Aaaagh. MSN still rarely works! Maybe it's something from the router? Cause I can't get downloads going with utorrent and on the windows help things it always says it's offline.
It's driving me nuts! Not like I was counting on a Beta to be uber reliable, but it's so tidy it's hard to go back to XP!
Just come across an issue. Most of the time the media pc is running Media Centre, but sometimes when we say, alt-tab out and use Firefox to load something up on Youtube, we'll keep Media Centre minimised because we're using the nice feature that 7 has in rotating desktops. I have close to twenty 1080P wallpapers rotating, based on games or films that we like. Recently however, it seems to get stuck, and would just get a black screen. When I clicked on any of the wallpapers in the high-res folder, none of them worked, and neither did any of the default Windows wallpapers. So, I tried Solid Colours and chose teal. Teal came up as the background. Weird, I thought.
So, I resetted and told 7 to use the rotating desktop with the high-res folder again. It worked... until it got stuck again, but this time it went straight to the teal desktop instead of black... any ideas? It just keeps getting stuck now, so I've just told it to choose one wallpaper and stick to it. Very annoying.
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...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
edited January 2009
Speaking of chrome has anyone had any problems when it has come to playing embedded quicktime files?
I mean I switched to firefox and it worked fine, but that was something I noticed.
If you're doing a Win/Ubuntu dual boot, it's usually easier to install Windows first. This is how I always do it with a one-disk computer:
1) wipe drive, including all partitions with windows installer
2) make new partition for windows, set aside however much you want for windows, leave the rest unpartitioned
3) install windows
4) put in Ubuntu install disc
5) install Ubuntu to the other partition
6) let Ubuntu set up grub and everything
7) Now you are dual booting
Also I've just installed it. It immediately told my roommate's computer that I was up and running and available for sharing media, XP and other Vista computers have never triggered that on me.
I'm tempted to try this out via Boot Camp, but I'd hate to fuck up the partitioning on my drive somehow, and I recall reading somewhere that I'd have to wipe out my current XP boot camp install.
Just come across an issue. Most of the time the media pc is running Media Centre, but sometimes when we say, alt-tab out and use Firefox to load something up on Youtube, we'll keep Media Centre minimised because we're using the nice feature that 7 has in rotating desktops. I have close to twenty 1080P wallpapers rotating, based on games or films that we like. Recently however, it seems to get stuck, and would just get a black screen. When I clicked on any of the wallpapers in the high-res folder, none of them worked, and neither did any of the default Windows wallpapers. So, I tried Solid Colours and chose teal. Teal came up as the background. Weird, I thought.
So, I resetted and told 7 to use the rotating desktop with the high-res folder again. It worked... until it got stuck again, but this time it went straight to the teal desktop instead of black... any ideas? It just keeps getting stuck now, so I've just told it to choose one wallpaper and stick to it. Very annoying.
Haven't had it happen, but if you haven't yet, send feedback on it. They're pretty keen on requesting files related to glitches, and the beta has an upload agent so that they can request files related to the problem and (with your approval) your system can send those files to MS. You can bet that's a bug they'll want to fix...
Just come across an issue. Most of the time the media pc is running Media Centre, but sometimes when we say, alt-tab out and use Firefox to load something up on Youtube, we'll keep Media Centre minimised because we're using the nice feature that 7 has in rotating desktops. I have close to twenty 1080P wallpapers rotating, based on games or films that we like. Recently however, it seems to get stuck, and would just get a black screen. When I clicked on any of the wallpapers in the high-res folder, none of them worked, and neither did any of the default Windows wallpapers. So, I tried Solid Colours and chose teal. Teal came up as the background. Weird, I thought.
So, I resetted and told 7 to use the rotating desktop with the high-res folder again. It worked... until it got stuck again, but this time it went straight to the teal desktop instead of black... any ideas? It just keeps getting stuck now, so I've just told it to choose one wallpaper and stick to it. Very annoying.
Haven't had it happen, but if you haven't yet, send feedback on it. They're pretty keen on requesting files related to glitches, and the beta has an upload agent so that they can request files related to the problem and (with your approval) your system can send those files to MS. You can bet that's a bug they'll want to fix...
Yes, the funniest thing that we are going to see from this (the public beta) is people complaining that they had an issue throughout the beta that still made it into the release, and when they are asked, "Did you report feedback on it so they could look at it?" they will say, "No."
If you have 'must use' software, let people know and I'm sure they'll tell you if there are compatibility issues. By and large I've entered the Win7 realm unscathed ---KMPlayer, I notice, does not always seem to tie the mousewheel to volume control. Catalyst likes to crash when I change GPU scaling options. My audio over HDMI once disappeared for no reason.
I haven't seen a better beta OS since Win2000 RC2.
If anyone wants a compatibility/incompatibility list, I'd be happy to start one:
KMPlayer
Media Player Classic
Steam
TF2
Pidgin
uTorrent
Chrome (must add "--in-process-plugins" argument to target box in the shortcut) FileZilla client
Firefox
Avast
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Daemon Tools
Alcohol
Tribes 2*
Ok, I added alcohol and daemon as incompatible since it's been mentioned a couple times.
*Tribes 2 can just be a pest so maybe it's just me. Somebody let me know if they have it running on Win7.
For Tribes 2, I have it so that in the compatibility options set to Disable visual themes, and it runs windowed, and I have no issues with it.
For drive emulation, I use PowerISO with absolutely no issues so far.
My issues:
Adobe Photoshop CS3. I can't even get it to install, even if I change the compatibility. The UAC comes up, I click yes, nothing happens.
I've noticed a lot more graphical issues in games. I'm running a Nvidia 8800GT, I've had no issues with it in the past, however if Tribes 2 is full screened, I get weird horizontal lines that flash on and off. With spore, the game will occassionally just stop showing video. It'll still run, I'll still hear the audio, but I'll CTD only not "crash". Taskmanager says that the game is stull running, and everything is peachy, just no video. I've noticed a lot of games are doing this to me.
I added the media center gadget to my desktop to test it out, and once the desktop changed images, it immediately moved to the bottom right hand corner. If my mouse came within it's box the mouse would instantly warp to the center of the monitor. It wasn't until I opened a window, placed the bottom of the window near the gadget, that I could right click on it to close it.
Other than those few issues, I'm really surprised how awesome this OS is.
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
edited January 2009
Oh yeah, you need to get the Beta version of Skype as well if you want it to run.
Near enough the top that maybe it's worth doing it proper. I alphabetized it this time. If it's ok with everyone I'll post it every third page or so.
Win7 compatibility list according to PA:
*means some people have issues. **means some people have minor issues.
Avast
Azureus/Vuze
AVG-free
Catalyst** uninstall first if you're upgrading from Vista
Civ 4
Chrome (if it crashes, add " --in-process-plugins" argument to target box in the shortcut)
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Eclipse
FileZilla client
Firefox some users stuck in safe mode, make sure you don't pin the safe-mode shortcut
Foxit Reader
GIMP (crashed first time it started up, been good since then.)
Handbrake run as administrator
iTunes
KMPlayer
Media Player Classic
Open Office
Photoshop CS3* some users having installer trouble
Pidgin**
PowerISO
Powerstrip
Prince of Persia
RealVNC
Skype Beta
Spacemonger
Starcraft set your colour depth to 16-bit if you get funny colours
Steam
Synergy
TF2
Tribes 2*
Twhirl
uTorrent
Ventrilo
VLC
Warhammer Online
World of Warcraft
Zune software*
Question - will Microsoft ever let me choose my music albums via a "Folder" selection, rather than albums, songs, artists and so on? My music folder is very large and very old. I used Foobar 2000 a few months back, recommended to me by people here, to search the 'net and apply details and album art to every album. It didn't. The whole folder was a mess. Move forward to Media Centre in Vista and 7 - tell Media Centre to download all available information, and it becomes even more of a mess. For example, in the Albums view, I often see several entries for the same album. The Clannad - Legend album has two entries - one has the main single on it's own, the other the rest of the album. Same goes for the Longest Journey ost, Enigma's MCMXC AD, Labyrinth OST, and so on.
I just finished a two-hour session going into every individual folder in Music and replacing the wrong album art with the correct ones, calling each .jpg "Folder.jpg" as Media Centre requires (why?!). Go back into Media Centre, and yes, some of them now do have the album art that I have downloaded showing up, but some don't. And most of them have more than one entry. I'm just not interested in having the correct details and album art for every song and album as I still play music the way I have been doing for years - adding a folder into whatever media player.
All of this could be solved by Microsoft giving me a folder view in Media Centre, but no. This is why the gigantic music folder on the media pc never gets used, and is just wasting space.
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...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
Near enough the top that maybe it's worth doing it proper. I alphabetized it this time.
Win7 compatibility list according to PA:
*means some people have issues.
Avast
AVG-free
Chrome (must add " --in-process-plugins" argument to target box in the shortcut)
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
FileZilla client
Firefox
GIMP (crashed first time it started up, been good since then.)
KMPlayer
Media Player Classic
Pidgin
PowerISO
Prince of Persia
RealVNC
Skype Beta
Spacemonger
Steam
TF2
Tribes 2*
uTorrent
Zune*
Alcohol
Daemon Tools
Photoshop CS3
Thanks for contributions.
Add
World of Warcraft
Eclipse
Ventrilo
Pidgin
iTunes
Azureus/Vuze
Pidgin works for me once it's on, but it crashes every time it's closed manually. It's really not a problem since it's not really closed manually anyway.
Synergy works for those who like multiple computers running the same keyboard mouse (I do it into my netbook from time to time for file management)
Foxit Reader works as well, even the firefox plugin.
Question - will Microsoft ever let me choose my music albums via a "Folder" selection, rather than albums, songs, artists and so on? My music folder is very large and very old. I used Foobar 2000 a few months back, recommended to me by people here, to search the 'net and apply details and album art to every album. It didn't. The whole folder was a mess. Move forward to Media Centre in Vista and 7 - tell Media Centre to download all available information, and it becomes even more of a mess. For example, in the Albums view, I often see several entries for the same album. The Clannad - Legend album has two entries - one has the main single on it's own, the other the rest of the album. Same goes for the Longest Journey ost, Enigma's MCMXC AD, Labyrinth OST, and so on.
I just finished a two-hour session going into every individual folder in Music and replacing the wrong album art with the correct ones, calling each .jpg "Folder.jpg" as Media Centre requires (why?!). Go back into Media Centre, and yes, some of them now do have the album art that I have downloaded showing up, but some don't. And most of them have more than one entry. I'm just not interested in having the correct details and album art for every song and album as I still play music the way I have been doing for years - adding a folder into whatever media player.
All of this could be solved by Microsoft giving me a folder view in Media Centre, but no. This is why the gigantic music folder on the media pc never gets used, and is just wasting space.
Pidgin works for me once it's on, but it crashes every time it's closed manually. It's really not a problem since it's not really closed manually anyway.
That happens to me on Vista, on my laptop.
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...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
Question - will Microsoft ever let me choose my music albums via a "Folder" selection, rather than albums, songs, artists and so on? My music folder is very large and very old. I used Foobar 2000 a few months back, recommended to me by people here, to search the 'net and apply details and album art to every album. It didn't. The whole folder was a mess. Move forward to Media Centre in Vista and 7 - tell Media Centre to download all available information, and it becomes even more of a mess. For example, in the Albums view, I often see several entries for the same album. The Clannad - Legend album has two entries - one has the main single on it's own, the other the rest of the album. Same goes for the Longest Journey ost, Enigma's MCMXC AD, Labyrinth OST, and so on.
I just finished a two-hour session going into every individual folder in Music and replacing the wrong album art with the correct ones, calling each .jpg "Folder.jpg" as Media Centre requires (why?!). Go back into Media Centre, and yes, some of them now do have the album art that I have downloaded showing up, but some don't. And most of them have more than one entry. I'm just not interested in having the correct details and album art for every song and album as I still play music the way I have been doing for years - adding a folder into whatever media player.
All of this could be solved by Microsoft giving me a folder view in Media Centre, but no. This is why the gigantic music folder on the media pc never gets used, and is just wasting space.
You'll love Libraries, then.
Sigh... let me guess, one of those folder-alikes that appear when I open My Computer, where Microsoft wants me to put my music and pictures and documents. I've never used the My Documents/Music/Videos folders before, and I can't see myself doing so in the future.
Rohan on
...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
Sigh... let me guess, one of those folder-alikes that appear when I open My Computer, where Microsoft wants me to put my music and pictures and documents. I've never used the My Documents/Music/Videos folders before, and I can't see myself doing so in the future.
Actually, you can add links to any directory for these libraries rather than moving or putting the files in any set location. So when you open up the photo library, it shows all the folders you are linking in that library.
Sigh... let me guess, one of those folder-alikes that appear when I open My Computer, where Microsoft wants me to put my music and pictures and documents. I've never used the My Documents/Music/Videos folders before, and I can't see myself doing so in the future.
Actually, you can add links to any directory for these libraries rather than moving or putting the files in any set location. So when you open up the photo library, it shows all the folders you are linking in that library.
I don't see anything to do with libraries in Media Centre, though?
Rohan on
...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
Question - will Microsoft ever let me choose my music albums via a "Folder" selection, rather than albums, songs, artists and so on? My music folder is very large and very old. I used Foobar 2000 a few months back, recommended to me by people here, to search the 'net and apply details and album art to every album. It didn't. The whole folder was a mess. Move forward to Media Centre in Vista and 7 - tell Media Centre to download all available information, and it becomes even more of a mess. For example, in the Albums view, I often see several entries for the same album. The Clannad - Legend album has two entries - one has the main single on it's own, the other the rest of the album. Same goes for the Longest Journey ost, Enigma's MCMXC AD, Labyrinth OST, and so on.
I just finished a two-hour session going into every individual folder in Music and replacing the wrong album art with the correct ones, calling each .jpg "Folder.jpg" as Media Centre requires (why?!). Go back into Media Centre, and yes, some of them now do have the album art that I have downloaded showing up, but some don't. And most of them have more than one entry. I'm just not interested in having the correct details and album art for every song and album as I still play music the way I have been doing for years - adding a folder into whatever media player.
All of this could be solved by Microsoft giving me a folder view in Media Centre, but no. This is why the gigantic music folder on the media pc never gets used, and is just wasting space.
In Windows Media Player, you can assign album art simply by dragging an image to where the album art goes in the library. At least under XP, but I can't imagine they'd remove that.
Also I've just installed it. It immediately told my roommate's computer that I was up and running and available for sharing media, XP and other Vista computers have never triggered that on me.
I'm using XP and I have often been notified that there's something on the network I can share media with. Most often other computers running Vista.
Sigh... let me guess, one of those folder-alikes that appear when I open My Computer, where Microsoft wants me to put my music and pictures and documents. I've never used the My Documents/Music/Videos folders before, and I can't see myself doing so in the future.
Actually, you can add links to any directory for these libraries rather than moving or putting the files in any set location. So when you open up the photo library, it shows all the folders you are linking in that library.
I don't see anything to do with libraries in Media Centre, though?
All media programs in Win7 use the Library system, so just configuring your Media Library will automatically add your media to WMP12 and Media Center.
Curious... Why are some of you upgrading to this? It's still beta, and eventually they're going to hit the "off" switch... what will you do? Why would you choose to overwrite your current OS for one that isn't going to last forever? Again, just curious...
Well, for one thing, my laptop just has a 120 gig drive and I'm not even going to try dual-booting. I mean, I've done it before, but it just ended up in me wasting 40 gigs (Ubuntu and Vista - I didn't touch Vista for three months or thereabouts).
I only have a handful of programs that I actually use, so reinstalls/upgrades/switches aren't too much of a problem. And once the key expires (August), I'll just buy a 7 upgrade copy.
Add OOo3 to the compatibility list. Firefox is stuck in safe mode (no add-ons), so maybe make it yellow?
As I've mentioned before: go into the start menu, all programs, find firefox and pin it (after unpinning the safemode only version) to the taskbar/start menu.
Unless there is something else going on that I'm not experiencing.
Near enough the top that maybe it's worth doing it proper. I alphabetized it this time.
Win7 compatibility list according to PA:
*means some people have issues. **means some people have minor issues.
Avast
Azureus/Vuze
AVG-free
Catalyst** uninstall first if you're upgrading from Vista
Chrome (must add " --in-process-plugins" argument to target box in the shortcut)
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Eclipse
FileZilla client
Firefox
Foxit Reader
GIMP (crashed first time it started up, been good since then.)
iTunes
KMPlayer
Media Player Classic
Pidgin**
PowerISO
Prince of Persia
RealVNC
Skype Beta
Spacemonger
Steam
Synergy
TF2
Tribes 2*
uTorrent
Ventrilo
World of Warcraft
Zune software*
Alcohol
Daemon Tools
Photoshop CS3
Thanks for contributions.
You can add Input Remapper to the list of things that don't work. The machine will bluescreen at login until it is uninstalled.
Photoshop CS3 works perfectly for me on both 64 and 32-bit.
really? I couldn't get mine to install at all.
The CS2/3 installer is occasionally cursed no matter what Windows version you're running it on. What you could try (I've had to do this a few times in the past on both XP and Vista) is to open a command prompt as administrator and run the following:
Okay i managed to install Windows 7 on my laptop (with no working DVD drive nor any form of USB boot). And its running like a breeze. XP used to have performance problems on this, but 7 seems to be brilliant.
I love the taskbar, its awesome. Gonna load some programs up on it, see what it can do
Sigh... let me guess, one of those folder-alikes that appear when I open My Computer, where Microsoft wants me to put my music and pictures and documents. I've never used the My Documents/Music/Videos folders before, and I can't see myself doing so in the future.
Actually, you can add links to any directory for these libraries rather than moving or putting the files in any set location. So when you open up the photo library, it shows all the folders you are linking in that library.
I don't see anything to do with libraries in Media Centre, though?
All media programs in Win7 use the Library system, so just configuring your Media Library will automatically add your media to WMP12 and Media Center.
I'm not exactly sure what you're saying here... I mean, I have of course set up Media Centre to watch the video and music folders. That still doesn't change the fact that Media Centre does not have a folder view option for the Music section, and so my music folder is a huge mess for reasons already stated. Where do Libraries come into this?
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...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
Libraries are just how 7 deals with multiple file locations for the same kinds of files. When you browse in Media Centre for Music, Pictures and Videos, you're browsing the Music, Pictures and Video Libraries.
I think the closest MC has to a folder view for Music is when the Music Library's sorted by artist (Pictures and Videos go by folder structure already), but I'm only saying that because my music's folder structure tends to be artist-based.
I wonder if I'll still have to install CCCP, or if the new fancy decoders will handle the stuff I need them to handle. The *.mkv files I've got are really the only ones I'm wondering about. MPEG4 and DivX/XviD look like they're covered.
Libraries are just how 7 deals with multiple file locations for the same kinds of files. When you browse in Media Centre for Music, Pictures and Videos, you're browsing the Music, Pictures and Video Libraries.
I think the closest MC has to a folder view for Music is when the Music Library's sorted by artist (Pictures and Videos go by folder structure already), but I'm only saying that because my music's folder structure tends to be artist-based.
But, my music files are only in one location, I don't care about Microsoft's sample stuff and all that. I don't see how Libraries can be a solution, if that's all they do.
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...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
I'll have to give up on using W7 for now I can't get Windows Live Messenger to work for the life of me I even tried installing 8.5. No one has any ideas?
I'll have to give up on using W7 for now I can't get Windows Live Messenger to work for the life of me I even tried installing 8.5. No one has any ideas?
Um....what? the latest version that you get from download.live.com is specifically designed to take advantage of the new features of the task bar. It was like, the first thing I installed.
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It's driving me nuts! Not like I was counting on a Beta to be uber reliable, but it's so tidy it's hard to go back to XP!
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So, I resetted and told 7 to use the rotating desktop with the high-res folder again. It worked... until it got stuck again, but this time it went straight to the teal desktop instead of black... any ideas? It just keeps getting stuck now, so I've just told it to choose one wallpaper and stick to it. Very annoying.
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
I mean I switched to firefox and it worked fine, but that was something I noticed.
Satans..... hints.....
1) wipe drive, including all partitions with windows installer
2) make new partition for windows, set aside however much you want for windows, leave the rest unpartitioned
3) install windows
4) put in Ubuntu install disc
5) install Ubuntu to the other partition
6) let Ubuntu set up grub and everything
7) Now you are dual booting
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Haven't had it happen, but if you haven't yet, send feedback on it. They're pretty keen on requesting files related to glitches, and the beta has an upload agent so that they can request files related to the problem and (with your approval) your system can send those files to MS. You can bet that's a bug they'll want to fix...
Yes, the funniest thing that we are going to see from this (the public beta) is people complaining that they had an issue throughout the beta that still made it into the release, and when they are asked, "Did you report feedback on it so they could look at it?" they will say, "No."
For Tribes 2, I have it so that in the compatibility options set to Disable visual themes, and it runs windowed, and I have no issues with it.
For drive emulation, I use PowerISO with absolutely no issues so far.
My issues:
Adobe Photoshop CS3. I can't even get it to install, even if I change the compatibility. The UAC comes up, I click yes, nothing happens.
I've noticed a lot more graphical issues in games. I'm running a Nvidia 8800GT, I've had no issues with it in the past, however if Tribes 2 is full screened, I get weird horizontal lines that flash on and off. With spore, the game will occassionally just stop showing video. It'll still run, I'll still hear the audio, but I'll CTD only not "crash". Taskmanager says that the game is stull running, and everything is peachy, just no video. I've noticed a lot of games are doing this to me.
I added the media center gadget to my desktop to test it out, and once the desktop changed images, it immediately moved to the bottom right hand corner. If my mouse came within it's box the mouse would instantly warp to the center of the monitor. It wasn't until I opened a window, placed the bottom of the window near the gadget, that I could right click on it to close it.
Other than those few issues, I'm really surprised how awesome this OS is.
Satans..... hints.....
Win7 compatibility list according to PA:
*means some people have issues. **means some people have minor issues.
Avast
Azureus/Vuze
AVG-free
Catalyst** uninstall first if you're upgrading from Vista
Civ 4
Chrome (if it crashes, add " --in-process-plugins" argument to target box in the shortcut)
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Eclipse
FileZilla client
Firefox some users stuck in safe mode, make sure you don't pin the safe-mode shortcut
Foxit Reader
GIMP (crashed first time it started up, been good since then.)
Handbrake run as administrator
iTunes
KMPlayer
Media Player Classic
Open Office
Photoshop CS3* some users having installer trouble
Pidgin**
PowerISO
Powerstrip
Prince of Persia
RealVNC
Skype Beta
Spacemonger
Starcraft set your colour depth to 16-bit if you get funny colours
Steam
Synergy
TF2
Tribes 2*
Twhirl
uTorrent
Ventrilo
VLC
Warhammer Online
World of Warcraft
Zune software*
Alcohol
Daemon Tools
Input Remapper
Thanks for contributions.
I took photoshop off the
realvnc client, free avg works fine.
Zune software works fine for me, but I have heard of issues.
I just finished a two-hour session going into every individual folder in Music and replacing the wrong album art with the correct ones, calling each .jpg "Folder.jpg" as Media Centre requires (why?!). Go back into Media Centre, and yes, some of them now do have the album art that I have downloaded showing up, but some don't. And most of them have more than one entry. I'm just not interested in having the correct details and album art for every song and album as I still play music the way I have been doing for years - adding a folder into whatever media player.
All of this could be solved by Microsoft giving me a folder view in Media Centre, but no. This is why the gigantic music folder on the media pc never gets used, and is just wasting space.
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
Add
World of Warcraft
Eclipse
Ventrilo
Pidgin
iTunes
Azureus/Vuze
Synergy works for those who like multiple computers running the same keyboard mouse (I do it into my netbook from time to time for file management)
Foxit Reader works as well, even the firefox plugin.
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You'll love Libraries, then.
That happens to me on Vista, on my laptop.
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
Sigh... let me guess, one of those folder-alikes that appear when I open My Computer, where Microsoft wants me to put my music and pictures and documents. I've never used the My Documents/Music/Videos folders before, and I can't see myself doing so in the future.
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
Actually, you can add links to any directory for these libraries rather than moving or putting the files in any set location. So when you open up the photo library, it shows all the folders you are linking in that library.
I don't see anything to do with libraries in Media Centre, though?
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
In Windows Media Player, you can assign album art simply by dragging an image to where the album art goes in the library. At least under XP, but I can't imagine they'd remove that.
I'm using XP and I have often been notified that there's something on the network I can share media with. Most often other computers running Vista.
All media programs in Win7 use the Library system, so just configuring your Media Library will automatically add your media to WMP12 and Media Center.
Well, for one thing, my laptop just has a 120 gig drive and I'm not even going to try dual-booting. I mean, I've done it before, but it just ended up in me wasting 40 gigs (Ubuntu and Vista - I didn't touch Vista for three months or thereabouts).
I only have a handful of programs that I actually use, so reinstalls/upgrades/switches aren't too much of a problem. And once the key expires (August), I'll just buy a 7 upgrade copy.
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As I've mentioned before: go into the start menu, all programs, find firefox and pin it (after unpinning the safemode only version) to the taskbar/start menu.
Unless there is something else going on that I'm not experiencing.
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really? I couldn't get mine to install at all.
The CS2/3 installer is occasionally cursed no matter what Windows version you're running it on. What you could try (I've had to do this a few times in the past on both XP and Vista) is to open a command prompt as administrator and run the following: Then try starting the installer again.
Warhammer Online is totally dreamy on 7. Performs quite well.
I love the taskbar, its awesome. Gonna load some programs up on it, see what it can do
Add handbrake to the list of software that works, but you have to right click and run as admnistrator. VLC works, Twhirl works.
I'm not exactly sure what you're saying here... I mean, I have of course set up Media Centre to watch the video and music folders. That still doesn't change the fact that Media Centre does not have a folder view option for the Music section, and so my music folder is a huge mess for reasons already stated. Where do Libraries come into this?
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I think the closest MC has to a folder view for Music is when the Music Library's sorted by artist (Pictures and Videos go by folder structure already), but I'm only saying that because my music's folder structure tends to be artist-based.
But, my music files are only in one location, I don't care about Microsoft's sample stuff and all that. I don't see how Libraries can be a solution, if that's all they do.
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Um....what? the latest version that you get from download.live.com is specifically designed to take advantage of the new features of the task bar. It was like, the first thing I installed.