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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
jmcilhinney
Even if some aren't excited about the new IDE, the new Framework and language features are way cool!
Note sure what some may not like about the IDE but I think it looks great. And of course the multi monitor support = :eek2:!
http://i41.tinypic.com/2dj17js.png
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
Cander
Note sure what some may not like about the IDE but I think it looks great. And of course the multi monitor support = :eek2:!
I like it too but I've seen at least one other thread with criticisms. I think they could be accounted for by its beta status though.
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
chris128
It says "defragmenting hard disks" or something, what more does it need to say to tell you that its working? I admit its not as good as the XP one dont get me wrong, as the XP one at least gives you a progress bar... but thats not what you said originally - you said diagnostics, which a progress bar and a pretty graph is not :)
Take a look here:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=578222
Entity X said it took 2 hours and 40 minutes to defrag supposedly with the Vista program.
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Originally Posted by Nightwalker83
Well in that case I am stuffed! My pc "C:\" is a terabyte and the "D:\" is just under 75GB in size.
"C:\" has 240GB used and "D:\" has 8GB used.
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Originally Posted by Nightwalker83
Just finished defraging the pc with Auslogics and it only took 16 minutes to finish both drives. Vista defrag is still going. I think MS forgot to implement the defrag part so all you get is the interface.
The Vista defrag also seems to be really slow.
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
Fraps
In fact W7 is little faster ( lighter ) than VISTA but looks more treacly :)
Win7 boots up much faster then Vista in a side by side same exact built / configured systems.
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
Nightwalker83
You linked to a thread which you seem to have not read... because if you had read it then you would understand that as Klienma said - its meant to be run in the background on a schedule, so it runs at very low priority. Of course some third party app that runs at normal/high priority and makes the most of all resources available to it will be faster.
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
chris128
You linked to a thread which you seem to have not read... because if you had read it then you would understand that as Klienma said - its meant to be run in the background on a schedule, so it runs at very low priority. Of course some third party app that runs at normal/high priority and makes the most of all resources available to it will be faster.
Ah I missed that post! However, that being said that defrag program would not be worth the time if you had a hard drive as big as mine!
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
Just another reason why not to buy huge HD's. Use multiple smaller ones. :)
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
RobDog888
Just another reason why not to buy huge HD's. Use multiple smaller ones. :)
Yeah, however, I only have a enough room in my tower for 2/3 hard drives! I did not want to waste my money buying small drives when I did not have enough space in the tower to install them nor the drives only 300GB. As I stated above my pc's "c:\" drive is at 240GB of capacity.
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
Well, only a few more hours and Win 7 RTM should be available! I can't wait.
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
About 8 hours to go!!! :D
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
RobDog888
About 8 hours to go!!! :D
I think the US needs a kick up the back-side Australia is already at the 6 August. :D
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
Dont you know that Microsoft is the center of all?
MST = Microsoft Standard Time :D
6 hours lol
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
RobDog888
Dont you know that Microsoft is the center of all?
MST = Microsoft Standard Time :D
6 hours lol
Bill Gates for President! :lol:
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
lol Bill Gates isnt actually in charge anymore, I think Steve Ballmer (or whatever his name is) is the big boss of MS now - therefore he should be president :D
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
Microsoft are so lazy. It's been August 6 over there for almost 7 hours now! It's 10 minutes to August 7 here and it's a school night so I have to go to bed! Why wasn't someone there to make Win7 available at 12:00:01 in Redmond? I could have had several systems up and running by now. :(
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
/me taps foot.
/me looks at watch.
:(
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
Maybe it wont happen today? There was a bug found int he RTM version - http://winbeta.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=34&t=10084
Who knows but it should have been posted already. :(
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
RobDog888
That makes my new computer I just finished putting together yesterday sad. :cry:
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
RobDog888
If you read one of the links off that page though it says that Stefan Jonosky (or whatever his name is) says that this is not that critical and is certainly not a showstopper... and he is the head of the Windows team.
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
It's up now. :thumb::thumb:
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
Downloading :D
What version are you gyys downloading? 32 or 64 bit?
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
Just dont go running chkdsk on any secondary drives guys :P
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
RobDog888
Downloading :D
What version are you gyys downloading? 32 or 64 bit?
Just started downloading x64 at 8:20 AM. Should be done when I get home from work. I'll download x86 later during my ISP's off-peak period.
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
Dowloading 64 bit Ultimate
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
Yea Im gonna DL both bits too. Currently only ~30 mins to go for completion of 64bit version
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
I'm probably going to download 32 bit Ultimate.
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Originally Posted by
chris128
lol Bill Gates isnt actually in charge anymore, I think Steve Ballmer (or whatever his name is) is the big boss of MS now - therefore he should be president :D
Yes, you are correct!
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
How could we developers, developers, developers ever forget Steve Ballmer, Ballmer, Ballmer? :D
Don't forget that Virtual PC doesn't support 64-bit client OSes so, even if you install on a 64-bit host. As such the x86 version will be required for virtual machines on VPC. I haven't tested out the new virtualisation support in Win7 but I don't think it extends to 64-bit clients.
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
So best to install 64 bit and run a vm for the 32 bit as we still need to develop with VB6 :D
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
jmcilhinney
How could we developers, developers, developers ever forget Steve Ballmer, Ballmer, Ballmer? :D
Don't forget that Virtual PC doesn't support 64-bit client OSes so, even if you install on a 64-bit host. As such the x86 version will be required for virtual machines on VPC. I haven't tested out the new virtualisation support in Win7 but I don't think it extends to 64-bit clients.
Hyper V Server supports 64 bit OS's so if you have a spare PC that you can stick that on then jobs a good'un (its free)
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
chris128
Hyper V Server supports 64 bit OS's so if you have a spare PC that you can stick that on then jobs a good'un (its free)
Yes but unfortunately I don't have a spare system that supports virtualisation in hardware, which Hyper V requires. Certain people at home who shall remain nameless won't let me get another system to build a proper server. How humiliating! :(
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
You are indeed the laughing stock of this community :D
Do I have a spare machine that supports virtualization? No :(
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
I plan on dling x64 Ultimate next November and installing it on my laptop first, then later for dev desktop.
Is there anything w/ VS 2005/2008 and x64 Windows I should know about? I'll be running VS 2005 & VS 2008 on Win7 for both my laptop and my desktop.
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
JuggaloBrotha
I plan on dling x64 Ultimate next November and installing it on my laptop first, then later for dev desktop.
Is there anything w/ VS 2005/2008 and x64 Windows I should know about? I'll be running VS 2005 & VS 2008 on Win7 for both my laptop and my desktop.
The only thing I can think of is that you'll need a hotfix for SQL Server Express 2008 support in VS 2008, unless SP2 has been released by then.
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
jmcilhinney
Yes but unfortunately I don't have a spare system that supports virtualisation in hardware, which Hyper V requires. Certain people at home who shall remain nameless won't let me get another system to build a proper server. How humiliating! :(
Just tell your cat that it wont get any catnip unless you can buy a new system. :D
Downloaded both 64 and 32 versions so far. Im thinking of installing the 64bit but then I lose the ability to develop VB6 apps lol. Dont really want to use a vm so I guess I will try 64bit and see how it goes.
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
jmcilhinney
Yes but unfortunately I don't have a spare system that supports virtualisation in hardware, which Hyper V requires. Certain people at home who shall remain nameless won't let me get another system to build a proper server. How humiliating! :(
I have the same problem... I mean I cannot understand why I cannot build a windows 7 box with 4 tb of storage and 8gb of ram to hold music on, I mean my current windows vista ultimate box with 1tb of storage and 4 gb of ram is really starting to show its age and my .mp3's are really struggling to play on it.....
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
RobDog888
Just tell your cat that it wont get any catnip unless you can buy a new system. :D
Downloaded both 64 and 32 versions so far. Im thinking of installing the 64bit but then I lose the ability to develop VB6 apps lol. Dont really want to use a vm so I guess I will try 64bit and see how it goes.
I'll be keeping an XP vm for vb6 and VS 2003 (not that I use VS 2003 much anymore, I actually use vb6 more than VS2003)
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
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Originally Posted by
DeanMc
I have the same problem... I mean I cannot understand why I cannot build a windows 7 box with 4 tb of storage and 8gb of ram to hold music on, I mean my current windows vista ultimate box with 1tb of storage and 4 gb of ram is really starting to show its age and my .mp3's are really struggling to play on it.....
haha are you implying that you need something like that to run Hyper V Server?? Most modern laptops can run Hyper V :)
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
So far I am totally impressed. It installed fast. Run very slick. And I really like how they took the Mac OS X dock and improved on it.
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
Woo, just found out that work has a technet subscription...Downloading 7 as I type this :D
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Re: Windows 7 RTM Announced - 08.06.09
Ehm...I've several VS 2003 solutions in production so I have to install VS 2003. Once I fire up the installation, I get the well-known message:
"This machine is missing components required for local Web application and Web service development..."
and Front Page Server Extensions (FPSE) are missing. After some surprise of not being able to install them by turining windows features on and off (they're not included), I came across a few posts which indidate that FPSE are not supported for Win7 and they are no plans to support them on Win7.
Can anyone confirm this? If it's true, it's a problem that I can't work around.