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Can anyone confirm that rolling the mouse over the Start Menu links to your personal folders, Documents, Music, Pictures flickers the bottom part of the Start Menu when the Basic theme (no Aero) is on? If so, that is a pretty big bug that was fixed in 7022 (with the orb itself flickering).

Also, when Alt-Tab'ing, does the Alt-Tab window itself disappear while switching between previews or does it stay? The whole window goes away and just the program icons remain.

It is happening in 7048 x86 for me.

This does not seem to be happening to me.

Another issue, which isn't exclusive to this build, but has anyone found that there are lots of iexplore.exe open then there should have to be. With my IE open right now and one tab, there are 3 iexplore.exe running. Even when you close IE they are still running in the background sometimes. Only way to close them is in Task Manager.

So far, the only issue I've come across is after the first log in, "HomeGroup Listener" crashed and disabled Aero Glass. Once HomeGroup Listener restarted itself, Aero Glass re-enabled itself. I haven't run into this problem with any subsequent log off or restarts, but I let the error reporter send that information in. Memory usage has gone down ~100 MB for me (635 MB to 540 MB) since upgrading from Build 7022. Aside from the UX glitches, and the one soft crash, this seems to be a more responsive and snappy build.

What I found this far in 7048 after one day: (clean install)

- when you click on the lower border, the window maximises the height only. This is still as buggy as in 7000, as the height is not saved if you use this :pinch:

- Wei: while it didn't error out, I got different results in two areas. Cpu went from 6.8 to 6.9, and Gaming Graphics took a big nose dive from 6.9 to 6.0 :blink: (Catalyst 9.2 installed on 7000 and 7048)

- when saving themes, you can only specify a name, you can't choose where to save it anymore :(

I've had it on mine every since I started using Windows 7 since the pre-beta builds. Check your external usb flash drive or whatever you're using for errors.

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Odd because the service has been missing for me in the list. And I have tried reformatting my usb.

Gaming Graphics took a big nose dive from 6.9 to 6.0 :blink: (Catalyst 9.2 installed on 7000 and 7048)

Hopefully a bug. Did the same thing to me. Same numbers too. Hope we won't need a DX11 card for it to go up again. :/

What I found this far in 7048 after one day: (clean install)

- when you click on the lower border, the window maximises the height only. This is still as buggy as in 7000, as the height is not saved if you use this :pinch:

Um, that's not a bug. And it only happens when you *double* clock the top or bottom border.

I'm unable to get ATI Catalyst drivers to install properly from 8.12 to 9.1 (I heard 9.2 don't have windows 7 support) Ati drivers install for the video card but Catalyst Control Center is unable to recognize my HD4870x2 card or anything about it other than it's an ATI device.

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but Everytime i go to adjust the sharing settings, it forces Homegroups to activate, and when this happens, it changes the permissions for some of my library folders. I deactive/leave the homegroup, and I have to manually restore the permissions on these folders.

Is there a way to permanently disable homegroups, or at least stop it automatically starting one.

EDIT: I turned of the Provider and Listener Homegroup services and disabled them and that seems to have hidden it from the trees in explorer, and hopefully they wont bother me again, but I hope there is a friendly ON OFF option at RC or RTM. My other machines are Vista and Homegroups arent compatible so no need to have them screwing with my folders.

I'm unable to get ATI Catalyst drivers to install properly from 8.12 to 9.1 (I heard 9.2 don't have windows 7 support) Ati drivers install for the video card but Catalyst Control Center is unable to recognize my HD4870x2 card or anything about it other than it's an ATI device.

I had issues with CCC too. I found I had to install the official beta package for Win7 first. Then update overtop of that Cat 9.1. Then it all worked fine. Cat 9.2 don't work with Win7, but there is a way to hack it so it does, but I wouldn't cause I found I had more issues with them over Cat 9.1. Cat 9.3 is suppose to bring official support.

I had issues with CCC too. I found I had to install the official beta package for Win7 first. Then update overtop of that Cat 9.1. Then it all worked fine. Cat 9.2 don't work with Win7, but there is a way to hack it so it does, but I wouldn't cause I found I had more issues with them over Cat 9.1. Cat 9.3 is suppose to bring official support.

Thanks for the reply, I hope 9.3 comes out soon, it's tough testing stuff out without a properly working video card, it's hard to see if something is a Hardware related bug or just something with the OS.

Which also brings me to something strange that I found out, I didn't have this problem in the 7000 build or 7022. When I open up the "Games" shell menu within the startmenu the window opens with game icons on the left hand side and a trophy icon and info on the game rating etc on the right hand side, when I fullscreen the window the trophy side of the screen will not stay small like I set it. It will enlarge both sides of the screen so that games/info sides are half and half of the window. I've reported it, hopefully MS can replicate it and fit it.

boot time is slower.

don't like the new icons.

i hate the new control panel & vista compatibility mode feature, they made them both too complicated from build 7000. i need a classic view control panel.

honestly it seems like my vista install is running faster tbh. :o

- when saving themes, you can only specify a name, you can't choose where to save it anymore :(

i don't like this either.

boot time is slower.

don't like the new icons.

i hate the new control panel & vista compatibility mode feature, they made them both too complicated from build 7000. i need a classic view control panel.

honestly it seems like my vista install is running faster tbh. :o

Boot time for me is way better than 7000. You know you can change the look of the control panel at the top right corner with View By if you don't like by Category.

Win7 is way better than Vista IMHO.

Don't know if its been covered, but I am having a problem with mp3's.

I installed this build fresh like the others before, installed all the usual software, iTunes etc.

However, when I went into iTunes it could not find any of my mp3's. Everyone had the little (!) next to it.

I went into my music folder and since itunes organises them, I searched for *.mp3.

It found them all, but everyone displayed in the panel has no tags. Heres a couple of pictures to explain.

The files do play though. Oddly this is the only major problem I've had with this new build.

First pic is in Vista.

2nd in Win7

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As far as WEI giving low scores to some people. I think there's a major bug with WEI. I've seen numerous comments on a few forum posts in here and other websites saying how they have been given a lower score than in previous buils and it doesn't even work for me at all. It crashes at the very end for me and fails to refresh my score.

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