Windows 7

tbernstein · Joined: May 16, 2003 Posts: 1576 Location: London

I can't believe that LG seems to have no Win 7 forum.
I love what I've used so far, but there are issues.
Like HP have not managed to come up with proper drivers for their J6400 series multi-function printers ( No surprises there. HP software engineering seems like it is always c**p).
And the Google Calendar sync ( which always said it' s only for XP and Vista) doesn't work in 7 on my machine. So presumably hasn't been updated yet.

There may be other issues out there. In fact there are bound to be.
So where is the forum to share these things.
There isn't even a dedicated thread.
Not here anyway...

goretsky · Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 3:54 am Post subject:

Hello,

The Windows Fanatics section covers all versions of Microsoft Windows.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

drwho07 · Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 1546 Location: Central FL, USA

The most information I've been able to find on Windows 7, is in the Windows 7 forum. It seems like all the Win-7 experts are there.
It's a sub-forum to the 'vista Forum'.

Firefox 3.5.3 and its primary addons work just fine in Win-7.
Older programs that I'm using in win-7 are, Spybot S&D and Spyware Blaster 4.2

AVG 8.5 worked just fine, but automatically updated itself to 9.0 last night.

I'm currently running Win-7 on two systems, with the 64 bit version on my main system and the 32 bit version on my backup system. Both are running very well indeed.

Check out that Windows 7 Forum.

The Doctor Cool

zlim · Joined: Mar 11, 2005 Posts: 2636

This forum seems useful
http://www.sevenforums.com/
and has tutorials for various aspects
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/257-windows-7-tutorial-index.html

I'll be reading there.

donrc · Joined: Feb 16, 2003 Posts: 882

zlim,
Those tutorials look very useful. Finding where all the old familiar settings have been moved to is a major problem with Win7. You know what to change, but you have no idea where to look for it.
Thanks for the reference.

drc

drwho07 · Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 1546 Location: Central FL, USA

My problem with Win-7 is actually with those geeks at MS that feel obliged to change things that never needed to be changed.
Why change Solitaire? It's worked just fine since Windows 3.1.

And, why destroy Outlook Express, which millions of users have grown to know and love.
Now Windows 7 doesn't even have a working email program.
What's up with that? That has to be the most ignorant thing I've ever heard of,
coming out of microshaft.

Sure Win-7 runs faster on my system than XP does, but when it takes away the basis things that I use every day, then it's just another piece of crap!!!
I sure don't need it !!! Evil or Very Mad

Looks like I'll be running XP-Pro till the cows come home.

The Doctor Cool

zlim · Joined: Mar 11, 2005 Posts: 2636

drwho07 · Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 1546 Location: Central FL, USA

Well, I've not tried to remove I.E., but I certainly don't use it.
Firefox, built on the old Netscape core, is my browser of choice.
(( I'm actually testing Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 as of this post ))

If M$ had put in a user accessible switch where Windows Mail could be turned ON, that would be one thing but those idiots put the program in the Program Files folder and then disabled it so it can't run.

To get Windows Mail to work, you first have to Take Ownership of all the files in the Windows Mail folder, then delete them. Then replace all those Windows Mail files with the like files from an install of Vista.
That works a treat in Win-7, 32 bit, but I have yet to get it working in Win-7, 64 bit.
I don't have the files from Vista 64 to even be able to try it.

Next time I have to work on a Vista 64 PC, I'll snag a copy of those Windows Mail files and just maybe I can get Windows Mail working on my 64 bit install of Win-7.

But why should we have to go through such hackery to just get email?
Email has always been a function of windows, going back as far as I care to remember.

I could copy Solitaire from XP to Vista 32 and it would work just fine.
But, I try the same thing with Windows 7 and it's a NO GO!. Just another big disappointment, because I play Sol every day to keep my hand-eye coordination as acute as possible.

I hope everyone had a good Halloween!

The Doctor Cool

BudDurland · Joined: Dec 05, 2002 Posts: 475

Doc, have you tried any of the e-mail alternatives -- Thunderbird, Eudora, TheBat!, etc.. ?

heavenbound1998 · Joined: Mar 02, 2004 Posts: 8

Doc, Instead of copying files from one version of windows to another just download microsoft's Windows Live Mail Very Happy

I use it for msn mail , Gmail and my Isp mail it works great.

drwho07 · Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 1546 Location: Central FL, USA

bern · Joined: Mar 12, 2007 Posts: 1432 Location: ann arbor

here is a problem that I had in Vista, and I now have it in Win7 Home Premium 64 bit: There exists a folder called "public" which, I suppose is for file sharing, etc. Well, somehow another folder called "public2" got created (I don't know how, but I was playing around trying to get the computer to talk to my old network, so I probably did it somehow). Anyway, "public2" seems to mirror anything that happens in "public" in terms of files added, deleted, etc. Public2 cannot be written to or modified, and it cannot be deleted. (but I could copy Public2 to another location, and was then able to delete the copy). So, what is this chimera, and how do I get rid of it?

drwho07 · Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 1546 Location: Central FL, USA

Hmmmm!
Sounds like another topic best posted in the
win7forums.

http://www.sevenforums.com/

Many things that I used to do in XP with just a few mouse clicks are now buried so deep within Win-7 that it takes a major safari, with toters and gun bearers to get to the place where you can change things the way you want them. Laughing

If you set up as many PC's as I do, the time wasted can be in HOURS, not even minutes.

My thanks and even Praise, goes to those guys and gals who have written scripts to accomplish some of these things quickly and easily.

Cheers Mates!
The Doctor Cool