I need to connect to 3 differnet VPN connections then put them each on the desktop. What is the best way to make it happen?Been using Win7 for a while and adding a program or two every few days. Most recently put in Adobe CS4 and it is running great with other stuff.

My EPG listings had been working fine until the past few weeks. a couple of days ago, I noticed that I was down to a week worth of listings. Today, it's down to 5 days. In both cases, the About screen said Guide End Date: 3/4/2009 10:00:00 PM. If I check the log, it shows everything successful for the relevant part.2/27/2009 6:26:32 PM - Processing EpgListings.2/27/2009 6:26:32 PM - Retrieving EpgListing-31.enc.2/27/2009 6:26:37 PM - Extracting 2001728000_ListingData.mxf.2/27/2009 6:26:37 PM - Processing 2001728000_ListingData.mxf.2/27/2009 6:26:48 PM - Processing of EpgListings is complete.2/27/2009 6:27:02 PM - Update successful.2/27/2009 6:27:02 PM - Next update at 3/1/2009 12:11:02 AM.The only error shown is2/27/2009 6:26:30 PM - The NetworkMetadata package is not available.I read elsewhere that it's not related, so I have a clean log. But the listings are still out of date.I tried setting up my tuner from scratch and nothing changed. I am using dual ATSC tuners in the SF Bay area, no cable or other sources. I'd appreciate any help.

Fixed. One thing I forgot to add is that I had tried setting up the tuner configuration again from scratch. It didn't help. I also made some other uneventful changes. The only thing I'm not sure of is whether I had rebooted before or after the tuner setup. I went through the tuner setup a second time to make sure I hadn't left anything out. For some reason, MC no longer saw either tuner available and gave me an error when it could not record. That compelled me to reboot, after which I got a message about it being unable to record a show from a channel I did not get, which was nice to see! I unchecked the spurious channels and my scheduled recording list was down to a reasonable number of shows for the next two weeks. Setting things from scratch had been obvious enough, but I may have skipped parts that I figured could not have been related. Next time, I'll try the shotgun and reboot approach before posting.

I've been trying to map a CIFS share on a new FreeNAS box to my windows 7 desktop with a multitude of issues. At first windows 7 would bluescreen after being connected to the freenas for 5 min. A hotfix from microsoft fixed the issue but now the mapping seems incredibly intermittant. I can map to the drive just fine, even watch video from the server with no issue. However, after a certain amount of time the drive gets disconnected from windows 7 and disappears from the desktop's view of the network entirely. Its not a problem with the FreeNAS server since I can still use Samba on my linux laptop to access the share. I cannot understand why the freenas server would completely disappear from the network after a certain amount of time.

Update:Whatever I did last time fixed the problem, but only for that day. It has not worked since, and I have not been able to repeat the process successfully. When I run the update, the mxf file gets downloaded. The db file gets updated. The program listings stay the same. If I run the update again, the log messages look the same. i.e. it has the parts about retrieving, extracting and processing the listings. If it had indeed worked, the message would have said that it's already up to date. When I say that the db file gets updated, I mean that the timestamp changes but I have no idea what I should be looking for when I browse it. I can't try to update the db file manually since the mxf is encrypted so I can't test that or look at it.Another user with the same problem tried deleting (or renaming) the db file and starting from scratch, but it did not help. So I'd like to know what other areas would make sense to look at.The most important thing it to get it working, so if anybody has an idea what I can try, I'd appreciate it.

Whenever I run this powerline configuration application (even in compatibility mode) I get the error "Fail to Initialize network interface - exiting".Does anyone else have the same problem?

Hello all,Learned from PDC/WinHEC presentatons, Windows Media Player 12 would not increase timer resolutionto 1ms.But I run powercfg.exe to check the timer resolution when playing DVD movie withWMP 12, I still get the warning indicates timer resolution is increased by WMP 12. Even though I change the power source to battery (DC).What I want to know is under which condition WMP 12 will increase timer resolution. And is it implemented in current beta version (build 7000)?Thanks,Wesley

I got this Error since I installed Windows 7:1. I installed Steam2. Started Steam3. Steam Updates and says something like "Error while updating: Deleted Steam.exe but file is still there"4. I tried to find out y this happens so i watched the owner and so on of the Steam.exe but i got no permissions to edit or view this (D:<). First time this was when using my own user account called forger7. I found out how to activate the Administrator Account in W7 but even this did not work :(. It said everytime Deleted but still there. Finally i got it with Deleting the Steam.exe while the Updater has started!So this is working with Steam, but I have the same problem with some other programs like for example Mirror's Edge from EA Games. When I run it, I can play but if I closed it and want to run again Windows says something like File not found and check if you got all rights to open. (this is free translation into english im using the german version). So i have to reboot or Logoff/logon at Windows. I have this problem with Steam Game Team Fortress 2 also (but not Left 4 Dead or Audiosurf i don't know why). Can somebody help?Oh by the way.. if u dont understand anything its just cuz of my german-pupil-english xDForger7

Summary:CloneZilla Live CD client imaging partitions to a file share on Windows 7 stores 22GB (11 2GB files) before erroring. Error is CIFS VFS error -12. out of memory.Trying to restart the process from cold boot of the CloneZilla session gets this same error at the attempt to connect to the share.It requires a reboot of the Windows 7 box to clear the error.Reproduced this twice--though the amount of data sent varies. Examining the files stored on the Windows 7 share, it appears to be occuring during the opening of a new file (CloneZilla stores up to 2048000KB per file).Details:I am making an image of a linux system. This particular system is currently a virtual machine in a VMware ESX server. I have mounted the GParted/CloneZilla Live CD ISO (available at http://gpartedclonz.tuxfamily.org/) as the CD-ROM.Boot to the CD-ROM and use CloneZilla to copy partitions to a samba server.The partitions are about 8GB and 52GB in size. I've tried converting both partitions during one run, and converting one partition at a time with a reboot of the VM in between.Access to the Windows 7 share is via AD. The connection is initially made with no problems.The 8GB partition copies without problem resulting in two (compressed) files of 2,048,000 KB and 1,065,813 KB, along with 4 other small files.The second partition has failed each time, with varying numbers of files written. Of the data files, all are 2,048,000 KB in size...no partial files.This is all being done on a Gbit LAN. Copy speeds being reported by Clonezilla are approximately 700MB/min which seems to be the uncompressed data processed--not the on-network speed.I attempted the same transfer to a Windows XP share and it is processing at about 1/2 the speed. This process completed without problem.Once this error message has been obtained, the clonezilla system cannot access this share until the Windows 7 box is rebooted. I tried connecting to it again after the XP test and it.... The clonezilla program presents the option to exit to the linux command line after it finishes. $ sudo mount -t cifs -o username=xxx,domain=yyy //zzz/images /home/partimag(xxx, yyy are valid username, domain names, zzz is name of Windows 7box)The exact error message at this point is:CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -12 CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -12mount error 12 = Cannot allocate memoryIt is this behavior of immediate failures until the Windows 7 box is rebooted that suggests that there is a problem with the Windows 7 side of things rather than the linux side.The output of "cat /proc/meminfo" indicates 665640 kB MemFree of 906572 kB MemTotalTrying to connect to the same share using the Windows XP box (Run Command box: \\zzz\images) reports: "The specified server cannot perform the requested operation." after a long timeoutFrom a command line: net use q: \\zzz\imagesSystem error 58 has occurred.The specified server cannot perform the requested operation.I don't know if there is a better place to report this.

I use Clonezilla to clone Linux and all versions of Windows to include Windows 7. Is your target (where you are storing your images running Linux with /home/partimag exported?) running a Linux client or are you trying to use Windows 7 as the target? If the latter, I would really, really suggest you use a Linux target so that it can natively export /home/partimag via NFS. Doing that, you will have no issues. I have a RHEL 5.2 server with a 1.5TB LVM that is my image source/storage. I know that is not the answer you are looking for, but I dont think you will find much support for such an esoteric issue.

Testing win7 media center. I have 2 happague cards. Since upgrading to win7 after a program records (not all of them) the info states I have 62 minutes of a show recorded. When I go to play back the show, the total time showing is only 4 minutes. The show only plays the first 4 minutes of the recording and media center thinks it is over and ends. The size looks correct in the recorded folder. This does not happen for all recordings.

Hi I am a new member on this forum, and french [It's why my english is bad :o(((]I am running on a computer with Intel E8600 core 2 duo extreme 6 Go Ram pc 6400 and 2 graphic cards NVIdia 285 GTX. Why 2 CG? because I get 5 monitors. 3are connected via one output DVI of the first 285 GTX to a Matrox triple head digital edition this gives 3840 x 1024, then one monitor is on the first dvi output of the second 285 GTX 1280 x1024(for example to be upper and giving view of the overhead panel of a liner). And the 5th monitor 1280 x1024is connected on the second dvi output of the second 285 GTX (for example to have the most gauges possible to manage the ACFT) and it is at the bottom of the 4 others.Also I am a member of Ivao and I run the User Interface plus weather and traffic on another computer.If that was good with XP and FS9 (in the past with 2 CG 8800 GTX and a E6800 core 2 duo extreme Intel) and it was only necessary 3Go Ram and for that only XP Pro 32 bits, now it is necessary with Vista and Windows 7 to pass under a bigger proc and the 2 OS in 64 bits to recognize more than 3 Go!But I must say that between Vista ed fam and windows 7 all 64 bits, windows 7 is the winner to give more FPS= the simulation is more fluent!!!Also there is a new thing in the fact to pass from windowing mode to full screen mode and back again in windowing mode: on the 4 monitors (the 3 with Matrox and the one at the bottom) you maintain the tall of the windows you've made first.But there is a but ; if you save a configuration (For example on park position of an airport) and you want to call again the saving you have to move yours windows to get the good image.... This is bad :o(((.Best regards and I will come back again to say others improuvements/ Guy

Hi All!I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pi 3540 notebook.I have installed Win7 Beta build 7000 once, then it crashed because of a registry clean, and I had to reinstall. Now that I reinstalled, the audio drivers have a problem. When I try to install the drivers I used before I get the message: "no driver was supported in this driver package". The audio hardware is Realtek ALC888 HD audio.I tried uninstalling the windows drivers, tried installing manually but nothing worked.I don't have audio bios settings so that can't be a problem. I'll post an everest report in the next post. I tried to narrow it down as much as possible, but I don't know what information is useful so it may be a little long... sorry about that!Thank you for the help in advance!Steven

OK! Posting everest report didn't work, text too long. If you tell me what information you need, I will copy it in.One other thing just came to my mind. I have installed the windows 7 beta drivers from nvidia, which includes dx11 beta. Could it be that the dx files are causing the mess?Ty!

For the past couple of weeks I've been trying to get GTA IV to work properly on Windows 7 32 bit. I have followed numerous website Instructions, but none of them seem to help.I don't have a problem installing the game, but a problem while playing the game. I had to install using Compatibility mode with Windows XP SP2. Whenever I launch the game and try to start I can play for about 20 seconds before the game crashes back to the desktop. I have looked in Event Viewer and get nothing much of value: http://gtaerror.pastebin.com/f367bdc79My computer more than satisfies the minimum requirements to play this game and I'm using the latest Windows 7 drivers provided by Nvidia (Core 2 Quad Q6600 stock clocked, 9800GT stock clocked, 4GB RAM, 250GB hard drive, 750w power supply, etc). If anyone has any ideas on how to get this game running, please let me know.

Hi,Come back again I experiment a little problem; I use CH product Yoke and I had set on it a button to swich on and off Park Brakes and I don't know why even I see on parameters that the set is active it doesn't run on win 7 only you can set park brakes by the keyboard as "ctrl + ;".Someone know why?

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OK color me officially confused. I have 4 PCs on a home wired network. 2 are running W7 and 2 XP. One XP PC has my music collection. I use WMP 11 on the XP box to index the music. I have made several playlists. The other XP box has my wife's music collection. She uses WMP 11 to manage themOn one of the W7 PCs when I run WMP, I see my wife's library under "Other Libraries". Nothing else. On the other W7 PC, I see both XP boxes and the other W7 box. I have tried everything I can think of to get all libraries to show up on the 1st W7 PC. I have rebooted all PCs, I have checked the XP box to make sure the W7 box is allowed to share media with it. I have checked to make sure I have network access to file shares both ways between PCs. I don't know why it has to be so hard. Itunes certainly doesn't make you work this hard to get networked librariries to show up.Now that I've vented, I do have some questions on the W7 PC that shows all libraries.1. It shows about a dozen playlists on the XP box that has my music although only about 4 of them exist on the XP box. How do I get rid of them. Itired deleting them in WMC but they don't go away2. If I use WMC on the "good" W7 PC to rate songs being played from the XP library, where are those ratings stored, on the networked library database, or locally on the W7 box. I am really confused about where changes to the database are stored when I'm using a shared library3. Any ideas about how to get the missing libraries to show up on the problem W7 PC?

Hi ,Another little problem but it is also under Vista 64 bits. When you use under FSX, default planes coming from fsx, as cessna garmin 1000 or cessna classic with GPS, and you putin the monitor upper the ND of the garmin 1000 or the GPS of the cessna classic ( I want to say the monitor which receives window overhead from a liner: ex pmdg MD 11) the garmin or the gps about 1 or 2 minutes don't move and stay at the same place instead of moving as the plane. And to repear I am obliged to switch off and on the garmin or GPS.And this problem doesn't exist with liners as PMDG or Wilco with their overhead etc.....Some ideas?Regards.Guy

Has anyone had any success getting Interactual Player 2.7 towork Windows 7 32/64 bit?Thanks,Frank

Exit Windows Media Center and start Task Scheduler by clicking Start, clicking Administrative Tools, and then clicking Task Scheduler. In the Task Scheduler Library, point to Microsoft, point to Windows, and then point to Media Center. In the middle pane, scroll through the list of Windows Media Center tasks to find RegisterSearch. Right-click RegisterSearch and click Run. Close Task Scheduler and wait a few minutes before attempting to use the Guide Search.Rating posts helps other users Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP

I have finally succeeded in getting the two XP libraries to show up in WMC, although strangely they do not showin WMP 12. However, when I click to open either of them I get the message "This shared music library either contains no music or you don't have access to it. I have "shared" the library in WMP 11 on the XP PC. I have the folder "shared" with "Allow Users to make changes" checked. What am I doing wrong?Just for your information, WMP works fine if I set the "monitored folder" to the share on the XP PC. It just can't see the files if I try to use the "shared library" instead. ???????????????????????

When running Media Center, selecting any of the Sports buttons ('on now' or 'on later' etc.) causes Media Center to stop working. A dialog box opens with 'searching for a solution to the problem' text. Media Center closes or hangs.Gigabyte MB: GA-E7AUM-DS2H (NVIDIA 9400); Pentium dual core 5200; 2GB RAM in two 1GB sticks; 320 GB SATA drive in SATA mode; HDMI output to Sharp LCD TV; Hauppauge HVR-1600 tuner card; W7 32bit.I've tried the full range of drivers from Gibabyte's site, as well as the W7drivers from NVIDIA's site, without affecting the situation.Thanks for any assistance.

Along with many others my WMP will not load any Library songs. I have my media on a slave HD. Even the media on my main HD wont load into a library. It is set to the correct folder locations and told to add automatically, still nothing loaded. Anyone find a real solution yet?Secondly, IE8 will NOT open links for WMP content. Example, streaming media. Whenever I click a link from a site that on XP/Vista would normally open a WMP window and play a video, IE8 gives me a server error and does not attempt to open WMP in any instance. I have checked for file associations and they are set properly. Not sure why this issue occurs. Though on an XP or Vista machine with IE7/WMP11these links work fine. I have tried using compatability mode as well andstill the same issue. Any ideas?I have have frequant "hang ups" when on IE8 that causes the windows to actually lock up forcing me to close them manually via Task Manager. I actually had it happen when attempting to post here!I am running an amd 2.2 dual core on an asus a8n5x, with only1gb ram on this current machine.Thoughthis should be more than able to run Windows 7 properly. Any thoughts?

Windows 7 firewall log does not appear to be working.Am getting an empty file in C:\windows\system32\logFiles\Firewall\pfirewall.logSomething seems to be slightly odd with the permissions, had to explicitely add my account in order to access the file, despite being a member of domain admins (and as such, local admins)I have logging enabled, and set to the default location.I currently just have inbound filtering enabled.I have been configuring a group policy object for the Windows 7 firewall, but am running into problems as I'm not getting a log file to fine tune the policies.Enabling outbound was disastrous, as I didn't have prior policies to base it on. It appeared to kill off the trust relationship with the domain.

I am still banging my head against this "Shared Library" problem. For the sake of clarity let me define what I mean by "Shared Library". When I use the term I mean the WMP database that resides on the PC with the media. In my case I have several thousand MP3 files on a PC and use WMP 11 (this is the XP PC) to create and manage the database on that box. What I am trying to do is to go to another PC and access this database. In my case, I go to the Kitchen PC (W7) and fire up WMC.At first I couldn't see the MP3 XP PC "Shared Library". I researched possible solutions and finally got it to show up on WMC in the Kitchen by making a Registry change on the XP box which was supposed to Enable Sharing. This was done after trying all the usual "sharing" suggestions within the WMP interface on the XP box.My problem now is erratic behaviour. On the kitchen PC (W7), sometimes the shared library shows up, but when I try to use it, it's hopeless. The music may or may not show up. If it does, it doesn't seem to want to play. At other times, WMC says there are no shared libraries available.Now I'm doing this under the belief that this is the way that MS wants it to be used. Maybe I'm wrong. I can go to any PC on my network and set the "Monitored Folder" to the networked share on the XP PC containing my music. After several hours, I have what I assume to be a "local" database with my music in it. This database works relatively well. Since I have so many songs, it's a little sluggish now and then, but works adequately well to use. This is the way I set it up when I have friends over and want to listen to music. At least I know it will work and I won't have to be continually tending WMC to try to make it work.Now the downside of using the "Monitored Folder" approach is that since I access my music from more that one PC, I will end up with multiple databases. Thus when I make changes to Ratings, playcount counters, playlists, etc, these only affect the PC that are made on. They will have no effect on others. I assume that MS envisions that I will only have one copy of the database located on the PC with the music and "share" it with all the other devices that want to play music. That way playcounts, ratings, and playlists will be shared.The problem is that it seems to be incredibly hard to set up that way. I am a long time computer nerd and it isn't like I'm not PC literate. I don't understand why it has to be this way.For example, if I use iTunes on the XP PC with the music, it easy builds a database and plays my music locally. If I go to the kitchen and fire up iTunes, bingo!, there's the database showing up. I just click on it and wait a while. After a minute of so presto, there's my music. No Fuss no muss.Now, I've always been a MS guy. I really want to get this to work. But you have to hand it to Apple. iTunes just works. Now WMC is a much more sophisticated program and can do so much more that iTunes. But what good is it, if it is so hard to set up or keeps breaking down when you use it.Now I'm humble enough to admit that the fault may lie on my end. I'd love to know what I need to do to make it work. But at the end of the day, itunes worked the first time I used it and this WMP/WMC business has burned many hours of troubleshooting time and I still can't get it to work the way I think it was designed.I'd love to hear from thoese of you who know more than me about how a home media network should be designed and/or what I can do to get this one working the way it's supposed to. Thanks

When ever I try to recompile the project/solution I get the same error.1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: GamesPrototype2008, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------1>Deleting intermediate and output files for project 'GamesPrototype2008', configuration 'Debug|Win32'1>GamesPrototype2008 : error PRJ0008 : Could not delete file 'c:\Users\CppMonkey\Documents\-=Course Work=-\2nd Year - Part 2\CO2403 - Professional Skills\AdlezSVN\bin\GamesPrototype2008Debug.exe'.1>Make sure that the file is not open by another process and is not write-protected.1>GamesPrototype2008 - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)========== Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========It's fine the first time you compile it. But have to reboot to be able to recompile the application again.Right clicking the compiled EXE takes ages to bring up the context menu. And if you try and delete it, it simplyreappears.In Explorer with the file selected it has the 'status' "private" with a lock.Any help would be great

I'm in the UK and using a dual-tuner DVB-T PCI card from Peak based on the AF9015 tuner chipset, basically a USB hub on a PCI card with two DVB-T tuners hanging off it. This has worked without problem under XP, but I'm getting some seriously frustrating problems under Win7 Media Center...Media Center will scan and find 89 channels in total after some bouncing around. Only six of these from one provider are actually viewable, the rest come back with 'No Signal' when changing channel to them.Using Mediaportal to scan for channels only finds the six that are working in Media Center but returns 'No Signal' when trying to view them.To add insult to injury, I must have tried viewing a 'No Signal' channel in Media Center before Alt-F4 closing it as having just opened Media Center directly in to Live TV it opened on the non-working channel and actually started playing it. I changed channel to one of the six known good ones and attempted to change back and again 'No Signal', but I know it's there as I was watching it 30 seconds ago...As the problems seem to be occuring with both Media Center and Mediaportal is this a driver issue with the BDA drivers? I'm using the latest version for Vista from April 2008 (8.4.29.1), driver provider being 'AFA Tech' who presumably produce the AF9015 chipset. The drivers themselves install without a hitch and playback on the working channels is perfect.Any ideas, thoughts or even commiserations would be welcomed!

I have been using Serif publishing products for years, and have always kept upgraded to the latest version and apdates to the latest release. I'm now using Pageplus X3. I have been using it with XP Pro for sometime, and it works fine.In Windows 7 (Beta), PagePlus run normallythough the UAC ask me if I want to allow it to make cahnges every time I run it. Once running, everything is fine until I attempt to save a file. The the program freezes. Not only that, but nothing that I try can unfreeze it. I tried to allow windows to close it down...it's can't. I've attmepted to close it by using the Task Manager...it can't, either. sometimes, i can't even get Windows 7 to close down while PagePlus is "hung".Wonder what going on!Yes, I AM running the app as an administrator, and yes, I am using XP compatibility mode.

When closing the lid of my laptop, Windows sometimes correctly enters suspend, and there is no problem. However other times, the computer completely turns off. It happens more often when it is left for longer periods of time. i.e. overnight. 90% of the time roughly. The laptop is plugged in overnight. After turning itself it, upon reboot I recieve a message."Object GUID: {...}Status: 0xc0000034Info: The configuration for an element within the object for the boot configuartion data store.This may or may not be related, but upon booting both the Ubuntu and the Windows Boot Loader ask for input.

Hello,I have searched all through windows media player 12 and found no easy option for 'media sharing'. Finally got to a place through homegroup where it allowed me to activate some type of media sharing option. After doing so, in my DLNA client, in this case it is a playstation3, but it could be any other device, shows no DLNA server at all. So what option has to be activated to create a proper DLNA serverto share ourmedia files?In the same way i would like to know if I have a DLNA server in the same LAN, such as a mobile device that supports media sharing, does Windows Se7en incorporate any client to view these 'shared files'?Thanks in advance.Jags

I am not able to get updates for my Hp DV8380 laptop, I get error 8000ffff. It is identical to a proviousthread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprogeneral/thread/d43ff0b1-fd5d-4a25-87fb-971d52f5cc4bI have tried uninstalling AVG & spyware baster. I've triedeveryting in the above thread to no avail.Everything else I have is running fine - no other problrms.After reading & seraching thru posts, I would bet others are not getting updates, but have not tried the manual update & don't realize it.

Okay, so, I configured Windows 7 Media Center with not major issues with my two tuners, an ATI set on analog cable, and a Hauppauge set to work with my cable set top box. Everything worked fine for about a week.Suddenly, however, I'm receiving the "Copying Prohibited" message whenever I try to watch Live TV (and recorded TV) on the same system. Note: this is _not_ on a different system, but on the single Win 7 box. Non-premium channels are fine, so it would seem that the system's being flaky around the copy protection bit.Anybody else having this problem?

I have two Hauphaugge PVR-1600s in my machine. Both are recognized in Device Manager, and Media Center says I have two tuners. So far so good.When I am recording, however, media center will only use one tuner. If, say, I'm recording Monday Night Raw (ending at 11:07 EDT) and the Daily Show (starting at 11:00 EDT), it will record ALL of RAW, but will not start the Daily show on time. It will record from 11:07 - 11:30.Have I set something up incorrectly, or am I missing something?[This just in] Tonight, it decided to tape two shows at the same time. On Mondays, however, it only uses one tuner....I'm so confused...

Examples are - the Libraries seem to be missing significant folders. I can't save to Favorites (even though my Favorites are there, and were apparently correctly restored.Briefly, the problem is, there's no way to "see" the complete set of "My XXX" locations, nor any way I can find to define a "common" location for them. At some point after installing Win 7 Beta, I "moved" the location of My Documents, My Pictures, etc away from the default location in C:\Users\Username. Now I seem to have some folders in the relocated location, some in c:\Users\Username, and some just plain don't seem to exist!a) What's the best way to fix this??b) Have I stumbled across a quite nasty bug?c) Should I report this to the Win 7 Beta team

Hi guysI have installed the CPP Windows 7 x86 version in a HPCompaq 6510b with 3Gb ram and Intel T7250 CPU.Regarding app compatibility, I installed office 2007with outlook and communicator 2007. I connect to my office network and for two days I did not had presence information updated in outlook.I downloaded all updates that windows update gave me as important. I did not installed 4 optional updates for windows 7.Does anyone else had the same problem?Daniel

Hi,I am testing my application on Windows 7 Ultimate 6.1.7.7000 Build 7000 installed on a x86-64 box.Some details of the machineSystem Manufacturer HPSystem Model ProLiant DL380 G5System Type x64-based PCProcessor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz, 3000 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)BIOS Version/Date HP P56, 1/24/2008SMBIOS Version 2.4Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 2.00 GBTotal Physical Memory 2.00 GBAvailable Physical Memory 1.38 GBTotal Virtual Memory 4.29 GBAvailable Virtual Memory 3.57 GBPage File Space 2.29 GBPage File C:\pagefile.sysThe system has 4 disks presented to it from an external storage arrayMy application runs "mountvol /n" to disable automatic mounting of these disks. And then it tries to partition the volume using IOCTL_DISK_SET_DRIVE_LAYOUT. While doing this I am getting following bitlocker errors on the volume.Bit-Locker Driver Event ID 24615Metadata initial read: Primary metadata record on volume \\?\Volume{bfd6d9bf-1446-11de-ac95-001e0bc37fbc} could not be found. Volume needs recovery.\Bit-Locker Driver Event ID 24620Encrypted volume check: Volume information on \\?\Volume{bfd6d9bf-1446-11de-ac95-001e0bc37fbc} cannot be read.None of the disks are bit locker encrypted. In fact bit-locker encryption is turned off. Still I am getting these errors.And subsequently when I try to format the disks with the windows format command. The operation fails with "Device is offline" error.The same sequence of events used to work with Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Server without any errors.Is this accepted behavior?thanks,Praveen

And the PC is potentially good for getting around kick-in-the-stomach file-format rejections we see in connected products: Windows 7 will automatically render files that it knows the networked device itself can't accept. For instance, a media player that doesn't like AAC will be delivered a more palatable WMA audio track in realtime. Microsoft even says conversion will work with video filesas in, flipping an XviD of The Big Lebowski into WMV as you're watching. It's early in the beta, so there's no telling how pleasant or painful that experience will be. Needless to say, it's not testable just yet. Read the full article here:http://i.gizmodo.com/5140763/win-7-tip-play-to-media-control-might-take-over-your-whole-house Ilove this feature! Or, I will, once it goes live. These past few days I've been trying to get my Samsung LN46A750R1FXZA LCD TV to play my DivX collection properly over DLNA and WMP12's Media Streaming. My TV picks up WMP's file libraries fine and loads the videos with sound and everything. My only problem is that the files play at their native encoding size, which is some infinitesimally small 480x320, or about th my screen size. Not only that, the TV's 'fit-to' feature distorts the sizes even more gruesomely. Three(3) freeware apps and two(2) trial software packages later nothing would do this.... or, they would, but the TV wouldn't play the transcoded files due to its own decoding limitations. And then a last ditch kumo search spit that article out, and I breathed a sigh of relief. Keep working on this, and introduce it in the RC1, all you wonderful media tech gods!!! This would solve all my transcoding problems with DivX files and saves me from having to reencode all of them manually for the DLNA TV; could you image the work that would require for my TB's worth of movies and TV shows? P.S. My TV's DLNA test certificate: http://certification.dlna.org/certs/REG83873606.pdf Support my devices profile natively, please? hint, hint? ;)

When playing back DVDs in Windows Media Center running on Windows 7 RC1 (7057) as well as Beta (7000) I experience stuttering and brief pauses during playback once about every 5 minutes or so during the entire movie. This happens on burned DVDs as well as studio produced DVDs. It appears that there's some sort of buffering going on since the DVD drive does not spin the entire time during playback. The drive beings spinning during initial start-up of the movie then stops while the movie is playing and continues to play. After a while (approximately 5 minutes) the movie pauses briefly, the DVD drive spins for a bit then the movie resumes playback. It appears to me that there's some sort of buffering going on as opposed to reading directly from the DVD. Windows Media Player plays back DVDs just fine but Media Center does not and I prefer Media Center over Media Player for DVD playback. I should also note that I did not experience this issue in Windows Vista with Media Center. Does anyone have any idea what's going on and how to fix it?

It seems that after the update today, WMP can no longer remember what my libraries contain. At random times, it will stop streaming (to the PS3) and I will come in to the computer and see that it has lost all the media info on the computer. It will immediately re-locate it and start building the library. Also - the streaming/server service randomly stops and restarts with no user input.Any ideas?

so, I recently replaced my antiquated ATI TV wonder Pro (not supported since windows XP) with a haupauge 1800. After some fairly significant tinkering, I've managed to get windows media center to operate the analog cable tuner and the FM radio on this card correctly, but am not able to locate any option that hints at how to get media center to switch to the composite inputs this card is equipped with (e.g. for using a gamecube/wii or PS2/3 or other composite or S-Video interfaceexternal video source). Presumably this feature exists since surely microsoft would not intentionally deprive users of functionality, but I can't find it. I've read that earlier version of MC have also had this problem, but that workarounds exist.On a side note, it is possible to get at an external signal to the composite connectors by claiming that there is a set-top box, but this isn't a completely satisfactory solution as media center then claims that there is no IR connection and refuses to proceed with setup. It seems like altering windows media center to allow a "set-top" device without an IR system detected would be a simply change that would sovle this problem, allowing the existence of a phantom "set-top" box that is really a VCR or DVD player or console game system.As a side note to the side note, when windows media center claims it has finished setting up my tuners automatically, it informs me there is an unconfigured tuner. I am curious if this is media center happily detecting the signal from my console device but refusing to recognize it. In any case, are there any known workarounds or KB items that I've somehow missed for this? Seeing as I bought this card specifically to interface console gaming into my PC, not being able to do so is rather a drag.

I am experiencing several problems with offline files:1. Conflicts not detected on first sync.Work online.Create a text file.Work offline.Edit the file on both sides.Work online.Sync all.Sync center does not report a sync conflict.On some later sync the conflict suddenly gets reported.2. Error "file in use" when choosing "keep both" to resolve conflict.When choosing "keep both" a renamed file "...(.... v1)" is created, but Sync Center displays a "file in use" error even though I did close all apps and even all explorers.3. "Offline Files" does allow concurrent edits without warning.While working online one can edit offline files on a client an a server concurrently.The last save overrides the previous one.I expect a "file in use" error. If this is not possible technically, there should at least be a warning in the documentation.4. Sync center warns about conflicts detected but does not show any under details.After resolving all conflicts Sync Center still warns about a conflict but does not display any conflict under details. Resyncing does not help. Going offline, closing all explorers and resyncing does solve this. This happens in conjunction with problem 2 above.5. Visible file "currently not available for use on this computer"Work online.Create text file on client.File shows in explorer on client and server.Work offline.When trying to edit the file on client error: "file currently not available for use on this computer". Syncing before working offline helps, but this is not what one expects.6.Making a large folder (16GB, 70.000 files) available offline crashed my client notebook (maybe because I tried to make available a second folder at the same time). Trying to find out if it crashed while or after the sync is not possible, because folder properties does not display size or number of files. Resyncing takes endlessly (not due to the amout of files but because each file sync seems to take very long). Trying to disable offline files for this folder starts producing lots of errors "cannot sync file at this time, try later.." after a while. The only way to disable offline files for the problematic folder was diabling offlince files completely.

Hi all.It's known that Windows cannot download files from FTP if the file size is greater that 4Gb.For example, if user wants to download 6 Gb file from FTP, only the first 3,99 Gb will be shown in explorer anddownloded.In this caseuser must usea special download manager, like ReGet or DM to download the file correctly.Will that bug be fixed in Windows 7?Thanks in advance.

While testing 7 Beta I see that shadow copies (Previous Versions) stored on Server 2003 can not be opened. Is this something that will change?Previous Versions(shadow copies) can be opened and restored from XP and Vista machines - there is no problem with the shadow copy version or setup on the server.Previous Versions on the Windows 7 machine work fine for files stored on that machine. There is an issue with windows 7 viewing, opening or restoring previous versions stored on the 2003 Server. Is there a fix or update to the 2003 shadow copy client for windows 7?

Has anyone gotten verion 3.3 of Rsdmin to work, I installed it and the server wouldnt run. I then installed radmin 2.2 using the same port and v3.3 now works

I'm using Win7-64 on a Compaq F572 lapop. I purchased a USB AverMedia Volar hybrid TV receiver. It claims that it can provide NTSC analog, ATSC digital, Clear-Quam digital cable, and FM and digital FM.The software and drivers loaded OK. The USB device was recognized by Media Center. At first, I used the OEM-supplied high-gain antenna, as Avermedia suggests, for trial and configuration purposes. It works "OK" for OTA ATSC in both Windows Media Center, and Avermedia's Media Center app. The problem I'm running into is that whether using the antenna or connected to cable (Comcast), I can't get analog, NTSC signal. Windows MC displays a 'No Signal' message, while the Avermedia MC provides a black-and-white picture, except for brief moments of color using the OTA antenna - cable connection, and channel rescanning stll only gives a b&w picure. I've tried updating the drivers, and also rolling hem back - no difference. I haven't tried installing the device on another machine, yet... I figured I'd try this forum, to see if anyone has any suggestions. When viewing a digital or C-quam cable signal, in either Win MC or Avermedia MC, the picure is sharp and clear. I recorded a digital program, and burned it to DVD successfully - playback of the DVD is also quite sharp, so I'm fairly confident that the USB tuner device is working properly, ***except*** for ananlog NTSC, either OTA or direct from cable. Any thoughts or suggestions are welcomed. Thanks in advance !

How about to pause WMP playback if WMP plays video and still do nothing if plays audio? Is it real to implement such feature in Windows 7?Developer Lime Systems

The problem might be that both tuners are the same make and model, I have two USB tuners also installed but they are of diferent makes and models and they both can be used at the same time with WMC with no problems at all. Hope this helps.Dave Chance

when i convert a AVI file with any program nero and it hits the point just before it starts burning windows will lag big time and lock up till it over that part?

Does Umbraco work correctly under Windows Vista? I dont the answer; however, there were a couple of things that stood out. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Microsoft SQLserver 2005 Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0 Microsoft IIS 6.1 Looking at the Umbraco web site, they make specific mention about using IIS7, included with Vista/7, instead of IIS 6.1. Also, Windows 7 already contains .NET 3.5.1 binaries which are backward compatible with .NET 2.0. http://www.umbraco.org/documentation/books/install-umbraco-30-on-windows-vista/introduction.

WMP12 previsualizacion has "Play" "Next" "Back", compared to the toolbar of Vista is very useless, in the old toolbar I advance or delay the song where I want to, change the volume and see what I'm listening (artist, song album) I think that the toolbar is much better than the "preview" of Win7 Should improve it

I am trying to play to my xbox 360 with windows media player. My computer can see my xbox, and is allowing sharing to it. I also have all sharing turned on on my computer. The only problem is that when i right click on a file in WMP, and select play to, it doesnt give the xbox as an option. I've tried it with music, videos and pictures so it isnt a problem with a file type. Any idea on how to fix this? Thanks

Oh yeah, and my xbox sees my computer and can play music off of it. The only problem is the "play to" feature

To all forum users:Please use this thread to note any comments that you haveabout Windows 7. Do not use this thread for any specific question or issue that you are having - just for comments or feedback. For questions/issues, createa new thread.Note: This is a continuation of the original thread, as it was getting too long.Thanks-Tony MannWindows Client IT Pro Audience Manager for Web Forums

Not sure if anybody else has seen this or if this is by design, but we're using 802.1x port security on our wired network. Once you start the Wired Autoconfig service, the Windows 7 machines authenticate and they can work. However, it seems that they only authenticate using the machine account. It seems that the 802.1x supplicant on Windows 7 isn't sending a log on/off command to the switch to initiate re-authentication as the user instead of the machine. This becomes a problem when you have machines in public areas that have a publicly known local user who is supposed to be pushed into a different VLAN than a corporate user who logs onto the same machine (typically in training rooms etc)Is there a way around this, or was this an oversight?

Amazing. That is what i think of Win 7 x64 build 7068. Could it get any better? I have not had a single issue since installing 7068 and it is lighter on resources and more responsive. I would acyually buy this now if I was given the option too. I think this is really going to kill off all those die hard xp heads off.

I typed in some html into notepad and then renamed it as htm on this win7 computer. After doing so, the icon changed to the familiar blue "e" icon however, when opening the file, all the images were replaced by place holders. So, I tried opening it with FF instead and it worked just fine. Next, I sent the six images and html code to others with XP and IE7 and no one else had a problem.Finally, I decided to copy sections of the text into a newblank html document, testing after each piece of code was added but never could reduplicate the error (in the new file). The original html remained errant but the competed copy file was great, in IE8. I believe the issue points to win7 renaming the file type. The problem is gone now, just passing this info along.T.R.

Windows 7 (build 7000) has not normally works with application Sony Ericsson Update Service. White screen in the application window. If I'm click right key of mouse, i see the menu "movie not loaded" and "about Adobe flash player". In the Windows Vista or XP these troubles is not finded.

I never got stuck on Aero during Vista but for some reason I've gotten used to and for the most part like it in Windows 7. Just wish there was some way to customise all the colors like with the classic look, especially the ever present white. But other than the changes to Superfetch which has me baffled so far I very much enjoy the experience. Hope there's some articleout explainingthose changessoon.

Agreed. +1

Hi all,I'm running Windows 7 Beta on my laptop and have discovered a possible compatibility issue. We use System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 to enable end users to manage virtual machines. Using Windows 7 as my client OS I can log on to SCVMM and manage my virtual machines without any problems. But when I try to connect to the console of a virtual machine using the Connect to VM button, I end up with the following error message in the Remote Control Session window: Virtual Machine Manager failed to connect to the virtual machine because the guest operating systems computer name (MyServerName) could not be resolved by the Domain Name System Ive search the Internet and the exact same error message shows up if you have a OS that doesnt have CredSSP (like WinXP SP2) or if its not enabled. This thread explains the problem:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/virtualmachinemanager/thread/b4294ac4-e390-4cf1-b133-425a2d82fc2f/ Ive compared the CredSSP settings in the registry with my Server 2008 client (where I can connect without problems) and cant find any relevant differences. Im accessing SCVMM over Internet so connecting via RDP is not an option in this case. Im not sure whatever this problem actually lies in the CredSSP settings or if the Active X component used to connect (SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.VMMCtlAx.VMConnect) is incompatible with Windows 7 for some reason. This is currently a blocking issue for me to use Windows 7 as my primary client OS anyone out there with suggestions?

Hi, If you have any feedback or suggestions regarding Windows 7 beta and its programs, welcome to post in the following thread. Have Comments about Windows 7 Beta? (Part 2)Arthur Xie - MSFT

cpu 7.3 ram 7.3 graphics 5.9 gameing graphics 6.5 hard disk 5.9 system intel quad q6600 2.4 overclocked to 3.2 4 gigs ram ati 4850 512 graphics raptor x2 150gig western digital 500gig

Overall it's pretty good, feels a little faster than Vista and I like the new functionality. A few niggles:-1. Doesn't always shut down when asked.2. Some minor application issues, nothing that couldn't be fixed:- AVG 8.5 installion, itunes installation4. Some h/ware issues:- HP3210 doesn't want to pring borderless photos, my soundblaster audigy plays white noise a lot of the time, doesn't recognise my memory card reader (Vista also has trouble here)3. IE8 doesn't always remember my login names etc (although this could be IE8)On balance nothing big and still feels nicer than Vista; August will be a wrench if I have to go back....

I am not looking for a workaround. I was able to use the exact methodology using a Windows XP box with a share to host the image.What I am doing is trying to report this as a problem in Windows 7 and providing as detailed a bug report as possible. The problem was encountered and reproduceable using this example.

Good.

There are audio problem in bink cinematics in games like Mirror's Edge and Unreal Tournament 3... Both are updates to the last version... In the forum there are other users with this problem, so I think it's not only my problem... P.S.: referred to my post on the previous thread, I know that the old driver is not Microsoft's guilt, but vendor's guilt, but I'm tired to listen people that accuse Microsoft for problems caused by bad or broken or old driver... 95% of world's people are not objective, and it's so fastidious... So in the previous post I don't want to accuse Microsoft, I wanted to clarify this point ;)... Most of problems on pc is caused by driver or applications written in bad way, and it isn't right that this muddy Microsoft's name... P.P.S.: sorry for my bad English, but I only studied it at school, and my prof wasn't interested to teach it to us...

I already feedback but I dont see any changes in newer builds

I already feedback but I dont see any changes in newer builds Hi SotcrYou will need to wait and check this on the official RC release, which should be soon. I'm going to merge this threadwith the Feedback for better visibility for the Beta Team.Hope this helps.Thank You for testing Windows 7 Beta Ronnie Vernon MVP

I loaded the Win7 x64 version beta, and after veryintense testing and use, I found two things that need (ed) work. One the Desktop Status Bar after boot up would not load icons until it was moved. That was apparently fixed in a update. The other thing is the Blinking Icons for Networking. I know they are somwhat Eye Candy, however to many of us they are also quick visual of the network traffic,and a good way to tell if actually connected.I hope they will be added back to the OS. (Please)I can say without a doubt that Win7 is loking like the best Windows Version since Windows 3.1. I have hadno problems with it so far. Being a x64 version and auto finding all the driversis in itself a excellent accomplishment. (Smiley Right Here) Good Job, Keep it up....Mike

Hi MikeThanks for posting.I will be moving your post to our official feedback thread so the MS beta engineers can see it.Regards,Thank You for testing Windows 7 Beta Ronnie Vernon MVP

Today I was reading the Engineering Windows 7 blog, and wanted to put a comment in the "Federating Windows Search with Enterprise Data Sources" topic, but even after maybe 9 attempts, I could not post it there. So, I will comment in here, and hope the dev team to see it. There is a part of the post that says: "But wait, theres more! Windows Explorer is a great tool that many customers know and love. But some people use it without even knowing it. Countless Windows applications make use of what we call the Common File Dialog. This is a special Explorer window that lets you find and choose items to be opened or inserted into your current application, without ever leaving it. If youve ever clicked File and then Open or Save in an application menu, youve probably seen some version of this dialog." And later the user Hairs posted that explorer WAS. He says: "Now, it is a nanny which is attempting to tell me how, where, and when I should organise my files. This started with User Directories (good idea, messy implementation) and the My Documents/Pictures/Video system. Libraries, however much they are repainted, are nothing other than a slightly less messy implementation of the same idea." And I agree. I think explorer is becoming more and more "simplified" over time, but the cost is losing functionality every new windows version. I know it is impossible to please everyone. Its a fact. But, beeing Windows explorer "a great tool that many customers know and love" and, more USE, I risk to say Windows Explorer and its dialogs are one of the most used feature in windows. If millions of people use something everyday, a interface set in stone will for sure, not please everyone. For me, this is one of the reason for sucess of XP explorer. User could easily customize it. Later, in the same topic of the blog, the user bpaddock asks many questions to another users, about the use they do/expect of explorer. I would like to comment it here, and make a effort to be clear with my own ideas about Windows Explorer. bpaddock: "Windows 7 will always remember the view settings you choose." ME: This is simple a LIE. There is only ONE button I use in the "NEW" command bar of explorer... and, this ins not the BURN (I hate it) nor Organize (I like to use keyboard shortcuts to cut, copy, undo etc). The only button is the one to set my Downloads folder to LIST, because EVERY SINGLE TIME I open my folder, it changed to something "random". If I downloaded 2 or 3 pictures, it changes to show me thumbnails. If I download 2 or 3 text documents, it changes itself to Details, but it NEVER, NEVER remain the way I WANT. or, LIST. bpaddock: "I'm also curious about how you think the current Explorer design impedes your ability to organize your files effectively." ME: In fact its very simple! Let me tell: I have 100 files in a folder. If I was using the explorer in Windows XP (that was GREAT) I can simple look to botton of the screen and see something like: 100 itens, 899 MB. So, I know in less than a second that all this files WILL FIT in a 1GB pendrive, and will NOT fit in a partition with 500mb free. So, I know very quickly the names, and sizes of my files. And now? Explorer "improved", so, if I have the same files, and I look at the botton, I see a HUGE, and I mean HUGE details pane, taking LOTS of my screen space, and it shows "100 itens". In that HUGE pane, I dont have the same information xp used to provide me in a single corner of a SINGLE LINE. So, what I have to do? Select all my files... but, wait... I just selected more than 15 files... so, the "evolved" explorer cant tell me the file sizes YET! I have to perform ANOTHER STEP, and click "More info". Oh! Good! Thanks for the evolved explorer. Now, I only need to select all my files (and dont even think about selecting a folder along, it will NOT work later), click in show more details and, voil! I have the exactly same info that used to cost me NO Selection, and NO click in the "old, bad and ugly" explorer from xp. Next one: I use to organize my files in list, because I normaly have lots of files in a single folder (one folder for books, one for music, etc). So, I go to my books folder. In the OLD explorer, I had a nice list view, with the books organized in the way: Author - Title.doc or pdf . Now, once the NEW list view have a column limit of 44 characters, I see my books like Author - Tit... Oh! very good... I have (with lucky) less than the few first letters of the title. So, lets recap... With the new explorer, there is 2 things that I cant see in my files: 1) Their SIZES, and 2) Their full NAMES! Sure, not being able to see NAMES and FILESIZES never imped me to working with my files... I just select some of them at random, and burn them to a DVD.. oh! no, I cant.. they dont fit the dvd and I didnt knew it... sorry, was just too much work to see the sizes. Oh! The files in dvd was not the ones you need? Sorry again, explorer just didnt showed me the file names... but explorer EVOLVED! Its new now! GREAT! bpadock: "Do you not make use of Libraries at all? They can be very helpful in organizing your files how you like." ME: Yes, I use them, and agree they are a very nice idea. They help to organize files/folder and reducing the mess. Using libraries, I can keep all my files in a hard drive (D) and point libraries to d:\music, d:\books and so on. This way, its easy for me, because I never liked the "My x" folder organization, and, even more, I dislike having personal files in the same drive as the OS. Since Windows (different from linux) never give us a chance (during install) to point the User folder to a different drive, using libraries is a very good workaround to have quick acess to my files, no matter where they are. Keep libraries, they are, indeed, a improvement, the kind of improvement I want to see, not the "it changed, now its better". Diferent is not better. Better is better. Changing without purpose is not evolving, is just un-needed modifications. You can also use the settings dialog, or right-click on the background of the Navigation pane area to choose the "Show All Folders" option, which I think feels very much like a 'classic' Explorer model. He: "Where are you seeing a problem with the size column?" ME: I alreay told you. Having list not showing full file names is a BIG problem. Just let me clarify. I have a widescreen monitor (and I think lots of people have, since they are becoming comum). That mean I have more space to see files from side to side than I have to see from top to bottom. In list, I can see LOTS of files in a single screen. In details, I need to scrool and scrool (like I have to in the All Programs, but its another complain) to see lots of files. So, I prefer to use list. But, list view is limited and IMO, broken, now. At least we need a option to "always show full file names" or "start new column after XX characters of file name" but we dont have option. "File types like AVI and TXT do not provide support for open metadata. This is a limitation of the file format. Believe me, we aren't ignoring this problem, but unfortunately some problems don't have easy answers and take more time than others to get right." I agree with you. Its a problem with file format, nothing wrong here. ____________________________________ Now, to expand a little more, what I dislike about the NEW explorer, in a way of making things that comes with Windows Vista, and is rolling to Windows 7 as well: 1) Why cant I customize the toolbar? I could do that easily in xp. See, again, we have a involution here. As I told, its impossible to please everyone, but if there is absolutely NO WAY to customize one thing used for millions of people every day, them, it will for sure cause more trouble. 2) Autoarrange: PLEASE, and Im not asking, Im BEGGING you: PLEASE, let me disable this annoyance. I lost the count of how many times I created a new folder, and, like I always did in xp, started to type the name it should have, just to see my first characters disapear to nowhere, because the folder was autoarranged. Even worse, I always was able to cut/copy/move lots of files to a place in xp, create a folder, name it, select all files and put in the new created folder. I just cant do that anymore. If I put files in a folder, they start to arrange itselves (and I didnt ask for it). Autoarrange is REALLY REALLY annoying for me. (and again, Im talking about OPTION. the need of put the things MY way. I dont want to impose my way over the others. If there is people over there that like/love this feature, let them use it and be happy. But, please, dont force me to use something that really is bad for MY way of work.) 3) Details Pane: Its inconsistent. If I select a picture, explorer start to show lots of info. They are useful, most of times. BUt, file size, for instance, is in the 3 column, in the top for pictures, but for most of the file types, its in the bottom of the first column. I Know pictures have different attributes than music of documents, but ANY file have file size and name. I think there are some attributes that deserve a little dedicated space, like the status bar in Windows XP used to provide for file sizes in the right corner. That was great. And more, if the explorer window is not large enough, it dont have a + sign or something in the right of the details pane to show that there is more info and its just not showing it.. I have to figure it by myself. For me, since Windows Vista, windows explorer is just becoming less and less usable. Less and less customizable and losing functionality every time. I would love to use windows 7 with a "Classic" windows explorer. I dare to say that the EXACTLY same windows explorer from xp, just with Libraries support would be perfect for me.

I'm very dissapointed with the final version of IE8... In preview builds (Of IE) there wasa feature for search in the history titles and now is gone...In the current beta this feature is still on and many of you will note when they release the RC with a new build of Ie8 without this feature

Some excellent observations there.

I agree with Warel and must reiterate how retarded some aspects of the new windows explorer (WE) is . and by "retarded" I don't mean to denigrate mentally handicapped people, but whoever decided these functions. stupid is as stupid does... Triple the size of the status bar yet neglect to show the most crucial piece of info? who thought this was a good idea? say I want to put files on my 1G usb stick. in XP, I can see immediately how much space I have left on the stick. in 7, I have to go to my computer. then as I select files on my HD, in XP I can immediately see the total size. add or remove from the selection and I immediately see the total size changes. in 7, I have to click see details. WHAT? WE actually stops for a few seconds to calculate!! sometimes it stops so long I think it in't doing anything. as I add or remove files from the selection, I have to keep track in my head about how much the total is, or stop and click see details again. I don't get it. Has the filesystem become more complex since XP? it's still NTFS right? what is the malfunction here? It's beta, you say. I asked someone who was using build 7048 (I know, I know, no non official build discussion, sorry) and he said this annoying behavior is still there ! they've increased the total items you can select before the 'see more details' comes up from 15 to 25 or something, but it's still there. unbelievable. when did toolbar icons become passe? now we just get words, with low contrast dark blue on light blue. faint is the new clear! I guess it's cleaner and prettier that way. and customizable toolbar? that's so 1990's. why let the customer mess up your design right?

I ragged on WE because it deserves it, but there are some good things: the breadcrumb (though it is does NOT obviate the usefulness of the up button, as MS seems to think), the checkbox for selection, the built in search bar, and the drop down filter on column headers. on the last, why aren't the column headers there when I'm not in details view? just b/c I want to see large icon thumbnails doesn't mean I don't want to sort or filter. also, the filter on name isn't terribly useful. how helpful is it to see files A-H? this seems like one of those things that were put in just b/c there's a capability for it (the other columns have it, we better put something in the name column too) without really considering what would be useful. what WOULD be useful is a text box to type in a part of the name. very often, I know the file I'm looking for is in the current folder, and I know part of the name; I just don't want to scroll through to look for it. It'd be very useful to filter by typing in part of the name. or I have files named 'blah blah foo', 'blah blah foo rev 1', 'blah blah foo rev 2', I want to type in 'foo' and see all revisions. I can use search, but that will search subfolders too and content of files (if I have that enabled), giving me more results that I don't want and doing it slower to boot. so: I want to click on drop down button on the name column header, get a text box with focus and be able to start typing and see the names filtered immediately as I type (just like the search in the start menu). This should be FAST. also, please make it an option (or registry hack) to have the drop down button show at all time. I don't want to have to hover over the column.

I don't know if Vista had this functionality but when it works its great. My problem occurs when I choose several TV programs or Music or both at the same time and let the machine do its thing. I get a popup that media center needs to close. Some files make it over and the last one in the process plays up to the poitn where MP crashed. Everytime the error reporting dialog pops up I try to send my error report of to MS but it gives me an error like I am not using a valid Live login. I use the same login I use for the MS Connect site.

I have synced about a dozen shows and the analog ones always play fine but network HD like Gary Unmarried go over fine but don't have any audio. IS this a DRM issue or a bug.

Whenever I switch to "Now Playing", it's usually just the album cover. The visualizations don't start until I click on the one I want, which is already 'ticked'. Reminds me of the old days when you had to tap the side of the TV to get it to work. :)

IE8 - I like the koisk, like the fact that I can still use the keyboard (F11), like that it works w/ or w/o the status bar, like the autohide menu in koisk mode. And it works w/ or w/o compatibility mode on (i tried before and after). Windows Explorer - I like the koisk here just the same. Please do not remove these features.Internet Explorer can print and always could. Windows Explorer cannot print and never could. I have been wanting to print from Program Manager...oops I mean Windows Explorer for years. Nowadays I would still be printing, butto PDF. Please offer this basic service.T.R.

I am running Windows 7 64 Bit. We are testing the various applications that we use to manage our equipment. One is a microwave management application by Ericsson. We have the latest software that is supported on Windows Vista. When I try to load the software it returns a failed comment that MSDE 1.0 is installed. Does Windows 7 have MSDE installed with a basic installation of the OS? Is there a way that I can remove MSDE from Windows 7.

Outlook and windows update worked fine until I moved my system to work where the network is behind MS proxy. DONT DOINSTALL MS PROXY CLIENT 2.0 in Win7, Actually the client worked and even pop3 mail connected until I rebooted the machine win7 locked up. I just started over and reinstalled win7 configured the proxy settings manually in IE8; pop3 mail, windows update no connection, IE8 works fine behind the proxy.I used the netsh command ---netsh winhttp set proxy proxyname:port--- was able to connect windows update through the proxy but pop3 mail isnt getting through. Any suggestions

I was using Windows7 beta daily but it seemed to keep failing or not doing as expected. my initial reaction was that win7 is better than vista. it seems overall to be great but I had to go to Vista to get things done. Im trying to find if there are any updates to load? but searching has yielded nothing so far; updates to win7. then there was the antivirus thing, confusion about the norton av beta, said its going to expire but its a beta and even with a credit card couldnt figure out how to extend the av coverage... so that kind of made me want to go back to vista. as I recall win7 has add/remove programs once again? in vista its called something you'd never guess was add/remove programs like program features/appearance or color settings. how to uninstall programs in vista? hassle. the thing vista has done right is in the start button, the text search. it should be smarter, if I type in device manager it should look back to what stuff has always been called then put in the right new word, not say "no results" something vista and win7 do that REALLY ANNOY ME (and Im very calm) is when looking for a document or image file? click on my documents, as its been for 100 years. Access Denied! what? you cant be serious. I want to look in the my documents folder. access denied. but Im an admin user? access denied. I have to email my report in 5 minutes, the one Ive worked on all week? because the meeting starts in 10 minutes. access denied. right click, properties, share, make folder shared. access denied. this is what made me stop using win7, I thought it was a virus that was blocking the my documents folder. I spent days backing up and going to vista. looks like vista does this too. I figure its kind of a luck thing. click on one of the my documents folders, seems to be random, sometimes it works, usually not. in the old days one could open an explore window and look at files. Now with vista and win7 this is not the case. as the admin/super user/majordomo setting up the pc to do whatever I tell it? access denied. I need this file! access denied. My feedback? this access denied is a major flaw. give me Liberty and access ability or give me... an explanation. sometimes sneaking in by the User path Ive stumbled on a documents folder, but I dont trust the explore window in vista/win7. and is there ANY WAY to go back to the plus sign in a box? that is the windows95 way, its tried and true. and in explorer, going up a level? I cannot find it, I type in the path manually, clicking the path and backspacing over the current folder or clicking the folder manually, again very annoying. why the up/level was removed? I want the win95 style. ... potentially be

I have a problem, in which the Live Messenger (Minimised to taskbar) restores automatically when I minimise any other window!!_______________________ Karthik.K Microsoft Student Partner

I will attempt to make this short and sweet, I pray to the gods that SOMEONE hears me, because these problems frustrated me in Vista! Let alone Windows 7. (I stuck with XP, Vista I couldn't handle the frustration) 1. Status bar is missing drive space free in Windows explorer, must click properties on drive for space free now or my computer - less convienient than XP - why? 2. Breadcrumb bar, please PLEASE offer an option to disable it, so that you please both the people who like it and us die hards who loathe it. 3. Windows Explorer, when I type, I want it to skip to that file, example typing 'win' should take me to files beginning with "win" depending on the pane I've clicked on. Do not have that search up the top right, 'steal focus' of my keystrokes - I don't want that search there, ever - optional disable. More to come. PLEASE CONSIDER. P.S options hurt no one! just the OPTION to do these, keep the new fluffy stuff for the people who like that, please think of the technically minded, keyboard users who need to work damned fast on a machine to actually work!

I have a lot of compilations in my music library. In iTunes the flag for a compilation saves from labeling each song as "Various Artists" for the album artist. Media playter cannot realize this and makes a mess of my music compared to iTunes. This needs to be fixed. I use the M4A lossless format, its been reverse engineered and I saw some code an an AV package. Not sure about legals as Apple has not published the spec. Still the AAC is part of the MPEG license not apple. Thoughts?IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Whatever I need a new web server, the antique IBM 300GL has a 137GB disk limit, for my chess site. I wanted to post many more downloadable files, the existing 30GB disk is insufficient.

I just want to give some feedback on Windows 7 Beta. I upgraded from VistaUltimate sp1 to Windows 7 Beta and I'm blown away by the performance of Windows 7 Beta. The Microsoft Team has out done themselves on Windows 7 Beta. The overall function and ease of Windows 7 Beta is of no comparison to VistaUltimate. Fact I wished I would have saved my money and bought Windows 7 when it becomes RTM instead of wasting it on VistaUltimate and now come August I'm stuck back to VistaUltimate. I had no driver issues when installing Windows 7 Beta. I cando all my office work,games,music,movies and so much more with no issues.The only software issue is I cannot use OneCare as it is not compatible with Windows 7 Beta, nor will it be I just read. I have used Windows Operating System for many years and in my opinion Windows 7 out performs all of them, even Windows XP which was my favorite until Windows 7. Thank you for making the PC a pleasure to use again.-Rusty

I'd like to see Themes with really different looks. All the themes basically just look the same with different backgrounds and glass colors. I could do that myself. I would've liked, for example, a dark theme like this http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=72811&file1=72811-1.jpg&file2=72811-2.jpg&file3=&name=Ultra+pack+-+220+color+schemes There doesn't seem to be a way to do that and still have aero. The high contrast themes look atrocious, like something from windows 2.0. The beta is supposed to be the Ultimate version, right? is there going to be an ultimate ultimate version?

I would also like to echo Warels comments, Windows Explorer has taken a turn for the worst. This is what technicians use, this is what admins use, this is what the people who evaluate Windows and decide what to roll out next use. Think of us, we're the same people who caused Microsoft to have so much trouble with Vista, we told our friends, we told family, co-workers, we told everyone what we thought of it. Vista isn't the worst thing ever but the silly UI choices and making things HARDER to find made it overall more difficult to use than XP. As long as that trend continues, we'll continue to recommend XP.

Agreed with Barth2k, removing the drive free space in the status bar is MIND BOGGINGLY stupid! Microsoft, why would you do this? Seriously, you need to sit in a meeting and really question why would someone do this? Who thought it was a good idea, I mean it, who thought that - because that change is a distinct sign of someone simply 'not getting it' or fiddling for the sake of fiddling! EDIT: Barth2k: I can confirm 7057 has the same problem issue, no drive space in status bar.

Agreed on the up button, this should be optionally included, even if they THINK breadcrumbs are replacing it, they aren't - the physical location changes - up is simple and easy to find EDIT: Barth2k, if you're talking about the little 'down arrow' selection boxes in details view up the top of Windows explorer - specifically on "Name | Type | Total Size | Free Space" then no! Thank GOD they moved those silly little arrows from there, it made it look so cluttered! One of the changes I really appreciate in Win 7.

Im glad for not beeing alone in my comments. Just hope the dev. team surprise me with a really improved Windows Explorer in the RC to come. I like very much to use Windows XP, the same way I dislike very much when I use Vista. So far, Seven is faster than Vista, but still not as good to use (in some aspects) as XP. Windows explorer is my main concern, followed by some annoyances, like beeing impossible to selec the pictures I want to import from my digital camera. I always could select what I want and what I dont in XP. In seven, I cant. Now it is ALL or NONE. Just another case where seven is a step back from what xp was almost a decade ago. Dev team, please, we need to evolve, we want new GOOD features, we want to step forward. Please, stop going back. Stop changing what was good before.

Oh yeah, quicklaunch! Can we have it back please, optionally? I had to damn well hack around for 15 minutes after reading a web article on how to get it working.

Media Center: 1). Album Cover must (apparently) be first generated by viewing albums in WMP or it won't show in MC viz despite all tracks having Art inside (WTF!?) 2). Once that is done with (whatever) when playing an Album in MC, the viz screen shows that stupid, crappy 200x200 5k JPeg generated for the WMP cache. Only when playing individual track(s) does the correct (as in original) image show. 3). Do you guys ever communicate with one another? Album art is stored in a bazillion folders, it's like a roach infestation and why does MC store art preview images in Temp Internet folder (I counted in 13 different locations to boot)? What does MC have to do with the Internet for Pete's sake? You've had plenty of feedback over the years that WMP library management was and continues to be retarded and you still decide to compound the issue by plugging and hiding information all over the hard drive. Please give it up already. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, NBD if you at least let people take some action easily enough without having to call the Orkin man. Thanks for listening LT

Agree with Luna Tick.. I still dont know why the WMP have to make albumartsmall.jpg and folder.jpg hidden / systemfile and so on. Just make the files visible easily. Its enough time to stop hidding things from users (file extensions, anyone?). Or, better, make a centralized place, like ONE SINGLE folder with all albumart, something like: Artist-Albumname.jpg, and its done, without lots of files beeing like a total mess (and worse, hidding!) in the whole hard drive.

bugs 1 - when windows explorer is open but inactive windows black triangles on the breadcrumb (address bar) in Explorer should be greyed out like in Vista or shouldnt they? 2 - taskbar and starup menu properties icon is vista icon when on taskbar down bottom) 3 - windows media player options menu is all greyed, should be white like rest of the bar 4 - norton 360 only works half the time on windows 7 (annoying, I have submitted several error reports on this alone) 5 - why cant we add passwords to our windows seven created zip files? we could do it on previous versions of windows 6 - when in photo viewer the command bar doesnt match the explorer comm bar when you hover over the options (the color is a bit off also) 7 - 'automatically logon' dialog has an old icon control userpasswords2 from windows xp or vista it looks like 8 - control panel - mouse - options panel has low res poor quality pic questions for future 6 - is there any way we can have an interactive clip/copy folder. with several items copied ready to be pasted at once and an alt+tab type bar appearing asking the user to choose what they would like actioned (copied pasted?) thanks for listening guys cant wait to have a go at ironing out some more creases in the newer versions beta testingly yours chris

Hello, Currently in the Windows 7 beta program I can play M2TS files for 1 second on my Xbox 360 (the I get a frozen screen). Also playing it on my workstation doesn't work flawless (it's choppy and the processor is hitting 90-100%). My Sony camcorder CX11 (or CX12 in U.S.) can record in AVCHD (m2ts files) at 16 Mbps rate. Lower rates include 12 / 9 and 5 Mbps. I prefer to record in 16 Mbps and I expect Windows 7 and my Xbox 360 to playback this high quality 1080i material without chopping or glitch (I don't use WiFi to connect the Xbox 360 to the network, I have a 100Mbps ethernet Cat5e cable) Does somebody know if this (Playback 16Mbps M2TS files created on a Sony CX11 with a Xbox 360 as MCE Extender) is on the feature list of Microsoft? Best Regards, OneDutch

The update keep failing with this error code. I uninstalled the mobile device center and now the update doesn't even show up now to reinstall. Can someone post a hardlink to it so I don't have to deal with Windows update.\Here is a copy of the details Microsoft Corporation - Other hardware - SmartPhone USB Sync Installation date: 4/1/2009 9:38 PM Installation status: Failed Error details: Code 800F020B Update type: Optional Microsoft Corporation Other hardware software update released in May, 2007 More information: http://winqual.microsoft.com/support/?driverid=20060042 Help and Support: http://support.microsoft.com/select/?target=hubSystem - Gigabyte 780G Motherboard, 1x250Gb and 2x750Gb HDDs, AMD Phenom 8850 CPU, ATI HD3200 ig graphics, 1 Haup 500 tuner, 2 HDHomerun network tuners, Lite-On BD Player, DVD-RW, Silverstone LC-17 Case, 2Gb RAM, Sony Bravia RPTV

So I just reinstalled 7 on a bigger partition so I could try more programs on it and I discovered something that needs to be fixed. I was putting the partition on a drive that also has Windows Vista on it. I compacted my drive, but had a small unmovable system file in the way that only let me make a 10GB partition which is not much use. I turned off System Restore, Paging File, and Hibernate, but the file remained. Even trying to defrag/compact or shrink the volume while booted in my existing Windows 7 (on a different drive) would not move it. I ended up having to use Ubuntu to shrink the volume so I could make a partition. Isn't there a way that you guys could make it possible for these files to be moved? Even if it requires rebooting the computer it would be a vast improvement. About the new Windows 7, after two installs I have decided it is not a problem I can fix, but rather a bug... Why is it that the only way to change the settings for you notification icons or task bar tool bars, and have them be saved for the next time you log in, is to boot without UAC, change them, and then reboot with UAC back on. It is really annoying. It would also be nice if there were an easier way to get full access to modify files on other drives on the computer. For example it took me forever before I could modify files on my Vista Partion without having to give myself permission first. The current process for changing permissions is anoying, make a setting in User Accounts that lets users take full permission of all files on all installed drives. One last thing, stop making files on other drives be read only, all my pictures are on another drive, but even to rotate one I have to copy it to my Windows 7 drive and then copy it back again.

Media Player/Media Center Library: 1) Following is a gripe only because it is 2009 I would have thought it'd be in already. When we sort things we have a certain system that sometimes clashes with what the computer sees. 11 does not follow 1 and The Kite is not filed under T but rather K . That all is well and works fine so no complaints. What is not fine is that an artist Joe Shmoe , will be filed under J instead of an S . While there is no feasible way to detect between person name or name (and leaving it up to the system would prove disastrous) WMP Library should introduce a custom Atrist-file library tag or alike much like File-As in MS Outlook Contact except this one would be used exclusively for sorting not display (I don't want a list to say Shmoe Joe). It may not be a pressing, high importance matter but I constantly catch myself looking for the artist in the wrong catalog group and it would be nice to follow customary sort order. 2) I already mentioned it in my feedback to MS, but WMC should introduce a Sort By option for the By-Album "Thumb Wall" display. It is a cool display but I would love to be able to sort those hundreds of thumbs by Artist->AlbumName as I personally think when we think Album , first we thing Who (or maybe it's just me). In essence, it would become a By-Artist display but without Artist Name header and space wasted by grouping (which makes that display all but useless).

With the last couple of releases of the Windows Operating system you have hidden file extensions of known file types by default in Windows Explorer. This is a huge security risk. Virus are spread easily when file extensions are hidden. Example: Someone receives an email with the following file name: PICTURE.JPG.EXE - When file extensions are hidden the user will see the file name as PICTURE.JPG the .EXE will be hidden. So the user thinks its a harmless .JPG picture not realizing its a disguised executable file which will install a virus\trojan\spyware. Plus I'm tired of receiving documents with names such as DATA.TXT.TXT because the user doesn't realize the extension is already there, but just can't see it because its hidden. So please with Windows 7 show ALL file extensions by default.

I know that you can pin applications to the taskbar in Windows7, but I've got about a dozen frequently used programs and do not want to fill up the task bar with all those icons when I don't use them all simultaneously. Plus, I find it cleaner to keep my shortcut icons separated from my running applications. I keep one icon pinned to the taskbar for my email. The Quick Launch area works fantastic for me in Vista. I set the size area of quick launch so that 3 icons will show on the taskbar and the rest of the icons will show up in a popup menu when I click on the >> symbol. There is absolutely no reason why we can't have both the ability to pin icons to the taskbar and still retain the option of the quick launch area. Please restore the quick launch toolbar exactly as it is in Windows Vista located right next to the Windows logo on the left hand side of the taskbar with the ability to adjust the size of the quick launch area (how many icons will show on the taskbar before they are moved to the quick launch pop-up menu). For those who don't want to use the Quick Launch toolbar than just include the option to disable it as you currently can in Windows Vista. Yes, being able to pin icons to the taskbar is a welcome feature, but I will not fill up the task bar with the dozen of frequently used applications I use since it just makes the task bar a mess. I'll keep 1 or 2 programs pinned to the taskbar, but I want the rest to reside on the quick launch toolbar. So please restore the quick launch toolbar in Windows 7 since there is no reason not to have both the option of using the Quick Launch toolbar or pinning the program directly to the taskbar.

Windows Explorer - Do not hide the "FILE" "EDIT" "VIEW" "TOOLS" pull-down menus by default. I know you can get the pull down menus to appear by pressing the "ALT" key to appear, but how does the average user know to press the ALT key. You should have the menus appear by default then if a user doesn't want to see the pull-down menus the user can go to the VIEW pull-down menu TOOLBARS and deselect the option to view the pull-down menu toolbar (don't bury the option under TOOLS - FOLDER OPTIONS - VIEW since the pull-down menu is not related to the folder themselves, but add it to the VIEW pull-down menu TOOLBARS - MENU or just VIEW pull-down menu - MENU). I'm sure someone thought lets simplify Windows and take away the menus, so now Explorer looks simpler, but its now harder to use if a person doesn't realize they can press ALT to get the pull down menu. Or they could go to the TOOLS - FOLDERS OPTIONS - VIEW to enable the menus, but I don't think most people realize that the Windows Explorer menu can be enabled under a menu related to folder options. So please just enable the menus by default. Why would someone want to use the pull-down menus? Well maybe they want to see file extensions, but don't know that they can enable file extensions because they can't see the pull-down menu to access the TOOLS pull-down menu so they don't bother exploring the options under the TOOLS pull-down menu.

Windows Explorer 1) Please add the pull-down menu TILE WINDOWS HORIZONTALLY and TILE WINDOWS VERTICALLY These options would only affect Windows Explorer windows. I know you added the feature of dragging a Windows Explorer window to the side of the screen to tile it horizontally so that you could have two Windows Explorer windows opened at the same time and tiled so that you can easily drag files for copying\moving from one window to another window, but a lot of people don't realize this feature exists. By adding a pull-down menu with the additional option of TILE WINDOWS VERTICALLY people will realize this feature exists and can either tile the Windows vertically or horizontally. This is one of those great features that File Manager in Windows 3.1 had, but was removed in Windows 95. 2) Another great feature that File Manager had in Windows 3.1, but was removed in Windows 95 was a toolbar that listed all of your drive letters horizontally across the top of the screen. You could click a drive letter and the Windows Explorer tree would expand with that drive open. I don't know about you, but at my office I've got around 20 drive letters mapped and it would be so convenient to be able to just click the drive letter at the top of the screen instead of having to scroll down Windows Explorer to find the drive letter. Of course this should be an optional toolbar that a user can disable. 3) I strongly agree with a lot of posters to this board who are complaining that the details area of Windows Explorer is way to big. Its displaying information that is already being shown in the column headers and why does it need to show this information in 2 rows. You can cut its size in half by just showing this information in a single row. I'd rather just have the option of disabling it and showing the status bar as in Windows Vista so I can see the free space left.

Command Prompt From Here functionality. Please add the "Command Prompt From Here" to Windows Explorer in Windows 7. This is a MS power toy utility that should be included as part of Windows Explorer and not a separate add-on. It allows a user to right click a directory in Windows Explorer and select the "Command Prompt from Here" from the pop-up menu to open a DOS command window residing in the directory that the user right clicked. Microsoft seems to forget that computer professionals and not just grandma still use Windows and a lot of us still need to get some work done in a DOS window. Its so much easier being able to right click a directory in Windows explorer and have the DOS window open to that directory instead of having to use the CD command to change directories. Obviously someone at MS realizes this otherwise they never would of created that power toy in the first place. We should not need to download a separate add-on for this functionality. It should be part of Windows Explorer.

Windows Media Player thumbnail size adjustment. Please add a slider to Windows Media Player so that we can adjust the size of the album art thumbnails. I'm running at a resolution of 1900x1200 and the thumbnails are on the small size for me. It would be nice if I could increase the size of the thumbnails.

FILE pull-down menu needs to be added to the Windows Media Player. It can be added next to the LIBRARY, MUSIC and ARTIST drop down lists. I know I can bring up the FILE menu by pressing the ALT key, but how is the average user supposed to know that. Why does Microsoft feel that hiding menus is helpful to the average person? And please stop changing the FILE pull-down menu to a clickable logo in programs like Microsoft Office. People have been use to having a FILE pull-down menu and then Microsoft decides to change it to a logo that they don't even know they can click. I really feel sorry for people that work the help desk having to go around telling people that the FILE menu is still there, but its now a logo you can click or press the ALT key to bring up the menu.

ALT key and a letter to Restart or Shutdown the computer. Every once in awhile I might lose video to the computer I'm working on. Maybe an application has crashed and its distorted my view of the desktop or my monitor loses video connection. So I need to restart the computer, but I don't want to just turn off the computer. I want to try to gracefully restart\shutdown the computer. Windows use to allow you to press Control-Alt-Delete and the press ALT-R to restart or ALT-S to shutdown the computer. WIndows 95 had this functionality, I can't remember if Windows XP had this functionality, but I know Windows Vista and Windows 7 do not. Please add the underscore back so that users know which key to use in conjunction with the ALT key to restart\shutdown the computer.

I have a tablet PC with a screen that reorients from Landscape to Portrait. Doing so changes the resolution and wreaks havoc on my desktop, causing gadgets to overlap and icons to not reorganize. Causing me and many other to have to reorganize my screen everytime, wasting time and money. Since many features in W7 are designed with tablet pcs (such as the Latitude XT2 a popular government and business tablet), laptops with capacitive touch in mind. I wish to request that microsoft implement a feature that automatically reorganizes your icons and gadgets based on the way you organized them on your last screen resolution or for windows to remember the way you organized the desktop(icons and gadgets) the last time you used the resolution you are currently switching into. Maybeeven a double tap to the desktop peek button will reorganize your desktop and vice versa, even though I prefer the automatic approach.This feature may even be useful for desktop users who switch between primary displays.

JG-EDI A shortcut created on the desktop to C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -s -f -t 00 will shut down the PC easier then going into the Start menu. C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 00 creates a restart shortcut. You will want to add a custom icon to that one. You can add Shortcut keys to these (ctrl/alt S) With the way the sleep mode works on my PC, shutting down harddrives and even the CPU fan, I don't bother to shut it off anymore. Although I have a few minor issues, most of which I have managed to sort out with thanks to the people on this forum, I am generally very happy with the Beta. My biggest complaint is the none customizable/removable 'Command bar' in Windows Explorer. I would like to see a big button again. like 'forward' and 'back' for 'Up' Aside from that, not having any drivers issues sold me on Windows 7 the day I installed it.

JG-EDI is talking about being able to shutdown or restart "blind", when something goes wrong and you can't see the desktop. on XP, I can do this with winkey, u, u. there's no such combination on win7 that I can tell. re the menu, I don't know who decided menus are bad and need to be shrunk to an icon. at the same time, customizable toolbars with icons are bad and need to be replaced with fixed toolbars with text only. whatever.

Yes barth2k, you are correct, I want to be able to shutdown windows using the ALT keys when something goes wrong and I can't see the desktop. I'd rather shutdown\restart the computer gracefully rather than just press the reset\power button on the computer when I have open programs running. You never know when that can screw up something on the next reboot. Windows use to show Shutdown and the Restart menu options with a underscore under the "S" in "Shutdown" and an underscore under the "R" in "Restart" so that a user knew he could press ALT-S or ALT-R to shutdown\restart the computer after you pressed CTRL-ALT-DELETE. For whatever reason, that option was removed in Windows Vista. Currently when you press CTRL-ALT-DEL you have to click on the arrow next to the power button in the lower right hand corner and select either restart or shutdown. Thats fine as long as your screen is visible. If not, you're out of luck. They need to enable it so that after pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL you can then press ALT-S or ALT-R to shutdown\restart the computer when the screen isn't visible which happens on rare occasions. You used to be able to do that, but MS removed that capability.

Does no one else care that the Status Bar in Windows Explorer, doesn't even show DRIVE SPACE FREE? It's very awkward and annoying.

In windows 7 there is a problem in connecting windows live messenger through Adsl.Ithink it is bug of windows 7.One more thing windows 7 has lots of problem sometime is not responding.When this bugs will fix in windows 7 ultimate beta version.

I care as do many others who have posted to this board. Look at #3 in my post 8 posts above. Its just MS making changes for the sake of changes whether or not it has a negative impact on the user. Why show free space on the status bar when it can just regurgitate the information already displayed in the columns regarding file properites. I doubt MS uses any computer professionals in their research groups when testing new GUI's. No idea why changes like this are allowed to be made.

JG-EDI,My power button is set to "Shutdown" but the properties of this item do no affect the following procedure:If your monitor/video goes out and you want to shut down the computer...[Ctrl]-[Alt]-[Del][Tab][Tab][Tab][Space]I believe that there some reasons this won't work:1) You have an application open or file that isn't saved.2) You have a second profile that is currently logged-on into Windows 7.In this case you might try...[Alt]-[F4] (to close how ever many programs there are)[Alt]-[F4] (this time a shutdown menu appears even though you can't see it)[curser down][curser down][curser down][curser down][curser down][curser down] (the bottom of the list is "Shutdown" and the menu does not cycle back to the top.)[Enter]T.R.

Hi everyone, Ronnie Vernon directed me here :PI have an idea about making easier window management, when you have multiple windows of the same application open (for example MS Office Word) As you know, the taskbar groups windows for the same application. This is good, as long as your work doesnt include constant switching between two open Word documents. Then its horrible.Theres a (bad) cure tho you can disable grouping, which throws you back to Vista-style taskbar. It feels like downgrading! My suggestion is that you could drag the windows out of the Live Thumbnail (thumbnail group) so that you have two separate buttons on the taskbar. After youre done, you could simply drag the buttons back together or just leave them. You could call it Aero Split ^^I've made a 5-second mock-up:>I hope a feature similar to this gets implemented, because without it it's pretty annoying.Thank you.

I'd like to have my thumb drive (but not other devices ) to be automatically pinned to the Taskbar , or to Windows Explorer's jump list . Please make this possible, but only for devices I choose.

@zoopaman: I made a similar suggestion. I'd like to see a "never combine" option that retains the new look. Just duplicate the icons. It doesn't matter that I can't see the caption; I can always go by position or hover preview. Even if I click on the wrong icon, it's easy enough to move over and click on the other one. It sure as heck is still preferable to: click, then move UP and OVER, then click again. This is the biggest W7 annoyance for me . If you do choose to combine, then at least clicking should immediately bring up the last active window in the group. Read my fingers: no double clicks , please!

not sure if it has been posted beforeShow Disktop icon in the taskbarwasnt there when i installed build 7068 which iv been told its fake oneis it there in the official build or its not there anywayi tried to search if its there but i couldnt find itits important and usfull i guessany comment?

yea i found that disktop button and i didnt like it actuallyshow disktop icon was better for me

yea i found that disktop button and i didnt like it actually show disktop icon was better for me naah you're just used to it. Srsly - it would be bad to have a Show Desktop (SD ) icon on the Superbar , because all other icons open the same instance of the app , or a new instance of the same app , or just launch the app . See where I'm going - Superbar is all about applications , and SD is far from being an application . Sticking SD with all the applications IMO would be bad UI decision. Also, it would take up too much space that way, since Superbar items are very big now, and every pixel counts on small screens (like Netbooks , for which Win7 is going)

up until now i've been using xp x64, and one of the things that annoy me a bit about windows 7 is that it's quiite hard to share folders with other users across network. For instance i tried to share some files that i needed on my laptop running windows xp home, ook me almost 1 hours to get it to work. was easier with xp, just right clicking on a folder and then share. I must admit that everything i've seen so far will make me change to win 7 when it comes out, but i might use a non microsoft program to share through network simply to make it easier for my kids.

it is very glad to have download accelerator inbuilt in iexplorer , so that no need to depend on the third party tools like dap.......maheshreddy

PLEASE support multiple monitors: Provide multiple taskbars (preferably a taskbar will have programs listed that are only open on its related display) Provide as a default in display settings the ability to SPAN as well as extend.

"Don't cancel an entire "Move" or "Copy" action because of a single error." -- http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/98 That is so needed - for anyone honestly. Please to god look at that feature and implement it.

MY comments!Well, I guess I'm a little late, but I finally got around to installing the beta. First impressions are that this is a quite slick OS, with the catch that the installation took no mere 15 minutes. Sure, the copying/expanding files and installer GUI took maybe five minutes or around that on a 2 GHz dual-core laptop with 1 Gb RAM, but the post-processing took at least an hour for me - and that was without any hitch what-so-ever. But, I guess you don't install a new OS every day. Generally.Out of the box, though, I had to manually install the drivers for my wireless networking - Vista-drivers, had to monkey about with compatibility-settings. I'd still have to say it went pretty smooth, though.UI, with pinnable start-menu/taskbarI like the taskbar (seriously - I LIKE this one), and although the icons in the notification-area look out of place (which has been pointed out before, I believe), it looks much less cluttered than a typical XP-systray. Of course, that could also be because I just haven't installed all that much. Yet. This little pointer-tracking point of light seems like something I and others wouldn't mind turning off for performance's sake. If there isn't an option for it (I haven't looked yet, because, well, I have no performance-issues), maybe one should be added?The start-menu, however, is a different chapter. (Feedback promptly dispatched.) It seems to combine the worst aspects of the XP-variant and Apple's Finder (a small space for A LOT of clutter) - if you don't use the search-box, you're in trouble. Finding applications by typing their names, though, is a feature I really really really like. Push for fully expanding menu, as in XP. WITH the search-box!The design and overall aesthetics of the windows and window-borders is one thing I don't really care for. I would like to see options to customize this, and then I don't mean just the color- border-width, "classic" or other kinds of window-styles, adjustable blur and transparency. Just, you know, the same degree of control over the overall appearance as we get over ClearType.WMP12Okay, it looks very clean, it starts DVDs automatically and in clean full-screen mode, playlist-generation is mostly intuitive(except for one thing: MUST HAVE 'Add files to Playlist...' in other places than the active list-pane - such as right-click a playlist, click 'Add files [etc]', Explorer-style open file-dialog pops up, selected files get appended to the list). I'm not quite happy with the device-detection, though. I had just moved a couple of music-files from the other computer through my USB-key, and I wasn't really paying much attention to what WMP wanted to do - all of a sudden it wanted to dump the whole playlist onto the key, thinking it was an MP3-player! Of course, I could cancel the 'Synchronizing' (I don't believe I like the terminology, but that's all semantics) and no harm was done, but I would like a more scrupulous screening. I have yet to attach my MP3-player, but I'll just make sure not to do it with WMP running...Ordinary CDs and DVDs play beautifully and smoothly - I'm unable to test HD-content, though.Request support for: FLAC, OGGDesktop-gadgetryIt's nice to be able to move them all over the place. They do take up space that I might need to have other windows cover, but I don't have to see them all the time. One of those weighing advantages and disadvantages-things.IE8Although I heard lots of things about crashing and such, the version in this beta has actually given a better track-record than the final(?) release on XP... The emphasis in the ads on speed falls pretty flat in the face of the unspecific handling of scripts - I essentially allow EVERYTHING on the allowed page, or nothing at all. I MUCH prefer the approach granted with the NoScript plug-in for Firefox - allow/disallow per-script/provider, not per-site.Power-managementI desperately need a notification when the battery is reaching critical charge, and a way to customize at what level I get the warning and when it goes to stand-by - as in XP. There I am, awash in the beautiful sounds (as compared to the horror of the non-7 machine) spawned by any given media-player, and all of a sudden it goes black and hushes right up, no warning of any kind. An' I, like, 'WTF??' NEEDS fixing, feedback on the way.Security-measuresSo far, I have only been treated to the prompt for elevated privileges for installing system-altering things. I find this about as disturbing as the gksu/kdesu-prompts in Ubuntu - which is to say, not a problem at all. I suppose it would be wise to pay attention to where exactly you install things with this system, though... On the other hand - all these warnings from all the browsers these days... What's with them, anyway? I mean, I download an installer of some sort, and I'm informed that it's an executable file?? (No ****, Sherlock!) Can we have some kind of 'I know what I'm downloading, really'-mode in IE, maybe? It's my biggest annoyance since Win98, I think...

Games that protected by themida pack can not run on win7 build 7077. but it can run on build 7068 and older version. The list contains PopKartRider,FSBOX etc. Themida is used widly in various fields, games, sharewares, i think the list is a large number. popkartrider run error dialog. Hope this will be fixed at next build.

Honestly, I've never used any software with something called "themida" ... and I've used a lot of software. Btw, you could try the compatibility mode :)

Just occurred to me: the taskbar's grouped window previews of a single program can start to get cluttered if there are more popup windows than actual program windows. A good example is IE's download windows. I hope it's not too late in W7's development, but this should be fixed. Maybe condense all the popups into one "preview icon" which expands when hovered (condensing the program previews into one icon at the same time), or otherwise visually differentiate main program windows from the popups if possible.

Not having a "built in" option to enable Quick Launch, creates a problem for Roaming Profiles on a domain.If you manually create a new toolbar for Quick Launch in Windows 7, you will end up with two Quick Launch toolbars when you log in to Vista.See my posts in http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/2589a0cc-98e5-4816-a9dd-f52bee711088#8f99aa80-a4fe-4e3a-bb2e-1d078db6622f, for examples.

I don't know why the quicklaunch was removed in the first place, I had to fiddle around to get the damn thing back.

There seems to be a themese bug in build 7077. If you change theme, it makes a sound, changes the theme but it also maximises your last used application on window #1 (if you have 2 monitors) Fresh install also.

IMO windows 7 is the best OS system in the lat 10 yaers for OS history... is just bright , congrats microsoft for this achivment... on thing i wold like to se implanted on windows wold be some visual efects (as optional) like compiz-fusion have, minimaze and maximase windows, close and onpen windows, the 3d desktop cube (with 4 or 6 virtual desktop's)... and sow on, but this shold only be as a optional for the "ultimate edition" of windows 7 not for all editions and not stock, only as optional for the top top windows 7 edition. and one more thing " PLEASE SPEED UP THE BOOT OS WINDOWS 7 , its alredy faster that windows vista SP2 beta, but still is not as fast as for example gentoo OS... best reguards and sorry for my bad english Tecnic. Claudio Especial

sshh, you're not supposed to talk about unofficial builds. but since you brought it up :) can you tell us whether win explorer now shows free disk space on the status bar, or total file size when you select multiple -- like 30 -- files?

My co workers and I found a solution to the x64 bit VPN issue by installing Cicso Anywhere Connect into Windows 7, and configured 4 different VPN server locale in it. One VPN Clieint with four different servers to communicate with. we even set it up so our users can go to a site, put in their logon, and it installs the VPN cleint pre configured. I hope this helps

I've no special things that annoy me but I would remove in the Help Tab "is this copy of Windows legal" not very helpful no?

HeyWindows 7 team,Perhaps this should be addressed to the team, but as Computing is pushing forward to the x64 bit realm, there are issues that needs to be addressed before launch, or Windows 7 will be behind the curve. One issue I've noted is Windows still refers to the FSB to determine the BCLK speeds on most processors. This was fine, a year ago when processors speed calculations were dependant on the FSB. However, with the advent of the new Intel Core i7 processors, especailly the Extreme additions, the BCLK is determined by the Multi settings, rather than the the OPI/FSB setting alone. For example:My BCLK on my Core i7 956 EE is 24x, with a QPI of 133mhz. That's is seen in bios , and windows at 3.2 ghz. However, Many users, including myself, overclock our processors. So when I set my multi to 34x with the same QPI I'm at 4.5ghz in bios. But in Windows it remains 3.184Ghz. This is because Windows is using the new processors QPI settings to determine the BCLK only, when in reality it should be using the multi's setting also to determine the clock speed of the processor. I bring this up because I sent feedback on this issue, and have yet to see an update to addrees it. As you know, most new computer will have the intel Core i7 processors in them. It would be nice to have windows read them correctly, versus having to use third party software to get correct processor speed ratings. Thanks![img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/firerx/whatswronghere-1.jpg[/img]

and one more thing " PLEASE SPEED UP THE BOOT OS WINDOWS 7 , its alredy faster that windows vista SP2 beta [...] Oh they're working on it, honest. I read the following in the Engineering Windows 7 blog: Performance 13. Trimming sound schemes to help performance We know our customers care about performance. We discovered that by just trimming the shutdown and logoff WAV files, we could save up to 400 ms. Every little bit counts. I damn nearly died laughing. Here's a performance tip: Get rid of those files altogether because the very first thing people do (or try to as MS is making it harder and harder) is disable this stupid startup/shutdown cheese. Added benefit is that you will be able to claim additional performance boost of +2s without breaking a sweat.

+1 to the copy thing

I came here a little depressed that my Wordpad suggestion had been shot down yet again, (Still think it would be cool to have upside-down footnote options)And had a lot of fun reading this thread, Thanks, feeling lots better. A really intelligent-looking MVP was saying in Part One that Parental Controls are not available in a domain-controlled PC, So I got all interested and found a website that says, more or less, that it IS available, if you can use the Group Policy editor to enable it, "Make Parental Controls control panel visible on a Domain", underLocal Computer Policy,Computer Configuration,Administrative Templates,Windows Components,Parental Controls. Um, but isn't the group policy editor unavailable on certain lesser versions of vista or Win 7? So ok, to turn this rambling into a pointy thing, please implement gpedit.msc on all versions, if possible.

. . . . A really intelligent-looking MVP was saying in Part One that Parental Controls are not available in a domain-controlled PC, So I got all interested and found a website that says, more or less, that it IS available, if you can use the Group Policy editor to enable it, "Make Parental Controls control panel visible on a Domain", underLocal Computer Policy,Computer Configuration,Administrative Templates,Windows Components,Parental Controls. Um, but isn't the group policy editor unavailable on certain lesser versions of vista or Win 7? So ok, to turn this rambling into a pointy thing, please implement gpedit.msc on all versions, if possible. Chitbill You have no worries about Parental Controls being disabled on domain-controlled PCs. For each version of Windows that can be joined to a domain (for Windows 7 SKUs: business, professional, and Ultimate), gpedit.msc will be available. The only SKUs that lack a group policy editor are those that cannot be joined to a domain.

Hi,just a few ideas1. GUI is very cool, but would be bether to have setting which would allow to remove white background of every window and make background transparent, like border. of todays window.2. Double click on any exposed desktop area will open windows explorer wondow.druid

I have a game which requires admin privileges just to run. It's annoying to always say Yes w/o an option like "Yes always for this program". So I figured it'd be nice if there was a way to let one program (with admin's approval) to always get admin privileges (without an UAC prompt), but this would work only for programs the admin chooses. In my mind, it could be a checkbox in application's properties (notepad++ given as example): Original thread

I second that.Also, I just noticed I have to respond to the UAC-prompt at a rather bizarre point: When it updates its definitions (or main program, or anything) it will cue a notification that you can click on. Clicking on it brings up a small window with basic information on what was changed. THAT is where I got the prompt, not when the updater was running, or about to start, but when I wanted to see the results. Smells like flawed logic, to me! :)

I have an issue with third party software installation which is often thwarted due to the registry key permissions which are more restrictive then in the past.

I am now using build 7077 and the status bar STILL does NOT display the drive free space. Most stupid move I've ever seen in many years. ridiculous.

I am now using build 7077 and the status bar STILL does NOT display the drive free space. Most stupid move I've ever seen in many years. ridiculous. That is not a supported build and you are using an unauthorized version. The only code base supported is build 7000. IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Whatever I need a new web server, the antique IBM 300GL has a 137GB disk limit, for my chess site. I wanted to post many more downloadable files, the existing 30GB disk is insufficient.

This is funny, but not Ha Ha funny. I installed Win 7 from the DVD on an old PC I had with Ubuntu installed on it. The install was perfect. I installed some software, print drivers, and so on. I shut it down, it booted back up like you would expect. So I decided to put Win 7 on a faster PC. I had to tear down the old PC to do this so I cant go back. I put a couple hard drives in it that had no OS installed. The DVD will not boot if there is no OS installed on the hard drive. OK, I bit the bullet and installed XP first. I tried my slipstreamed SP3 and SP2 but neither of them would boot. So I put the original XP CD in and it booted. I installed that. Then I put the Win 7 DVD in the drive and double clicked setup.exe. setup starts for a while and then I get the subject error, with the text "unexpected error" and so on. The install won't go. I tried to reboot the PC and boot from the DVD but even though the BIOS is set to boot from DVD first that is ignored and win XP boots. I burned two DVD's using different software but both give me the same error. I also tried the DVD in another computer and it boots from the DVD the first time. Not putting Win 7 on that computer though.

The "Open With" button in Windows Explorer's command bar: since you can already open files with their default program just by doubleclicking them, the only item of interest on this button is the dropdown menu that lists all possible "open with" options. Compared to the huge (and pretty useless) "Open with default program" portion of the button, though, the dropdown arrow is tiny and hard to hit. The "open with" button should be more like the "Organize" button, in that it's a single clickable button that creates a dropdown menu. It's also a bit confusing because at first glance the "Open With" button's two clickable portions look exactly like the "Organize" button's single clickable portion, and it takes a split-second of hovering to tell them apart.

Okay here's another one from me: In web design it is a good practice, when using tabs , to visually connect the tab with the content itself, so that users can clearly see which tab is active. Windows does it too in tabbed dialogs. I think that Live Thumbnails need something similar -- to be connected to their respective icon, like this: This is a small change, but I think it'd be rather good if it was done.

+1 on Kristaps' and djsb's suggestion.

Okay here's another one from me:In web design it is a good practice, when using tabs , to visually connect the tab with the content itself, so that users can clearly see which tab is active. Windows does it too in tabbed dialogs.I think that Live Thumbnails need something similar -- to be connected to their respective icon, like this: This is a small change, but I think it'd be rather good if it was done. How would you represent that if you've got more than one file open? Just for example's sake; with several pages open in IE8, how would you link the button to the specific thumbnail if you yourself don't know yet which one you'd like to open?RegardsRem

How would you represent that if you've got more than one file open? Just for example's sake; with several pages open in IE8, how would you link the button to the specific thumbnail if you yourself don't know yet which one you'd like to open? Regards Rem Since all the thumbs are in a single enclosure , my solution would still work :) Variant A (the "connector" is as wide as only the most front icon and IMHO looks better): Variant B (the "connector" is as wide as the entire icon):

I couldn't POSSIBLY care less if you think I'm using an "unauthorized version" IN THE SLIGHTEST This is not a bug report this is a usability report. I am confirming these IDIOTS still haven't fixed something which didn't need to be changed, claiming 'you shouldn't be doing that' does not negate the fact the change is un-necessary, stupid and still not addressed. The more people that report this the better.

Agreed with Kristaps suggestion completely

I couldn't POSSIBLY care less if you think I'm using an "unauthorized version" IN THE SLIGHTEST This is not a bug report this is a usability report. I am confirming these IDIOTS still haven't fixed something which didn't need to be changed, claiming 'you shouldn't be doing that' does not negate the fact the change is un-necessary, stupid and still not addressed. The more people that report this the better. Using versions of Windows beta 1 other than the official build 7000 will cause people unneeded confusion. The defect reports for Windows 7 build 7000 are used as the baseline for the RC which is penciled in for June. It will be released before July 31st when build 7000 finally expires. If you are dissatisfied you can always download Linux. IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Whatever I need a new web server, the antique IBM 300GL has a 137GB disk limit, for my chess site. I wanted to post many more downloadable files, the existing 30GB disk is insufficient.

There's a flaw in Library+Address bar combination, that might make you save your files to the wrong folders :P So, let's assume that I have a Library called "Library ", which contains two folders: "Folder1 " and "Folder2 ". In each of these two folders, there is one subfolder, called "Subfolder ". So the tree looks like this (actual screenshot, just blurred the other lib): Now, if I save a file in Library\Folder1\Subfolder (browsing right to Subfolder [using Navigation Pane], skipping Folder1 ), I see this dialog (actual screenshot): Now take a look at the address bar - it omits the Folder1 , so I have no idea if I'm saving to Folder1 or Folder2 , because in both cases address bar skips right to Subfolder (the address bar doesn't change a bit between Folder1 and Folder2 ). This is a major error, if you've got complex directory systems and stuff. There is a simple fix tho -- show the directories (which you've skipped over when browsing) in the address bar.

My god man this is simple reading comprehension. I am not discussing a BUG I'm discussing a DESIGN FLAW and it's IDENTICAL in every build anyhow! How can you not follow that?

I've found another UI bug, where can I report it?

Kristaps, I replicated your exact scenario using Windows 7, build 7000. You are right. When using the navigation pane, the breadcrumb fails to show the parent folder. I agree that this is a major bug.

Here or in the UI Forum :)

Kristaps, I replicated your exact scenario using Windows 7, build 7000. You are right. When using the navigation pane, the breadcrumb fails to show the parent folder. I agree that this is a major bug. Thanks for your reply, cos I was unable to reproduce it the last time I tried. Weird. Btw, here is the original thread :)

This is just for info as I think the problem is resolved.Using Win7 build 7000. Win7 is installed on D drive on my laptop, and Vista SP1 on the C drive.I started getting bluescreen shutdowns about 2 days ago, couldn't figure out why for a while. Mostly the bluescreen appeared within about 2 minutes of booting up, and sometimes evenbefore I got logged into my own desktop/profile. In any case it never stayed on long enough to try any investigation. From the C drive (Vista), I ran a full virus scan and defrag of the D drive (didn't help). I checked a number of threads in this forum and picked up on the fault possibly being with the file "k71.sys", which I then confirmed from the next bluescreen.A Google check showed that this was probably related to the Kaspersky AntiVirus prog which I had installed (free version) in January at the same time as the Win7 Beta - Kaspersky was the only available free software available at the time, compatible with Win7. I realised that the bluescreen problems started at the same time as Kaspersky started flagging a message on my screen, "Your licence is due to expire in 12/11/10 days......" and a prompt to purchase the full version to cover the next 12/24 months! A bit pointless considering the Win7 beta is due to expire on 1st August......I managed to stay logged on for long enough to exit the Kaspersky prog, and haven't had a bluescreen since. I've uninstalled Kaspersky and have now installed another antivirus prog (there are several free ones available now - F-Secure, Panda, TrendMicro and others; apparently these are also betas, designed to work with the Win7 beta).Thanks to those who posted here, that set me on the right track.Delighted with Windows 7, by the way. It's great not to have to shut down all those unnecessary processes in task manager to be able to use it. The only problems I've come across have been related to other software providers (my Canon printer, for instance, isn't even fully compatible with Vista yet).Keep up the good work.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 8 Technical Preview For Windows 7 (the one you can get via Action Center) gives me BSOD when I turn it on in Build 7077 :D (nothing like that before)

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 8 Technical Preview For Windows 7 (the one you can get via Action Center) gives me BSOD when I turn it on in Build 7077 :D (nothing like that before) That build is not the official beta, only build 7000 is. So if a program fails, you do not have a reproducibly baseline. This is why only build 7000 is official. IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Whatever I need a new web server, the antique IBM 300GL has a 137GB disk limit, for my chess site. I wanted to post many more downloadable files, the existing 30GB disk is insufficient.

Steam has been working fine for me. No permission issues, no errors. I have played online and with bots aswell. Best of luck with your issue mate Chris (windows 7 beta ultimate)

>at the same time as Kaspersky started flagging a message on my screen, "Your licence is due to expire in 12/11/10 days......"That was extremely useful information, Thanks. Also Kristaps, thanks unofficially. I have a very foggy issue related to that, Not much else to write. It might be related (might not) to icons and wanting to write to the screen periodically

We are not admins on our computers. It seem to me that Win7 do not let me add printers. It asks me for approving printer drivers. I've disabled User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Control Panel/Printers > Point and Print Restrictions However it still asks me for confirmation. The exact same policy works fine on Windows Vista with UAC enabled. If any MSFT could wire me with up with microsoft.connect I would be very happy.

BUG: I turned off cleartype but it's still used on many Windows UI elements, such as control panel dialogs and Start menu flyouts (e.g., the Recent items fly out menu). In fact, I think if I turn on cleartype and use the tuner, the settings I choose will not apply to these aforementioned elements, which still use whatever fixed default settings they use. Since most people end up using the default settings, they will not notice it, but those who change or turn off cleartype will. SUGGESTION: I really dig winkey +/- for zooming. I'd like to have an option to automatically close the magnifier app when I zoom back to 100%. since I can instantly invoke it any time with winkey +, there's no point in having it there taking up space on my taskbar, or having the magnifier floating on my screen. REQUEST: can we have a little separation between pinned apps and MRU apps on the Start menu, like a faint line or slightly different background colors. also, can we keep this sorted? i mean, the all programs menu is sorted, its submenus are sorted, Recent items is sorted, so why not the Start menu? please make it an option in "task bar and start menu properties" or a right click command at least. REQUEST: a way to clear an app's recent items without having to remove each individually. Possibly: on the right click menu, aside from "pin to this list" and "remove from this list", add "clear recent items".

SUGGESTION: I really dig winkey +/- for zooming. I'm not an employee, and as a poster I am several steps lowerer than the guy who takes out the trash, but Thank you so much for the winkey+idea. Answering your post is difficult right this second because apparently everything I type is white-on-white (?!), but you have my vote sir for most helpful post of the day, and may your gold stars be many. O I forgot in all my invisible gushing to say that Windows 7 does so much I forget or don't know most of it. I zoom with the mouse wheel but that is inconvenient occasionally.

does anybody else have trouble seeing the title text on windows? black text on greyish frosted glass may look pretty, but it's not very friendly to poor eyes. why not use the same style as the taskbar? white text on dark background = much better contrast and much better legibility. i remember people (ok, maybe it was just me) complaining about this when Vista came out but now it looks like that's how it's going to be. bummer.

does anybody else have trouble seeing the title text on windows? black text on greyish frosted glass may look pretty, but it's not very friendly to poor eyes. why not use the same style as the taskbar? white text on dark background = much better contrast and much better legibility. i remember people (ok, maybe it was just me) complaining about this when Vista came out but now it looks like that's how it's going to be. bummer. If you screen is not calibrated then certain elements of the visual display might be a bit hard to read. I suggest tuning your display properly.IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Whatever I need a new web server, the antique IBM 300GL has a 137GB disk limit, for my chess site. I wanted to post many more downloadable files, the existing 30GB disk is insufficient.

as far as i can tell, with aero turned on, there's no way to change the color of window caption, unless you use a highh contrast scheme, which makes windows look like DOS. it's always black on grey.

There is another issue with theme system, as I've posted in this thread : Quote: "I have a problem, a big problem for me ... I don't like the bigger Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons, so i adjusted them from "Advanced appearance settings". The buttons are now the right size for me, but I've noticed that their size is somehow connected with Systray icons' size ... And it's really annoying ... and one program that starts at boot and uses a systray icon gives me error because it cannot scale down its icon." Here is the screenshot: http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1807/probleme.png

I have an issue with Remotelyanywhere 8 - It works fine in firefox, but in IE, I get: Navigation to the webpage was canceled What you can try: Refresh the page. Remotely anywhere defaults to port 2000, I have tried changing the port to 443 (https) but it makes no difference. Works fine on XP & Vista

Explorer's right-click menu (on files) is too cluttered, and it becomes even more by every Windows version. This issue, in my opinion, is a pretty serious issue with picture files. On the left is a screenshot of right-click menu of a .jpg file, with Windows Live Essentials installed (sadly, I can't find their forums). The black items are the ones which should stay, the bright red are the ones which should go, and dark red ones are the ones which should be improved. As you can see, most of the items (especially the top 3, made by WLE) can be easily removed or moved somewhere else, without loss of functionality/ease of use. As a result, we would get a much smaller (vertically) right-click menu, which is easier to navigate than the old one. EDIT: There should must be a tool included with Windows7, that allows us to manually remove /reorder right-click menu entries. The most annoying thing is when some programs install these menu items, but they're hardly ever useful, and can't be removed (Need examples? Look at that anti-virus of yours). Damn, Adobe Drive even installs its menu item even if you don't install the program!! And to remove this item (which I bet you never use), you have to unregister its DLL or edit the registry. It can't go on like this!

Please utilize the Feedback icon on your Windows 7 build 7000 desktop to report your issue directly to the Windows 7 developer team. Carey Frisch

Please utilize the Feedback icon on your Windows 7 build 7000 desktop to report your issue directly to the Windows 7 developer team. Carey Frisch n/a sry. maybe someone w/ Build 7000 can do that for me? Besides, I like this way better, cos I get some response. Whereas w/ feedback tool I don't get any response, and I'm not even sure if someone actually reads it.

This forum currentlyonlyresponds toissues with Windows 7 Build 7000. If you obtained a different build, you are entirely on your own since it would be an unauthorized build obtained from a third-party source.Carey Frisch

By the time I finish this massive quest, someone will have said it much better.An hour or so ago I started writing Kristaps, rewritten rewritten rewritten now and badly.Kristaps! nice picture, I vote to keep "Prieksskatijums".and asking a question about customizable context menus (Right-clicks a person can change,)As I wrote, or tried to, I went off looking for specific quotes and references, and when I came back, several posts on the bottom were invisible, except for their names. It's as if the body of the post was written in white ink. Switching to a different OS didn't help much, although I was beginning to get a pattern.Kristaps has a great webspace/webpage, and I thought I would right-click on the name "COPY shortcut", open a new tab, and paste. I could not, so I temporarily navigated away and came back to finish up, but the half-finished reply was gone, and starting a new one was impossible because it was Invisible!--------http://cid-1365de9cde95b7ec.spaces.live.com

Someone here with build 7000 NEEDS TO SUBMIT THAT FEEDBACK on the lack of drive space free in the status bar. It's a ridiculous joke.

Kristaps, agreed and yes "explore here' is missing on several right click menus where it would be useful (SIGH!)

It was suggested by a forum moderator that i also post his here: Have had relatively good luck with two W7 trials - 64 bit and 32 bit. But with this app, it has been a real challenge: I have tested it with a clean install on W7 (64bit) and upgrade installs from Vista 64 bit. I have tried their latest official app version, and also their own W7 Beta app that they made available to me. I get all kinds of driver install issues on the clean installs, and operating issues with the upgrade installs. On the upgrades, all my other apps work (except of course AV) OK - but have not gotten Fusion fully functional on W7. I am pretty sure it is their drivers. As for hardware, I have tried both older (series5) and newer (series7) devices. All work fine on 64 bit Vista.

i wanted to request that you bring back dream scene because i really loved it in vista.

i wanted to request that you bring back dream scene because i really loved it in vista. Dunno, it just eats resources ... and are there any reasons to watch videos on desktop, under all the icons? If you want to watch a video, just run Media Player or smth :P

By the time I finish this massive quest, someone will have said it much better. An hour or so ago I started writing Kristaps, rewritten rewritten rewritten now and badly. Kristaps! nice picture, I vote to keep "Prieksskatijums". and asking a question about customizable context menus (Right-clicks a person can change,) As I wrote, or tried to, I went off looking for specific quotes and references, and when I came back, several posts on the bottom were invisible, except for their names. It's as if the body of the post was written in white ink . Switching to a different OS didn't help much, although I was beginning to get a pattern. Kristaps has a great webspace/webpage, and I thought I would right-click on the name "COPY shortcut", open a new tab, and paste. I could not, so I temporarily navigated away and came back to finish up, but the half-finished reply was gone, and starting a new one was impossible because it was Invisible ! -------- http://cid-1365de9cde95b7ec.spaces.live.com Thank you (*blush*) :) Oh, a note: "Priekskatjums " is "Preview " (I'm using a localized version of Live Essentials) And about that white space -- it's because of all the dynamic scripts in this site. If you leave it like that for a couple of seconds, it should become normal (black, visible) again. + I edited the above post with some more information.

Here's another one for you (it actually goes in the UI board, but I got directed to here ... again) So, as you all know, the clock in taskbar hadn't very much changed since Windows 95, only in Win7 it shows the date by default. Windows 7 has a nice taskbar that can easily show 2 lines of text, which is currently being used in the clock. But here's the thing: what if I want it to show only the time without date? What if I want just one big clock? I would love to have an option to have a big, 2-line-sized time . And seconds . See below (mock-up using Segoe UI Light ): ^ Cool. ^ Ice Cold! ^ Epic. This is how it could be implemented: In Date and Time settings there would be two checkboxes: Show Time and Show Date . Next to each checkbox there would be a Customize button, which would let you change the font, letter size, field's witch, or even more. Think about this ;)

Kristaps, agreed and yes "explore here' is missing on several right click menus where it would be useful (SIGH!) Oh damn yes! Thanks for reminding me -- this goes for others too. I'm gonna post about this later! :D

Was thinking today about the MRU in the Start Menu. If you right click a item, there is a option "Remove from this list". I would like to see a option such a hold shift and click "Remove from this list" to turn "Remove and NEVER AGAIN put in this list". Im tired of removing Winrar and adobe reader from the list. I NEVER, NEVER open adobe reader or winrar. I only open PDF files and Rar/Zip files in windows explorer. I dont want to see Winrar of Adobe reader in my MRU never again. Can it be done?

+1 for 'never include this item on this list'

Oh noes -- this is me again! Let me ask you a question - how do we remove a removable drive ? Okay I'll show you the 3 basic ways you can eject a removable drive (ofc there are several variations and advanced techniques, but still): Like it says -- is that all there is to it ? Why can't we have a nice way to eject the drive, without having to go back to My Computer or use the Navigation Pane + Right-Click? So, what I suggest, is that we take #1 and #2, and duplicate them into #4 and #5. How? What? I'll show you: These two small and simple buttons needed to be there in Vista, and they're still forgotten. Not only they will make the UI more usable, requiring less clicks to eject a drive, but also they will do another cool thing you or I never realized :)

Ok another thing that should be implemented -- scroll wheel should scroll the windows beneath the cursor, even if that window isn't focused. There are many programs that enable this feature, but this needs to be included with Windows.

And there is another thing - Snipping Tool needs an Undo feature - it's just extremely annoying that you can't just press Ctrl+Z and undo an error. Currently all you can do is grab the eraser and hope not to erase something important, because you won't be able to bring it back. So, in short -- Undo for Snipping Tool please :)

>And about that white space -- it's because of all the dynamic scripts in this site. If you leave it like that for a couple of seconds, it should >become normal (black, visible) again. >+1 for 'never include this item on this listOTThanks about the white space, I've added it to a thread someone started elsewhere about it. For now the overriding reason I'm typing this at all is to ask if anyone else gets this, or if I just have something set wrong in ie8 in build 7000. This is an edit but have you ever tried to edit invisibly? So ok here is what I wrote earlier:quick question written in white on white, so excuse the typosIf I like your post I can vote for it, right? Here I can't seem to vote anymore on the last few posts.I noticed several people saying "+1 vote" but nobody ever gets voted on, except MVPs. Is it bad ettiquette to vote?Re white on white, I've gotten closer to figuring it out, I need to Not be in "compatible view" mode. This writing invisibly is newer and seems to only happen in this thread(?)

Any chance we get a option like Right click a window and get "Always on top"? Many times Im reading a website, but would like to keep a second window Im working on top of it.

Any chance we get a option like Right click a window and get "Always on top"? Many times Im reading a website, but would like to keep a second window Im working on top of it. Agreed (miss this from GNOME :P)

The following comment is posted here as requested to pass onto the developers: I cannot do an image restore in Windows 7. My PC uses Mirror Raid. When I use any of the 3 methods to access the Advanced Restore option which gives me the ability to do an image restore, it does not show any lists of of my image's created. I created 3 images. (By the way, I have to load the RAID driver as part of the process to see the hard drive on my PC) The images as they were being created, were directly output to an external USB hard drive. (At 15GB in size, DVDs were not a good option at the time.) I have also copied an image to my hard drive (not the system partition) on my PC in case the restore option did not pickup on the external USB drive device. I was hoping that it would somehow see the image on the hard drive. The image file was created several layers down in the dir structure. Maybe I need to move the files to a higher level but what about the other sub dir related files. Are they needed to facilitate the restore? As the options does not let me to browse the PC or any connected devices, I cannot point to the image to restore. I have searched any queries on this on the web and within Microsofts own site without any others with this same problem. The questions are: Why is the Restore not listing any of the images backup/created? How does it know what to list? Can I point to the image in some way-even by editing a file? (what program will edit the file) Will another application (microsoft or otherwise) be able to restore this image? My thanks to whoever takes the time to respond to this query.

i wanted to request that you bring back dream scene because i really loved it in vista. Dunno, it just eats resources ... and are there any reasons to watch videos on desktop, under all the icons? If you want to watch a video, just run Media Player or smth :P why cant it be a resource for people who DO have the resources to handle it? it should at least be an option like an optional windows update addon like vista ultimate had u dont NEED to have it but if u have the power to handle it and wanna make ur comp look pretty why not?

in vista, can you put it on the 2nd monitor? that'd be kinda cool. sue it's a waste of resources, but so are screensavers. so what?

sure, it could be a welcome feature , but it would make everything slower (even if you have the resources). take games for example - you'll probably lose about 10-20 fps, and you won't even be able to see the video. the nicest way to do this is that the video is stopped (paused) if a program is in fullscreen or maximized. then it would look nice when you can see it, and it wouldn't eat resources when you can't even see it :) oh, but there is another aspect: compression. For example, I use a full hd (1920x1080 or 1080p or whatever you call it) monitor. For the video to look best, it's resolution should match the monitor's resolution. And playing a 1080p video could turn out pretty resourceful. (related: does Windows use GPU power for video playback?)

I doubt that you care about the small amount of resources needed for a screensaver, since you are (obviously) not using your computer at that moment :P

Dream Scenes require Aero, which will usually be turned off when a game is launched.

maxskate2001 It seems to me Microsoft don't care about giving people options, they are more about taking them away for how they feel it SHOULD be. They should become apple at this rate.

Ok here's another one - more of a bug this time. On dark desktop backgrounds aero peek looks 1. too bright/visible (my biggest annoyance about this) 2. kinda low quality See what I mean: You can try it yourself :P Of course, this is nothing special/major, but details matter, right? :)

And here I go again -- this time it's the taskbar. When you have, about 30 windows programs open, the taskbar goes into something that's probably called "overflow mode" or smth. It looks like this: This is a snapshot of the far-right of the taskbar. So, as you can clearly see by the scrollbar buttons (up/down), the "overflow mode" is vertical , which, in my opinion, is its biggest weakness and makes it very flawed. I suggest that "overflow mode" gets a horizontal layout (instead of the current vertical ) for several reasons, like: 1) you could use scroll wheel to scroll through all the programs [and even hide the scrollbar buttons] (now you can't) 2) you could reorder overflowed programs (now you can't move those icons between rows = huge flaw) 3) you could show more eyecandy with smooth scrolling ^^ (ATM it just switches to the next row) 4) it'd have more visibility (you could actually see the old and new programs at the same time -- impossible now) 5) much easier to use for tablet/touchscreen owners -- just use your finger to scroll [actually drag] through all the programs (sorta Apple's Cover Flow style), without having to try to hit some small buttons And then there is this totally crazy idea -- make the scrolling continuous ! Like, there is no beginning , there is no end -- you could just keep scrolling forever ! Of course, when "overflow mode" isn't needed anymore, all your programs return to how they were before.

Oh my God why didn't I think of this sooner! You probably remember that in Vista there was this button in Quick Launch , and also the Win+Tab shortcut, that let you launch Flip3D (or whatever it was called) if Aero was enabled, or Alt+Tab window if Aero was disabled. Windows 7 lacks this button, so here's what I thought of: You know the nice Show Desktop button on the far right of the Taskbar ? The one that shows desktop when you click it, and activates Aero Peek when you hover over it? Sure you do. Well, I have a 3rd feature for this button -- Middle-Click it to activate Flip3D (aka Win+Tab )! C'mon think about it - that button is always reachable (like the one in Vista's Quick Launch was), and Middle-Clicks (thankfully and finally) are used in many other places around Taskbar , so I think that this is a great idea. Comments?

And here I go again -- this time it's the taskbar.When you have, about 30 windows programs open, the taskbar goes into something that's probably called "overflow mode" or smth.It looks like this: This is a snapshot of the far-right of the taskbar.So, as you can clearly see by the scrollbar buttons (up/down), the "overflow mode" is vertical , which, in my opinion, is its biggest weakness and makes it very flawed.I suggest that "overflow mode" gets a horizontal layout (instead of the current vertical ) for several reasons, like:1) you could use scroll wheel to scroll through all the programs [and even hide the scrollbar buttons] (now you can't)2) you could reorder overflowed programs (now you can't move those icons between rows = huge flaw)3) you could show more eyecandy with smooth scrolling ^^ (ATM it just switches to the next row)4) it'd have more visibility (you could actually see the old and new programs at the same time -- impossible now)5) much easier to use for tablet/touchscreen owners -- just use your finger to scroll [actually drag] through all the programs (sorta Apple's Cover Flow style), without having to try to hit some small buttonsAnd then there is this totally crazy idea -- make the scrolling continuous ! Like, there is no beginning , there is no end -- you could just keep scrolling forever ! Of course, when "overflow mode" isn't needed anymore, all your programs return to how they were before. Thanks Kristap, you're an MVP on my list. I see their logic, I see yours, yours is better.As far as aero peek, a cute idea taken way too far. I saw a demo of some of the new UI, windows slanting in 3d for some reason, and they said they were unreadable (but cute). Ok I'm a philistine, but I don't see the point.

Thanks Kristap, you're an MVP on my list. I see their logic, I see yours, yours is better. Thanks! Much appreciated, but I am far from being either Microsoft-valued or a professional :D

To work against all this RSI I keep hearing about, how about modifying the UAC-prompt a bit, so that it's more easily dealt with by using the keyboard? I just find it more of a strain to aim with the mouse over the exact spot I want to click than, say, typing my password. Maybe underlining some letter (while holding down Alt-key, as in Win9x/XP-menus) that will have the desired effect when used with Alt (such as Alt+X for Disallow/No/Cancel or Alt+O for OK)?

To work against all this RSI I keep hearing about, how about modifying the UAC-prompt a bit, so that it's more easily dealt with by using the keyboard? I just find it more of a strain to aim with the mouse over the exact spot I want to click than, say, typing my password. Maybe underlining some letter (while holding down Alt-key, as in Win9x/XP-menus) that will have the desired effect when used with Alt (such as Alt+X for Disallow/No/Cancel or Alt+O for OK)? I dunno about you, but when a UAC prompt pops up, "no" is selected as the default option, so I can just press Left Arrow (to go to "yes") and Enter (to confirm)...

I have a comment about hardware compatability, Other operating systems strive to support as much hardware as possible, Microsoft don't seem to care, If a manufacturer puts all the effort and (probably even pays to have it supported) the only help they get from microsoft is what they pay for. Linux OSes appear to strive to support as much hardware as possible. As recent as 10 years ago hardware was developed so quickly that older hardware was often of little or no more good. But now we have hardware, video and sound cards, etc. that was made several years ago that is quite capable of working on Win7, depending of course on the environment that it is being used. Yet Microsoft's only answer to hardware compatability seems to be "That is the responsibility of the vendor"? I know there is a great manypossible hardware configurations but it just seems that Linux seems to support so much more that I think I will have to start dual-booting my PCs just to use my modem, If I want something similar to the areo interface I may have to switch to Ubuntu! I think that such a large corporation could do so much more to strive towards compatability. They come out with new features and market them but don't strive toaccomodate them in their software! I don't seem to see any interaction such as someone figuring out have to make some hardware compatable, and MS saying that they will try to incorporate that in their next update, All I see is the same old standard brush off!

And here I go again -- this time it's the taskbar.When you have, about 30 windows programs open, the taskbar goes into something that's probably called "overflow mode" or smth.It looks like this: This is a snapshot of the far-right of the taskbar.So, as you can clearly see by the scrollbar buttons (up/down), the "overflow mode" is vertical , which, in my opinion, is its biggest weakness and makes it very flawed.I suggest that "overflow mode" gets a horizontal layout (instead of the current vertical ) for several reasons, like:1) you could use scroll wheel to scroll through all the programs [and even hide the scrollbar buttons] (now you can't)2) you could reorder overflowed programs (now you can't move those icons between rows = huge flaw)3) you could show more eyecandy with smooth scrolling ^^ (ATM it just switches to the next row)4) it'd have more visibility (you could actually see the old and new programs at the same time -- impossible now)5) much easier to use for tablet/touchscreen owners -- just use your finger to scroll [actually drag] through all the programs (sorta Apple's Cover Flow style), without having to try to hit some small buttonsAnd then there is this totally crazy idea -- make the scrolling continuous ! Like, there is no beginning , there is no end -- you could just keep scrolling forever ! Of course, when "overflow mode" isn't needed anymore, all your programs return to how they were before. Nice, The icons could even be smaller (to allow for more icons)and enlarge on "mouseover", anything other than what they got there. It is just sooo "boxey", or not smooth, however you say it... Either way I LIKE ITAnother possibility, maybe fade slightly and become more visible on mouseover? c'mon MS that is sooo square, win95ish

Nice, The icons could even be smaller (to allow for more icons)and enlarge on "mouseover", anything other than what they got there. It is just sooo "boxey", or not smooth, however you say it... Either way I LIKE IT Another possibility, maybe fade slightly and become more visible on mouseover? c'mon MS that is sooo square, win95ish First of all, [at least on Build 7077, which we can't discuss here] as icon count increases , their buttons become narrower (icon size doesn't change). They narrow down until they reach the "critical mass" , when Taskbar goes into "Overflow Mode" (like I said, I needed to find and launch about 30-40 programs to make that screenshot). Then the enlarge on mouseover -- my 2 cents: Some will say that this is too OSX-like, but I like how OSX does it. There is nothing wrong with that, but (please read very carefully the next sentences) OSX's dock is fluid in both width and height , while Win7's is not (nothing wrong with that). If you'd want to enlarge icons on hover, you'd have to make the Taskbar higher/lower on your every mouse movement (even 1px closer/further from the icon), which would be a bad thing to do (both visually and thinking about resources). I hope that you now understand why enlarge-on-hover would be bad for Windows 7 (even if it is a good thing in OSX). About being more visible, I think that the nice glow (matches icon's color) in bottom of the icon is enough -- it's a nice touch, and also it's not too obtrusive.

I have an even crazier idea: an option for "visible overflow". Just add another row, like this ============================= ============================= or add a column on the left or right, like this = = = = = = = ================== scrolling is such a pain and just defeats the purpose of having a taskbar that it should be avoided at all cost. monitor resolution is getting higher all the time so why not use the real estate? a more conservative option is to switch to small icons when overflow occurs. of course if it overflows again then you resort to scrolling. there's one advantage to vertical scrolling vs horizontal: you don't have to move the mouse to the other side to scroll. butdon't make user click the scroll button to scroll. use mouse hover.

scrolling is such a pain and just defeats the purpose of having a taskbar that it should be avoided at all cost. monitor resolution is getting higher all the time so why not use the real estate? Scrolling is easier than trying to hit two miniature buttons (especially for tablets/touchscreens), and monitors grow in width (widescreen) much more than height, and there already are some problems with lack vertical estate. ============================= ============================= No offense or anything, but that sure would be a waste of vertical estate :P About the column, I dunno. It's better than 2 rows, but it kinda breaks the taskbar's flow :(

Nice, The icons could even be smaller (to allow for more icons)and enlarge on "mouseover", anything other than what they got there. It is just sooo "boxey", or not smooth, however you say it... Either way I LIKE ITAnother possibility, maybe fade slightly and become more visible on mouseover? c'mon MS that is sooo square, win95ish First of all, [at least on Build 7077, which we can't discuss here] as icon count increases , their buttons become narrower (icon size doesn't change). They narrow down until they reach the "critical mass" , when Taskbar goes into "Overflow Mode" (like I said, I needed to find and launch about 30-40 programs to make that screenshot).Then the enlarge on mouseover -- my 2 cents: Some will say that this is too OSX-like, but I like how OSX does it. There is nothing wrong with that, but (please read very carefully the next sentences) OSX's dock is fluid in both width and height , while Win7's is not (nothing wrong with that). If you'd want to enlarge icons on hover, you'd have to make the Taskbar higher/lower on your every mouse movement (even 1px closer/further from the icon), which would be a bad thing to do (both visually and thinking about resources). I hope that you now understand why enlarge-on-hover would be bad for Windows 7 (even if it is a good thing in OSX).About being more visible, I think that the nice glow (matches icon's color) in bottom of the icon is enough -- it's a nice touch, and also it's not too obtrusive. Only OSX like if they bounce.. hehe, but really the tasbar icons and area is too square in my opinion, maybe enlarge both the start button on the left and clock on the right, (could incorporate an analogue clock option) and slightly shrink the taskbar accross the rest of the desktop to kinda frame the bottom of the desktop and just get rid of the edginess of the icons? Nice suggestion about a "glow"

Only OSX like if they bounce.. hehe, but really the tasbar icons and area is too square in my opinion, maybe enlarge both the start button on the left and clock on the right, (could incorporate an analogue clock option) and slightly shrink the taskbar accross the rest of the desktop to kinda frame the bottom of the desktop and just get rid of the edginess of the icons? Nice suggestion about a "glow" 1) Glow is already there (has been since 7000) 2) That un-straight framing ... how do you think it would look when you have a window maximized? And that is only one of many problems with this. Please, people, think real ;)

1) Glow is already there (has been since 7000)2) That un-straight framing ... how do you think it would look when you have a window maximized? And that is only one of many problems with this.Please, people, think real ;) well, In Vista the start button on the left, I would have to reboot to double ckeck with Win7, the start button extends above the taskbar, just a little, butenought to break it, I like that but I was thinking perhaps something similar on the other side, just thinking it is nice to get some contour to it (perhaps drop the icon size through the center of the taskbar to just give the appearance). After all that start button (in Vista) doesn't bother me, a little contour elsewhere in thetaskbarmight be nice too, Iwas not thinking some big obstructive thing, just something without such hard edges.. The icons in my Win7 taskbar just look too square to me, maybe it's just me

lol icons are essentially square - 16x16 32x32 48x48 64x64 128x128 256x256 512x512 (OMG) -- these are the most common icon sizes, and they're all squares :P and yes, while Vista's orb indeed rises a bit above the taskbar, 7's taskbar is 2 times taller, so the orb doesn't go out (even if it's the same size). Also I'm sorry, but when you said something about a different frame, I figured you meant something like this (which I could never approve):

I don't understand such an intrusive taskbar, ya I rebooted and OMG 7's taskbar sucks. sorry but I certainly expect they can do better, heck Vista's taskbar is much softer on the eyes. Why did the taskbar grow so huge, Like I said, so WIN95ish, yuckBut that is only my opinion

I don't understand such an intrusive taskbar, ya I rebooted and OMG 7's taskbar sucks. sorry but I certainly expect they can do better, heck Vista's taskbar is much softer on the eyes. Why did the taskbar grow so huge, Like I said, so WIN95ish, yuck But that is only my opinion 95-ish!? Have you ever used Win95? Have you even seen Win95? This is as far from Win95 as it gets! (it's actually much closer to Win1.0 than Win95 :P) And where is Vista's taskbar softer on the eyes? Why do you like it better? Pls explain. The size doesn't bother me one bit, because now I have nice big icons (like they should be in 21st century, not some 16x16 ____)

I have used the Windows Easy Transfer utility to save my setting to a usb. After, i launched Internet explorer as usual and i got the Set up Windows internet explorer 8 welcome screen. Is that a bug?

Probably not, if you upgraded from Vista.

I don't understand such an intrusive taskbar, ya I rebooted and OMG 7's taskbar sucks. sorry but I certainly expect they can do better, heck Vista's taskbar is much softer on the eyes. Why did the taskbar grow so huge, Like I said, so WIN95ish, yuckBut that is only my opinion You DO know that you can still hide the task bar. .. And you know, you could use small icons on it, if you want the old single height look and feel to it all. Right?

You DO know that you can still hide the task bar. .. And you know, you could use small icons on it, if you want the old single height look and feel to it all. Right? I know I can hide it and use small icons. I always do. But what can you do about the huge instrusive Start Menu?Another thing about Taskbar. Windows 7 "forgets" how high I have made it. I like to make it two "bars" high so there is plenty of room for additional icon. When Ilogin toWindows 7, the Taskbar is always only one "bar" high. It doesn't matter if I lock the Taskbar.Note, to make the Taskbar higher, simply grab the edge of it while it is unlocked, and drag it upward until you see it "snap" tothe nextline, one bar's width higher.

I'm trying to get used to having the taskbar on the left, since I just bought a 1920x1200 screen and have more horz space to spare. some observations: 1) it seems like the taskbar is about 20px wider than it needs to be. the start button takes even more space when you have it vertical. 2) I'd like an option to invert the taskbar, so the start button is at its customary bottom. This seems like a logical choice yet it has never been implemented from win95-present. I wonder why. 3) the start menu now covers the task bar when activated. so does any toolbar menu on the task bar. I'd rather have it offset from the taskbar, like it usually is.

I'm trying to get used to having the taskbar on the left, since I just bought a 1920x1200 screen and have more horz space to spare. some observations: 1) it seems like the taskbar is about 20px wider than it needs to be. the start button takes even more space when you have it vertical. 2) I'd like an option to invert the taskbar, so the start button is at its customary bottom. This seems like a logical choice yet it has never been implemented from win95-present. I wonder why. 3) the start menu now covers the task bar when activated. so does any toolbar menu on the task bar. I'd rather have it offset from the taskbar, like it usually is. #1 - yup, but if it was narrower, the clock (the date to be exact) wouldn't fit anymore #2 - I don't understand what you mean :P Like, to have the Start Orb on bottom not on top? #3 - Totally agree with you there - the Start Menu should open on the left/right, not to the bottom of the Orb!

There is a small bug, which I think has been carried over from Vista (haven't used Vista for a long time, so I might be wrong) -- when a window is maximized, its application icon directly touches the screen's edge - there is no padding on the right side. See what I mean: The normal icon has equal padding on the left and the right side, while the maximized icon has only one on the right side. This makes it hard to see the icon, and in general looks pretty ugly (c'mon you're going for this "attention to detail" thing)

Today I tried using a sidebar'd Taskbar for the first time, and there is this one thing which I find really awkward - the hidden system tray notification area icons. More precisely, the button to show them. You see, when your Taskbar is on the left side of the screen, that "show" button goes to the left side as well, even tho it opens up to the right. This is baaaaaad design :( This is how it is now (notice the lack of visual connection between the button and the pop-up): And this is how it should be (notice that the arrow and the pop-up are visually connected now, like I suggested before): EDIT: After making this post, I clicked the > arrow again, and suddenly it moved to the right side of the taskbar, kinda like in the bottom picture :P - A bug?

Okay I've thought about this some more, and there are places where this is really needed , especially when taskbar is vertical: 1) Live Thumbnails 2) Notification area 3) Jump Lists

An old one, but I want to keep raising it's profile.....In Explorer, when moving/copying/deleting lots of files, please CONTINUE PROCESSING the remaining files in the background, even if one or more of them require a confirmation prompt.At the moment, you set up a big file operation and go away for a few minutes while it runs. You get back, only to find a "File exists, overwrite?" or "File is read-only...." etc prompt sitting on the screen, and the entire operation has stalled.This functionality desperately needs rewriting such that those files which need confirmation are queued up for when the user returns, while the rest continue being processed.Please, Microsoft, you can fix this!Thack

Hi,I thought i'd give some positive feedback from my Windows 7 beta experience. Im sure most people have at least experienced some minor bugs and niggles, but this is only to be expected with beta software and so far nothing critical has hampered my Windows 7 installation. I also note this sentence in the first post of this thread: "Do not use this thread for any specific question or issue that you are having - just for comments or feedback." which seems to be ignored by some people. I will be posting about a specific issue elsewhere. I am using the 64bit version of Win7.I never made the upgrade to Vista from XP, I have run a very reliable and optimised installation of XP on both my gaming rig and netbook for years now. I saw enough of Vista on friends & families computers to know that it wasnt for me. I approached this Win 7 Beta with some scepticism and purely out of curiosity, not expecting it to be a serious candidate for daily use, certainly in beta stage. My aim was to try out the 64 bit version of the OS to see what performance increase this gave me on my hardware. I installed it on a seperate hard drive within the same machine as my trusty XP installation. This was the first success story - after W7 installation completed and reboot, I was immediately presented with the option to boot to either Win7 or "An old windows installation" which turned out to be my XP disk. I didnt expect it to be so simple, and it was an element of reassurance for me that I could always reboot the machine into XP if Win7 didnt work out.The next success story was the driver installation - Win7 went online and found all the relevant hardware drivers (bar one) without a problem, which was also an unexpected andpleasant surprise. With win XP I still need to prepare an up to date"driver pack" before I do a clean install. The biggest success story here was my much maligned and long forgotten TV tuner card - a Pinnacle DVB dual tuner. Its about 2 years old and has been simply taking up a PCI slot in my case - I have never been able to get it to work properly under XP, first there were driver issues, and then the only software that would actually let me watch TV was Pinnacles own bloated and slow offering. Even using the manufacturers own software, I was never able to succesfully record a single TV program. I gave up on it over a year ago. I was therefore intrigued to see Win7 had happily recognised and installed drivers for it, and then Media Centre happily tuned in the channels, displaying an up-to-date localised TV guide, and recording programs in as good quality as they were broadcast. Im now waiting for the MCEBuddy beta 12 (with x64 support) to come out so I can round it all off by shrinking some of those large WTV files.This easy setup was a good first impression of the OS, an impression which was aided by my appreciation of the interface, the jumplists, hovering over the taskbar icons to get previews, hovering over the preview to look at a window fullscreen etc.All toys long avalailable inother OS's, but delightfully new to me as a long term win XP user. All of it done smoothly and without seemingly draining system resouce. It actually made me smile. I dragged my housemate into the room to show him, and as a result he is now running a copy on his VAOI laptop.In other areas I am equally pleased. The x64 has released the full 4GB of my ram, previously unavailable under my 32 bit XP. Generally performance seems much better than in XP, boot time is faster, and games are performing much better, which will be in large due to the extra RAM and Directx10 I imagine. I can crank Fallout 3 up to highest settings - which would simply kill playability under XP. Other games tested succesfully are Bioshock, Crysis, Stalker, and Eve Online. Media sharing between the Win7 PC and a PS3 in the lounge works perfectly without much setup, which was something that was fiddly to do on my XP installation. It even shares the recorded TV (although it does some odd on the fly encoding to that which reduces qaulity, bring on MCEBuddy x64!).The only reason I boot to the XP installation now is to access settings/files stored there, or to use programs I simply have to use but can't get to run on Win7 - a list which is dwindling rapidly. The fact that I havn't booted into Win XP for nearly a month is a testament to the positiveness of my Win7 experience to date. It has turned my scepticism to enthusiasm. I appreciate that the variations of peoples hardware/software/needs of us make this experience very subjective, and many of us have experienced bugs, and even critical failiures.As I said earlier, I will be posting a issue im having elsewhere in the forum, but for every issue reported, there are probably 10, or 100 people, more than happy with the same aspect. Thats why I felt it important to give this positive feedback.Please reply with similar positive experiences of Windows 7 if you are so moved. Apologies for the length of this post, but you probably didnt read this far if you didnt like it :-)

The Windows 95 era color picking window desperately needs an update. One thing it really needs is the ability to use an eyedropper outside its own window. For example, when choosing a centered desktop wallpaper, the only way to select a background color to match a color in the wallpaper (not counting trial and error) is to: 1. Open Paint, open the wallpaper image 2. Use eyedropper on color you want as the background 3. Open Paint's color picker window, make note of the RGB values 4. Open the wallpaper window's color picker 5. Copy RGB values from Paint's color picker window to the wallpaper window's color picker Ouch. That could just be simplified to 1. Open wallpaper window's color picker 2. Click on the previewed wallpaper on the desktop (because moving the mouse off of the color picker window automagically turns the cursor into an eyedropper) to select a color 3. There is no step 3; you're done.

Hi, I thought i'd give some positive feedback from my Windows 7 beta experience. Im sure most people have at least experienced some minor bugs and niggles, but this is only to be expected with beta software and so far nothing critical has hampered my Windows 7 installation. I also note this sentence in the first post of this thread: "Do not use this thread for any specific question or issue that you are having - just for comments or feedback. " which seems to be ignored by some people. Ok to be vague, I read your other post, nice motherboard. Latest Bios? Settings on "Auto"? I happen to like Vista. When it came out, It got bad press but Win 7 shares a lot of technology with it. Witness the device manager, The "gadgets", but win 7 has evolved. O.B.N. at first, but later

You're right about the picker, which is one of the worst small details of Windows :P I'd love to have Adobe Photoshop 's (or similar) color picker throughout Windows: This would be very useful, especially for ppl that work with images/pictures/designs/colors/whatever (especially the RGB/CMYK/LAB values, and HEX value).

I've got something for all of you file movers: How come we can't CTRL+CLICK in two open explorer windows , then copy/cut/delete all the selected files!? ATM, even when files are ctrl+click selected over multiple windows, Win7 only copies/cuts/deletes the files in the current active/focused window (even tho there are files selected in other windows too). Please change this behavior, Thank you, Concerned file mover.

BUG: w7 applies colors in "Windows Color and Appearance" haphazardly, resulting unreadable text. http://img408.imageshack.us/my.php?image=w7colors.jpg As you can see, I changed windows text to white on dark blue. In explorer, w7 uses the text color but ignores the background color and uses the default white instead. I end up with white on white. It should either use both background and text colors or ignore them both,

BUG: w7 applies colors in "Windows Color and Appearance" haphazardly, resulting unreadable text. http://img408.imageshack.us/my.php?image=w7colors.jpg As you can see, I changed windows text to white on dark blue. In explorer, w7 uses the text color but ignores the background color and uses the default white instead. I end up with white on white. It should either use both background and text colors or ignore them both, Can you really imagine Aero with those colors and with colored (high-contrast) backgrounds? Not me :P And another thing -- that dialog (advanced appearance) doesn't really work well with Aero -- MS should update it..

Is this true that Windows 7 RC will be available to MSDN and technet subscribers starting April 30 and that it will be available to the general public on May 5?

Rumor has it ;)

Just read about it in Technet window7teamblog.....

Please bring back Quick Launch! Yes I know there's a hack to get it back, but that's unacceptable. Give us one click access to enable the QL if we so desire. Even if it's not on by default, please give us easy access.

The system is working perfectly(32-bit) and I love itHowever,I cannot hear the sound in my tvtuner app(Leadtek PVR3000) due to the lack of the Aux port on the configuration pane of the Winfast appThe Aux port is used for audio out from the tv tuner to the sound cardThe only options there are CD audio and VolumeSo probably more are mising too;)

Ah I almost have forgot this: My pc have dual sound output but windows doesn't give me the options to choose to enable each or both of them.I can't hear from my Headphone before I install realtek special driver program. thx for reading.

Regarding the release of RC1 Okay... so this week will mark the release of RC1 to MSDN and then next week is the public release. That, in and of itself, is GREAT NEWS. However, I've also been reading on some news sites such as MSNBC, that MS is thinking to actually see a commercial release of the O/S a early as July. (That statement came from one of bigwigs.) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30395407/ If that is a true statement rather than just a serious case of wishful thinking, I beg you Microsoft, PLEASE rethink that strategy. All of the positive things being said about WIN7 should not lull you into thinking this means it is ready for primetime. Did you not learn from Vista at all? Yes, Win7 absolutely worked better in beta than Vista did out of the box in its commercial release and no one with any sense is going to argue with that. However, with the extreme amount of ill will over Vista not only from end users, but from OEMs as well and the continued refusal of business customers to 'downgrade' from XP to Vista should have and onewould think, continues to leave a bad taste in MS' corporate mouth, thus leaving MS to tread as though it were walking upon eggshell covered rice paper.Ido realizethe last line above was kind of overkill but the point really does need to be driven home and if it takes a nuclear powered impact hammer to do so, then so be it. -jay

Why?

Ah I almost have forgot this: My pc have dual sound output but windows doesn't give me the options to choose to enable each or both of them. I can't hear from my Headphone before I install realtek special driver program. thx for reading. Lol I have it the other way around - with Win7's default (automatically installed) drivers I had speakers and headphones separately (and Windows would automatically lower the volume when I plugged in the headphones), but then I installed motherboard's sound card drivers (from cd), and now that functionality has been lost [F you ASRock/Realtek!!]

Actually after seeing this reply I checked my BIOS and discovered it was 2 revisions out, so thanks for that, im going to update it to see if it has an effect. I love the fact they have marked the question in the other post as "Answered" by saying "wait for the release candidate" LOL I've added some more information to that thread anyway, in case it is at all useful.I do appreciate that Win 7 builds on the foundations of Vista, it almost seems like Vista wasan open public beta for Win 7 - albeit one you had to pay for.

I do appreciate that Win 7 builds on the foundations of Vista, it almost seems like Vista wasan open public beta for Win 7 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30229756/I guess if MSNBC said "Its no secret that Windows 7 is being built using the code, or foundation, of Vista" then it must be true.I didn't realize that.

What I'm going to tell is very important. So, before releasing the final verion developers have to take this into account: There is a serious usability flaw in W7 Beta. When I open multiple windows of the same program (Word, for instance), it takes me click + looking for the right window + mouse movement + click to switch back to the window I just worked with. So, if I have a typical 1280*1024 display and work with 2 documents - an Excel spreadsheet and a Word document - it take a lot of time and attention to switch between these two! How about changing the default icon behaviour: click to open the last used window, hover to see the list of open windows. Anyone agrees?

What I'm going to tell is very important. So, before releasing the final verion developers have to take this into account: There is a serious usability flaw in W7 Beta. When I open multiple windows of the same program (Word, for instance), it takes me click + looking for the right window + mouse movement + click to switch back to the window I just worked with. So, if I have a typical 1280*1024 display and work with 2 documents - an Excel spreadsheet and a Word document - it take a lot of time and attention to switch between these two! How about changing the default icon behaviour: click to open the last used window, hover to see the list of open windows. Anyone agrees? I have several programming running at one time, many with multiple documents open. The task bar makes it easy to move from document to document and from program to program. I use word, excel, visual studio, jDveloper , expression studio and many other programs all at once. Vote if helpful, I am running for Office (joke), also mark questions answered. IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Whatever I need a new web server, the antique IBM 300GL has a 137GB disk limit, for my chess site. I wanted to post many more downloadable files, the existing 30GB disk is insufficient.

What I'm going to tell is very important. So, before releasing the final verion developers have to take this into account: There is a serious usability flaw in W7 Beta. When I open multiple windows of the same program (Word, for instance), it takes me click + looking for the right window + mouse movement + click to switch back to the window I just worked with. So, if I have a typical 1280*1024 display and work with 2 documents - an Excel spreadsheet and a Word document - it take a lot of time and attention to switch between these two! How about changing the default icon behaviour: click to open the last used window, hover to see the list of open windows. Anyone agrees? I have several programming running at one time, many with multiple documents open. The task bar makes it easy to move from document to document and from program to program. I use word, excel, visual studio, jDveloper , expression studio and many other programs all at once. Vote if helpful, I am running for Office (joke), also mark questions answered. IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Whatever I need a new web server, the antique IBM 300GL has a 137GB disk limit, for my chess site . I wanted to post many more downloadable files, the existing 30GB disk is insufficient. I think you misunderstood me. If you work on several programs, then there is no problem. Just hover the icon to see your open documents (the new taskbar is brilliant). But what about regular home users? I'm working on two Word documents or two IE pages open at the same time. I switch to another application (maybe some search on the internet), then I switch back to my old Word document. Why should I need to hover and find my recently used word document? Just click on the icon and it should show your recently used Word document and hover on the icon to see the other instances of the application. Since the behaviour of clicking and hovering is the same (both show the same preview panes), then clicking on an icon to see the recently used instance of this same application doesn't hurt anyone, does it?

... Really? Wow, that was nearly embarrassing, that. I'll check up on it when I have the chance. (But that's TWO separate button-presses, how's about just one? :) )

... Really? Wow, that was nearly embarrassing, that. I'll check up on it when I have the chance. (But that's TWO separate button-presses, how's about just one? :) ) What do you mean "two separate button clicks"? What are they? You just click one time to see your recently used document and hover to see the other instances of the same application.

... Really? Wow, that was nearly embarrassing, that. I'll check up on it when I have the chance. (But that's TWO separate button-presses, how's about just one? :) ) What do you mean "two separate button clicks"? What are they? You just click one time to see your recently used document and hover to see the other instances of the same application. Are we talking about the same thing here -- UAC?

No not UAC, it's about the new taskbar behaviour when you click or hover your mouse on the icons.

... Really? Wow, that was nearly embarrassing, that. I'll check up on it when I have the chance. (But that's TWO separate button-presses, how's about just one? :) ) What do you mean "two separate button clicks"? What are they? You just click one time to see your recently used document and hover to see the other instances of the same application. yes, you hover to preview the instances, and click again to activate. that's what the OP means by two clicks. the OP thinks clicking should bring up the last active document. I and many others in this thread have brought this up. this would be consistent with single instance behavior (hover to bring up preview window, click to activate). right now, hovering and clicking do the same thing when there are multiple instances. Note: this only applies when you have combine turned on.

Windows 7 would not boot without the installation DVD in the drive.. I recently installed Windows 7 on a PC with 2 HDD. After the install was complete I could not boot unless I kept the DVD in the drive. I tried reformat/reinstall but that did not help. The only resolution I have found was to physically disconnect Disk1 and install Windows 7 (on Disk0)... After this the system works fine even after adding Disk1 back. This computer previously had Vista and did not have any issues so I am unsure why Windows 7 had trouble installing properly.

Another bug report (sort of): In a shortcut 's properties , the shortcut 's name in title should be placed in quotes . At the moment it's just there, without any distinction from the "Properties " part of the title. Or else it could end up with something like this: Nothing urgent or major, really, but it'd be nice if you fixed this -- just make the title say "shortcut name" properties instead of shortcut name properties ;)I'd like to actually do something good and/or valuable about it, but at the moment I'm just stuck giving out suggestions for everything :P

... Really? Wow, that was nearly embarrassing, that. I'll check up on it when I have the chance. (But that's TWO separate button-presses, how's about just one? :) ) What do you mean "two separate button clicks"? What are they? You just click one time to see your recently used document and hover to see the other instances of the same application. yes, you hover to preview the instances, and click again to activate. that's what the OP means by two clicks. the OP thinks clicking should bring up the last active document. I and many others in this thread have brought this up. this would be consistent with single instance behavior (hover to bring up preview window, click to activate). right now, hovering and clicking do the same thing when there are multiple instances. Note: this only applies when you have combine turned on. Yes, this is what I tried to mean. I think this is a serious flaw and I hate doing this same thing again and again.

the OP thinks clicking should bring up the last active document Oh yeah, this would be kickass! :D Seriously. I'd like to actually do something good and/or valuable about it, but at the moment I'm just stuck giving out suggestions for everything :P

I'm trying to use WMP since iTunes won't let me select a win7 library. WMP is pretty nice so far, but there are several annoyances and one show stoppers for me: 1) it doesn't remember the last song I play. Every time I start it, it starts playing the first song in the alphabetical order! 2) I want to sort the library by date added, but that's not an option under Organize > Sort by. Nor does it remember that I clicked on the Date added column to sort. instead, every time I open WMP, my library is sorted by name. 3) there doesn't seem to be a way to highlight and scroll the currently playing song into view. (what's playing? where is it?) 4) the most serious flaw is I can't drag and drop from WMP to another program like I can with Win Explorer. So no way to drag and drop onto a USB drive, into a mail program, into nero for burning, or into itunes to load into my ipod. even itunes will let me drag files from it to other programs, and it's made by Apple, whose programmers can't be expected to know as much about writing windows apps!

Why have all the posts at the bottom 1/3 of this page gone white?!?!?!

I'd just like to say,this is the first time I've ever used a beta.Sure I had some problems but I always do.It just seemed that this time to get the system up and running good I had alot more fun.I really like windows 7, sure it doesn't have dreamscenes but I found a way around that, but I still went back to the changing backgrounds. The system boots up fast, very fast compared to Ultimate.Everything I got in here is running pretty smoothly and quickly.Windows live mail hangs every once in a while when I go to open it,so I shut it off inTask manager and then I have no problems,That about the last glitch that I have.I've been saving everything on this system,(I know I should back it up) I use this like I would any computer and I like it! I'll move all my files over to ultimate later.My only regret about using this beta is I don't want to goback to vista. Unless work picks up better I probably won't be able to afford Windows 7!I'm really glad I had the oppertunity to use this.Thank You Microsoft!Larry

My only regret about using this beta is I don't want to goback to vista. Same here. While testing Build 7000 (Beta), my computer's motherboard and HDD broke (at the same time = ouch). You probably can imagine how I felt when I first booted up my repaired computer, and saw Vista there (when I had gotten used to all the Win7 goodies) o_OI'd like to actually do something good and/or valuable about it, but at the moment I'm just stuck giving out suggestions for everything :P

I dont think that any of employees from Microsoft actually read here. We just talk about the problems on our own... No one ever responded to our feedbacks...

I dont think that any of employees from Microsoft actually read here. We just talk about the problems on our own... No one ever responded to our feedbacks... Hi Shadow_ShooterThere are many Microsoft employees who post here from PSS (Product Support Services).All of the current messages in this thread are periodically collected by the Forum Owners and sent directly to the Beta Team.These forums are only one of the many official venues that are available for customer feedback.Unfortunately, with an estimated 3 Million Public beta testers + several thousand Technet andMSDN beta testers + several thousand Technical beta testers, the feedback is, understandably a one way communication.If a user on these forums is not able to send the feedback on a reproduciblethen we make sure that You can rest assured that the beta team does compile and read every single bit of user feedback they get. Thank You for testing Windows 7 Beta Ronnie Vernon MVP

A thought about "undo" in Windows Explorer's context menu. In a program that you run for only as long as you need it, it's easy to remember what your last action was, in case you want to undo or redo something; but since Explorer usually never closes while the computer is running, its "Undo" and "Redo" could potentially refer to an action that is hours (or possibly days) old, and it has no correlation to which Explorer window the context menu was invoked from. For that reason, the Undo/Redo entry in Explorer's context menu should offer some clue about what it does. For example: "Undo Delete in C:\Users\Public" or "Undo Rename of Downloads.lnk". A rough timestamp might go a long way as well.

I dont think that any of employees from Microsoft actually read here. We just talk about the problems on our own... No one ever responded to our feedbacks... Hi Shadow_Shooter There are many Microsoft employees who post here from PSS (Product Support Services). All of the current messages in this thread are periodically collected by the Forum Owners and sent directly to the Beta Team. These forums are only one of the many official venues that are available for customer feedback. Unfortunately, with an estimated 3 Million Public beta testers + several thousand Technet andMSDN beta testers + several thousand Technical beta testers, the feedback is, understandably a one way communication. If a user on these forums is not able to send the feedback on a reproduciblethen we make sure that You can rest assured that the beta team does compile and read every single bit of user feedback they get. Thank You for testing Windows 7 Beta Ronnie Vernon MVP Of course PSS reads this stuff, but not just them. The Development team also wants comments so they can fix issues better. Then there are independent developers who want to see why their product does not work. At the end of the day, world+dog wants to see this. Well almost. Vote if helpful, I am running for Office (joke), also mark questions answered. IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Whatever I need a new web server, the antique IBM 300GL has a 137GB disk limit, for my chess site. I wanted to post many more downloadable files, the existing 30GB disk is insufficient.

I had been using Windows Vista for a long time and I especially like the feature that we can edit the images directly in Windows Photo Viewer, it's fast, simple and easy. Sometimes when I just want to creat a square avatar, I just open the image , click Fix and choose crop, then choose the Square option, so fast. I dont know why they think that they should remove this. And the "information panel" of the image just on the left is gone. It's useful. I also think it's great that we could have the feature editting tags for many pictures at the same time. It's like when I would like to add the tag "britney" to 10 pictures of Britney. Another thing is about Advanced tag editor in Windows media player 12. It is extremely necessary. And I dont know why media library keep adding songs that I deleted from the library. They are not really songs, just some misc audio. And when I rename or do something to a mp3 file, when I play that song it appears that the song is missing. It doesnt automatically update.

I dont know why they think that they should remove this. And the "information panel" of the image just on the left is gone. It's useful. Who said something about removing anything? o_O In my set of WLE's the FIX and INFORMATION panes are still there :) I also think it's great that we could have the feature editting tags for many pictures at the same time. It's like when I would like to add the tag "britney" to 10 pictures of Britney. You can select all the pictures you want to tag (drag-select or ctrl+click), and then drop them onto the desired tag in the Right Sidebar (where the navigation is at) ;) And when I rename or do something to a mp3 file, when I play that song it appears that the song is missing. Well, yeah, that's pretty much a no-brainer: when you rename a.mp3 to b.mp3, WMP can no longer find a.mp3 ;) Regards, Kristaps.

You should download Windows Live Photo Gallery, Nickurey. As you've already noticed, the application you're now using is called Windows Photo Viewer and not Windows Photo Gallery . The features were removed purposely and specifically so that only a small viewing application was left. The Fix and Navigation Panes are available in Windows Live Photo Gallery, which is a slightly updated version of Windows Photo Gallery. As for tagging, I usually do that with Explorer through the Details Pane. Maybe give that a try? If you want to stay within (or are already in) the Windows Live Photo Gallery environment, Kristaps reply is a better idea. Hopefully in the wave 4 software releases WLPG does proper facial recognition and tagging, but, as it hasn't even been brought up by Microsoft, I don't think that's in the cards...

I just hope that WLPG starts doing automatic face recognition by Wave 4. Like, ATM it recognizes a face in a picture, but I still have to manually identify it. Apple's iPhoto , for example, automatically recognizes and identifies whose face that is (hence the name "face recognition") :)Regards, Kristaps.

I dont think that any of employees from Microsoft actually read here. We just talk about the problems on our own... No one ever responded to our feedbacks... Hi Shadow_Shooter There are many Microsoft employees who post here from PSS (Product Support Services). All of the current messages in this thread are periodically collected by the Forum Owners and sent directly to the Beta Team. These forums are only one of the many official venues that are available for customer feedback. Unfortunately, with an estimated 3 Million Public beta testers + several thousand Technet andMSDN beta testers + several thousand Technical beta testers, the feedback is, understandably a one way communication. If a user on these forums is not able to send the feedback on a reproduciblethen we make sure that You can rest assured that the beta team does compile and read every single bit of user feedback they get. Thank You for testing Windows 7 Beta Ronnie Vernon MVP Hello Ronnie, Thank you for making clear that our feedback are read by the beta team. So, that means I should hope maybe my feedback can be taken into account and so a lot of users be saved from this serious usability flaw. I don't think it will be a big problem at the start but as years go by I'm sure people will be tired of unreasonable hovering (instead of one click).

Windows 7 (build 7000) has not normally works with application Sony Ericsson Update Service. White screen in the application window. If I'm click right key of mouse, i see the menu "movie not loaded" and "about Adobe flash player". In the Windows Vista or XP these troubles is not finded. I stuck in that problem, too. In 7077 and 7100 the problem is still there, but I found a solution: You need to install the Flash-Player-ActiveX-Control additionally to the normal Flash-Player. You can get the ActiveX-Control here: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe Hote it helps.

Same here! I've been doing everything I can to hunt down and eliminate ClearType, but it keeps popping up! ClearType gives me a really bad headache due to the eye strain / color fringe. It's incredibly frustrating to keep seeing it pop up all over the place after I've done everything I can to elminate it. Why doesn't disabling ClearType remove it altogether? This is my biggest peeve with Win 7. I mean, even the Microsoft study on ClearType (www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ct/chi_p618.pdf) found that a third of users did better with regular type and that 20% did WAYYYY better with regular type. Why is Microsoft trying to alienate a fifth of its user base?

Flip Taskbar Orientation When Moving It's Location It's nice that you are able to move the taskbar from it's default location at the bottom to either the top, left or right sides, but you really should also be able to invert/flip the taskbar after moving it to it's new location. For example, when moving the taskbar to the left-hand side of the screen, it arranges the Start button at the top, with the pinned items directly below and the system tray location all the way at the bottom. You should be able to flip the orientation so that the Start button is at the bottom left (like it normally is) and everything goes up from there - pinned items directly above the Start button and the system tray location all the way at the top.

not sure where to post this but have noticed that windows 7 share a couple of file extensions as an other prog called cabinet vision made by planit the extension is .cvj can not remember what the other was, system seems to run alright when i associate the extension with cabinet vision. what does the one in windows 7 do

Is it not the right time to open a "Have comments about Windows 7 RC" thread? The RC is now available to public, and I think (and hope) there is lots of changes from beta to RC, so, its better to dont mix the two things. Other than that, I have to say the RC surprised me. The only problem is it surprised me in a very bad way. At least 80% of the feedback in this thread and in the part 1 of it was just ignored. The RC is much much similar (in terms of UI, Im not talking about core/kernel changes in here) to the beta. The windows explorer still have all the flaws it had in beta. Windows XP explorer is (for me) still much better. It show me the file sizes without having to select files, and, even better, if I select more than a few files, I dont have to click the STUPID "more details" button. In xp, I can customize the windows explorer buttons bar. In 7, I cant. The image importer (when you plug a digital camera) is still the same one used in vista, back in 2006, that is just limitaded. In xp, I can select the pictures I want and the ones I dont want to import, in 7, or you import everything, or nothing. (Why broke something that was good?) In fact, the only way (for me) to work with a digital camera is windows 7 is installing Windows Live Photo Gallery, once it adds a decent picture importer to the autoplay of my camera. But it just means I need to download/install onther software to be able to use a function that was present and good in xp out of the box, for more than a decade. The start menu: even it thousand of people are asking, begging for the return of he Classic, it is out, period. Microsoft says its better, and you, customer, stop crying like a baby! Why do you want something that is not good for you? Do you think you are good enough to think? You Dont! Windows explorer is better now, Start Menu is better now, and dont you DARE to say otherwise! Ok, nice move, its exactly the right way of doing business. Worked very well with vista... the user dont need the power of choice the xp provide. All the user needs is what vista provides. Oh, I just forgot, the xp is still a sucess, and vista, well... vista is... nevermind.

Warel,You read my mind! This thread is now locked and created a new thread for comments on RC. I will also be creating similar threads in the other Windows 7 forums.Windows Client IT Pro Audience Manager for Web Forums