind having a small fan on the cpu.

For the moment, I have a Gigabyte GA-GC230D motherboard for my media center (that is also a home server, so it's always on). I'd like to change that because it was OK as a home server, but now that I use it as media center too, it feels a bit weak. I'd like to be able to play videos smoothly, possibly in HD, to play SNES and N64 games without having stuck frames from time to time, and just use the computer without it being all slow and laggy. I'm hesitating between a few solutions : Two cheap ones : Atom 230 + Ion Atom 510 + NM10 And the expensive one : Atom 330 + Ion I can't really understand why the Atom 330 makes the price almost double in a lot of cases, compared to the Zotac mobo with an Atom 230, it's a shame because I'd like to have a faster CPU to handle Filezilla Server, IIS, µTorrent and stuff on one session, and still have a smooth experience with MediaCenter/MediaPortal on another session. Now there's the new Atom 510 + NM10, but I'm affraid it won't be very effective when it comes to HD. But if you tell me that it will be able to handle all the server side, and still play videos and run an emulator perfectly without any lag, I think I'll take it Finally, the best solution would be the Atom 330 + Ion. The best of the best would be the Asus AT3IONT-I DELUXE, with its included fanless power supply (my server is quite noisy at the moment), built in widi, bluetooth and remote. But it's twice the price so it makes me think a little... What would you advise me ?

That must be something like that. I will check tonight.

I'd like to access my home computer from work. My PC is on Windows 7, but the computers at work ar all running Windows XP. I installed the update for RDP, so that it works with Windows 7, but it still isn't working. I get an error saying that the remote computer needs an authentication at the network level, not supported by this computer (or something like that). It does work when I'm at school with my laptop (running Win7).

MCEBrowser is not working. It doesn't show up in the bonus section.

hm, I will try it then. Is there any other cool plugins for Media Center that could be useful ? (WLMessenger, Emulators, stuff like that... Anything that could avoid having to close Media Center to do cool stuff )