The Windows 7 Thread

by **rob** on 17 Dec 2009 08:52 am

Ghost is a worthless piece of shit. I got a copy (on disc, that is) for my dad and it repeatedly threw massive runtime errors when trying to install. They couldn't even compile it right for their own disc.

Try DriveImage XML instead.

by **xeper** on 17 Dec 2009 09:32 am

It's NOT Ghost-Win. It's a very sturdy, tiny piece of DOS software you stick on your thumb drive and go.

I deploy hundreds of PCs using it and have never run into a problem with a good PC.

Ghost-Win sucks the shit off donkey nuts. I agree.

by **rob** on 17 Dec 2009 09:51 am

Well, hook that bitch up, then.

by **Cryo Cube** on 17 Dec 2009 09:59 am

xeper wrote:make a bootable thumbdrive with Ghost on it.

Ghost it to a file on another drive or to the thumb drive itself if it's big enough.
You'd need to ghost to file for each partitions.
I have all the files needed to make your drive bootable, etc. It's a pretty quick process.
Edit, you could make the external drive do it too, but it'd need to be FAT32, which sucks.

send you a pm

by **Cryo Cube** on 18 Dec 2009 11:36 am

oh snaps. Adope type manager 4.1 does not work with win7 64bit
what do?

by **lack0Fdesign** on 18 Dec 2009 06:48 pm

use extensis suitcase

by **Doodie** on 18 Dec 2009 07:38 pm

I just got Font Agent Pro 4 and it's working quite swimmingly. I like it a lot better than suitcase. Serials are all around the web, too. If this app doesn't fuck up on me in the next few weeks I'll buy the full version ($99).

In other news, I just grabbed 4 gigs of extra ram and Windows won't start up anymore (but the computer will boot). It freezes on the Windows 7 glowy thing. Any ideas? I'm going to dick with the BIOS later and see if they are defective by themselves. It should be an identical pair to what my machine normally runs... also my mobo supports 8 gb so I'm not sure what the deal is.

by **xeper** on 18 Dec 2009 10:50 pm

I'll get files to you tomorrow. Been a long day.

by **Cryo Cube** on 19 Dec 2009 08:33 am

Doodie wrote:I just got Font Agent Pro 4 and it's working quite swimmingly. I like it a lot better than suitcase.

Im trying it right now but it somehow only loads some fonts. I tell it to activate all fonts put 99% do not show up in PS,IL etc

#edit
extensis suitcase fusion 2 worked instantly. So ill stick with that one

by **Doodie** on 19 Dec 2009 12:35 pm

Bummer. The font agent didn't like you. What version of the adobe suite are you using?

by **Cryo Cube** on 19 Dec 2009 12:59 pm

by **Doodie** on 19 Dec 2009 01:21 pm

Weird, it works perfectly for me. Oh well.

(Except that CS4 is a chuggy POS)

by **lou** on 19 Dec 2009 04:09 pm

Put the RAM in the right slots?

by **wok** on 20 Dec 2009 12:08 pm

Are you loading postscript fonts? Typically I find that I'll have to restart Photoshop/Illustrator after I load ps fonts but otf/ttf will register immediately.

by **Cryo Cube** on 20 Dec 2009 12:26 pm

i im pretty sure i did restart.

by **Doodie** on 20 Dec 2009 02:52 pm

lou wrote:Put the RAM in the right slots?

Thanks a lot lou. :cool:

by **wok** on 09 Mar 2010 06:28 pm

Upgraded my gals laptop to Win7 tonight — I like it.

by **Doodie** on 09 Mar 2010 10:39 pm

wok wrote:Upgraded my gals laptop to Win7 tonight — I like it.

I have a few upgrades you should get to make your experience more nifty.

1) Switcher: http://insentient.net/ (expose for pc)
2) Taskbar Tweaker: http://rammichael.com/?proj=29 (makes it so you don't have to click individual thumbnails from open windows in the task bar)

... and also you'll find that quicklaunch is missing. HOWEVER, you can make your own if you right-click the taskbar and look in the Toolbars menu. I made two of them, OSX-ish, with browsers on the left and apps on the right. You might also want to pin/unpin programs to the taskbar (with right click options) depending on how you see fit.

Enjoy!

by **Cryo Cube** on 10 Mar 2010 03:52 am

speaking of nifty tools

Stardocks fences is pretty cool. The basic version is free.
http://www.stardock.com/products/Fences/

It groups your desktop icons in boxes like this, when icons overflow, a scrollbar will appear when you hover the fence box
http://blog.softwareload.de/wp-content/ ... fences.jpg

You can hide all your desktop icons by double clicking the desktop.
You can also make the fences fully transparent.
The pro version has even cooler features. You can tell it in which fence box new icons/files that you drop on your desktop will go, by file type, size etc. You can also style them in every which way, even with background images.
Unlike the sample picture above, if you arrange the boxes neatly it looks pretty cool too.

by **wok** on 10 Mar 2010 05:43 pm

Shitty dell = video card does not support WDDM = no aero = no Switcher

by **xeper** on 12 Mar 2010 09:11 am

I really should look back through the board to see how often I rebuild my PC or build a new one. I think I may have an illness. [though, if the parts are free/trade/cheap, does it really matter?]

I just swapped out my Core2Duo E8xxx system for a Core i7 920. I tried a 6-disk RAID 5 for my Win 7 install but god damn is it a resource hog when it's doing a lot of small writes. I'll be relegating that to storage and going back to a single 1.5TB drive for my Windows install.

Haven't touched the GPU yet, but I've been offered a really cheap BFG 280 OC and I think I'm going to take the offer. I think I can still get close enough to $90 for my 9800GTX+ to justify it.

The sad thing is, I almost never encountered a game or game settings that ever brought the Core2Duo/9800GTX to it knees, or even close.

Maybe I do need help. :ded:

by **lack0Fdesign** on 12 Mar 2010 01:47 pm

Let me know if you want to sell the 9800gtx soon and the manufacturer. I want to run SLI and since I've never done it before I'm super stoked to do so.

by **xeper** on 12 Mar 2010 03:47 pm

I actually listed it on Craigslist about an hour after I posted that and someone's coming over at 7 to get it. Sorry man.

I would tell them to eat it, but they wanted a bunch of other PC junk I listed as well, so I'd be out a lot more than just a couple of bucks.

If he flakes, how soon do you want it? It's an XFX 9800 GTX+. I'd like to get rid of it ASAP, since I've already arranged to pick up the 280 today.

I'll let you know.

by **jmu** on 13 Mar 2010 10:19 am

xeper wrote:I really should look back through the board to see how often I rebuild my PC or build a new one. I think I may have an illness. [though, if the parts are free/trade/cheap, does it really matter?]

I just swapped out my Core2Duo E8xxx system for a Core i7 920. I tried a 6-disk RAID 5 for my Win 7 install but god damn is it a resource hog when it's doing a lot of small writes. I'll be relegating that to storage and going back to a single 1.5TB drive for my Windows install.

Haven't touched the GPU yet, but I've been offered a really cheap BFG 280 OC and I think I'm going to take the offer. I think I can still get close enough to $90 for my 9800GTX+ to justify it.

The sad thing is, I almost never encountered a game or game settings that ever brought the Core2Duo/9800GTX to it knees, or even close.

Maybe I do need help.

Uh... yeah a 6 disk RAID for a home system? I'm sorry dude but that's stupid. I'm still rocking a Q6600 for CPU, I don't play a lot of games on the PC anymore but so far I haven't had any problems.

by **Doodie** on 13 Mar 2010 11:19 am

jmu wrote:I'm still rocking a Q6600 for CPU, I don't play a lot of games on the PC anymore but so far I haven't had any problems.

Bumping up my Q6600 to Windows 7 64-bit and 8 gigs of RAM feels like a whole new system. Beats the crap out of the Mac Pro's I've been using at work.

by **jmu** on 13 Mar 2010 11:55 am

Yeah I run 6 GB of ram, I usually have 2 VMs of XP and Vista running too for testing crap and my system runs like a dream. I think the raptor drive I bought has helped a lot, can't wait to get a SSD someday.

by **Cryo Cube** on 13 Mar 2010 03:34 pm

anyone here that knows a bit about cpu overclocking?
I just can't figure this out.

by **xeper** on 13 Mar 2010 06:07 pm

Yeah, I've done RAID5 as a backup solution before and I run a lot of large network equipment in various RAID configurations at work.

Figured I'd test the waters on RAID5 for Windows install. Turns out it sucks a fat one.

I'd try RAID1+0 but I'm just too fucking tired of ripping this PC apart.

lack0Fdesign: let me know if you want that card. the guy flaked, as predicted, and I'm either gonna sell it to you or eBay it tomorrow.

by **rob** on 14 Mar 2010 08:23 am

Why use RAID at home (esp. RAID5)? It's redundancy, not backup.

by **xeper** on 14 Mar 2010 04:14 pm

Mostly out of curiosity. My PCs are my hobby. I do lots of stupid shit with them.