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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:58 am
by Darkfoxx
That's a decent guide. I basically did the same thing but with ImgBurn...there was no command line stuff involved.
Didn't you get the student version, too?

BTW, my SSD is now fully updated with the newest firmware that included TRIM. I'm getting all my programs loaded now...hopefully I'll have Aion up by tonight.

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:43 pm
by Darkfoxx
Now for some Windows 7 questions...

1. How to I get rid of this goddamned list over my open programs? Shit is driving me mad.



2. How do I change that god-awful taskbar color. No, I'm not using Aero...don't even ask.

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:03 pm
by TexRob
Well now I have to ask, why no aero?

As for the list, you should be able to have those apps show one icon on your bar, and then show the list when you hover over it. Are you trying to get rid of the functionality? or make them stack?

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:06 pm
by Darkfoxx
I'm trying to get rid of the functionality pictured. I just want it to be like XP/Vista where the taskbar has my currently opened programs on it with no gay-ass list when I hover over them.

Why no Aero? Because I don't need it. I run completely stripped down versions of Windows, and I'm currently in the process of stripping this one down.

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:10 pm
by TexRob
If you run no aero though, and alt-tab out of the game, it takes longer does it not? It has to switch from 3d to 2d, that was my experience in Vista at least, and a compelling reason to run Aero.

You're crazy for trying to change Win7 though, it's a great feature, stop living in the past! Especially when the programs support it, like RDP. If I have 6 RDP sessions open, and hover over the RDP icon, mit shows me all 6 of my screens as small graphics, and then if I move over each one, mit shows me a full screen version of it, but keeps that overlay up until I click the one I want. It's so much better, same thing works for IE windows and tabs. So, I have no idea how to nerf Win7 down to be gimped, because it's dumb!

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:54 pm
by Tanis Half Elf
I agree with tex here, I love using Aero.
I am getting Windows7 when I have time to mess around with it. Or when I am not feeling lazy.

I am only familiar with the release client, and I see 2 features in your screen shot that have changed. That menu only comes up in the release client when you right click on the toobar icon associating with that program, and when you hovered over it, there would be a preview of that window(like vista). I liked the menu when r-clicking on it, but I can see how it may be annoying when hovering over it.

Also, another thing hopefully i can change that was in the Release Client is, there weren't really toolbar windows in the toolbar. There was just a little icon of the program on the tool bar. I liked this because it was kind of inconspicuous and took up very little space.

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:22 pm
by Darkfoxx
I'm actually running a stripped down version of Aero now...the only thing on being the feature where I can change the color of the taskbar and windows.



Now if I could just turn off the preview shit on the taskbar I'd be content...for now.

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:34 pm
by bluetenken

Western Digital 300GB Velociraptor 10000 RPM 16MB Cache

Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:25 am
by TexRob
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CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (C) 2007-2008 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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Sequential Read : 66.746 MB/s
Sequential Write : 64.877 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 31.358 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 43.309 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 0.433 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 1.555 MB/s

Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/10/24 10:24:07

Interestingly, this is with Aion running in the background. My drive is super ancient, 5+ years, so I am surprised it's not way worse.

Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:57 pm
by dun dun dun... chips

Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:43 pm
by Darkfoxx
/agree w/ Chips.

I remember using Ubuntu before Vista was even out and they had the Aero 3D windows thing where you can scroll through windows in 3d.

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 1:26 am
by Jif
eh you guys are both retarded. quad core CPUs with 4-8GB ram. you will never. ever. notice the difference. of running a nerfed version of W7. this isnt trying to put XP on a 400mhz celly with 128MB ram...

the preview shit is awesome. i dont car eif linux has had it for 20 years, linux is almost worthless when you game and replicate your work environment. linux has had that 3d cube desktop bullshit for a couple years, too, but no one who runs real applications gave a shit.

there always services you can tweak in windows or any OS when you know exactly what it will be used for, but with quad core CPUs and more RAM than you have programs to use it, it doesnt matter. at all.

and i didnt upgrade to XP for half a year b/c no one new how to tweak it to remove Luna and a bunch of other crap that slowed it down when playing CS 1.x. runnign tweaked versions of XP let us get the same FPS as 2000 but with most of the cool features of XP. things have changed.

Aero is not luna, it doesnt take up hardly any CPU cycles since it's ran by the GXF card, and it gets switched off everytime u load a game even if it's not fullscreen. i dont see the downside

i do agree with foxxy about the quicklaunch, though. i like having programs on their, but it doesnt handle shortcuts well at all. can put steam games on there, nor URLs, nor any document shortcut as it always adds the associated exe with a menu option for the shortcut. fucking stupid. i'm sure a reg fix will come soon. people have been tearing w7 apart for almost a year now (i think this new shortcut taskbar method was added in RC1 cause im pretty sure beta 1 did not behanve the same).
it's not just quicktray, tho. it does the same thing in the top of the start menu.

also you cant create quicklaunch or top of start menu shortcuts for items or programs installed over a network, which is reallllllllly annoying.


bottom line, if you dont like Aero, youre a fucking jewbag that hates America. go fuck yourself commie!

yeas i drank amnd im a rappa ternt sanga

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:46 am
by Bacon
yeah can bring back the quicklaunch thing.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/88 ... sable.html


I was never a fan of it personally

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:49 am
by Darkfoxx
The only thing I ever had in quicklaunch was the Cmd Prompt....because I use it a lot.

Oh, and I found out how to disable the preview thing when you mouse over the taskbar.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/06/1 ... list-view/

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:04 pm
by Jif