Recent content by jimbo45

Hi there That's how it works (and this method will work if you get an upgrade disc even with No previous OS installed). MS have shot themseleves in the foot here as why would anybody get a FULL retail version whne the upgrade works fine so far in 100% of the cases tried. Maybe when SP1 is...

Hi there How did you install the printer on W7. You should have installed it as a LOCAL printer (not NETWORK) and then in the create new port give it a TCPIP port type with the IP address of the printer. I'm sure I've made some previous posts on sharing printers - especially between 32 and...

I'm surprised I'm even bothering to answe this question - but having been away in Europe for a while I thought I'd logon again to see "whats cooking". The OP with only 3 previous posts to his name is complaining about W7 without giving a reasoned incling of what's wrong with it doesn't IMO...

Hi there I suggest you uninstall and then re-install -- it should come up with a prompt somewhere install for all users / current users. Office normally works fine cheers jimbo

same again - after you click GO on site 1/2/3 you get back to the original screen to start the whole process all over again. Express download works but its fiddly as you need to use the FTP with password method. The driver downloaded is the 2.33 version which is exactly the one I have...

Hi there my English might be a bit suspect at times but when I read in the link "Lacks features such as xxxxxxxx" that are available in edition yyyyyyyyy then IMO it's not a FULL version (or have I mis understood something). It appears that it can't make DVD movies which was one of the...

Hi there that link just goes round in circles -- you never actually get to a download site - after you click the NEXT button it presents you with the first screen again. cheers jimbo

Hi all You might have seen various references to performance improvements in browsing if you add the google chrome plugin to IE8. My experience with W7 X-64 RTM (legal downloaded from Technet and Clean install) is that this plug in causes random " IE8 has stopped working" messages as well as...

Hi all I'm REALLY disappointed with the W7 Realtek HD audio driver (V 2.33) as you can't control the equalisation any more. There's a load of "Canned presets" which I don't really like but no way to use a custom equalisation scheme like there was in XP. Seems to me a retrograde step -- the...

HI all Acronis Workstation True Image gave compatability problems with later builds of Windows 7 (Windows 7 releases greater than 7137) You can make it work again quite simply by changing the.EXE file's name to TI.exe instead of TrueImage.exe (Change any short cut links as well). Then it...

Hi all RTM download from technet has been FINE all day today (Saturday). Ultimate allows multiple activations whilst professional needs a new key for each install. I've just finished 2 Ultimate installs - Now I have to install all my apps (clean install is the way to go). Cheers jimbo

Hi all The show stopper for me is that Home Premium doesn't have RDP server. You can't connect to a desktop running Home Premium. There is a "possible" get around by using the Web component. If you can start a web server via IIS on Home premium then you can download tsweb.zip from the...

Hi all I've tried Virtual PC --great Idea in theory but runs as slow as molasses -- it cant compete with a separate VM running in Vmware ? Virtual Box. I like the desktop integration but performance is really horrendous. cheers jimbo

Hi all Actually I think if you look more deeply into this issue I think it looks like Google will want to get more involved with "Cloud Computing". With high speed always on Internet connections all you theoretically need on a computer as an OS is just basically an Internet Browser which can...

Hi all I like W7 as much as the next person but there are a few reasons why I'M STILL keeping XP around for a while even after the final W7 is released. These applications will NOT run on even VISTA, so no chance also on W7. 1) Legacy HP plotter and my Engineering drawing software -- it...