Nothing works like it used to.
I can't attach shit in gmail
Photobucket hangs everytime I try and upload anything to it
Stewie LIES!
I have a few programs that put up quite a fuss in windows 7 but I can attach to gmail emails and photofukit works for me. [roll] I've also got a lovely BSoD that pops up randomly maybe once a week.
Quote from: erkishhorde on January 01, 2010, 01:32:06 PM
<snip> I've also got a lovely BSoD that pops up randomly maybe once a week.
That's awesome.... ???
yeah, too many BSoDs is not enough
BSoD = blue screen of death. Fun fun! [roll]
i rarely see the bsod. did you do an upgrade or is this a fresh install?
Quote from: erkishhorde on January 01, 2010, 02:43:54 PM
BSoD = blue screen of death. Fun fun! [roll]
I'm aware of that.
2 machines and almost zero problems so far.
mitt
Quote from: He Man on January 01, 2010, 03:04:09 PM
i rarely see the bsod. did you do an upgrade or is this a fresh install?
I'm using the student 64bit upgrade they had for $30. Dang thing wouldn't let me d/l the ISO that I needed at first so I had to format, install XP Pro 64bit (had been running xp32bit), and then do the "upgrade".
To be fair the laptop I got that came with 7 Home is working fine and doesn't have as many problems as my desktop. I think it comes with 7 64bit Home but I could be wrong.
If you want a real easy fix, you could always just buy a Mac. That's what I did. Now I get to sit back and watch everyone else complain about the inoperability of their computers.., It's fun.
[popcorn]
Quote from: Adamm3406 on January 03, 2010, 07:10:35 AM
If you want a real easy fix, you could always just buy a Mac. That's what I did. Now I get to sit back and watch everyone else complain about the inoperability of their computers.., It's fun.
[popcorn]
Lets not go there...thats as productive as opening a thread talking about the stimulus package.
I'm not trendy enough for a mac, and as you can see I can't even get my PC to work right... [laugh]
Dunno why, is screwy all over too. I had to use the old version of gmail to upload/attach files. My wireless printer needed drivers downloaded, so thats fixed. Photobucket doesn't hang, it just doesn't show the progress bar...and since I upload a lot of pics at once I thought it was hanging up. It's workable, I just open a new tab and leave it alone till it's done.
Can't figure out why my 10k rpm hard drive (sata 3gb/s) is only ranking a 5.3. Hell, my buddy has a raid 0 array and it's only 5.5! Prolly have to upgrade to a SSD in the next few months anyway as many blurays as I'm collecting.
Quote from: TAftonomos on January 03, 2010, 08:54:09 AM
Dunno why, is screwy all over too. I had to use the old version of gmail to upload/attach files. My wireless printer needed drivers downloaded, so thats fixed. Photobucket doesn't hang, it just doesn't show the progress bar...and since I upload a lot of pics at once I thought it was hanging up. It's workable, I just open a new tab and leave it alone till it's done.
sounds like an IE issue and not a windows issue.
Quote from: TAftonomos on January 03, 2010, 08:54:09 AM
Can't figure out why my 10k rpm hard drive (sata 3gb/s) is only ranking a 5.3. Hell, my buddy has a raid 0 array and it's only 5.5! Prolly have to upgrade to a SSD in the next few months anyway as many blurays as I'm collecting.
you're collecting blue rays so you'll have to upgrade to a smaller, more expensive (albeit faster) storage media? ???
Quote from: He Man on January 03, 2010, 07:37:33 AM
Lets not go there...thats as productive as opening a thread talking about the stimulus package.
+1
While we're at it we can discuss Coke vs. Pepsi, M-16 vs. AK-47, Ford vs. Chevy, punk vs. metal, and Ginger vs. Mary Ann...
Myself, I'm still running XP Pro, and dual-booting into Ubuntu when I feel the urge.
But I put Windows 7 on both the new computers I built for my parents, and aside from them not knowing how to do things because they don't work like they did on XP, they've had no problems. No BSoD's or other failures that I've been made aware of. Both machines are clean installs on fresh drives.
Awesome thread!
I like Pepsi
Quote from: zarn02 on January 03, 2010, 09:18:53 AM
No BSoD's or other failures that I've been made aware of. Both machines are clean installs on fresh drives.
I'm hearing that a lot. 7 doesn't like to play well with leftovers and prefers to start from scratch.
Quote from: erkishhorde on January 03, 2010, 12:24:06 PM
I'm hearing that a lot. 7 doesn't like to play well with leftovers and prefers to start from scratch.
most operating systems are that way.
there's more than one reason to start fresh.
by default, xp uses a 32k partition offset which can cause "significant" drive performance issues*. the old "tweak" used to be creating the partition manually with a 64k offset prior to installation.
vista/7/2008 use a 1024k offset and are "perfectly" aligned by default
*due to read/writes that traverse a sector boundary resulting in a double-read or double-write (one per sector).
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most operating systems are that way.
there's more than one reason to start fresh.
by default, xp uses a 32k partition offset which can cause "significant" drive performance issues*. the old "tweak" used to be creating the partition manually with a 64k offset prior to installation.
vista/7/2008 use a 1024k offset and are "perfectly" aligned by default
*due to read/writes that traverse a sector boundary resulting in a double-read or double-write (one per sector).
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I'm sure you can fix the faulty bbc code in my post too. [evil]
Damnit...
what don't you know? [laugh] [laugh] [laugh][bow_down]