Office 2003 files will not stay on the desktop where I put them.
Edit/Save and you have to chase it down and drag it back where you want it.
Cannot use W7 with a KVM switch...
Boot without a monitor connected and all display settings are lost.
Cannot manually sort the contents of a Folder.
Cannot create a new Taskbar and park it on any edge of your screen(s)
My nr1. update/fix priority is not a bug but a conscious moronic choice by MS,
and it bugs the hell out of me.
It's the absence of an overlay icon to show if a folder is shared.
I have to click on every single folder to see whether it's shared or not.
MS found the number of overlay icons esthetically confusing, and instead of taking out the "shortcut" icon,
which almost every one wants to get rid of right after install, or the stupid lock which tells you the folder
doesn't have the "users" account in it, they decided to take the shared icon out.
Even Server 2008 R2 doesn't have the shared overlay icon, which renders an otherwise brilliant product, absolutely useless.
It must be the worst design choice MS ever made, and this will be a show stopper for companies.
For the last two weeks, I have been going through Win7's and Vista's registry almost line by line
to find a way to get the icon back, but they did one hell of a job hiding this feature.
But if it's there I will find it.
I rather have MS come up with a fix for it ASAP.
Nice rig.
For which OS are the drivers? If they are for XP, then you'll never get them to work. The driver model has changed. If you cannot get "pure windows 7" drivers, then you might be able to fall back to the Windows Vista drivers.
Drivers CANNOT be run under compatibility mode. If they don't work, they don't work.
Has the hard driver been partitioned? Open Control Panel then Administrative Tools. From there, check "Computer Management", "Disk Management"
I hope my advice has helped. Also, I'm glad to see more South Africans on these forums...
I hope my advice has helped. Also, I'm glad to see more South Africans on these forums...[/QUOTE]
Hey Dzomlija
First of all, I appreciate your quick response and assistance. Secondly, are you South African?
I downloaded the latest MEI Intel drivers yesterday (for windows vista 32bit) installed them, restarted my PC, but it would not restart, used the Windows 7 repair and my PC started fine with the drivers installed... Go figure...
As for the 'lost' hard drive, it is not partitioned, I never partition my drives. Not quite sure what to do about it. It is in the e-sata connection on the MB. Could my driver issue also be cause for the e-sata connection to not be operating?
Hey squonksc
Thanks for the info, I am new to this site. Just gotta figure out where.......
My bugs on Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 so far:
Twin Monitor setup
Vista introduced the great feature working on dual monitors, where you could simply drag maximised window from one monitor towards another, and...voila...window moved to another monitor, and it was also maximized there.
In Win7 / 2008R2 it does move to another monitor, but window gets restored to smaller size.
Multiple RDP sessions windows
When working with multiple Remote Desktop sessions opened towards some other computers, RDP sessions simply vanish after some time. Only 1 (random) RDP window stays opened (most probably the one you were last focused on).
Let me just confirm, that I tested it on multiple computers, and all Windows 7 behaviours were much alike - RDP windows were dissapearing randomly.
Windows Live Messenger
In idle state or even not logged-in, WLM ocupies 2 active icons in taskbar. One icon showing thumbnail of my WLM profile, and 2nd icon, showing actual WLM login window.
Also, when you do not work with WLM, some instant messages will not trigger neither any sound, neither will taskbar icon blink when somebody writes you a message. You need to click on WLM window and only then all messages will blink. seems like a bug in taskbar focusing.
IE8 back-buttons (and others)
I am not sure if this is Windows7 / 2008 R2 related, but I noticed this behaviour only on newly installed machines. IE8 sometimes freezes buttons for BACK and REFRESH, and also TOOLS menu is mostly grayed-out.
Seems like some security feature, which is buggy.
Taskbar buttons
For advanced users, it is handy to have also some non-standard shortcuts pinned to taskbar. For example, I want to have shortcut to NETWORK CONNECTIONS list pinned to taskbar.
To call NETWORK CONNECTIONS, you need to create shortcut to:
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe shell:::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}\::{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}
Ok, and beside this one, I also have shortcut to WINDOWS EXPLORER.
Now, when I run NETWORK CONNECTIONS shortcut, it becomes active in taskbar, but it also activates Windows Explorer shortcut, showing them both as active.
Networking
If you configure 2 NIC adapters, let's say, one for INTERNAL and one for EXTERNAL traffic, Windows 7 / Server 2008R2 will (wrong!) put them in the same network neghbourhood (Private, Public...) if NICs are from the same vendor (for example, if you have computer with 2 NICs already built-in).
I had to buy additional NIC adapter to make EXTERNAL and INTERNAL network treat separatelly.
I use a KVM with Windows 7 and so do a few other techs I know. Never had an issue. The only thing I know is a bit weird is that you can only get it out of sleep mode by using the keyboard. The mouse never works. I know now to just press the spacebar twice and everything is good. (again that is only if it is sleeping)
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