post windows 7 rc1 bugs here!

[Lord Orwell]

first bug i found: The Experience Index rating.
specifically, it is supposed to rate from 1.0 to 7.9 instead of the old vista-ish 1.0 to 5.9. The harddrive rating is topping out at 5.9 still.
I confirmed this by having three clean windows 7 installs. One install ran off of a single sata150 500gb drive. rated 5.9 by itself (also rated that fast in vista). For comparison, my wife's computer has an 80gb sata 150 and it rates 5.7.
Next, i installed a raid10 array. three sata300 drives and one sata150, all 160gb. Total partition size = 320gb. It also rated 5.9.
Finally i said "screw it" and turned the same array into a raid-0 stripe array witha total size of 640gb. It rated... 5.9!

Bug #2: The nvidia driver it comes with locks up. The nvidia one on their website fixes it.

[I_Love_My_Vans]

Were you using hardware raid? Can someone the HDD rating with an SSD or a ramdisk?

[RobDog888]

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Are you using the 32 or 64 bit version?

[Lord Orwell]

32-bit. And hardware raid. As far as i am aware, you can't run the assessment on software raid drives because it only checks your boot drive. I was unable to get vista to boot after converting the boot drive to dynamic, even though the help file implies it will still boot to the system partition.

[DeanMc]

I would imagine 7.9 is for drives to come but i could be wrong.

[Lord Orwell]

I would imagine 7.9 is for drives to come but i could be wrong.

research i have done implies they lowered the ratings for regular drives. So if you had read 5.0 before you might get a 3 now.

[DeanMc]

Ah I see, that's a good idea I suppose!

[chris128]

Not so much a bug but just something stupid that shouldnt happen:
In the first UAC prompt I got in this RC, the path of the program that caused the UAC prompt ran off the edge of the window (although the text wraps to the next line, it missed part of the path because it had been chopped off by the boundries of the label/textblock)

Something else that I doubt is a bug but is just stupid is the lack of a useable system tray... What I mean by that is programs like MSN that would normally minimise to the system tray now just minimise to the task bar, taking up valuable space. I even ended up with two items in my taskbar for the one instance of MSN I had running because one was the thing that would normally be shown in the system tray and the other was the actual main window of MSN that I had open.
Whilst we are talking about the taskbar - who else thinks the new design sucks (the new icons with no text I mean instead of normal taskbar windows)? and who else has found that if they change it back to 'old' style by turning off the "combine items" feature then the taskbar items actually seem to take up more room than they did before in current versions of windows...

Oh and the windows media player toolbar that appears on the taskbar when you minimise media player no longer has a volume control which sucks!

[Lord Orwell]

i never used that volume control. used the keyboard one. People complained about there were too many buttons on the window. And you can have them take up the same amount of room in the task bar if you shrink the icons.

[Nightwalker83]

http://www.vbforums.com/showpost.php...3&postcount=31

I have never noticed those problems with Vista! Although, Yesterday when using Win 7RC I found it odd that when the recovery program was active (system, hard disk, etc) a status window would appear showing you the status of the repair. However, the odd part is that on the window is a cancel button but when clicked it says "This operation must continue! Restore can not be canceled." or something along those lines. What is the point of the button there in that case seems pointless.

What good is a cancel button when you can't cancel!

[RobDog888]

Just thought I'd post this up as a reminder because the Beta 1 expiration date is fast approaching and info on the RC expiration date:

Version           | Starts shutting down every two hours | Expires
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Beta              | July 1, 2009                         | August 1, 2009
Release Candidate | March 1, 2010                        | June 1, 2010

[Lord Orwell]

i am running the exact same wireless adapters on two computers and it's complaining on one computer and the setup up program is crashing to dos. Also, last night i spent about 5 hours playing half life (the first one with blueshift and hires pack) and it installed a compatibility update when i logged off. Today, it took me 20 minutes to get the game to work again. I had to set it for "windows 98 compatibility".

edit: looks like the wireless problem was my fault. I had disabled a service it required. I am still trying to get halflife to behave itself though. Blueshift won't run, although halflife will, which is odd considering its the same program. If i try to run the addin it crashes to desktop. It worked fine when i installed it.

[Nightwalker83]

Just thought I'd post this up as a reminder because the Beta 1 expiration date is fast approaching and info on the RC expiration date:

Version           | Starts shutting down every two hours | Expires
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Beta              | July 1, 2009                         | August 1, 2009
Release Candidate | March 1, 2010                        | June 1, 2010

Yeah, that is from the email that Microsoft sent out explaining the mix up with the expiry date. I received the email this morning.

[RobDog888]

Yea they even have it printed on the DVDs too

[Lord Orwell]

that was interesting. I wasn't aware the beta did auto-shutdown.