Windows 7 bugs

[Kronir]

Only problem I have is when in Windows 7 is that it doesn't recognize my Vista partition; likely has something to do with my RAID0 config. I didn't install a RAID driver during install because it recognized both partitions then, and I wasn't sure if my Vista64 driver would work. I might reinstall and see, though... (I always loaded up the RAID driver during Vista's install despite it recognizing all my partitions just fine)...

Other than that, and a few app freezes, Windows 7 works pretty darn good in the limited time I spent with it.

Edit: I saw the driver-letter fix above; I'll try that first. :)

[9UnknownMen]

Yeah I had quirky problems with the pre-release drivers for y 7400 as well. Intermittent flickering and I couldn't figure it out. I just rolled back to the stable OEM drivers I had(forceware 174.xx). I benchmarked my system under both drivers and there was no difference so I didn't mind.

[SiegWarheit]

I'll ask again, is it possible to install Adobe CS4 on this new release, or CS3?

[Kronir]

In response to my last post, assigning a driver letter to my Vista fixed my issue. :D

But now, after running the Windows Index score, my hard drives got a 2.9! :blink: I wonder if its related to missing SM Bus drivers... Anyone know what Intel drivers I need to install? I need the ones for whatever chipset Abit's IP-35 Pro mobo uses... :(

Edited January 10, 2009 by 2Cold Scorpio

[wguimb]

I don't know if anyone else has reported this....

In Windows 7 Beta 1 x64, when I map a network drive and enter a userid and password, even though I check the remember password box, it does not remember the password after I re-boot. Weird?

[wguimb]

In response to my last post, assigning a driver letter to my Vista fixed my issue. :D

But now, after running the Windows Index score, my hard drives got a 2.9! :blink: I wonder if its related to missing SM Bus drivers... Anyone know what Intel drivers I need to install? I need the ones for whatever chipset Abit's IP-35 Pro mobo uses... :(

Nice system you got there. You need the Intel ICH9R Southbridge drivers. Go to Intel Support and download the Vista drivers.

[Xerxes]

I've noticed a few things, I dunno if they were mentioned before but I can't be bothered reading 9 pages of posts to find out :p These might not be bugs and actually just be caused by my machine (I dual booted 7 with Vista on my old Athlon 64 system and have it as a virtual machine on my main machine - both 64-bit). I'll mention them anyway, here goes:

I noticed after I installed 7 on my old system and booted it up, you get the cool "Starting Windows" boot screen we all know and love. However, if then I decide to load into Vista for whatever reason and then load 7 at a later time, it looses the "Starting Windows" boot screen and just has the Vista one :/ only way to get the 7 one back is to do a repair install with the 7 install DVD. Not sure if that is a quirk with dual booting Vista and 7 or whether my machine is being dodgy again? (this happens everytime I run Vista on that machine)

The other thing I noticed for me at least, live previews, well arn't live (like they are in Vista)...is there an option to turn them on somewhere? or they suppose to be on by default? anyone know?

That will do for now, haven't been using it long. I have to say this Win7 is definetly quite impressive (Y) :happy:

EDIT: The live preview seems to work for some times and not for others I've noticed....

Edited January 10, 2009 by Xerxes

[Ran Sagy]

Here's another possible bug - This machine has an SB Audigy Value. Windows 7 installed drivers for those automatically, But it still thinks there's no audio device in the system - I can't enable the Volume tray icon. I can play audio just fine, And sound in games works fine too, But no icon. Sound control panel has Speakers and Digital Output, Speakers set to default. Weird.

[Steeley]

The only thing I've noticed is when I do a restart a screen comes up listing all the programs I have open. In Vista on such a screen you'd have to close the application to continue the restart but in 7 it shuts them down automatically. It's almost as if the system isn't giving itself enough time to shut down apps before heading off to restart.

[Kronir]

Nice system you got there. You need the Intel ICH9R Southbridge drivers. Go to Intel Support and download the Vista drivers.

For the life of me, I can't find the proper drivers on Intel's site. I think my chipset is P35/ICH9R, but I don't see it mentioned in their support anywhere. :(

[Joni_78]

For the life of me, I can't find the proper drivers on Intel's site. I think my chipset is P35/ICH9R, but I don't see it mentioned in their support anywhere. :(

I also have Abit IP-35. My Sata II drives scored 5.5 with default W7 drivers, only installed SMbus driver manually from device manager (extract drivers and point to that folder from device manager.

IP35 Chipset Drivers

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/16026/a08/infinst_autol.zip

[Kronir]

I also have Abit IP-35. My Sata II drives scored 5.5 with default W7 drivers, only installed SMbus driver manually from device manager (extract drivers and point to that folder from device manager.

IP35 Chipset Drivers

http://downloadmirror.intel.com/16026/a08/infinst_autol.zip

Thanks; I was trying to use an installer version to no avail. Even then, I had to use the download you provided in Safe Mode. ^_^

This is odd, though: I re-ran the Windows Experience Index, and *still* have a 2.9! I had a much, much higher score in Vista....I would think my two 7200rpm hard drives in RAID0 mode would at least rate a little higher, given everything else on my rig rates 5.9 or higher in W7. Any ideas? I was going to try benchmarking some games, but it might be futile if my I/O speeds are still shot... :/

Oh, one other thing: I noticed it installed a driver for my Geforce 8800GT, but it seems to be an older version, despite being driver model 1.1 (I think its a 179-series driver). Do the newer Vista 64-bit drivers like 180.48 or 181.20 drivers work? Also, what drivers & software should I be using for my Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer sound card? Can I use my old Creative Vista install disk to get the base software and such, then use the Creative Updater?

Edited January 10, 2009 by 2Cold Scorpio

[giantpotato]

I have a problem with Windows Media Player 12. Whenever I try to play an avi with divx video and mp3 audio mfpmp.exe eats up a huge 20-50% of my cpu, making some videos play very choppy.

I tried different media formats and it looks like mfpmp.exe only starts when playing mp3 files or videos with mp3 audio. Apparently, mfpmp.exe is used for protecting DRM'd wmv files, there's no reason it should be starting when playing mp3's. is anybody else having this problem, or know of a solution?

[theyarecomingforyou]

This is odd, though: I re-ran the Windows Experience Index, and *still* have a 2.9! I had a much, much higher score in Vista....I would think my two 7200rpm hard drives in RAID0 mode would at least rate a little higher, given everything else on my rig rates 5.9 or higher in W7. Any ideas? I was going to try benchmarking some games, but it might be futile if my I/O speeds are still shot... :/

Well, the rating system was changed for Win7. Random access speed is now a factor and the results from the benchmark are kept in a file (I can't remember the location). Having two drives in RAID0 wouldn't be any benefit to the score if the random access speed of one or both isn't up to snuff, despite performance otherwise being very good. Perhaps it's simply that your RAID drivers aren't very good.

[Spartan Erik]

I'm trying to install build 7000 on an OS-less machine. Everything works well in the installation until during the unpacking process I get this pop up error message:

"Windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are available and restart in the installation. Error code: 0x8007045D"

Any help? I've tried this twice and have received the same error

[nemo81]

Installed W7 flawlessly on my laptop (Dell XPS M1330) earlier today.

Fiddled around abit with it, installed Live Essentials, winrar, synaptic touchpad drivers (to get scrollbars to work), installed firefox, installed flash, installed adobe acrobat reader, installed mirc, installed nonamescript.

Fired up Live Messenger and signed in without problems.

Fired up iexplorer, ran through the "meet n greet" screen where i configured it, surfed around abit then shut it down for a restart.

Restarted computer and logged back into windows.

Messenger wont sign in, claims that ports are closed (they arent..)

iExplorer wont show any sites, tells me there is something wrong with the connection to internet.

It runs the wizard to detect problems with the Network settings, it cant find any.

I can connect to the internet just fine with mIRC and firefox.

Tried disabling windows firewall without any luck.

Also went through various solutions via Live Messenger help without any luck.

Anyone experienced something similar? I can restore to an earlier state , and probably will. This is just puzzling me abit.. :)

[episode]

I don't know if anyone else has reported this....

In Windows 7 Beta 1 x64, when I map a network drive and enter a userid and password, even though I check the remember password box, it does not remember the password after I re-boot. Weird?

Hasn't worked for that for a long time ... since XP.

You need to explicitly tell it to remember it using a DOS prompt and net use

[Chaks]

Installed Songbird and its weird that Aero Shake does not work with Songbird. And even the text are not clear. Anybody facing the same issue?

[tmaxxtigger]

CS3 problem: Selected about 20 files in explorer. Tried to drag them to CS3 which was open, however the mouse shows not allowed, so I had to use the open in CS3 and select the files from there. This worked a few times, then CS3 hung after opening the first image. Also had another application Blurb (for making books) hang while opening about 20 files.

[Thirtythree]

Not really a bug but a bad default setting. Intel Extreme Graphics 915GM for Dell Latitude D610, the drivers that install have the display Power Settings turned on (Intel Display Power Saving Technology) and set to Maximum Battery. When you unplug the AC adapter your screen goes nearly white and you cannot see anything. The fix was to disable the Intel DPST setting. After that you can unplug your AC adapter and not lose your display. I have reported this to Microsoft as well.

[TDQuiksilver]

I'm amazed at how few issues I've run into on my C2D Toshiba notebook. Runs considerably smoother than Vista SP1. I'm lovin' this so far... bring on the updates!

[Kronir]

Well, the rating system was changed for Win7. Random access speed is now a factor and the results from the benchmark are kept in a file (I can't remember the location). Having two drives in RAID0 wouldn't be any benefit to the score if the random access speed of one or both isn't up to snuff, despite performance otherwise being very good. Perhaps it's simply that your RAID drivers aren't very good.

Possibly; its what I was thinking. I wonder which driver I need, whether its the Intel one or the JMicron one...

[Chaks]

Windows 7 is not picking up my wireless connection after Sleep. To make it worse, it does not even list my wireless network. Of course a restart fixes it! :blush:

[jakem1]

I've noticed a few bugs:

1) Open WMP and explorer and drag them to the opposite sides of the screen to display them side by side. While explorer (and all other apps I tried this with) only takes up 50% of the screen WMP takes up about 60% and overlaps the explorer window.

2) Outlook 2007 can't be setup to connect to Exchange over HTTP via RPC. It just keeps asking you to login but never actually lets you in.

3) Taskbar thumbnails and Windows Peek appear too slowly.

[theyarecomingforyou]

1) Open WMP and explorer and drag them to the opposite sides of the screen to display them side by side. While explorer (and all other apps I tried this with) only takes up 50% of the screen WMP takes up about 60% and overlaps the explorer window.

Can't confirm that here. It does matter whether I snap WMP or Explorer first they both only take up 50% of the screen. Were you running any media that could have had an impact (an usual codec, etc)?

However, I have a video that will cause WMP to flick rapidly before playing - very irritating. I have no idea why it happens.