Strange... WoW and LOTRO are running just fine on my 64-bit version of Win 7 RC. :D

So far, I'm impressed with the release. This is what Vista SHOULD have been.

aint my hard drive as thats a new one as well - only thing not new this time is the GFX card.
Hard drive is a : Western Digital 2TB Hard Drive SATA300 7200rpm 32MB Cache

You seen prices of new gfx card - seen a 1 gig GFX card that was 300 odd quid.
I could buy an XBOX and proberly PS3 for that price these days.

Yeah.. That is why I mentioned the 9800 and not the GTS 200 or the GTX 200.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814143150

Newegg. Crack for geeks. :D

Expecting two items today via UPS from those folks... LOL

i just purchased this one - hope its better than the one i currently have :

Gigabyte 9600GT 1GB GDDR3 DVI VGA HDMI Out PhysX and Cuda ready PCI-E Graphics Card - Qty: 1

But it never cost me $69 - total price in was 124 UK pounds inc VAT
Arrives in the morning (next day delivery)

I have that exact same system, but with a GeForce 9800 GTX.

The 8500 was designed as a budget-line card, not for gaming or high performance applications. Your new 9600 should serve you well ;) I'm loving my 9800. :D

(BTW - My CPU is a Phenom 9950, but I get 2.91 GHz out of it ;) Just letting you know, these chips can be pushed to amazing heights.)

how u push it further m8 - Ive not messed in the bois but i throught if u pushed the chip u had to alter the memory as well - or am i wrong ?

The memory and the CPU are on shared clocks; so yes, but while increasing the CPU frequency causes the memory to clock higher, increasing the multiplier does not. And the 9950 has an unlocked multiplier with a failsafe-fallback of 13.5 if it overheats (even during boot!)

Back on topic: Vista gave 64-bit OS's a bad name, but Win7 x64 has ran everything (including Doom and Doom 2 - the old Win95 versions!) I've thrown at it. Vista was inherently unstable, and Windows 7 will change the way people think of new versions of Windows.

It's like the 98-ME-XP path... If only M$ had skipped that half-assed attempt in the middle...

Worst thing i ever did with my computer was get vista 64 bit . I should have goten 32 bit.

Then it's either not setup correctly or you have a very old pc, 64 bit is the shiat and the future as well...... much more robust then 32bit.... you realize more is better right? win 3.1 was 16 bit.

to much software i use is not compatable.

Ups worldship, Fedex does not work either, Neither does my wireless print server... Even after manual setting it up. I wish i could down grade but i bought an oem version.

You can install or run those programs in 32 bit mode also..... give that a try... as for downgrading... grab a copy of 32 bit via torrent.... then use your legal license number, it will work on 32 bit as well as 64 bit... I did the same for going from 32 bit to 64 bit... oem versions only come with one 32 or 64, retail or upgrade versions some with both.

I've been very happy with vista but win7 does look pretty nice
Just tested the latest RC on my vista machine and it seems to run pretty good, a little buggy still but that's why it's an RC

Im quite impressed with it 2.Lighting fast to me.WIndows open instantly and ive been using it for days and yet to find any slow down on anything at all.
Ive been watching music videos/Visting websites as well as defragging my drives and everything runs smoothly.

Why have they removed Quick Launch - and made u add everything to the big start Bar.
Bad mistake i think as i used to store my icons on quick launch to keep the desktop tidy.

Pinning a program to the taskbar is much better than having the quick launch. Even if you have multiple instances of something running, it tiles to the icon in your taskbar. Mouse over the icon, and you'll get this nice display showing all the screens that are running in the background. Just select the screen you want.

taskbar can soon get full doing it that way whereas before u had the taskbar and the quicklaunch so could keep things seperate.
Ive seen the Pin to taskbar option and call me old fashioned but i dont like it.

It's their solution to providing an application dock that users wanted without copying what is in OSX and keeping the Windows flavor. When I started with the new taskbar, I thought I would hate it but now I don't think I would ever want to lose the functionality. It combines everything about quicklaunch with application and document management. If you use small icons on the task bar without titles, you have plenty of room for 30 or so applications with a widescreen monitor. Can even launch and/or switch to applications with the keyboard easily without assigning keyboard shortcuts. Just press Win plus a number to launch your favorite ten applications.

If you want though you can always recreate the "Quick Launch" toolbar. Create a folder called "Quick Launch". Add your application shortcuts to it. Then add it as a new toolbar on the taskbar. In my opinion, the new functionality is much better though.

Agreed. Some of the new features have taken a little bit of use to get used to 'em. At this point, I would dread going back to an older version of Windows. I'm beginning to really like Windows again. :D

It's just like the Ribbon interface introduced with Office 2007. You think you'd hate it, but works beautifully once you get used to it.

People are resistant to change.

Paint and Wordpad inherited the Ribbon Interface with Windows 7. None of the other tools did though so its still different from the standard. So right now, Microsoft is working with three interfaces which is going to confuse people until they get it narrowed down to the best one.

1) Standard Windows Interface with menus and a secondary bar of formatting buttons if necessary.

2) Ribbon Panel interface used by some Office applications, Paint and Wordpad.

3) Hidden Menu Interface. This is primarily used by their Internet Applications including Internet Explorer, Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Messenger. Though it is also used in the default view of Windows Explorer (in Windows 7) as well.

For my virus checker etc i went with Nod32 - works really well on Win7 and uses less resources than Microtrend which i had on before.

You can also remvoe the win7 watermark (that says Beta as well)

http://www.webtlk.com/2009/01/09/how...ows-7-desktop/

How come win7 does not have the circle dock bar that was supposed to come with it ?
I can download and install the version for win vista/xp but where is the orginal one or did microsoft decide to do away with it ???

Circle Dock? Never heard about that.

<a href="http://www.windows7buzz.com/windows-7-circle-dock-bar-for-vista-and-xp.html" target="_blank">http://www.windows7buzz.com/windows-...ta-and-xp.html</a>

Circle Dock is a standalone application (not from Microsoft). I used to use this on my Vista machine with custom shell.

http://circledock.wikidot.com/

yes ive grabbed it and since removed it as it dont look right.
Is there anymore docks about for win7 etc

something has been bugging me lately with win 7
Never ever had this problem with XP

When i click on a drive in win 7 it takes a few secs for it to display the contents whereas on XP it was instantly

Not sure, but I think it has something to do with the way XP was indexed vs how 7 is now indexed.