The battle begins - Win7 x64

[Dashock]

i triede limitin the memory firefox uses it isnt as bad as it was before it would easily reach 200mbs but i think its still fairly high.

[Dr_BenD_over]

So, I'm getting a really annoying issue with my scanner and Photopaint X3. I go in to do a scan and some little box will pop up saying server busy and then gives me an option to switch to, or retry, switch to just brings up the start menu, retry takes right back to server busy, the only way to exit the loop is to kill Photopaint via taskman

[frontier204]

Originally Posted by Dashock

I got 2 interesting images to upload i dont know if this is normal.

75% ram usage?

I noticed at the bottom the "Show processes from all users" is not checked. Hit that checkbox and see if there are any other memory hogs. I know there is SuperFetch, but something else is probably eating RAM becasue I don't get that much RAM usage on my 4 GB Win7 64 machine or my 8 GB Vista 64 machine unless I have some hog like a virtual machine running.

[Dr_BenD_over]

So I come back from the New years break and my desktop is BLACK, ie my background is gone. So I go in to change settings and navigate to my old My Documents folder where this particular background I want is located, where does Windoze jump to, the current My Documents directory, it would not allow me to select the background from my old My Documents folder, it would always revert to my new one even when I browsed to the old one.

[Dashock]

If my comp is on for a day the comp seems slugish as we speak it seems slugish like it needs a restart i dont think the amount of tasks i do and since the majority of programs i use still use 32 bit . i need more then 4gb of memory.

[Dashock]

I think i popped windows 7 cherry today got my first BSOD for reasons i do not know why i was trasnferring files at the time to my external device.

[Dr_BenD_over]

So I was going to try the new nvidia drivers. I went to create a system restore point knowing full well I'd have to use it and for the life of me couldn't find a spot to do it. So there were plenty of previous restore points over the past few days so I figured screw it, I can always go back a bit farther. So I installed the new drivers and went to try the program that had been having difficulties with the previous drivers. Was the problem fixed, no, would the program even start now, NO, could I run a restore, NO! because every single restore point has vanished!

[Matty D]

Wow, I have been thinking of late that this is the year to jump to Win7 from XP for several reasons but mostly to get 64bit and for DirectX11 support but man, these constant issues don't make me feel all warm and fuzzy.

[Dr_BenD_over]

Looks like I'm going Dual boot, time to bring back XP Pro. It'll give me the added bonus of being able to run our older CAD software and our current CAD software on one machine (the 2's license managers don't play nice)

[Dr_BenD_over]

Originally Posted by Dr_BenD_over

So I was going to try the new nvidia drivers. I went to create a system restore point knowing full well I'd have to use it and for the life of me couldn't find a spot to do it. So there were plenty of previous restore points over the past few days so I figured screw it, I can always go back a bit farther. So I installed the new drivers and went to try the program that had been having difficulties with the previous drivers. Was the problem fixed, no, would the program even start now, NO, could I run a restore, NO! because every single restore point has vanished!

Guess I'm not the only person the suffer the missing restore point issue.

Windows 7 deletes all system restore points on reboot

Continuing nagging issues:
- Constant errors that I don't have privledges to save files on the local drive (probably some issue with the domain server)
- Folders VANISHING. I'm in the folder, I close it, realize I need it open again, and it's GONE, not deleted or anything, just GONE, exiting Explorer and going back in usually brings the folder back.
- Google Earth also keeps vanishing completely. (like it was never installed)
- Steam ICONs keep vanishing
- Scanner issues with Corel X3
- File opening issues with Corel X3
- Doesn't remember Explorer window positions!