Post Your Windows 7 Beta Experiences

Dyre Straits · January 28th, 2009, 09:07 AM

I've been so impressed with W7 Preview so far, it's almost the only OS I'm using. If this keeps up, I'll definitely be one of the first in line to grab the official release.

SpectatorX · January 28th, 2009, 11:31 AM

I've moved my operating system from crappy and loud as hell seagate ST3320620AS (SATA II) to my 5 years old Samsung SP1213C (SATA "I").

My scores with samsung hdd:

Processor: 5,5
Memory (RAM): 5,5
Graphics (Aero): 7.9
Gaming Graphics: 6,2
Primary Hard Disk: 5,3

Seagate get 3,0. I will never more buy any f"""ing seagate crap! Especially when my ST3250310AS stopped workin few moths ago, it was my main hdd where i had a lots of important data and operating system, but thankfully with God's and little bit ubuntu's help i backuped whole data from this crap to hdd what i bought when i started to hear clickings from shitgate. It almost died when i was backuping data. Both shitgates are serie 7200.10.

Chaos · January 28th, 2009, 05:23 PM

I have had good luck with the first Beta, I hope things keep improving as it approaches release

zme-ul · January 28th, 2009, 06:00 PM

SpectatorX, there's a know issue with W7 and some HDDs
W7 think they're SSDs and act weird, disable write caching on affected HDD
just try it

now my issue:
from last saturday my IE8 is stopped rendering webpages, I can browse only 3 webpages
I looked on MS TechNet forums and found a lot of ppl with same issue that just started with out reason, some found a workaround by disabling "auto detect settings" in IE lan settings tab
but ... there is more to this for me; they can use other browser like FF or Opera, I can't, I'm bound to the same 3 webpages but I'm able to ping any domain and use MSN and YM

here are some details: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...4eb7532#page:3

until I find a fix I'm staying clear of W7

SpectatorX · January 28th, 2009, 06:27 PM

This my issue is os-independent, it is becouse these disks are shitgates.

IModAmd · January 28th, 2009, 08:43 PM

Non-Working RAID Array lolll

Dyre Straits · January 29th, 2009, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zme-ul

SpectatorX, there's a know issue with W7 and some HDDs
W7 think they're SSDs and act weird, disable write caching on affected HDD
just try it

now my issue:
from last saturday my IE8 is stopped rendering webpages, I can browse only 3 webpages
I looked on MS TechNet forums and found a lot of ppl with same issue that just started with out reason, some found a workaround by disabling "auto detect settings" in IE lan settings tab
but ... there is more to this for me; they can use other browser like FF or Opera, I can't, I'm bound to the same 3 webpages but I'm able to ping any domain and use MSN and YM

here are some details: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...4eb7532#page:3

until I find a fix I'm staying clear of W7

That's an interesting note. But, so far I've not been affected by this. I have multiple HDDs, DVD drives, and USB devices connected. All are working fine......so far.

These are a combination of SATA, IDE, and USB connected.

HDD Brands I'm using:

WDD; Samsung, Maxtor, Hitachi

DVD Brand: Samsung

Chaos · January 31st, 2009, 05:56 PM

I was checking to see how much space was being used and what drives it was located on but I got no drives showing up in the windows to make adjustments. Any suggestions

Dyre Straits · February 1st, 2009, 08:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chaos

I was checking to see how much space was being used and what drives it was located on but I got no drives showing up in the windows to make adjustments. Any suggestions

I've been away at work all day.

Have you tried the Disk Manager yet? And, do the drives show up in Device Manager?

For my own part, I haven't had any issues with drives showing up at all.

zme-ul · February 1st, 2009, 12:07 PM

on my machine virtual memory is set to auto manage (by default)