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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: flash on January 16, 2009, 07:47:54 am

Title: Windows 7
Post by: flash on January 16, 2009, 07:47:54 am

Here is my review of Windows 7 (build 7000)

 :P

There - that is it!

No sidebar - I used this a lot for ebay :(

Title: Re: Windows 7
Post by: techno_wiz_oz on January 19, 2009, 05:29:33 pm

Can you not force sidebar.exe to run from task manager and then make it auto load?

The machine I tried it on insisted on Standard VGA driver being best (ATI 9000 Mobile) and yet Vista was quite happy to accept the old Dell XP driver...hmmmm not good as Std VGA is a bit erm 'crap' to put it politely and refusing old XP drivers seeing as Win7 is just Vista SP3 is a money making idea not a technical difficulty.

I think it looks rubbish anyway haha

Title: Re: Windows 7
Post by: flash on June 27, 2009, 10:53:25 pm

Windows 7 rc 1 is worth a play with!!

Lots of things work much better now and it is a lot faster than Vista. Also, DevKitPro works a treat this time... A major bonus!!

Title: Re: Windows 7
Post by: headkaze on June 28, 2009, 05:09:22 am

What are the specs of the PC your running it on?

Also can you see if it can run OSX through VMWare on it okay?

Title: Re: Windows 7
Post by: flash on June 28, 2009, 10:07:50 am

Core 2 duo with 2 gig ddr3

I will try VMware later and let you know if it works ok? The only problem i have had with VMware is getting the resolution higher, could not work out how to do that?

I will have another play!