not that I have any problems - damn thing just works!!! :o)Kris

Congradulations and thanks for the feedback!If you noticed, this is now a pure Windows 7 forum and covers all aspects of Windows 7,including RC1.Carey Frisch

supurb!!! Thanks, Carey! And thanks all for the great work!!!Kris

Carey -There IS one caveat to that - to be on topic, the build MUST be an authorized (i.e. NOT leaked) build released by Microsoft. That does limit the conversation to builds 7000 and 7100.

>Theweb could be viewed as one enormous interconnected dongle >(COM port anti-piracy device).>Microsoft should be able to serialize, track, disable, >at least block an unauthorized copy from accessing this site.>It would seemSeveral people somewhere were authorized to have builds (or why build them at all), and when someone shows up to say "I have Build 7110 w/8 gigs and a 4ghz multiproc, what does this blue button do?",It gives those other people (minus one?) a bad name and makes the poster look like they're bragging, I think. The title says "miscellaneous" anyway, but I agree it makes sense to ask about the "blue whatever" w/o listing the version. Dongles, yes, some Rom thingy anyway, it's a little presumptuous to assume someone will always have internet access or a phone. My wishlist if I had one, would be to let people write (clumsily,w/humor,rancor,etc) about their experiences. I feel lately like I'm in church and everyone is respectfully whispering. 7100 is out. What do you think?

>Theweb could be viewed as one enormous interconnected dongle >(COM port anti-piracy device).>Microsoft should be able to serialize, track, disable, >at least block an unauthorized copy from accessing this site.>It would seemSeveral people somewhere were authorized to have builds (or why build them at all), and when someone shows up to say "I have Build 7110 w/8 gigs and a 4ghz multiproc, what does this blue button do?",It gives those other people (minus one?) a bad name and makes the poster look like they're bragging, I think. The title says "miscellaneous" anyway, but I agree it makes sense to ask about the "blue whatever" w/o listing the version. Dongles, yes, some Rom thingy anyway, it's a little presumptuous to assume someone will always have internet access or a phone. My wishlist if I had one, would be to let people write (clumsily,w/humor,rancor,etc) about their experiences. I feel lately like I'm in church and everyone is respectfully whispering. 7100 is out. What do you think? Chitbill - Very true - someone, somewhere was authorized to have those builds - and that someone violated their NDA at the very least. I don't see it so much as bragging as impatience. When so and so downloaded a copy of 7118 by way of The Pirate Bay or some other torrent site and wants help here, it just shows that he's got to be on the bleeding edge - never mind that the build he's got may be a step back from the officially released version. As far as your wishlist goes... Not everyone here is completely...retentive. A little humor never hurts. My poem seems to still be there toward the end of this thread. Posting something that's disrespectful of others, on the other hand shouldn't be tolerated. As far as 7100 goes.. I'll let you know on or after May 6th...

What do we know about the other person's NDA?Or where he obtained the copy?Instead of blocking its discussion here,it would seem these serve as magnets instead of locks.For some reason. What do we need to know about someone's NDA? You are familiar with what NDA means - right?The term "Non-Disclosure Agreement" should be fairly self explanatory.You agree toget and testbeta softwareand in return you don't talk about it to anyone - except the programmers or other support people designated to help them out.If the Party in question has the NDA, he likely got it from some official Microsoft source - be it a DVD shipped or a download.

Gee.. Why am I getting this sensation of deja vu...Hmmm.. derosnec... What's with the fascination with the locks..? And being blatantly contrary without offering anything more than a cryptic mind game... Let's see.. censored... backwards... Ah.. Of course... It must beEgads... Back again, I see...Guess this thread and all the others you've touched are likely to get locked and such...

Gee.. Why am I getting this sensation of deja vu... Hmmm.. derosnec... What's with the fascination with the locks..? And being blatantly contrary without offering anything more than a cryptic mind game... Let's see.. censored... backwards... Ah.. Of course... It must beEgads... Back again, I see...Guess this thread and all the others you've touched are likely to get locked and such... LOL - you've got that one right! The prime reason I haven't posted in a couple of months! 'course the other prime reason is that I didn't have any problems with it worth mentioning. Which reminds me - serious work here!!! - didn't test sfloppy - now works fine when you plug in a USB floppy. However, doesn't show up under "computer" in explorer - unless you click on "computer" in explorer - then it expands and shows floppy, which if you click on it then shows up in the extant explorer, but not in a new one. Hmmm. - now I notice it no longer shows empty optical drives. Hmmm Wonder if that's an explorer option? Hmmmm EDIT: Nope! - explorer has been <gasp!!!> changed!!! LOL If I find anything more important to report, I'll be sure to report it!!! (note to MS - consider this to be simply noise!) EDIT EDIT: negative! : works fine: how to: open explorer, click alt, click tools / "folder options", check 2 boxes in "navigator pane". VOILA! Kris

KrisM77 -Welcome back. I know the feeling - I'd be bored stiff testing Win 7 if it weren't for helping out in the forum- everything just works - for me at least...So judging by your reaction, you've got the 7100 build installed. Very cool. Now you said "check two boxes in 'navigator pane'." Would thesecond box in that pane read "Automatically expand to current folder"?? If so, and you've got no problems, then it would seem that we've got proof of the a major bug being squashed in the RC! If you checked the that box in build 7000, it would cause Explorer to go nuts and not be responsive. On the View tab of the folder Options dialog, there's also an item in build 7000 that says "hide empty drives" that's located just below the "Hidden files and folders" items that may or may not be checked that will also contribute to empty drives being displayed or not.

KrisM77 - Welcome back. I know the feeling - I'd be bored stiff testing Win 7 if it weren't for helping out in the forum- everything just works - for me at least... So judging by your reaction, you've got the 7100 build installed. Very cool. Now you said "check two boxes in 'navigator pane'." Would thesecond box in that pane read "Automatically expand to current folder"?? If so, and you've got no problems, then it would seem that we've got proof of the a major bug being squashed in the RC! If you checked the that box in build 7000, it would cause Explorer to go nuts and not be responsive. On the View tab of the folder Options dialog, there's also an item in build 7000 that says "hide empty drives" that's located just below the "Hidden files and folders" items that may or may not be checked that will also contribute to empty drives being displayed or not. ""So judging by your reaction, you've got the 7100 build installed. Very cool."" Hmmm what can I say here - "nope, 7237?" heehee. yes, 7100 "" Would thesecond box in that pane read "Automatically expand to current folder"??"" yep, that's the one. ""then it would seem that we've got proof of the a major bug being squashed in the RC! If you checked the that box in build 7000, it would cause Explorer to go nuts and not be responsive. "" dunno - never tried that in 7000 as it always, as I recall, showed all of it without me checking any boxes. ""there's also an item in build 7000 that says "hide empty drives" that's located just below the "Hidden files and folders" items that may or may not be checked that will also contribute to empty drives being displayed or not."" I had un-checked that (7100) in Control Panel / folder Options / View : "Hide empty drives" long before (a day) I discovered that floppy and opticals weren't showing. The above fixed that. Gee, and there was a bug in 7000 and I never knew it! LOL yep! all is coolness, and the shadow is now following! heehee and more clever than the average slug. I would enjoy helping out on the forum, but I quickly tired of "egads" trashing every thread I looked at, so I just went elsewhere. Kris

"So judging by your reaction, you've got the 7100 build installed. Very cool."" Hmmm what can I say here - "nope, 7237!" heehee."" Would thesecond box in that pane read "Automatically expand to current folder"??"" yep, that's the one.""then it would seem that we've got proof of the a major bug being squashed in the RC! If you checked the that box in build 7000, it would cause Explorer to go nuts and not be responsive. "" dunno - never tried that in 7000 as it always, as I recall, showed all of it without me checking any boxes.""there's also an item in build 7000 that says "hide empty drives" that's located just below the "Hidden files and folders" items that may or may not be checked that will also contribute to empty drives being displayed or not."" I had un-checked that (7100) in Control Panel / folder Options / View : "Hide empty drives" long before (a day) I discovered that floppy and opticals weren't showing. The above fixed that.Gee, and there was a bug in 7000 and I never knew it! LOLyep! all is coolness, and the shadow is now following! heeheeI would enjoy helping out on the forum, but I quickly tired of "egads" trashing every thread I looked at, so I just went elsewhere. Kris Kris - Very cool... Way back in the "stone age" era of XP (and prior), when you had Windows Explorer open and you drilled down into a folder on the right hand pane, the left hand pane would follow along and show you where you were. Since Vista, there's been a move to hide that behavior - hence that check box. In the 7000 build (not sure about Vista), if you checked that, Explorer would go into a highly unresponsive state. I can't seem to find the original thread... I believe it was from sometime in January or early February... Ah well... At least it's fixed.

You are deliberately hijacking this thread (steering it off-topic) with a discussion about floppies, drives, etc.The submitted topic is: at what point will this become a 7100 RC forum?Why do you want tosuppress my inquiry about thedefinition of leaked versions? Steering it off topic? I merely said in my first post on this thread that the only two valid builds we are allowed to discuss were 7000 and 7100. Since when is clarifying a previously stated official position going off topic? Beyond that, the original question has LONG been answered. The OP, KrisM77, had an additional follow up question. To wit I answered HIS inquiry. Since it is HIS thread, gee, I would guess he's got a right (within limits) to do as he pleases with it. As far as your needing a definition of a leaked version... Dude.. You've been around these forums for long enough. You've no doubt seenthe moderatorslock threads where people were asking questions regarding builds other than 7000. There's a sticky in the forum listings that covers what's authorized and what's not. If you're STILL too daft to figure it out, then I'm sorry but there's not much I can do to help you out. For what it's worth, I'm not going to play your game any more. This discussion is over. Repeating yourself will not get me to respond any further.

<snip> Kris - Very cool... Way back in the "stone age" era of XP (and prior), when you had Windows Explorer open and you drilled down into a folder on the right hand pane, the left hand pane would follow along and show you where you were. Since Vista, there's been a move to hide that behavior - hence that check box. In the 7000 build (not sure about Vista), if you checked that, Explorer would go into a highly unresponsive state. I can't seem to find the original thread... I believe it was from sometime in January or early February... Ah well... At least it's fixed. Wolfie, I had an answer all typed out for this one, but then got sidetracked on posting about an error on a right click of the OpenOffice exe. And lost it! Anyway! Way back... LOL I think XP inherited it from 3.11 as I think it's been pretty constant since then. In 7000, with that little window, top, left in Win Explorer, we lost a lot of that info (showing us where we were), but by the time it got up to 7022 or such, it was looking pretty good, and the way it is, now, in 7100RC, it shows you the chain, with nifty little down arrows to help you move around MUCH more easily than 7000. Nice. Easy! Damn near mindless! Love it! I've worked with about everything from 3.11 to present, except the server builds. including bless-ed ME. This one is only at 8.7gb and most of my stuff is on. I had no real problem with Vista, but I like the direction they took with 7000, and definitely now with 7100. One reason for prattling on about this is that maybe they will read this and feel a well deserved pat on the back for a job well done.Kris

Kris - ACK! HATE when that happens... If I recall correctly that behavior goes back probably back toWindows 3.0.. Can't say for sure, but it may have been around in Windows 1.x or 2.x - I couldn't tell for sure as I only got into Windows with 3.0. I'veworked with everythingelse since -except for NT 3.5x. I'll be looking forward to checkin' it out on the 5th... I'll 2nd the motion to give the programmers a big pat on the back. The beta is pretty darn impressive and if the reports I've been reading are anything, the RC is even more impressive.

Dernsnec,I have a better idea. If you have questions on how we do business here at Microsoft or our business practices, feel free to drop me a line directly. Both myself and several members of my team would love to chat with you.

di Saronno on ice, its nice. derosnec on ice, lets wish. Doc

This became a Windows 7 RC (Build 7100) forum at the time it was available to TechNet Plus and MSDN subscribers (on April 30, 2009), as well as managed customers on Connect. However we are not going to remove Windows 7 Beta posts, as they are largely still relevant.FYI...I have locked this thread due to some of the off-topic posts.Windows Client IT Pro Audience Manager for Web Forums