Sunday, March 27, 2022

150 dollars for a Download Disc??

150 dollars for a Download Disc??

Yes, I have a bug to report and it is up where the sun don't shine. Had to upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Ultimate to be able to do the practice exams for a certification I am working towards. So I pay my $159.00, get my DVD, put it in the DVD drive and low and behold the DVD is nothing but a tool to download all the upgrade files from the Microsoft site. So now instead of an hour or so to upgrade you are talking 3 or 4 hours for all the files to download. And why do I feel ripped off for paying $159.00 for a piece of plastic? What if I needed some files off of the disc later? It seems that it would be cheaper since Mircosoft did not have to burn files to every DVD to upgrade...ok Microsoft keep it up, Linux is breathing down your neck. As Bill Gates said in the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, success makes you lazy and arrogant. You may have happen to you what you did to Apple..

Not unsatisfied but disgruntled customer.

Reply:
This forum is actually for bug reports on the forum software itself (the application that you used to post your beef).  Not that we don't care - we're just the wrong people to talk to.  On the whole, the MSDN forums are programming forums, so you're probably best expressing your frustration elsewhere.
Aaron Alton | thehobt.blogspot.com

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Yea, you are right...... The complaint section about MS products would be huge, but as a Linux, MS dual and sometimes triple booter the Linux complaints are endless. No different really, (except) hackers love MS, afterall why pay attention to an OS with a small market share...... But, that being said, I would just puke in disgust being known to use Apple any thing. I can not find one program I have ever paid for, oher than MS- 3.1, '95, '98, XP....... ever...... try that with that low life sh*t for brain azz Unix sh*t, that will not even load onto hardware, unless of couse it is an outdated piece of crud embedded with Apple code...... F*ck Apple for doing that to Unix, and to all consumers. MS, no limitations....... just buy the OS once, every thing is FREE and runs ust fine on crud and fast hardware of choice. Oh, about your $159.00 ... horrible...... should have been a 25 cent cost, the disk........at most.......

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dont coming images from the panels???

Hi

I m using private php admin panel for my one of my sites. I cant adding the images from the pc... giving me explorrer solutions... (Error).. Do you have any idea anyone for why. ??

Thanks

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Have you tried lauching the app with a rightclick for 'run as administrator' ?
Rating posts helps other users
Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP

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of course I tried right ways... I thing from the internet explorrer 8.0. Because I havent any problem when I have 7.0...

Maybe different problem... Not sure. But I need to fix it. I cant put image on my website from the my web site admin panel...

Thanks...
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Windows 7 und neue PC Hardware und Probleme MultiProcessor_configuration_not_Supported (German sorry not Speak English good)

Hi Leute

Ich hab bis heute Windows 7 erforlgreich testen können. Heute bekam ich meine neue CPU und Grafikkarte und jetzt startet mein Windows 7 nicht mehr.

Also ich hatte vorher einen Core2 Duo E6600 und eine Geforce 8800 GTS.

Seid heute habe ich einen Core 2 Quad 9650 und eine Geforce 285.

Die Fehlermeldung ist auch sehr Komisch den die lautet:
MultiProcessor_configuration_not_Supported

Ok ich dachte jetzt hm vielleicht hab ich unter Win irgendwas eingestellt was jetzt mit den 4 Kernen in die Quere kommt und wollte Win 7 neu installieren bzw reparieren lassen. Doch auch beim Setup bricht es ab.

Was kann ich noch machen?
Habe im Bios schon mal einfach dich sichersten sachen laden lassen und sogar den Speicher runtergetaktet, hat nciht geholfen.

Kann Windows 7 nicht mit 4 Kernen umgehen?

Directories and files which can not be deleted

I have installed Windows 7 on a separate drive, just as was suggested by Microsoft.

After reading the numerous reports on how good Windows 7 was, I gave it a try.

But I was disappointed to see only an updated version of the dredged Windows Vista.

Not only an update of Windows Vista, but a bad one as well with spelling errors, etc.

A few days later, I wanted to start Windows 7 again to fulfill my part as a Windows 7 Beta tester, but the Boot Manager found and error and proposed to fix it.

I did follow the suggested fix, but there was absolutely no way to Boot Windows 7.

Booted from the CD and installed the whole thing again.

Ran Windows 7 Beta for a few hours, and went rebooted my PC.

Only to find out that Windows 7 Beta had placed a directory "Boot" on my C-drive with versions of the files in "x" languages and there was absolutely no way to delete it.

Tried everything, and gave up.

I agree that Microsoft wants to restrict access to some files which can be important for the system.

But Microsoft has no right to impose an user their will and totaly deny access to a file which shouldn't be there in the first place.

If Microsoft allows Viruses and Malware to change infect or change files, the Microsoft should allow the buyer of Windows 7 to cleanup his computer without the need to format the harddisk and install everything again

Disappointed user of Windows


Reply:
As they said from the start we knew it was a BETA. I have installed it on 2 of my main computers and (knock on wood) have only had a few small things go wrong. My problem will be when my time is up  the uninstall process as whatever Microsoft told me to do is what I did installing it and I have forgot what that was. There are several new things but I believe it is made for someone using everything on the program that is usable. That being said I truely "Love Windows7". Hope your using it gets much better.alot depends on the computer also as I read more from the blogs I see so many different types of computers. Have a better day.

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Drag and Drop Not Working Well

Has this been discussed in another thread?

When I try to drag an item, doesn't matter what program or what item, e.g., an email, document, etc., I can only drag it a short way, or not at all, before the the mouse "slips" off. This has the disastrous consequence of sometimes dragging the wrong item to folders unknown.

Thank you.

Reply:
WMJR1953 said:

Has this been discussed in another thread?

When I try to drag an item, doesn't matter what program or what item, e.g., an email, document, etc., I can only drag it a short way, or not at all, before the the mouse "slips" off. This has the disastrous consequence of sometimes dragging the wrong item to folders unknown.

Thank you.

Hi

I'm not sure where this problem may be coming from?

What type of mouse device are you using, wireless, wired, trackball, or...?

One thing you can try is to right click the file you are trying to move and select Cut from the popup menu, and then Paste the file in the target folder. Or, you can select Copy and then Paste the file, if you don't want to actually move the file.

Hope this helps. 

Thank You for testing Windows 7 Beta
Ronnie Vernon MVP


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Thank you, Ronnie.  Didn't want to post details if this had been discussed elsewhere.  Some programs do not allow for a copy/cut/paste, so dragging is the only allowed method.

Logitech wireless, MX600
nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX Pre-release WDDM 1.1
Dell, XPS 600 duo core pentium 3.2


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Reply:
I have a few programs that dont appear to give copy and paste, as well, but so far i've found that (Ctrl+C) Copy,  (Ctrl+X) Cut, and (Ctrl+V) Paste all work well.

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Sanginius said:

I have a few programs that dont appear to give copy and paste, as well, but so far i've found that (Ctrl+C) Copy,  (Ctrl+X) Cut, and (Ctrl+V) Paste all work well.


Old fashioned keyboard commands?  Haven't used those since my foot-powered hard drive days.  ;)

Will give it a go.  Thank you.

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Reply:
I would try another mouse (preferably a wired one) to see if it's the mouse/mouse software that's causing the problem.
- John

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usasma said:

I would try another mouse (preferably a wired one) to see if it's the mouse/mouse software that's causing the problem.



Yes, it's not unusual for the microswitch under the mouse button to go "noisy" and generate false clicks or drops.  Microsoft mice seem more prone to this than Logitech, for some reason, although I've had to change the microswitch on both makes in my time.

I would try a different mouse before going any further.

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Dual Boot Vista/Win7

Hello and thank you for your replies and advice.  I appreciate your help and answers (the warning(s) too.

I'm going to try it and see what happens.  I'll report back, if I can!!  NOT LOL.
Respectfully,
Robert Goltz Please, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

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Hi Robert,

I think you opened a new post with mistake, as your post has nothing "directly" to do with any kind of MS product, will try to move to your original post.
Enjoy TevhNet forums

Erdal

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Unattended Upgrade of SQL 2005 Express Edition SP1 or SP2 to SQL 2005 Express Edition SP3.

 
I need to upgrade from SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP2 to the new SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP3. I have to do this upgrade using a silent method (or unattended upgraded without user intervention) fired from the command prompt. Is this possible ? If so can you please provide me with the sample.

sqlexpr32 /qb UPGRADE=SQL_Engine INSTANCENAME=XXXXSQLExpress ADDLOCAL=All SECURITYMODE=SQL SAPWD=ugvenkat DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0 SQLAUTOSTART=1 SQLCOLLATION=SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1_CI_AS

Hope this helps someone out there :)
  • Changed type Aaron Alton Saturday, February 7, 2009 10:42 PM Changed to discussion - OP answered their own question.

WIn 7 wifi utility vs Intel

I'm having problems disabling the win 7 utility so that I can use the intel wifi connection utility.  Every time I select disable on the win 7 utility (from the connection properties menu) I get a blue screen followed by a reboot.  Any suggestions?  I would really like to try the Intel connection utility. 
  • Moved by Othorvath Saturday, February 7, 2009 3:14 PM (Moved from Windows 7 Networking to Windows 7 Application Compatibility)
  • Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:09 AM

Reply:
What are the details of the BSOD?
Try this link to analyze the memory dump and post the results here:  How to read the small memory dump files that Windows creates for debugging

Although this is a Windows XP article, the process is very similar for Vista and Win7.
- John

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Connect to TV

I connect the pc to a TV (Samsung Plano wide 100 Hz Digital CRT) using s-video. The video card is GeForce XFX 8500 GT PCI-express. The only screen resolutions I can use are the typical 800x600, 1024x768 not the wide, and the refresh rate is 29 and 30 Hz. I had the same problems using Win Vista.

 

The thing is that in the past, I use the same TV with an older pc using an ATI VE RADEON video card in AGP 4x slot with s-video and Win XP. I could use wide resolutions and refresh rate up to 100 Hz using ATI catalyst.

 

I am going to buy a new wide LCD TV with VGA in, DVI in, HDMI in etc in the future, but until then?

AHCI

I installed 7 beta in its own partition on a machine with an AMD 780g chipset.  My Vista installation has AHCI enabled, and also in the bios.  Win7 beta installed ok, but I didn't see an option to enable AHCI during setup.  My HDD WEI score in Win7 is 2.5, but in Vista it is 5.7. 

Could this be due to AHCI not being enabled in Win7?  How can I find whether it is or not?  If I wish to revert to IDE mode without a reinstall how would I do that? 

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Its very unlikely to be due to AHCI, there have been lots of reports of peoples HDD's scoring lower in Windows 7 WEI compared to Vista's. This is due to changes in the way the HDD's are measured. This in turn is because of new technologies being supported such as SSD's I know that SATA drives are now capped at 3.0 and having recently put Windows 7 on a 1TB SATAII drive with 32Mb Cache, that is reporting as 5.9. I cant find it just now but somewhere i have posted a link to a Blog with a section in it called Engineering Windows 7 and that explains in more depth about the new WEI for HDD's.

Heres another post with the link i was looking for.

  • Edited by Sanginius Saturday, January 31, 2009 3:37 PM Further information and link added.

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I disabled write caching and rebooted, but the HDD score, when rerun, was still 2.9.  Am I missing something?

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Without knowing what type and speed of drive you have, and how precidely the new WEI works i cant say for definate, but i suspect you may find that your drive is at a 'capped' limit as dexcribed in the post  i linked previously. 

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I also have a mb with a amd780 chipset and when I initially installed win 7 I also had a WEI of 2.9 then I reinstalled the latest southbridge driver and reran the WEI and got a rating of 3.0. Disabled write caching and still got a 3.0 after a few reboots I am now getting a WEI rating of 5.5 whether the write caching is enabled or disabled. So if you have the latest drivers installed you just may have to wait for a few reboots or maybe you may have indexing running at the same time which may affect the hd test.

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ANN: SQLCLRProject New Home

Some of you may know, back in the days I developed a tool for deploying .NET assemblies to SQL Server 2005 (or, as it was called then, Yukon). Initially it was just a tool used from the command line. As time went by, it evolved into a project named SQLCLRProject, consisting of the command line tool (YukonDeploy), a stand-alone front-end GUI, DeployProperties, and an add-in (with project and item-templates) for Visual Studio, DeployAddIn.

Anyway, I hosted that project on my Wordpress blog, as well on another server where I kept the downloads. Recently some people have been interested in evolving the project i.e. do some coding. So today I have created a new project on CodePlex for SQLCLRProject. At the moment, I only have the latest binary there - but the source code will be uploaded as soon as I have cleaned it up a bit (removed various silly comments etc.).

So, if you want to play with it, or need it for other reasons, the new home is now: http://www.codeplex.com/sqlclrproject.

Niels

MP4 on Windows 7

Hello! I tried to play my MP4 video on Media Player and it hang. The same problem occur when i played that type of file on KMP.
  • Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Sunday, February 15, 2009 5:06 PM no reply to followup suggestions

Reply:
fortd said:

Hello! I tried to play my MP4 video on Media Player and it hang. The same problem occur when i played that type of file on KMP.


Try THIS dgaudio.exe seems to be causing CPU seizing.

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Reply:
 SAME PROBLEM.   Any solutions yet???????

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Reply:
turn off all sound enhancements

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 I did this, but it didn't help.   What DID help was turning off the hardware acceleration on my graphics card.   Now I am able to play videos with Media Player and Real Player, but still not with Windows Media Center.

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I have the same problem.

Whenever I play MP4 I recieve this error just before a BSOD; 

My graphics card is nVidia 8800gts 640mb. I tried:
  • Updating my videocard drivers using Windows Update. According to nVidia, the driver is called "Windows 7 Supercharge".
  • Updating my videocard to nVidia Vista 32bit 181.22.
  • To turn off all sound enhancements
  • Disable hardware acceleration.
All did not work. There is a MP4 decoder found here, but I have no knowledge about this so until someone post the steps or fixes this, I am going to use other media players.

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Explorer Layout has wrong scope

It seems that the "Layout" property in Windows Explorer has the wrong scope. It should be local to a particular instance. Now, if I change the Layout of one instance, every future one is also changed. I should be able to have different Explorer instances with different layouts. I have the same problem in both Vista and Windows 7, so it seems to be a design, rather than implementation, problem.

Age of Empires

I know its an old game and its working fine except  water in map shows dots, usually with xp or vista i would alt-tab out and go back in game and it would fix itself.  With windows 7 thats now not working, anyone know a work-around this?  Will appreciate any feedback, thanks.

Reply:
Hello,

Have you tried to run the game in Vista or XP compatibility mode?

Regards,
~Alex T.~
~Windows Desktop Experience MVP~

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downloading windows 7

Hi just tried downloading Windows 7 Beta 32, 3 times now, get to the end and its doing the integrity check, and I just get the corrupt file message. Great!! wasted over 7Gb of download quota, for nothing. I'd love to test this out but as I live in Australia I guess the only servers are in the USA. Got my Product key but no product. Anyone fancy burning the ISO for me??

Renaming icons on desktop, cannot read font

When I select an icon on the desktop and press F2 to rename it, the font color turns white, on a white background.  Can anyone reproduce this?
 

Reply:
yes i have this exact same problem.

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Reply:
I don't.

Does the same thing happen when you right click > Rename?

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Reply:
SoonerSkeene said:

When I select an icon on the desktop and press F2 to rename it, the font color turns white, on a white background.  Can anyone reproduce this?
 

Yes, this is reproducible and most likely due to the Aero Interface, or the following below:


xDirect said:

I don't.

Does the same thing happen when you right click > Rename?


Actually, it appears that these are two different actions. When you click on the title to name/rename it, it actually just lets you name it, instead of renaming it. When you click on Rename on the context menu, it is the old method. I am not sure which I like, but I would rather it be the other way around, or off by default.


+1 for either turning this feature off, or taking it away. I just don't think it is very intuitive. Maybe if we were in a program it makes sense, but this is a system-wide setting, that is very hard to get used to.


Andrew,


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SoonerSkeene said:

When I select an icon on the desktop and press F2 to rename it, the font color turns white, on a white background.  Can anyone reproduce this?
 

Just an update to this bug-report. I have noticed, that you said by using the F2 key. However, it isn't happening like that for me. What I was referring to, that I could reproduce, was when you click on the icon once, and then pause, and click on the name; this is what I thought you were talking about, at first. However, it still is something that needs some work.

BTW, thanks for the new shortcut, :)...


Andrew,



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  Well,  when I try to rename an object on the desktop, the color of the file name became transparent, instead of black. I guess anyone having a white or near-white background should see this as white-on-white

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IAnguiano said:

  Well,  when I try to rename an object on the desktop, the color of the file name became transparent, instead of black. I guess anyone having a white or near-white background should see this as white-on-white

Picture



Actually, I am not so sure that I can reproduce what I said earlier. There is an actual bug, because this is not how it was looking, before. It was appearing like it was actually nothing there, but it appears like the text and background was both white when the bug happens. However, as you can see in this picture, the text in the selected text is not the same color as the background, where when this bug happens, it is all the same color.

Now I am confused...

*Scratches head...*


Andrew,


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ok, I now understand what you said.... and while you also left me scratching my head, I think that maybe both bugs are related.... mine seems to appear only when you set up a slideshow as desktop background... did you set up a slideshow? or did you where using solid color? I tried to find if I can reproduce your bug, but obtained the same result I described previously, and only under the conditions mentioned above.

Maybe if you try to remember how did you configured the desktop and which apps where running, then you'll get the same bug and post the result

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I believe if you will right click the desk top and open personalize,  then left click Window Color at bottom of page,  left click Advanced appearance settings at mid page,  click the arrow to drop down the menu on the Item bar and choose Selected Items. I changed the selected item color to a lighter shade and chose black for the font color clicked apply. You will now be able to read the text your having problems with.       I think,,,,maybe,,,,,,well I hope. (:> 

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I have the same problem. No matter if I am naming or renaming and with any wallpaper, it just seems like the text is transparent (not smart msft!). The text appears invisible in areas on the wallpaper with really light colors, and in areas with darker color the text appears to match the wallpapers color. Don't know why this wasn't fixed before the Beta release as it seems pretty easy to spot. Then again, what are beta testers for?

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Error running check Disk in Win 7

Has anyone had the problem with windows 7; When you schedule a Check Disk and reboot, it does not start due to an installed app.  I only have Office 2003 on it along with the office service packs.  I even went so far as to do a sys recovery all the way back to just after the office install.  I've seen in other forums that 2003 is compatible with 7.

Thank you
  • Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Friday, February 6, 2009 5:10 PM no reply to followup Q.

Reply:
Please post the exact error you receive.
Ned Pyle [MSFT] - MS Enterprise Platforms Support - Beta Team

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Mr. Pyle,  It said that the check disk could not run due an installed program It told me to run system recovery.  What I ended up doing was reverting back to just after windoe\ws was installed.  I did it Almost a program at a time until I figured it out.  It was Norton 360.  I took it off and put AVG on and it is fine now.  I'm not sure what setting may need to be changed in Norton to get the check Disk to run, but I did not really care for the Norton 360 Program.  AVG works good.

Thanks for responding

Rob Gradle 

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Network Adapter not found for motherboard LAN port on ABIT IN9 32X-MAX

I have an ABIT motherboard - the IN9 32X-MAX model. I am using the motherboard LAN and it worked fine on Vista until I just upgraded to Windows 7. No Network adapter is shown at all in the device manager.  

To try to fix the issue I downloaded and installed updated 32 bit drivers for vista from http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/download/download_driver_detail.php?pFI​LE_TYPE=Driver&pMAIN_TYPE=Motherboard&pTITLE_ON_SCREEN=IN9+32X​-MAX+Wi-Fi&pSOCKET_TYPE=LGA775
But still the LAN is not recognized after running the setup.exe with that download for the Nvidia Chipset Driver which is what drives my motherboard's Ethernet port. BTW I do not even see a section in the Windows 7 device manager for Network adapters. There is also no way to say "Install driver or hardware" manually - just "Detect hardware changes" - HELP?
  • Changed type Nicholas Li Wednesday, February 11, 2009 4:45 AM

Reply:
Hello,

Have you tried to install the drivers in Vista Compatibility Mode?  The Sticky Thread has some tips that may also work for you to try and get this device installed.

Regards,
~Alex T.~
~Windows Desktop Experience MVP~

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KODAK ESP-3 Printer crash no print

No matter what I do no matter what I use....

-Notepad
-Wordpad
-IE
-FF
-Even MS Word

ALL CRASH when I try to print.

Made sure all printer drivers were up-to-date as well as firmware. This is the AIO printer model ESP-3

Any ideas on that?
zero061099

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My Kodak aio 5100 crashes too.  It also crashes Word 2007.  Word will only run if I delete the Kodak printer from the control panel, even if I unplug the printer from the PC it crashes Word.  This may require a driver update from Kodak.

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no I tried that as well as the latest firmware updates! NO go! ???
zero061099

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Reply:
Same exact thing with my Kodak 5500 AiO

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Reply:
hmmm that is odd. It doesnt crash my word UNLESS I try to print. Very odd this is.
zero061099

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seriously no one knows about this?
zero061099

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Reply:
Hello,

If using the Vista drivers and trying to install them in Vista Compatibility mode doesn't allow for the printer to work then it will require a update from Kodak to get it working in Windows 7.

Regards,
~Alex T.~
~Windows Desktop Experience MVP~

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Windows 7 editions

I think 2 (and maybe 3) editions are enough.  I think Windows 7 Home Premium for consumers, and Windows 7 Professional for businesses and maybe the Enterprise edition should be all that is needed. 

Reply:
looks like they agree with you about the 2 and so do I

https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/feb09/02-03Win7SKU-QA.mspx

robin

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Reply:
 

While there will be two primary versions available the lineup will have six version world-wide.

Windows Home Basic – emerging markets only

Windows Starter Edition – OEM installed for specific hardware types

Windows Home Premium – Retail

Windows Professional – Retail

Windows Ultimate – Retail – includes all features

Windows Enterprise – Corporate only, purchased through LARs or Enterprise Agreements, includes all features

This is a more streamlined product list than XP or VISTA, with three products available to the general public and four products available to companies.  While there is a Starter Edition, I believe it will be distributed in small numbers, with most customers opting for Home Premium or Professional.


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I myself will be buying the Ultimate Edition, this beta has convinced me of the power of Microsoft and that they can listen to the users... 

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Found at http://arstechnica.com

Windows Ultimate won't be sold at retail, but it will be offered for sale during some promotional periods, Microsoft does not plan to create Ultimate Extras.

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