Another unrelated issue was network shares between Win7RC and WinXPPro. XP sees the W7 shares no problems but the other way is erratic - get problems requiring username and password. Should work without that as I use same username and password on both. I editted "host" file and added the XP...
I have pursued the power management difficulties and so far come up with : (1) Notebook Management Control utility does not seem to work correctly. There is a new version coming one day so maybe it will be the winner. (2) I seem to be getting useful results from the Rightmark CPU Clock...
After 4 years, my fully up-to-date XP install got completely messed up so given Win7 was so close, decided to try the RC rather than go back thru multiple XP updates/patches. Yes, I know it is an older laptop but it does have 1.25Gb RAM. I ran into the Intel GMA855 graphics lack of support but...