Recent content by RobMinor

Try Google Chrome. Barebones joy. Takes a bit getting used to the lack of stuff. If you heard something about a lack of automatic sorting of bookmarks, that's fixed now. Try it. Become one with us. /I ordinarily kinda dislike Google, but love the browser.

No, no, sorry, did not do that, it was the clean install to 7 Ultimate. I'm asking if when I get the 7 Upgrade, I will have to delete everything and reinstall XP, then install the upgrade. Or if you can put in the upgrade disk, then just enter either an XP key or insert an XP disk to show your...

Whatabout..... OK, riddle me this then.................. I went right from XP to 7, never had Vista at all. Ended up with only the 7 RC on my main desktop now. If I can't do an "upgrade" from the RC, does that mean I have to reinstall XP, or is it possible that all 7 will ask for is a...

Hi everybody--not sure if the is the right spot, so sorry if this might be better somewhere else. I went right to the 7001 beta from XP, never had Vista. My original hardware was: WD 250 G hard drive Athlon 64 Dual Core 3800 2.01 G 1 G ram NVidia 8800 GTS with Physx accl. NVidia...

Utilities I've been using something called Advanced System Care 3, a free version, and it seems to work well. If you search back further you will find a discussion of utilities and whether any of them really do anything useful anyway.

I put Google Chrome on shortly after first installing the 7000 build. Sometime after, I put on Safari as well, and liked it better, so pretty much stopped using the Chrome. Sometime later, I wanted to compare page load times or something, and tried to use Chrome; it couldn't access any sites...

I read in an earlier post that the bug/feature which killed your gadgets when UAC was off seemed to be fixed after a certain beta build number. Can anyone verify that this is fixed in the RC? It wouldn't bother me at all, except I have one game which will not run with UAC, so, it becomes a...

Dem bones Bravo. Just . . . bravo. And thanks all.

XP still Well of course. MY one more basic desktop uses XP Pro -- I got it second-hand off corporate lease, and it runs fine, never had a problem with it, hardware, software, or malware. The only drawback is that it doesn't have 3D graphics, and its a very low profile, so you couldn't even...

mouse Sorry, just a generic Micro. Yes, PS/2 port, plain optical not laser. Prob. came with a keyboard for ten bucks at walmart.

specs Athlon 64 Dual Core 3800 2.01 G 1 G ram NVidia 8800 GTS with Physx accl. NVidia Nforce 550 Motherboard. 12 in 1 card reader, 4 USB ports, 1 mouse serial port, onboard sound [Yamaha] , 1 250 G hard drive, 1 150 G external drive. Sorry I was trying to keep it simple :rolleyes: ...

32 Thanks, that was kinda my inclination to stick with the 32.

I see some older threads regarding utilities and just wondered if there is a new consensus on what works and what doesn't for 7. I've been using the Advanced System Care 3 free edition, and sometimes Glary Uitilities. Main concern is the registry cleaner of course. Glary and ASC seem to have...

Hi there-- is this possibly a W7 problem, or more likely a hardware problem? I use a wired serial mouse, and every so often when I reboot it doesn't start up at all -- no nice red light out the bottom or anything. I'll power down, unplug and replug, power back up, and it's fine. Is this...

OK, time for me to feel like a total noob here. I've been running the W7 beta 32 on my primary desktop, which originally shipped with XP. Have not used Vista at all. I'm curious about running the 64-bit version of the RC, but want to know if I will get a performance boost or hit, or what...