Windows 7 beta - 9th January

Installed this on my laptop a few days ago, and its performing a lot better than Vista did on the same system. However, i have come across a couple of issues:

It refuses to detect my wireless network. It can find other wireless networks in teh area fine, however, refuses to find my own. When i click to refresh, it does nothing....

Skype doesn't work. It installed as normal, but when you run it and try to login, it disappears almost immediately as if it's been closed down.
 
daztrouk said:
Installed this on my laptop a few days ago, and its performing a lot better than Vista did on the same system. However, i have come across a couple of issues:

It refuses to detect my wireless network. It can find other wireless networks in teh area fine, however, refuses to find my own. When i click to refresh, it does nothing....

Skype doesn't work. It installed as normal, but when you run it and try to login, it disappears almost immediately as if it's been closed down.
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Can't help you with everything but in regards to the Skype, are you using the 4.0 Beta version or the 3.8 for Windows? Reason I'm asking is I had problem with the 3.8 version also, but once I switched to the Beta version its been working just fine for me on Windows 7 32bit.. Here is the link to the 4.0 Beta version.. Linky

Hope that will help for you.. otherwise I don't have any suggestions! :p
 
daztrouk said:
Installed this on my laptop a few days ago, and its performing a lot better than Vista did on the same system. However, i have come across a couple of issues:

It refuses to detect my wireless network. It can find other wireless networks in teh area fine, however, refuses to find my own. When i click to refresh, it does nothing....

Skype doesn't work. It installed as normal, but when you run it and try to login, it disappears almost immediately as if it's been closed down.
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vista compatibility mode ?
 
I put the 64bit version on my laptop to play with. really impressed with it so far. runs so much quicker than vista, and loads faster as well.

I didnt have to install a single driver which is pretty impressive I thought.

The only issue I have with it is I cant get my works outlook exchange mail to work. I dont know if its a network setting or what but it just wont connect to the exchange server. I even tried putting outlook 2003 on and using the .prf file that auto sets everything up and I know works with XP and Vista but still nothing. I spent an hour on the phone to fasthosts and even he couldnt fathem it out, all the settigns are correct but it just doesnt work.
 
Well they messed about with Bluetooth in Win7 as I cannot get my Belkin USB Bluetooth to work at all, works fine in Vista 64 :( That’s the only issue I’m having other than that its being a good experience :)
 
TheSwede said:
Can't help you with everything but in regards to the Skype, are you using the 4.0 Beta version or the 3.8 for Windows? Reason I'm asking is I had problem with the 3.8 version also, but once I switched to the Beta version its been working just fine for me on Windows 7 32bit.. Here is the link to the 4.0 Beta version.. Linky

Hope that will help for you.. otherwise I don't have any suggestions! :p
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didn't know about a beta version, so will try that tonight, cheers.
 
hi have been having problem's installing stalker clear sky on win7 anyone else have problems installing ?
have tried running as admin,tried compatibilty mode, latest drivers, etc but get same fault
i:e "please insert original cd" everytime and yes it is retail game and the cd is in the drive.read that the stalker has starforce protection or similar which might cause this? is there a work around or no cd patch i could use?

zia
 
Buckster said:
I have exactly the same problem :(

Audigy 4 Pro - in games mainly - but in windows desktop too - loose sound after 5 mins - I'm sure its a driver problem

W7 64 bit edition -same as you

I'm reverting to on-board until the driver is sorted
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Buckster, I think I may have solved the audio distortion/dropping issues expereincied with old Audigy cards on W7.

Daniel K has released an Audigy driver for W7 which adds support for:

- Audigy
- Audigy 2
- Audigy 2 ZS
- Audigy 4

Basically any sb card based on Emu10kx DSP chip

But the driver alone didnt solve the problem, I found the trick was to use a little executable program called ctzapxx.exe which completely removes all the old windows and creative driver file fragments and reg entries.

So if you fancy giving it a go Ive uploaded the files.....

I extracted the ctzapxx.exe file from an audigy driver support pack for vista 64 (Daniels release dont have it for some reason) and upped it here....

http://rapidshare.com/files/193351347/amd64.rar

And here’s the drive release by Daniel K....

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2MUYLHL8

This bit I think is critical, when that little audio driver removal tool asks to reboot your pc make sure you are ready to prevent windows from automatically reinstalling its crap audio driver again after it reboots, otherwise your back to square one again.

When you know you sound card has no drivers installed run that audigy support pack by Daniel K which ive upped, and once its installed give it a few restarts to make sure it has definitely settled.

As it stands Ive been testing since yesterday critically listening to hours of music, with a good few hours racing around on gtr evo offline (online doesnt seem to like w7 :() and shooting people in left 4 dead and not at any point did the audio distort let alone drop out as it did before with the old drivers :cool:

Hope this helps a few people out with there Audigys :)

Cheers
 
anyone manage to get 4 on demand running on this ? im pretty sure it will run but the bloomin 4od website wont let me download it. it says im not running windows , im not running ie5.5+ , ive not got media player

all lies...
 
finally got the net working on mine, with a new linksys WiFi adaptor :D

Does win7 support dual monitors? Can you have 2 differant images on each montior, at differant res? If not will have to get ultramon.
 
Jimmy1983 said:
finally got the net working on mine, with a new linksys WiFi adaptor :D

Does win7 support dual monitors? Can you have 2 differant images on each montior, at differant res? If not will have to get ultramon.
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It's been able to manage different resolutions since xp. Windows7 also has shortcuts such as windows keys+shift+arrow(left or right) to move the window to the other monitor which seems pretty sweet, i personally don't use two monitors as one 24" does me fine but im sure windows7 will suit your needs fine
 
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I've been using this as my main OS for a while now. Dual booting with Vista.

I've only had a couple of issues...

- Gadgets, Installed one Gadget rebooted it has never worked again. I can't even get into the Gadgets options.

- Trouble saving files within many different programs. It normally pops up with permission problems, I am local Admin. I edit the file name, either make it longer or change the name of the file and it saves no problems.

Any one else had these?
 
markyb said:
I've been using this as my main OS for a while now. Dual booting with Vista.

I've only had a couple of issues...

- Gadgets, Installed one Gadget rebooted it has never worked again. I can't even get into the Gadgets options.

- Trouble saving files within many different programs. It normally pops up with permission problems, I am local Admin. I edit the file name, either make it longer or change the name of the file and it saves no problems.

Any one else had these?
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Far as i know Gadgets don't work if UAC is disabled.
 
Mattey1 said:
Far as i know Gadgets don't work if UAC is disabled.
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Whats the reasoning behind this? Are gadets considered risk? Its not much of an issue however, as in Vista UAC was the first thing to turn off, but the inmprovements in W7 mean I hardly ever see it so Ive left it on.
 
sharpygsxr said:
has anyone tried Test Drive unlimited on windows 7, i cant get it to install even with any of the compatability modes
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works absolutely fine here, in fact better than on either Vista or XP as the micro stutter that I've always suffered seems to have disappeared. Didn't use any compatibility modes or anything, just stuck the disc in, ran it, played it.........:confused:
 
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