I upgraded from the Win7 (7000, x64) to the Win7 RC1 (7100, x86)... wanted to share a few observations and ask a question on IE8I've loaded iton a Compaq laptop, F572, (AMD Athlon, nVidia Geforce6100, Broadcom wireless, originally loaded with Vista 32-bit) I've swapped the OEM HD for a larger capacity drive, and fully populated to 2GB RAM.One piece of software that wouldn't load on beta x64 loaded without a problem on the RC1 x86... ( Linksys wireless AOI printserver)The Avermedia Volar hybrid USB stick still won't receive "normal" NTSC signals, but it gets ATSC/Clear Quam fine. Not a big deal...Office 2003 loaded and works just fine, as it did on the beta.Curiously, though, (and maybe this is a result of the Beta x64 vs. the RC1 x86) but the Windows Experience Index result numbers are a bit different than they were with the beta - go figure. When I replaced the harddrive, I imaged the existing drive, so that I would have the Windows.old folders if needed for driver retrival. The original install of the beta (7000) did show some "Unknown devices" in device manager, but I was able to resolve that when using C: and all subfolders to manually look for compatible drivers. After I loaded the RC1, I also had one "Unknown Device", but the same manual driver search DOESN'T find any compatible drivers. More of an annoyance than anything else...A quirk that I've noticed about IE8 (v 8.0.7100.0) is that the quick way to jump back multiple pages (the small down arrow, just to the left of the address bar) doesn't display a drop-down of recent pages. Anybody else experiencing this ?

Jim, My IE8 seems to be performing fine in this respect - is the drop-down arrow simply not functioning for you? As for your remaining unknown device, I'd recommend checking HP's driver download page for your computer. The linked chipset driver seems like something you could be missing without realizing it.-Alex

Alex - Thanks for the response.I figured tha I'll have to figure out the device driver issue from the HP page, I just found it odd that when I installed beta 7000 over Vista, I could still locate the drivers for the unknown devce, in Windows.old, but when I installed RC1 7100 over the same Vista, and created the same windows.old folder, I can't resolve the unknown device. I have beta 7000 on the old harddrive, so I might swap it out, to compare devices between the two flavors of win7. And, a followup on the TV tuner... the original auto-scan picked up 23 channels, all hi-def ATSC stations, but, when I manually search and add channels, I found 28 MORE channels - some of which seem to be the low-def counterparts to some of the high-def channels. Since my tuner is connected to comcast, I'm disinclined to blame varying signal strength during the auto-scan.To the Microsoft folks - can anyone explain the algorithm used for channel scanning ? Media center only found 23 channels during auto-scan,but I had to add 28 more channels manually - that just doesn't seem quite right...