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I'm amazed at the people they hire to write as experts in these industry rags. Both of his unsolved problems could likely be solved by setting the appropriate services to auto-start in the service control manager interface.
I've put the Windows 7 beta through its paces, and mostly have been impressed. But I also found several problems with it, including hard disks that appear to vanish and turn into phantoms. Here are the hacks for fixing those problems.
As I write in Review: Windows 7 Beta 1 shows off new task bar, more UI goodies, I've been quite impressed with Beta 1. But I've found several problems, one with a hard disk that seems to have vanished, another with wireless networking, and another with getting the new Windows Aero Peek feature to work. After digging into the operating system, and with help from Computerworld readers, I've found hacks to fix them.
Hacking Windows 7 beta problems - Computerworld Blogs
I'm amazed at the people they hire to write as experts in these industry rags. Both of his unsolved problems could likely be solved by setting the appropriate services to auto-start in the service control manager interface.
What I'm wondering about is what "crapware" utility he ran that disabled those services from the get-go. I'm no fan of running unnecessary services but I've seen some of these "slim-down" utilities that simply maim a system. Nice to see that 7 is using more and more demand-loading by way of event triggers. I think that's one way Microsoft has trimmed the average runtime working set.
Hello fgdn17,
Welcome to the forums.
It is by design that the C: drive of a non Seven OS is hidden. All you need do is give it a letter in disk management. Only a hack would call this a hack. All I can figure is that this job pays virtually nothing, else people with a clue would be doing it.
Gary
Preston Gralla is a contributing editor for Computerworld, and the author of more than 35 books, including "How the Internet Works," "Windows XP Hacks," and "Windows Vista in a Nutshell." He has written about technology for more than 20 years, and has published in numerous national magazines and newspapers, ranging from Computerworld to USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News, and CIO Magazine. This is a weblog of Preston Gralla. The opinions expressed are those of Preston Gralla and may not represent those of Computerworld.
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I had the problem of my other HD not showing up either, and simply fixed it by assigning it a drive letter...how is this a "hack"?