Windows 7 hits RC stage Build 7100

The ability of moving the mouse from one window to another while playing a game depends if the game supports running in "windowed mode" or not.
 
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PiKe said:
Well I explicitly stated full screen.
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Er, surely this isn't possible (or indeed desired)? When I play Empire: Total War I have to disable my second monitor because the mouse ends up on it when trying to pan the camera around - it's a nightmare and completely unplayable with the second monitor.
 
Build 7232 64bit has a new desktop wall paper and the fish desktop wallpaper has gone

It is a lot faster then other builds I have tried, once I updated the Intel chipset drivers
in win7 they was all 2006 now they are 2008-2009

All in all a good build RTM very soon I think.
 
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Build 7260 is being leaked, its an RTM build. But may not be the final RTM build. From the 12th - 15th June there will be several RTM builds made at Microsoft. There quality will asessed and one will be chosen for the final RTM.

Either way, dont bother with builds anymore, as the final RTM will be out soon (the completion date for Win7 is the 19th).
 
File transfer speeds in Vista a joke compared to 7

I've been backing up some files to dvds in 7 then copying them back to hd to verify them - taking about 7 minutes

Last few days i have been using Vista ... Prototype kept turning off my monitor in 7 :( Anyway, I continued backing up and noticed that it took at least 15 mins to copy files back to the hd :mad:

Got my nas this morning and Vista said it was gonna take over an hour to copy across a 4gb file.... 7 said 5 mins :eek: Just need to get a gigabit switch now and ill be sorted!
 
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File transfer speeds in Vista a joke compared to 7

I've been backing up some files to dvds in 7 then copying them back to hd to verify them - taking about 7 minutes

Last few days i have been using Vista ... Prototype kept turning off my monitor in 7 :( Anyway, I continued backing up and noticed that it took at least 15 mins to copy files back to the hd :mad:

Got my nas this morning and Vista said it was gonna take over an hour to copy across a 4gb file.... 7 said 5 mins :eek: Just need to get a gigabit switch now and ill be sorted!
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Don't worry your alarm will go off in a minute and you will wake up. :D Using two versions of the same model of car should give you the same test results ergo Vista SP2 v W7
 
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This. Windows 7 seems to be more optimized (The main thing imo) and a new taskbar, but is mostly tweaks over Vista. Not worth paying money for.

But just like for owners of XP it wasn't worth paying money for Vista as an upgrade on that it's not worth it for owners of Vista to spend money on 7. XP > 7 though is a little more wortwhile, though tbh XP still runs 99% of everything out there. (Single exception being DX10+, without cracks?)

I like the look of how Windows 7 is turning out though myself, so I'll most likely go and buy it when it is released.
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See this is where I have a problem, I have got so used to vista now that it feels horrible going back to XP, in a lot of ways XP is superior to vista but I just feel that vista is better but find it hard to qualify exactly why.

Aero is brilliant, it may only look like a cosmetic change but when you really think about it it changes the way you perceive a window, I hate it when applications are not "glassed" in at least some way as glassing makes a window less intrusive and makes typically blank visually obtrusive and useless visual elements seem more part of the background and feel more invisible.

Am I ranting?

I also like the icons/layout of vista and I like it even more in 7, people look down their noses sometimes at people who say it looks better, but when you think about it it is the only real way you see what your computer is doing, if it is presented to you in a better way then it's more pleasing.

I will definitely get windows 7 for my laptop, I feel that it will be perfect on there, but for some reason vista seems more powerful... I really can't qualify that with any empirical evidence, I think maybe it's just that a lot of the tweaks make it seem nicer but maybe not really for power users.

For example (and oh god I'm off on one now) multiple windows of the same type, if you group them up in W7 they come up as those little thumbnails, which is fine when you maybe only have 2 or 3 of that type open but sometimes on my desktop I have 6 or 7 open and it takes more visual processing and physical mouse movement to move from one to the other.

Other things like the notification icons coming up in a little window rather than just staying where they were in vista it just seems anti intuitive all of your icons are arranged horizontally but then these extra ones aren't.

I don't really know if i have any kind of conclusion to this post so I'll sign off for now.
 
HELP!! I just uninstalled my nvidia drivers (185.85) to install W7 64Bit 186.18 and have 2 problems:

1. When i restart after uninstall it auto installs the winupdate nvidia drivers.

2. WAY MORE IMPORTANTLY, when i run the exe to install the drivers (tried with both 185 and 186) I get 2 error messages, one says i'm running a 32 bit installer on 64bit windows and the next says i'm running a 32Bit OS with a 64bit installer?!?!!?!

Help WTF is going on, i want to play ArmA II :(

You are running a 32 bit version of Nvidia uninstaller on a 64 bit system (Binary type I386)
Wrong version of uninstaller. Uninstaller exits now.
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Then the Nvidia splash screen opens and:

Setup detected that the operating system in use is not Windows Vista [64-bit]/Windows 7 [64-bit]. This setup program and its associated drivers are designed to run only on Windows Vista [64-bit]/Windows 7 [64-bit]. THe installation will be terminated.
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and

then the first message again.
 
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Done that, same errors :(

Tried uninstalling display driver from device mamager and now it doesnt appear in device manager after a reboot :confused:
 
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