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Perhaps great news to many, if not, at least me. Latest version of Comodo Firewall is compatible with Windows 7 RC and 7127 x86 versions. I will be testing on x64 versions soon. Edit: Well, it seems Comodo Firewall doesn't report to windows security as I didn't see it as active in action center. Only windows firewall shows up as active. I don't doubt that it is working but I really think Comodo Firewall will need some compatibility update for windows 7.

It's easy to remember the video card as being a problem and it certainly can be, but I've discovered that the Power Supply Unit (PSU) can also be a culprit and is related to video card. If the mobo doesn't receive enough juice from the PSU, it will not come back on from sleep. I had a 20-pin PSU plugged into a 24-pin mobo. The extra 4 pins power the video card. Hence, everything turned on except the monitor. I bought a new 24-pin PSU and voila - no more problems. You might want to investigate if the wattage of your PSU and buy a good energy efficient one.

you can have as many vistas as you want. just create the partitions and install each one on the separate partitions sequentially. each time, a new entry will be added. only thing is each entry will look the same "Windows Vista". you may want to edit the descriptions with bcdedit, like "Vista Home x86" and "Vista Home x64".

the way i see it is you've got a perfectly legal os for free till march 2010 and it's genuine. i'd use it as my main os till then. oh! wait! i am using it. when march comes around, i'll upgrade to the real thing. it's great to keep your data partitions separate in case you have to reinstall again.

While some say there's a huge difference, I say it's all the same man. It's all the same. The ONLY difference is how the controls are organized. In 2003, they are in menus. In 2007, they are in the ribbon. Otherwise, it's all the same. There may be a few under-the-hood improvements but hardly discernible. The MAJOR difference, however, is 2007 has native open XML support, whereas 2003 needs compatibility pack to be installed. Nevertheless, 2007 can save in the old format.

to be more accurate, bcdedit is a command line tool, which means you don't "run" it but you use it with parameters depending on what you want to accomplish. you have to learn the syntax for bcdedit before using it. you just can't "run" it and expect it to tell you what to do next. this is the reason tools like easybcd and vistaboot pro were created but behind the scenes, this is all that these gui programs do - they run bcdedit in the background.

why don't you update to windows mail live? it supports hiding it.

Oh! I never realized you could or needed to run taskman as admin. I will try that.

In XP, I could go to Task Manager, then Users tab and log off another user from my profile (as admin) and it worked great. That saved time from having to log on each user then logging off, then restarting. However, in Vista and Windows 7, I get an error "User can't be logged off. Access is denied" although I'm the admin and other users are not. Why is that?

Finally, nailed this problem. Although I don't understand the exact problem, it has to do with restricted profile folders. I was trying to share a folder called "Software". I may have restricted this folder in the past just to my profile only; but I'm not certain if I did do that. Anyway, I created another folder and copied the contents of "Software" to this new folder and now I can see the contents. The other folder I was trying to share is "Shared Folder" and I was changing the "Download" folder to point to this folder and after many installs of different builds, it kept asking me for permission to access the folder each time I did a fresh install.

Cluberti, I'll have to do a network trace but as of yet I don't know how. I'll have to figure out how to do it and what it means. Unfortunately, I'm having to use W7 firewall and it's too dam* complicated for me. Seriously, I complicated could they have made it for a home user? However, I do believe it's not a firewall issue since I haven't tweaked the firewall on any of the machines. All are set to home network type. The "Network ID" didn't work. I clicked on it and I chose to make it part of my home network, then I renamed my workgroup and restarted and still no go. Here's some more info that I forgot to mention in OP: I can see the "Users" folder and access my profile folder in the "Users" folder as this folder is part of the HomeGroup. However, clicking on the non-profile folders is what I can't access, although they show up in Network.

i agree; it's annoying so i don't use it. i hope they're working on it.

I have RC x64 installed on my desktop and x86 installed on my laptop. I also have build 7057 on an x86 VM on by x64 desktop. I have enabled "user accounts and passwords to connect to other computers" as this is the way in vista and xp on of these machines because I share more than documents, music, and videos. Problem: I can't access my laptop (x86) shared folders from by desktop (x64). I can see the folders I'm sharing but clicking on them says I don't have permission to view them, although I have given the permission to do so. Weird thing is I can see these laptop folders from the x86 virtual machine, but not the x64 desktop. Also, I can access the x64 shared folders on the desktop from both the VM and the laptop. What gives? Why am I not able to see my laptop shared folders from my desktop. This is driving me crazy. I've tried everything. Pinging the computers work.

Have you tried it in virtual pc? when it crashes, what error message do you get? you should be able to install 7 on 512 mb. you computer is crashing for a non-ram related issue. you need to consider upgrading your ram though as 1 gb doesn't provide any breathing room for you host.

It doesn't matter what the drive letter assignment is in Windows 7. When XP is booted, it will be C:. Keep it C: is the bcdedit commands. If you change the drive letter for XP, you will have trouble. And it's bcdedit, not bcedit.

The following commands in an elevated command prompt in Windows 7 should add back XP bcdedit -set {ntldr} device partition=C: bcdedit -set {ntldr} path \ntldr bcdedit -displayorder {ntldr} -addlast bcdedit -set {ntldr} description "Microsoft Windows XP" Note not to change partition=C: to something else. Keep it C: even though it may not be.

Whoa! You might want to use a darker shade of green. I can barely read the bright green text.

I think it would be better to edit the config.xml file found in standard.ww folder. <Configuration Product="Standard"> <Display Level="Basic" CompletionNotice="yes" SuppressModal="no" AcceptEula="no" /> <Logging Type="standard" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Office Standard Setup(*).txt" /> <PIDKEY Value="BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789B" /> <USERNAME Value="Customer" /> <COMPANYNAME Value="MyCompany" /> <INSTALLLOCATION Value="%programfiles%\Microsoft Office" /> <LIS CACHEACTION="cacheonly" /> <SOURCELIST Value="\\server1\share\Office12;\\server2\share\Office12" /> <DistributionPoint Location="\\server\share\Office12" /> <OptionState Id="OptionID" State="absent" Children="force" /> <Setting Id="Reboot" Value="IfNeeded" /> <Command Path="msiexec.exe" Args="/i \\server\share\my.msi" QuietArg="/q" ChainPosition="after" Execute="install" /> </Configuration> Setup the parameters here and make sure it's uncommented. Not sure if you can actually do an install with an .msp with standard. It's for enterprise or professional.

You need to create a text field for that purpose, as far as I know.

I'm not an expert on hardware but I believe the RAM limitations is based on your motherboard and not the OS. For example, my MOBO handles 16 gb max RAM. So you can only obtain a theoretical answer based on the OS and a definite answer based on hardware limitations of the motherboard. As far as the processor, again, it depends on you motherboard, not the os. OS is pretty much processor-agnostic. It don't care what processor is there as long as mobo can handle it. So it doesn't matter how many cores either. Not sure about HDD capacity, though, i think windows 7 should be able to handle more than 2 tb.

The specs are in the sig. It's the p35-ds3l with ASUS HD3450. I tried both Windows drivers and catalyst 9.4 drivers. same result. I think it due to the APC backup battery. In power management, it's on balanced power. I've set it to high performance to see if that changes anything (and disabled hibernation).

nevermind, you're right, it is actually a 40 mb+ download for server, which includes vhd tools for mounting vhd.

Absolutely as states above. Just install over XP partition. Win 7 setup should take care of it. If anything happens, you can always add back Vista boot option with bcdedit.

Need more than the results. Show me the system specs. Windows 7 has higher requirements, esp. for ram. So, yeah maybe with 512-1024gb ram, it might be faster in XP than Win 7. Tried it yourself? Who cares what others install times are. You should try it yourself on your own system and see the difference. On my system, no noticeable difference.

Hey, that link was supposed to go to VHD Mount. Not Virtual Server. Not sure what happened with link but try searching for VHD Mount at MS site. I haven't tried it but it's a small program that adds VHD mount capability + context menus, etc.