Window Previews displayed as black boxes
When I set taskbar buttons not to be combined, hovering over taskbar buttons shows an empty black box. When I mouse over the black box, in certain areas it will highlight what I assume would be the titles of the windows (also a red icon to close it appears to the right to close each window).
Anyone else have this issue?
I have even tried to alter the advanced system settings to what would make for the best appearance (vs performance), and there is no difference.
- Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Monday, January 19, 2009 8:20 PM
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I had the same black boxes. In my case, I finally found that my test machine had insufficient video memory. 128mb is required.
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Is there a way to reset the account display settings ?
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Fix a corrupted user profile
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Sometime's when popup UAC window, display resolution reset from 1280x1024 to 1024x768
Can't activate Windows 7 via HTTP proxy.
Visual Studio 2008 and connecting to remote IIS via FPSE
This worked fine under Vista, but now under 7 i get an error message saying:
Unable to open the website '<url here>'. Could not find a web server at '<server url here>'. Please check to make sure that the web server name is valid and your proxy settings are set correctly. If you are sure that everything is correct, the web server may be temporarily out of service.
Now, the web server is NOT out of service, and FPSE is installed and running fine. Web Developer 2008 Express on a WinXP machine can connect fine.
I do not use proxy settings, i tried disabling the firewall, and excluding Visual Studio from my virus scanner's port monitor. I also tried running Visual Studio in Vista compatibility mode.
I am getting this error message before VS even asks me for any login credentials for the server.
Anyone have any ideas???
- Changed type Nicholas Li Wednesday, February 11, 2009 4:03 AM
changing the layout of the taskbar
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i like the looks of having it on the left side accept for one thing i like to have my start icon in the botom corner but there is no option to rearange it or even to invert it so its compleatly oposite.
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- Changed type Ronnie VernonMVP Monday, February 2, 2009 9:58 AM Redundant
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No i think he wanted to answer an post and created an new Thread by failure.
This is his Topic: Geforce 9600M GT Driver problem Windows 7 64bit
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Old Hardware AOK - except divx playback
BUT Divx playback is terrible in WMP and WMC. System goes largely unresponsive (tough to pause/stop video). Video frames not in sync with audio.
Was not a problem in Vista WMP11 or Media Center.
Have tried - with no 3rd party codec, xvid codec, Vista Codec Pack, CCCP codec and will shortly try Divx (which is unlikely to help).
ATI RADEON 9600 driver is Catalyst 8.12.
Any ideas (other than hardware upgrades, lol) appreciated.
Shawn.
- Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:05 PM need to send feedback
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Win7 doing fine on my old Athlon XP 2500 processor with 1 GB of RAM. Zippier than Vista for most everything.
BUT Divx playback is terrible in WMP and WMC. System goes largely unresponsive (tough to pause/stop video). Video frames not in sync with audio.
Was not a problem in Vista WMP11 or Media Center.
Have tried - with no 3rd party codec, xvid codec, Vista Codec Pack, CCCP codec and will shortly try Divx (which is unlikely to help).
ATI RADEON 9600 driver is Catalyst 8.12.
Any ideas (other than hardware upgrades, lol) appreciated.
Shawn.
I doubt their would be any software solutions to help.
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FYI: WMV and DVR-MS (recorded TV) play excellent, its just divx.
It appears to be a codec issue.
The problem in WMP and WMC is that the video appears to be slightly slow and the audio keeps getting further and further ahead.
When using Windows Media Player Classic the video and audio stay in sync throughout.
According to other forums, WMP and WMC continue to use their own codecs for formats they know, regardless of installed codecs and no one appears to know how to change it. Forums have also suggested that the problem is widespread (?) amongst upgraders and non-existent with fresh installed Win7. Maybe previously installed (and not so compatible codecs are carried over?).
A friend is having same problem on 3 different laptops with Windows 7 and DivX files.
Any ideas (other than hardware upgrades, lol) appreciated.
Shawn.
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Hi i have an intel core 2 duo 2.16 ghz a 2 gb of ram, running windows 7 64 bits, i instaled bs player for divx play but i have no image only audio, i hope someone can help me.
thanks.
Hi Paco,
Does WMP play the DivX OK or is the problem just in bs player? Suggest install CCCP codec pack for divx play in bs player. But WMP should not need third party codecs.
Shawn.
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Hi Paco,
Does WMP play the DivX OK or is the problem just in bs player? Suggest install CCCP codec pack for divx play in bs player. But WMP should not need third party codecs.
Shawn.
But, it does for AVI (DivX/XVid) playback, as there isn't an inbox codec for them.
Agreed, though, with the suggestion to try CCCP.
Also confirmed working in Win7 is ffdshow-tryouts (which also happens to be a lot faster & lighter than the official DivX codec.)
My best (educated) guess as to the posted issue: the named system just doesn't play that nicely with the DivX codec (overhead issue.) Rather similar to the issue that I had with my lappy when I installed Vista on it - AVI playback was a horrible stuttering mess. Uninstalling DivX, and installing ffdshow, made a huge difference for the better.
-Chris
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divx works perfect with wmp and media center but with bsplayer i have not video, only audio, the proble is wmp and media centre player do not handle subtitles.
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Windows Defender Randomly Turning Off And On.
Basically out of nowhere the Action Center gives a balloon saying Windows Defender is turned off, click here to turn it on. And after a while, it goes away and turns itself on by itself.
- Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:56 AM
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~Alex T.~Windows Desktop Experience MVP~
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I also did not see this problem, either on x64 or x86.
Peter Forster, MVP Virtual Machine, Austria
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Anyone having this issue. I have had this since installing but it's not a serious thing so never bothered complaining. Just wondered if I was the only one.
Basically out of nowhere the Action Center gives a balloon saying Windows Defender is turned off, click here to turn it on. And after a while, it goes away and turns itself on by itself.
Same thing happens to me, are you using AVG? just disable the little balloons that pop up, your not gonna get a virus anyways.
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Yes, this has happened to me also. It seems the Windows Defender service is set to startup Automatically Delayed. So, depending on how much auto-start apps you have running on your system determines how long from bootup, to desktop, to all services starting, will cause Defender to startup much later than it did on Vista.
SirTazOfMania
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In other words, the beta is all about testing and by way of feedback, making Windows 7 better.
How bad would it suck to have a problem you knew about, and perhaps had a genuine fix for, make it into the final release because it wasn't irritating enough (yet)?
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SirTazOFMania
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Hi,
I also did not see this problem, either on x64 or x86.
I should not have mentioned this. Today I had the same problem when I started my computer. Windows Defender was turned off.
Peter Forster, MVP Virtual Machine, Austria
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About Windows task manager.
Hi,
There's something strange when I run applications and then I move the application or simply run into the same feature, I do not properly process ends as I said still in the process but no one comes and I get to perform another action to change processes and let me handle properly.
Thanks.
.:Checho:.
InPRivate blocking is all of the sudden grayed out,
Out of know where Inprivate blocking option is now grayed out. (not running windows live)
PS, is the IE 8 beta 2 something I should download for Win 7 or is that already in there?
jf
Jimmy Fallon Computer Assistance www.mainstreetchatham.com
- Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Monday, February 16, 2009 7:31 PM
- Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Monday, February 16, 2009 7:32 PM
"windows help and support" doesn't go online
"You've lost your connection to online Help. Verify that you're connected to the Internet, and then try to connect to online Help again."
But I'm connected to the Internet!
I checked the firewall permissions, but they seems ok.
A similar thing happens also when I try to see the solutions to the problems I've reported, in the action center\more information: there's no way to contact autobug web service .
- Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Thursday, February 5, 2009 10:02 PM no reply to suggestions
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However, I also have a problem with Action Center, turning both 3rd party and Windows firewall off entirely does not help (including advanced settings), and my internet connection is fine. Attempts to open Autobug Web Service with Action Center's solution links to More Information result in "This program cannot display the webpage" .
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I got the same problem. action center announce a solution to the IE 8 problem (which suddenly closes), but action center just displays this message for a few second:
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Es wird eine Verbindung mit dem Autobug-Webdienst hergestellt. Bitte warten Sie. . . .
Es konnte keine Verbindung mit dem Autobug-Webdienst hergestellt werden.
Wir bitten Sie, uns weiterhin alle Windows-Problemberichte zu senden. So können Sie sicherstellen, dass Sie informiert werden, sobald eine Lösung verfügbar ist.
Weitere Informationen
Vielen Dank, dass Sie Windows 7 selbst hosten. Sie erhalten diese Antwort, da Sie aufgrund eines Absturzes oder des Nicht-Reagierens Ihres Computers einen Problembericht eingesendet haben. Der AutoBug-Dienst verarbeitet die Berichte und erfasst Informationen zur Fehler-ID, dem zugehörigen Fehler und dessen Status. Die Fehler werden täglich archiviert, wobei die Fehlerarchivierung in Echtzeit während Milestone 3 aktiviert wird.
Die Informationen in dieser Antwort sind vertraulich und dürfen nicht an Stellen außerhalb von Microsoft weitergegeben werden. Diese Informationen sind nur für die interne Verwendung bestimmt.
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after that, i only get the answer, that the program cannot display the webpage.
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Me too, I have had a number of issues with Windows 7 to which I believe there are solutions but I can't follow the links to them and trying to find them on the Microsoft web page looks to be a futile exercise!
Looking forward to a real fix.
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Driver for Windows Mobile Devices
Hi,
i can't use my Windows Mobile Phone on Windows 7!
Is there any Driver to download on the Web? Works "Windows Mobile Device Center" for Vista on Windows 7?
Greatings from Germany,
Olli204
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Please Don't Forget To Put "Invert Selection" Back In The Edit Menu
Thanks
Mark
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Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage)
I also running Firefox which runs fine.
Diagnosing Connect Problems results = Troubleshooting could not identify the problem.
Computer Specs
Hard Drives - 250Gb (Vista 32bit), 1000Gb (Windows7 32bit)
Video - Nvidia 8800
Ram - 3GB DDR2
Motherboard - Nvidia 680i
- Changed type Mark L. Ferguson Thursday, February 5, 2009 2:14 AM no reply to followup Q
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Sharepoint Consumer WebPart Master/Detail WebPart Connection Problem
I'm trying to build a consumer WebPart which will list all the metadata of a selected document in a document library.
I'm receiving results in my datarow from the selected document, but if i create folder in a document library and select a document in the created folder, my datarow is empty!
Who can help me out with this?
Here is my code:
public
class MasterDetailTestWebPart : Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart { private DataRowView _dataRow; private IWebPartRow _provider; private readonly StringBuilder _sb = new StringBuilder(); public MasterDetailTestWebPart(){
}
protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e){
base.OnLoad(e);}
protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e){
base.OnInit(e);}
protected override void RenderContents(HtmlTextWriter writer){
base.RenderContents(writer); if (_provider != null){
try { SPList list = SPContext.Current.List; PropertyDescriptorCollection schemaProps = _provider.Schema; if (schemaProps != null && schemaProps.Count > 0 && _dataRow != null){
DataRow providerRow = _dataRow.Row; foreach (DataColumn column in providerRow.Table.Columns){
foreach (SPListItem item in list.Items){
if (providerRow[column].ToString() == item.GetFormattedValue("ServerUrl")){
_sb.Append(item.GetFormattedValue(
"Title"));}
}
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex){ _sb.Append(ex.Message +
"\n"); }}
else _sb.Append("- Not connected\n");writer.Write(_sb.ToString().Replace(
"\n", "<br>")); // replace LF with HTML line-break}
protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e)
{
if (_provider != null)
{
_provider.GetRowData(new RowCallback(GetRowData));
}
}
private void GetRowData(object rowData){
try {_dataRow = (
DataRowView)rowData;}
catch {_dataRow =
null;}
}
[
ConnectionConsumer("Row")] public void SetConnectionInterface(IWebPartRow provider){
_provider = provider;
}
}
ppoe dialer connection issue
1.create any broadband new connection
2.dnt check the remember username and password field
3.now login by putting username and password field..
4.disconnect
5.next time when u will try to connect by giving wrong password and connection failes u hav to close the box..
6.now open it another time u will c that remembered username field is also empty..
7. is this a bug???????
Windows 7 on Asus EEEPC
First of all let me praise the coders for delivering an OS which looks like a huge step in the right direction: it's only in beta stage but fast, stable and looks pretty.
Ok, that was the good part, now for some annoyance.
I installed Windows 7 on my EeePC 901 using an USB thumb without any trouble. There's basically an entire forum section at EeeUser.com devoted to this.
The OS on a Netbook is very responsive - I have 2GB RAM, but I read other people using only 1GB enjoying their experience. The main issue is THE BLACK SCREEN.
In essence, during installation, at startup and resuming after hibernation, the video driver freaks up and displays a black screen.
The first workaround was to put the PC to sleep, and then waking it up. The screen revives.
Then - I don't remember where, sorry - someone suggested another workaround: using Win+P and then pressing enter, basically to change the display output to "duplicate" (which accidentally changes the resolution), then reverting to normal mode.
Then a wise guy in this thread revealed a somewhat nicer trick, using the command:
displayswitch /extend
As an afterthought, it is the same trick (changing the display output mode) but done with way more style.
The bottom line is the intel driver for Windows 7 must be a little bugged (euphemism). Other important issue is the inability to plug in anything to the VGA port (BSOD as certain as taxes and obvioulsy death itself, but more immediate).
This is probably caused by the intel driver, since in safe mode I can connect a beamer and survive. Only it is not that useful to have a beamer working when the applications I'd like to project don't.
Has anyone additional informations to share? Has the MS staff any hint? Thanks in advance.
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I finally cured it by increasing the Refresh rate from 60hz to 75hz
See my thread http://http//social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprogeneral/thread/cf20ae4a-526d-48b7-9047-500284c03b9c
HTH
Tony
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+ 2.41 GHz. on Asus M2N-E-SLI. 2.0 GB RAM. NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT Windows Experience Index = 4.8 ........... Also running Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop and wife has an old banger running WinME
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Logon processes, 802.1x and VLAN swithing
I havent been able to find time to test this yet - so my question goes out to anyone been able to test this yet?
The reason is quite clear - in XP and Vista, while logging on - if you used 802.1x and VLAN swithing (NAP remediation zones etc) you may experience the loss of logon scripts and other important processes, due to the time it takes to switch VLAN and recieve a new IP address.
Do we know if this has been changed in Windows 7? Does the logon processes know about the network changes and restarting the scripts or other redundancy methods?
Another key question is - is the network layer "smart enough" to wait for the VLAn swith to happen, resubmit a DHCP REQ in a timely manner (compared to XP's behaviour under VLAN swithing)
Appreciating any inputs on the issues :)
Sincerly, Jon E. Carlsen
Are there ADMX files for Windows 7 Group Policy Preferences?
- Edited by Allards Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:28 PM
- Changed type Ronnie VernonMVP Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:43 PM
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You may not need to use GPP to modify IE8 though - it has an enormous number of new policies. Over 1000 at last count. Read more on that:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc985339.aspx
and
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/10/02/ie8-group-policy.aspx
and other spots on the internet...
Ned Pyle [MSFT] - MS Enterprise Platforms Support - Beta Team
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Thnx for your reply, i get the new policies from the central store!
I can't find any new GPO Preferences for W7, we use them for some scenarios and like them, we would like to see how we can tweak W7 and Server 2008r2 with them. Most of the settings in preferences are configurable using the other GPO settings.
right now i'm missing W7 GPO Preferences for:
- Start Menu
- Power Option
- IE 8.0
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question...?
Ned Pyle [MSFT] - MS Enterprise Platforms Support - Beta Team
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For me GPP are real... :)
My main question is; what are the new GPP options, in the Windows 7 / W2k8 R2 releases, and how to i get them?
I have the 'Power Plan' (For Vista and later) in the "classic" GPO's but I'm looking for the convenience GPP gives me, it's a more visual approach, easier to get and better to explain others what it does.
I can't find an IE 8.0 GPP settings, does these setting come with the .admx files from Windows 7????
The same for Start Menu, no "Vista and Later" with GPP, only Plain Vista, no Windows 7 GPP settings.
The GPP settings i made work still for Vista clients, but on my Windows 7 client with the new admx files in the central store they fail. Drive mappings from GPP are working in Windows 7 and server 2008 r2.
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I really expected many new GPP in this realease, it seems Microsoft sticks with the old GPO model, not extending the GPP?! (The new taskbar is an perfec canidate for a GPP setting). No search in GPO's yet.. argg
One final question, why are the news GPO / GPP not downloadable (from the Internet) trough GPMC..? It's so hard to maintain the correct GPO versions, they change all the time and it's to much trouble to keep them upto date. As an administrator i prefer ease no magic!
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Search is there, just like it was in Vista. It's just missing some of the Win7/2008 filters. Remember: beta. Not done. Not ready. :)
As for extending GPP - a couple points: again, this is the beta, not the finished product. Also, the point of GPP is extensibility, especially through registry GPP - no matter we include, you can use GPP to change anything.
Ned Pyle [MSFT] - MS Enterprise Platforms Support - Beta Team
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Placed them elsewhere.
http://tinyurl.com/dxhmoc
I hope it helps?
I don't see any Windows 7 / Windows server 2008 settings below GPP and filtering only applies to the Administrative Templates part!?
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Ned Pyle [MSFT] - MS Enterprise Platforms Support - Beta Team
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Microsoft MVP - Group Policy
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