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Windows 7: Windows 7: The Things That Don't Work
Windows 7: The Things That Don't Work
by ae69ae69 - 1/17/09 2:55 PM1)Windows Update (it freezes and doesn't let you update)
2)Sony Acid Pro (doesn't even intall in compability mode)
3)Norton 360 (I experience my first Blue Screen Of Death after I installed it)
4)Windows Media Player (songs sound robotic when intalling programs, it sometimes forces you to restart your computer)
5)Task Manager (End Process Tree and End Process doesn't work, when programs are froozen you are forced to restart your computer manually)
6)Internet Explore 8 (it randomly restarts when you click on some links or when you have over 10 Tabs open)
7)Sleep mode (after a while when your computer goes into "Sleep" mode or you manually order it to "Sleep" it randomly turns on.
My top concern as of 1/17/09 with Build 7000
Norton
by FrankQC - 1/18/09 8:23 AM In reply to: Windows 7: The Things That Don't Work by ae69ae69Which Norton 360 did you download? I recommend going for the Beta one as well.. I think it was made to endure Windows 7.
http://www.symantec.com/norton/beta/overview.jsp?pvid=n3603beta
I use this one and my Win7 works fine.
Tough Luck there!
by Wispa65 - 1/28/09 12:08 PM In reply to: Windows 7: The Things That Don't Work by ae69ae69Hmmmm, sorry to hear about the headache you're getting with Windows 7. Mine works perfectly! None of the problems you listed!
Norton 360 <yuck!!>
by upandrunningllc - 1/28/09 3:28 PM In reply to: Windows 7: The Things That Don't Work by ae69ae69Norton 360 is just bloated useless Symantec software. Maybe it DID blow up Windows 7. Try REAL security software at www.nod32.com. NOD32 is written in assembly language and does its job without the performance hit of any of Symantec's AV products since 2005.
Good luck with Windows 7. I've heard its DRM will mess up any MP3's you have either locally or on your network. For me, I'm dual booting Ubuntu and XP Pro.
Windows 7 Update 1/28/2009
by ae69ae69 - 1/28/09 7:52 PM In reply to: Windows 7: The Things That Don't Work by ae69ae69ALL my Windows 7 problems have been resolved, the problems were comming from a missing under score in the script making "explore.exe" crash, now that i fixed that, everything is great.
Sleep.
by mcmaineacjam - 1/29/09 10:37 AM In reply to: Windows 7: The Things That Don't Work by ae69ae69My sleep mode doesn't even work.
I click the "sleep" button, or press it on my keyboard, the screen turns black, after some seconds I can hear the coolers turning off and after a fraction of a second, they are on again and then, the computer is back from "sleep".
I didn't like Win 7 very much, I'm almost uninstalling it and installing Ubuntu in the partition I created for Seven.
It's only a BETA..... BUT...
by SNUSA - 1/29/09 1:39 PM In reply to: Windows 7: The Things That Don't Work by ae69ae69As compared with Vista Ultimate, Windows 7 beta already appears to be improved. And I'm running it in Vista, (on pretty good hardware) using Sun Virtual Box!
As for Norton, I've even given their new 360 beta another try, and it seems to be working fine too. (Except for the 14 days trial instead of 2 months indicated shown at download.)
Norton seems to have cleaned up their act somewhat too.
Back in 2004 I walked away from Symantec products due to performance issue, but giving their products another look might be in order. Especially with regards to what happened to my girlfriends pc with a current version of nod32 v3 with daily updated virus signatures...
A nasty drive-by payload slid right through IE6 on my girlfriends pc. (Partly her fault for not upgrading IE, or moving to Firefox, but nevertheless.... Three (3) nasty infestations slid right under the nose of nod32 v3 on XP pro.
(Dealing with this, I used every trick in the book that I knew of, wasted an entire day, and almost gave up. But I finally gave Malwarebyte's anti-malware freebie a crack and it got the nasties out! Good stuff, and didn't break anything either.
Currently, I use nod32 on most of my systems and have never had any problem. (But not the free v4 beta because of yet to be resolved issues - Afterall, that's a BETA too!)
I was ready to get an Apple, but I'm seeing promise again from Microsoft. Just wish there was no such thing a the registry. It's crap!
Sorry I got sidetracked, but THEY ARE BETA's.... And on decent hardware, (even vurtualized) they seem to work better than their predecessors. And for beta's, that says a lot!
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