Jim, you cant find any drivers for it? I am suprised it does not work - pretty much anything that ran in Vista will run on 7. I have yet to run into a problem. 7 is working extremely well on my netbook! Loaded easily on it and everything worked without having to go look for drivers. Luckily have about 10 USB DVD drives at my disposal and they work seemlessly with 7 and my Aspire One. I will never put XP back on the netbook unless I absolutely have to - I will purchase the 7 upgrade for sure! I am now almost at the point where I will use my netbook as my main PC.
Thanks for the encouragement, Lou. I think it must be just a case of the driver does not come in the beta version of Win7 and as you say, once I find the CD that came with the device or download the driver from the Net, I'll be O.K. An LG GGW-H20L internal Blu-Ray burner mounted in StarTech InfoSafe (noisy fan!) enclosure works fine under Win7, once I load all the software that came with the device (bombs at playing Blu-Ray disc before loading Cyberlink PowerDVD). Perhaps the highest praise around where I am for Win7 is our in-house IT guy is a Mac guy and he praises Win7, too!
Gosh, darn. My Mitsumi FDUSB-TM2 USB 3.5 inch diskette bombed on 1st being plugged into my Win7 computer. On a Vista computer, it's Plug-N-Play, no 3rd party drivers needed. Now if I could just find the CD that came with it....
Solved the problem by Googling on "Windows 7 USB FDD driver". There are a ton of posts in different forums that the system driver in Win7 is defective and can be replaced by the XP or Vista driver sfloppy.sys found in C:\Windows\system32\drivers. To do so, you have to first take ownership of the Win7 driver so that it can be deleted or replaced (I made a backup copy first to my Downloads folder with Win7 info). Not sure I took ownership in the most effective way but I rightclicked on the Win7 version->Properties->Security tab->Advanced button->Ownership tab, made myself the owner. Then I closed out the dialog, reopened on the Security tab of Properties, denied System access and gave myself full control. Replaced the file with the Vista version and then checked on the Security tab that the System had full permissions. Part I didn't understand was that System and Administrator permissions were checked but greyed out. Maybe this means that I screwed up and ownership still belongs to Vista and if the System needs to manipulate or replace sfloppy.sys (from Vista), I will be screwed in the future. But for now, my Mitsumi USB floppy disk drive is working under Win7.
EDIT: Yes. I had to restore TrustedInstaller as the owner of sfloppy.sys with full access. Also, SYSTEM. Eventually, remove Administrators and me and only have Users with Read and Read & Execute permissions. This was a very helpful tutorial: TrustedInstaller - Restore as Owner - Vista Forums
Initally I erred in removing Inherited Permissions too early and myself as an Administrator with full access control - at the very least it made it hard to see that I'd made TrustedInstaller the Owner. Looking at the permissions of other SYS files in \system32\drivers helped guide me along.
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Slow on the uptake here. Windows 7 Release Candidate is available. Most interesting aspect for me is the Virtual XP mode. I like the Life Hacker presentation (Microsoft video at end)
I'm about to dive into it. Here's a link if you're interested. If you have Win7 beta, you will have to back up everything and do a clean install but the RC extends the expiration deadline to June, 2010 (effectively March, 2010 because bihourly shutdowns begin after that!). Installation will take several hours. Bihourly shutdowns on the Win7 beta begin 7/1/09! (take that, you Beta lovers!).
I used Easy Transfer to back up all my data files to an external hard drive (I searched around for all data files in App Data and in Program Files that might not be in the default Easy Transfer backup). Even so, during the Win7 RC install, looks like everything in my previous OS install was moved to a file called Windows.old as read-only files, so the external backup was somewhat superfluous but a good failsafe measure.
Norton Internet Security 2009, which worked under Win7 Beta, does not work under Win7 RC but Symantec has a temporary pre-release Win7 RC-compatible version of NIS 2009.
Right now Symantec doesn't seem to have the server up to activate the new NIS 2009 but it's promised that all owners of previous versions of NIS 2009 will be activated and continued with the Win7 RC version of NIS 2009 (updates can be downloaded without official activation, EDIT: 7-day "free trial").
So here I go merrily reinstalling everything.
Although the Aero effects didn't work in the Win7 Beta with my puny 2006 1.5 GHz HP laptop with no dedicated graphics card, it's working under Win7 RC. Cool!
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Reason: correct "free trial" time period
Running Disk Cleanup will offer to remove Windows.old files
Running Disk Cleanup will find and offer to remove "Previous Windows Installation(s)" in Windows.old. Not ready to take the plunge on that yet. There is also "Files discarded by Windows Upgrade" that shows up in Disk Cleanup to to the tune of 1.79 Gb
Virtual XP mode requires processor with virtualization
Bummer! You can't use Virtual XP in Win7 RC unless your Processor supports virtualization and my 2006 Processor doesn't (I'm waiting for Nehalem in 2010).
I had activation/expiration issues with the Pre-Release version of Norton Internet Security 2009 for Windows 7. Apparently happening with Norton 360, too. Then after that, with the NIS 2009 firewall not coming on. I posted a combined successful solution to both problems, gleaned from other posts in the Norton Community forums:
i have not been around for a while but i am now also running WM7 RC1 on my handy-dandy little Acer Aspire One 10" netbook without any issues - runs much faster on there than the original beta and then the 7068 build i loaded. I cannot believe how good the netbook performs with Win7 Ultimate! IE8 still sucks to me but Chrome and Firefox fly on there. I am running AVG Free 8.5 (as I do on all my systems) without fail. I stay FAR, FAR WAY from the Nortons and McAfees of the world! the Aspire1 is about to become my main system as I am getting used to keyboard and screen size. i may even do a clean load of W7RC1 on my main laptop and blowout Vista!!! it is easy enough for me to do as I have now pretty much moved to the "cloud" with all my docs, pics, favorites and life is good there!
Glad to hear Win7 RC1 is working well for you, too, Lou. The one place where I really notice and appreciate greater speed is in ejecting USB mass storage devices (both drives and flash memory devices). A lot less waiting than in Vista, less "sorry. device is busy" Just my impression, not a double-blind controlled study by any means!
And, original topic of this thread, Win7 continues to have great reliability on actually launching a WMDC connection to my Omnia ~every plug-in (have had only one or two instances where I had to unplug/replug Omnia to wakeup the connection after it went to sleep but that is EXTREMELY rare).
So I am ready to plunk down the bucks for the Ultimate Edition of Win7 as soon as it comes out.
yes, ejection is way better! and WMDC works for me too - tested it with my wife's Q and my Q9N. Also recognizes the BB Storm with no issues without having to install BB USB drivers so you can view your onboard 1GB memory and the 8GB memory card. With Vista or XP you have to install at least the USB drivers or the BB Desktop Manager to see it. I will definitely pay to upgrade!
Also, my IOGEAR USB BT adapter GBU321 now works to support AD2P. Initially, it wouldn't install (no appropriate drivers) but that caused Win7 RC to launch a troubleshooting applet that directed to me to Broadcomm's site to download their Win7 BT updater.
Win 7 RC is great on my Acer Celeron laptop too. WMDC synched my Moto Q fine, pdaNet works, and I like the win-space for areo peek. Had to use pdaNet on my Q to get around apt firewall and initialize windows updates (had to do that in vista too) but could download them all from the wi fi once the update site was accessed sucsessfully.
And a wifi Atheros driver issue i had in Vista where it would crash upon resume from Sleep Mode seems to have completely vanished in win 7 RC. Grabs wi-fi from sleep or shut-down like a police dog on a suspect's butt.
Only one problem i've had so far is THIS forum crashing IE8, especially when I'm posting messages
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.........Only one problem i've had so far is THIS forum crashing IE8, especially when I'm posting messages
Give Google Chrome a whirl. It's a speedy devil. I think no matter what browser you use, they will tend to get hung up from time to time loading ads on this forum. But gotta pay the rent......
Google Chrome hmmm? At first I thought it might be the apt firewall, it messes up windows update access, newegg downloads, and others that access from my Q permits, but even on that eventually this site crashed in IE8. My favorite so far seems to be Opera 9.6, nothing I've done there seems to faze it, firewall or not. So I'm not exactly sure how the firewall interacts with certain programs to cause issues but I'm not about to go tell the manager to kill it as I've never had any virus issues behind it.
It seems Microsoft is putting out specs for win 7 netbooks, man I can't wait till these come out:
As for Win 7 XP mode, it's interesting that the Atom 270 does NOT have support for VT in order to run it (neither does my old Celeron 520 of course) but the Z520-Z550 (1.33, 1.6, 1.86, 2.0 GHz) Atom processors do. Dell is using those in it's Mini 10 series, and Acer will be using it in it's new 11.6" 13366x768 Aspire One. Was gonna buy an HP with built-in VZW broadband today, but now maybe I better wait. Dell just put up VZW broadband option on their Mini 10 website, so methinks VZW will be carrying that one soon.
As always, no matter where you are in life, the GOOD STUFF is always in the future just around the corner.
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Review your computer's reliability and problem history
One of the coolest things about Win7, in the Action Center under "Check for Solutions to Problems Reports" there is the "View reliability history" leading you to a page "Review your computer's reliability and problem history" - it presents you with a graphical table with dates on the X-axis and vertical cells for each date with icons for Application failures, Windows failures, Miscellaneous failures, Warnings, Information. Click on an icon for one of these on any date, you get a detailed itemization of each problem of that type that occurred on that date, exactly when it occurred and a "check for a solution" link. Most of this is a little redundant since you would have probably already been offered a solution (if found) from a SysTray popup for a critical problem. Sorry if I missed this feature in Vista (or XP)-think it's there in Vista in more boring fashion. It's just very nicely presented in Win7 in a useful graphical interface.
Oh, boy. Lucky guy that I am. I potentially get to try the 64-bit version of Win7 RC. My HP-Laptop motherboard died over the week. So there, HP. I went out and got a Dell XPS 1340 with a 64-bit P8600 processor. The Dell tech I talked to said that I void my warranty if I install Win7 RC, even on a separate partition. I was wondering if anyone knew what the potential for trashing hardware is with a Pre-Release OS? My wife is sure that Win7 RC (32-bit) is the reason that my HP died!
if you call dell with a problem for that PC and W7RC is the OS, they "could" void your warranty but all dell's comes with OS discs and easy to recover! the only way dell is going to know you have W7 is if you need to have them remote connect to your PC for support issues. i have every dell OS disc imaginable and reformat towers and laptops all the time for my clients with my latest dell XPSP3 disc even though the system may have come with XPh, Vista or W2K. I wouldnt worry too much - load it on a partition if it is a big concern and you wont have a prob with dell.
also, im sure that W7 did not kill your HP!
if you call dell with a problem for that PC and W7RC is the OS, they "could" void your warranty but all dell's comes with OS discs and easy to recover! the only way dell is going to know you have W7 is if you need to have them remote connect to your PC for support issues. i have every dell OS disc imaginable and reformat towers and laptops all the time for my clients with my latest dell XPSP3 disc even though the system may have come with XPh, Vista or W2K. I wouldnt worry too much - load it on a partition if it is a big concern and you wont have a prob with dell.
also, im sure that W7 did not kill your HP!
Thanks for the expert advice, Lou. I think I've heard that drivers for Dell machines are more esoteric than the drivers for HP machines, which are more generic, so I was wondering, especially for a 64-bit installation, whether I was going to have a problem with drivers that work smoothly or just get all the latest from Dell and install with Vista compatibility under W7?
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