Chris123NT Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 A hidden partition, yeesh, not sure how I feel about that.. :/ Hidden partition is 200 MB and holds anything and everything relating to the boot loader. This is kinda nice because it reduces the risk of some idiot deleting their boot loader then blaming MS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMELTN Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 and hopefully the problem with it getting corrupt :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Hiroshi- Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Hidden partition is 200 MB and holds anything and everything relating to the boot loader. This is kinda nice because it reduces the risk of some idiot deleting their boot loader then blaming MS. Oh nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 200MB for a boot loader? come on! :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George P Global Moderator Posted November 6, 2008 Global Moderator Share Posted November 6, 2008 200MB for a boot loader? come on! :rolleyes: This thing has been talked about already in another thread. It's got the boot info AND all the recovery console/tools so you can boot into that and get Win7 working again if you have any problems. In fact if Win7 can't boot the first time, the next time it'll go to this 200MB partition and give you recovery tools to fix the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tN0 Posted November 6, 2008 Author Share Posted November 6, 2008 Next cool thing I just discovered: At the new Defragment dialog you can select multiple drives (like you can select multiple files in Explorer with SHIFT or CTRL)! Very nice and much easier than how it works on Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted November 6, 2008 Veteran Share Posted November 6, 2008 Google chrome seems that is not working?! anyone can confirm that? Posting from Google Chrome in Windows 7... it works. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BajiRav Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 I have just finished installing this inside a VM (1vCPU and 1GB RAM) and this thing flies. :cool: Haven't seen the new Display settings panel anywhere, so here it is, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambroos Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 So far I'm liking 7. One of my favorite things so far is when I installed it, it automatically edited the bootloader to include both vista and windows 7 since I'm dual booting. Pretty nice... As long as you install a newer version of Windows on top of any older version(s) it always does that and has always done that. Vista also adds my XP entries for example. This thing has been talked about already in another thread. It's got the boot info AND all the recovery console/tools so you can boot into that and get Win7 working again if you have any problems.In fact if Win7 can't boot the first time, the next time it'll go to this 200MB partition and give you recovery tools to fix the problem. For me, it hasn't made the 200mb partition, but instead has just put a Recovery folder on my Win7 disk, that also contains the bootloader. I wonder what happens if I format that disk... Will that be the end of my bootloader? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted November 6, 2008 Veteran Share Posted November 6, 2008 I have just finished installing this inside a VM (1vCPU and 1GB RAM) and this thing flies. :cool: Haven't seen the new Display settings panel anywhere, so here it is, You also get options to flip your screen. :) Previously you'd have to use the Forceware CP or the Catalyst Control Center to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMELTN Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 yeah I like those options for the Display now.. Although I was looking around forever to find the screensaver settings etc, then realized DUH they are right at the bottom!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinN206 Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 You also get options to flip your screen. :) Previously you'd have to use the Forceware CP or the Catalyst Control Center to do this. I think they should mark or highlight the native resolution for the LCD monitor as recommended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMELTN Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 I think they should mark or highlight the native resolution for the LCD monitor as recommended. eww good point.. (Y) to that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToneKnee Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Erm, what about Dual Screens? Is there a TaskBar on the second screen now or is that something I'd have to get Ultramon to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambroos Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 I think they should mark or highlight the native resolution for the LCD monitor as recommended. It does do that for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolix Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 I somehow feel Windows Vista was the pre-pre-beta version of Windows 7. Windows 7 is everything that Vista should have been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMELTN Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 I somehow feel Windows Vista was the pre-pre-beta version of Windows 7. Windows 7 is everything that Vista should have been. Well I was watching some videos on Channel9 that basically that's what the MS guys were saying.. Windows Vista laid the ground work for everything that 7 is doing. So instead of rushing Vista out, they should have just waited to make it what 7 is looking like its going to be.. Although, as most of you remember, Longhorn looked GREAT and had a TON of features that never even made it to Vista, so it could be they want to add them in, to see if they work, and how stable they are, then take them back out for the next release.. We don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToneKnee Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Well I was watching some videos on Channel9 that basically that's what the MS guys were saying.. Windows Vista laid the ground work for everything that 7 is doing. So instead of rushing Vista out, they should have just waited to make it what 7 is looking like its going to be.. Although, as most of you remember, Longhorn looked GREAT and had a TON of features that never even made it to Vista, so it could be they want to add them in, to see if they work, and how stable they are, then take them back out for the next release.. We don't know. Microsoft couldn't afford another blunder like Longhorn was. They won't be resetting the codebase which t hey did with Longhorn what restarted the development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted November 7, 2008 Veteran Share Posted November 7, 2008 There are more libraries: Communications and Contacts. Both can be enabled by showing their respective Start Menu links. Even after doing this Contacts won't show up in your list of libraries however. You'll have to un-hide the file %USERPROFILE%\Libraries\Contacts.library-ms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 I somehow feel Windows Vista was the pre-pre-beta version of Windows 7. Windows 7 is everything that Vista should have been. And I somehow feel Windows 95 was the pre-pre-beta version of Windows 98, which was the pre-pre-beta version of Windows ME, which was just a release candidate of Windows 2000, which was a beta release of Windows XP... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirkburn Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 I think they should mark or highlight the native resolution for the LCD monitor as recommended. Wouldn't that just be the biggest number in the list... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mail Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 New Zune-esque Windows Media Centre interface. Can't actually test out the TV functions because Win7 doesn't want to recognize the Tv card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azz0r_wugg Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Have all the pop out options (display options) been put into Explorer now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGriggs Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 And I somehow feel Windows 95 was the pre-pre-beta version of Windows 98, which was the pre-pre-beta version of Windows ME, which was just a release candidate of Windows 2000, which was a beta release of Windows XP... Why be faseeshus, ME and 2000 sucked, 98 was good, 95 was alright... XP was epic, imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Veteran Posted November 8, 2008 Veteran Share Posted November 8, 2008 New Zune-esque Windows Media Centre interface. Can't actually test out the TV functions because Win7 doesn't want to recognize the Tv card. Do you have a screenshot of this new interface please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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