Hacking Windows 7 beta problems

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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
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.

I'm still confused, what does this have to do with a hard drive not showing up? :confused:
 

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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.
First some background about my hard disk problem. My Windows 7 beta is on a dual-boot machine. The C: drive boots to XP and the J: drive boots to Windows 7. When I boot into Windows 7, Windows 7 shows the J: drive as if it were a C: drive. That's not an issue. But the real C: drive is invisible -- it doesn't show up in Windows 7 at all. In Windows XP, there are no problems with recognizing both drives.
I've found that I'm not alone --- several people have reported that multiple disk drives don't show up in Windows 7. And several wrote to me with their fixes. Here's how to do it:





Hacking Windows 7 beta problems - Computerworld Blogs

you have the windows 7 on a partition on the same disk, if you read closely on windows 7 I think you'll find it is "by design" that the main partition NOT BE SHOWN when booting windows 7 from another partition which is NOT the main partition on the same disk...
 

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Hello fgdn17,

Welcome to the forums.

you have the windows 7 on a partition on the same disk, if you read closely on windows 7 I think you'll find it is "by design" that the main partition NOT BE SHOWN when booting windows 7 from another partition which is NOT the main partition on the same disk...

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
 

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next post on that story is funny...lol
 

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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.



..........:rolleyes:
 
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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"?
 

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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"?

I fixed it by rebooting :sarc:

ComputerWorld just seems full of idiots, I wouldn't be surprised if that was Randal using an alternate name just so he could post some more stupid crap about it and make people do stupid things with it.
 
pardon my ignorance but... :-)

this answers why I can go from vista partition C into win7 partition E and copy files but boot into windows7 I cannot see the Vista partition and the win7 partition is now C:...yes?

so I have to rename the Vista C: to? and where would I do that, while booted into Vista?

When in Vista if I right click C: there is a "change drive letter and paths" dialog, so is that where I would give Vista C: a new name like G: (picking a letter not already in use anywhere)?

perhaps its all academic but I would like to go back and forth to file copy/paste between systems.

Msongs
 

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When in Vista if I right click C: there is a "change drive letter and paths" dialog, so is that where I would give Vista C: a new name like G: (picking a letter not already in use anywhere)?

These are the correct steps, but you need to do them while you are in Win 7. So that you can see the vista partition in seven. You can already see both in Vista according to your post. If you look in disk manager in W7 you will see that it has no drive letter which is why you cannot see it in explorer.

Gary
 

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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.


Translation of the underlined: "Google Maps had the addresses for ComputerWorld and InfoWorld switched. We extend our sincere apologies to our astute readership he managed to slip past security long enough to make the above contribution. Please be advised we gave him a peanut butter sandwich and a taxi ride to Randall Kennedy's place, where we are assured he will receive proper attention, crate training, and walks at least twice a day..."

;) ;) :D :D
 
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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.



..........:rolleyes:


Hell I guess most people would say he really know's his stuff but hey people don't always get things right. A real **** if people depend on you for the right answers.
Hell mind you I have a Ph.D and I am always talking bollocks. lol
 

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