Recent content by Totenglocke

It's an nvida card and with their new drivers, they have an option to wipe the old driver completely and do a completely new driver install (which I did). I'll try out driver sweeper though (if I can get the system to run long enough to use it).

I've been using Win 7 64-bit since the beta and no issues at all - until I installed SP1. Now I get constant lockups and it seems to be related to the video driver about 50% of the time. I've done a clean install of the latest driver, tried removing SP1, done a system restore to before SP1...

All I have to say is either 1) you're doing something wrong with the webcam or 2) Logitech really does make junk webcams. I just bought a Dynex webcam and it works perfectly fine. I've been using 64-bit Win 7 since the beta (I'm now using the RC) and have had virtually no issues. I had some...

I got every last driver for my system through windows update and everything works perfectly.

Kubira: Aero (the desktop effects graphics engine that makes your taskbar transparent and all that) sucks up power from your video card. If you're noticing problems with gaming, right click on your desktop and click personalize. First click "save theme" and name your current theme so that you...

Theoretically, all Vista drivers work for Win 7 (MS did this to make transitioning to Win 7 as painless as possible since you shouldn't have issues of not having drivers for your Vista machine when you upgrade to Win 7). I would uninstall the drivers you currently have, then run Windows Update...

It depends on how old the "old" hardware is. Processors, sure, those "age" fast because that's where most innovation takes place at. Same with video cards. However, since anyone who's not a gamer (which actually only a small percentage of computer users are actual hardcore gamers) doesn't...

The worst game out there to try was running Diablo II on Vista. This is machine that has several times the power necessary and in single player (which no one uses to play Diablo II) the game works great. However, as soon as you go online to play, the game screeches to a halt and the frame rate...

Havoxx, you completely don't get it. No one is saying that MS can't add new features to their OS or that companies can't release new versions of software. What they're arguing against is this: If I buy Awesome Program 1.0 that runs on Vista and it does EVERY thing I want and I'll never want...

I installed Office 2007 and it runs great -- except every time I delete RSS feeds in Outlook, they just come right back the next time I run Outlook. Is this a Win 7 flaw, or is it really just impossible to turn those stupid default RSS feeds from Microsoft off?

The best I can tell you is to either 1) search the internet to find out the specific model Intel video card you have on your laptop and then search and see if anyone has drivers for that same video card in Vista (make sure you check 64-bit if that's the version of Win 7 you installed) or 2)...

Same advice for your video drivers -- uninstall whatever XP drivers you put in and refresh Windows Update -- it should find drivers for all of your hardware. You can't use XP drivers in Vista or Win 7 (but you can, at least most of the time, use Vista drivers in Win 7). I've found that with...

Since Windows 7 seems to be great at finding drivers through Windows Update, I'd suggest you plug a network cable into your laptop and then refresh Windows Update and see if it finds any drivers for your wireless. Bit of a hassle, yes, but less hassle than spending hours or days trying to get...

I have the 64-bit beta on my gaming rig (haven't taken the time to reformat it and upgrade it to the RC) and most of my stuff works fine, I have a few programs with issues. The other day I installed the 64-bit RC on my laptop and EVERYTHING I've thrown at it (including stuff that didn't run all...

I haven't restarted my Win 7 system (laptop) as I've been doing some work related stuff. I powered off the printer and restarted it as well as the print server. The print server is hooked directly into the router so that any computer on our network can access it at any time.