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biomedical
235 Posts
if you're interested then write a list of things that bother you about it , and possible fixess the main thing that comes to mind is this ![[image loading]](http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/8373/newbitmapimage2q.jpg) another thing, how the hell do you get msn to stay in the tray like it does in other versions of windows? as you can see in screenshot, msn just stays on the taskbar all the time even when you cross it off   | ||
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AoN.DimSum
United States2983 Posts
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biomedical
235 Posts
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5536 Posts
But seriously the fact that you can no longer drag folders to the sides of the desktop and make quick lists is really retarded. Now I have to take like thirty clicks to make it to folders i commonly use. And i have 0 idea how the taskbar is supposed to make things easier. In xp it was just simple worded bars for programs (or whatever you want to call them) Now its entirely thumbnails and it GROUPS EVERYTHING which means if you have multiple windows of a program open you have to click multiple times to open just one of them - RETARDED. Of course you can choose to make the taskbar the same as vista/xp if you want but I dont see how they can say it makes the OS easier to use.. | ||
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shavingcream66
United States1219 Posts
as for SC. It works fine on mine but the colors kept inverting. However, I found a batch file thing that fixes it so it works fine now...even though I rarely play SC anymore | ||
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5536 Posts
For the taskbar poping up you'd understand it if you left the theme as the W7 theme instead of the windows 2000 theme. It works decently but is far from making anything easier. I believe there is a setting when you right click the taskbar and go to properties. It might be ungroup programs or something Edit: I dont think I read your question right the first time, this prob doesnt fix anything | ||
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biomedical
235 Posts
i cnt-alt-deleted to bring up task manager to find it, but i must have pressed something.... now task manager is just showing as a frame which shows the running programs but NO options or title bar or anything...its just a frame. wth. probably fix when i reboot | ||
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
And as previously said, for MSN just run in compatability mode. | ||
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biomedical
235 Posts
you cant fucking alt-tab properly anymore, it takes about a second to load it. unless its my new laptop that has slow or unusual key responses. if i try to alt tab quickly 6 times, letting go each time, only 2-3 of them will work. anyone else? | ||
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biomedical
235 Posts
On January 01 2010 07:00 Roffles wrote: Right click taskbar. Head into Properties and change Taskbar buttons to Never combine. That way it won't combine like that. And as previously said, for MSN just run in compatability mode. this isnt my problem , you probably realise. | ||
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biomedical
235 Posts
why do page up/ page down seem to not work most of the time on laptops (my moms and mine, acer) i try clicking around but they still dont work99 | ||
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Kaniol
Poland5551 Posts
On January 01 2010 07:03 biomedical wrote: OH YEAH THATS THE OTHER THING you cant fucking alt-tab properly anymore, it takes about a second to load it. unless its my new laptop that has slow or unusual key responses. if i try to alt tab quickly 6 times, letting go each time, only 2-3 of them will work. anyone else? No problem to me, seems that your lap is kinda buggy or smth :/ Also i don't understand why you're using "classical" composition, is it really that hard to get used to new Aero ones? They're pretty cool, and i have no problems like you with these. Also try pressing windows key + tab, good alternative for alt+tab  | ||
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biomedical
235 Posts
that aero thing was the most disgusting and interefereing thing ive ever seen in my ENTIRE LIFE it is absolutely unecessary and detracts in 100000e600 ways i cant believe those words just came out of your mouth are you a dragon? | ||
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Kaniol
Poland5551 Posts
 That's weird that windows+tab doesn't work, maybe it works only in professional or x64 then. | ||
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5536 Posts
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Sharp-eYe
Canada642 Posts
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5536 Posts
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synapse
China13814 Posts
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GogoKodo
Canada1785 Posts
On January 01 2010 08:27 jimminy_kriket wrote: its basically the windows XP/Vista taskbar but with large icons instead of window names and it groups programs automatically...nothing more Ya. Nothing more except for several features that didn't exist before? This is a link to an OS X dock comparison to Windows 7 bar but it explains a lot of the new features as well. http://gizmodo.com/5131933/giz-explains-why-the-windows-7-taskbar-beats-mac-os-xs-dock | ||
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HowitZer
United States1610 Posts
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Kentor
United States5784 Posts
and dont blame the os for your slow laptop man | ||
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Whiplash
United States2929 Posts
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writer22816
United States5775 Posts
I like the new taskbar, it's basically like a dock so now I have one less program to install. I recommend turning off Aero though, I found that it really overheated my laptop (no I don't have a crappy computer) and of course, turning off UAC. | ||
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Nao
Poland166 Posts
1) there is no way to make DOS command prompt window go fullscreen - it stops me from playing any rougelikes (ie.: DoomRL or ADOM). 2) 3) On a somewheat decent laptop ( P8400 2GBram ) *without* Aero interface, XP starts faster 4) I'm one of this "lucky guys" who have to keep Personalization window on when starting SC, for colors not to go berzerk. Death to eye candy. All it does is slow things down. | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On January 01 2010 07:53 Roffles wrote: I'm on Professional 64 bit Win7 and I'll say tat my Windows+Tab only takes me to the top of the page as well. Although I'm not using Aero either, so that might be the reason. Yes windows+tab flip thing is an aero feature, disabling aero disables some of the stuff in windows 7 | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On January 01 2010 10:01 Nao wrote: For me there several things that really didn't like in W7 (using XP SP2 now). 1) there is no way to make DOS command prompt window go fullscreen - it stops me from playing any rougelikes (ie.: DoomRL or ADOM). 2) Searching is still sooo slow, thou it's better than original XP's search, but WHY can't they make it right is beyond me. On XP I use program designed to work in windows 95 and 98 - PowerDesk (freeware) that can search 10! times faster 3) On a somewheat decent laptop ( P8400 2GBram ) *without* Aero interface, XP starts faster 4) I'm one of this "lucky guys" who have to keep Personalization window on when starting SC, for colors not to go berzerk. If you don't want eye candy why aren't you running windows 98 that's even more stable and reliable and faster then XP. There is more windows 7 then ignorant fools realise. You slower boot is likely to a shitty HDD and bios, my boot for windows 7 x64 is 11 seconds 6 of those seconds are looking at a bois boot up everything and i'm just running seagate 7200.12 hdd's. Searches are faster in windows 7 (near instant for me) i have a proper ACHI set up and have indexing turned on along with multiple hdd's searching takes little time, that's HDD dependent and settings dependent. Anyways windows 7 handles threaded apps better. and windows 8 which will be in the works soon will handle it even more better. Matters little to a laptop but running a i7 920 with 8 threads you can tell the difference. You'll notice larger and larger performance drops as more cores are introduced. but seeing as you run laptops and a play dos rouge like games i say you care a little about new games and the things peopel care about. Also The P8400 is a decent cpu for a laptop but it's a powersaver it runs off of 24w or something and 2gigs is scraping by now of days in terms of ram. | ||
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GogoKodo
Canada1785 Posts
On January 01 2010 10:01 Nao wrote: For me there several things that really didn't like in W7 (using XP SP2 now). 1) there is no way to make DOS command prompt window go fullscreen - it stops me from playing any rougelikes (ie.: DoomRL or ADOM). 2) Searching is still sooo slow, thou it's better than original XP's search, but WHY can't they make it right is beyond me. On XP I use program designed to work in windows 95 and 98 - PowerDesk (freeware) that can search 10! times faster 3) On a somewheat decent laptop ( P8400 2GBram ) *without* Aero interface, XP starts faster 4) I'm one of this "lucky guys" who have to keep Personalization window on when starting SC, for colors not to go berzerk. For number 1, it's easy just right click the top of the window and go to properties. Change the screen size and buffer size. | ||
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FreeZEternal
Korea (South)3396 Posts
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biomedical
235 Posts
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TOloseGT
United States1145 Posts
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GogoKodo
Canada1785 Posts
On January 01 2010 14:34 TOloseGT wrote: Windows 7 rocks. | ||
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t_co
United States702 Posts
search him TL lol this is so epic to watch, how long until he gets banned rofl | ||
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Nao
Poland166 Posts
On January 01 2010 11:08 Virtue wrote: Win 98 is not faster than XP, (i actually have it installed on VirtualPC) and even on hardware it was designed for it wasn't so stable. (on current hardware is even worse :/ )If you don't want eye candy why aren't you running windows 98 that's even more stable and reliable and faster than XP. Searches are faster in windows 7 (near instant for me) Oops i didn't see W7 had better serching than Vista (i didnt actually check it), so i take my flaming back , W7 search is really good.Actually i didn't know W7 on new hardware can start in 11s, nice performance On January 01 2010 11:08 Virtue wrote: Yeah, it's true i don't play new mainstream games anymore, so for me XP is sufficient for everything i do. (ie: SC, Osu, photoshop, 3d design programs, indie games, browsing net with 50-100open tabs, video-editing) and Win7 interface is too unintuitive.but seeing as you run laptops and a play dos rouge like games i say you care a little about new games and the things peopel care about. @GogoKodo Well there is no full screen option in properities, and doing alt-enter gives me an error message "this sytem does not support full screen mode" (W7 Ultimate) | ||
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Sulli
Canada236 Posts
I do have one issue though, and it's my mouse scroll not working. I can click it as my middle button and it works, but scrolling of any kind doesn't work for me. I have a ladybug logitech mini optical from way back when. I got the latest SetPoint driver, which is the recommended driver by logitech, but it didn't fix my scrolling issue as of now. Just a warning to possible old logitech mouse users. | ||
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starfries
Canada3508 Posts
On January 02 2010 00:58 Nao wrote: Win 98 is not faster than XP, (i actually have it installed on VirtualPC) and even on hardware it was designed for it wasn't so stable. (on current hardware is even worse :/ ) erm if you're running it on a virtual machine of course it's going to be slower <_< but 98 is pretty dated, and xp is getting there if you're using hardware from the last few years. In general Windows 7's compatibility is also really good, I haven't had a single program that didn't run more or less perfectly on 7/xp mode/dosbox. If you spend some time to get used to it the interface is also really intuitive. I also like transparency effects ^_^. if you have gchat open then when it blinks the title bar for a new message you can see it through the all the other windows. | ||
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Nao
Poland166 Posts
On January 02 2010 04:42 starfries wrote: Actually from my experiences with VirtualPC it should be slightly faster due to faster booting time, (once, for testing i installed XP in VPC running on another XP and there was no startup difference aside bootup.)erm if you're running it on a virtual machine of course it's going to be slower <_< but 98 is pretty dated, and xp is getting there if you're using hardware from the last few years. | ||
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celeste
England45 Posts
But people seem to love Win7 here.. why? | ||
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decafchicken
United States20166 Posts
On January 01 2010 11:08 Virtue wrote: Also The P8400 is a decent cpu for a laptop but it's a powersaver it runs off of 24w or something and 2gigs is scraping by now of days in terms of ram. uhhh.... also, never knew about windows + tab rofl. learn something new every day | ||
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