[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Problems with Windows 7 (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 11/9/2009 2:29:29 PM EDT
Is anyone else having problems with Windows 7  Mine is acting horrible. Several times while I'm on the Internet, I get the message that my "Internet Explorer Has Stopped Working", it asks me if I want to diagnose the problem, when I click yes, it tells me that a solution can not be found. But if I click out of whatever I was in and click on it again, I'm right back into wherever I was previously.
Also I have my monitor set to time out after 20 minutes of no use. When I come back to my computer after the monitor has timed out and I move the mouse to get my screen back, I find that I don't have a mouse pointer and my Ctl, Alt, Del buttons do NOT work and I must shut the computer off with the power switch. Believe it or not. I want my Vista back!  
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Your sleep issue soundd like a driver issue. I had the same probel with a vista laptop. Worked fine till it fell asleep. When I woke it back up nothing worked. Caused by a driver conflict with my video card. To date this issue has not been resolved.
Why people continue to accept shit from microsoft that doesn't work riht out the box I will never know. Use firefox has become a standard answer for any ie problems. While I agree this will solve most problens, I would be fucking pissed if every time I bought a colt rifle, I had to go out and replace the bcg with bushmaster because colt said " fuck it, good enough, there's an aftermarket fix out there." Microsft just releases one pile of shit after another. If it wasn't for a superb buisiness plan and some of the best marketing in the history of the world, they would have gone the way of the dodo long ago. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Quoted: Your sleep issue soundd like a driver issue. I had the same probel with a vista laptop. Worked fine till it fell asleep. When I woke it back up nothing worked. Caused by a driver conflict with my video card. To date this issue has not been resolved. Why people continue to accept shit from microsoft that doesn't work riht out the box I will never know. Use firefox has become a standard answer for any ie problems. While I agree this will solve most problens, I would be fucking pissed if every time I bought a colt rifle, I had to go out and replace the bcg with bushmaster because colt said " fuck it, good enough, there's an aftermarket fix out there." Microsft just releases one pile of shit after another. If it wasn't for a superb buisiness plan and some of the best marketing in the history of the world, they would have gone the way of the dodo long ago. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile It is just you.  |
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That is an IE 8 issue; happens to my work comp quite often. It's not just IE8. I ran IE8 on Vista (home PC), and still run IE8 on XP for work. As soon as I upgraded my Vista box to Windows 7, I started having problems like the OP described. I suspect it's the new "Protected Mode" in Win7's IE8 that's causing the trouble. I've disabled that along with UAC for compatibility with an ActiveX control (work reasons; we wrote the control and it won't be Win7 ready for a little while) and the problems seem to have disappeared. ETA: The plugins I was actually running in the browser were skype (disabled; that plugin is unreliable on any OS), Java (Sun, v1.6.0_16), flash (latest), along with whatever launcher accessories Office 2k7 and Adobe reader put in. |
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Stone cold reliable, been using it since beta. I have no idea how some of you guys manage to fuck this shit up. I mean, you'd almost have to work at it. To be fair, there are about 5 million different pieces of hardware out there, of which you've used a very small portion of. Your background (of which mine is very similar) also lends to overcoming some of these issues that for other folks are insurmountable. Driver issues and compatibility would plague any OS as widely used as Windows. An OS crash on my Gateway tablet PC that was running XP prompted an emergency install of 7 last night.. Gateway doesn't have a single 7 specific driver for it (to be expected), but via compatibility mode and some tweaking, I was able to get all of my hardware, including the tablet screen, to work. So far, I'm really liking it and after one day I've had no issues (though I agree, IE is a POS and my first download after all the drivers was Firefox. |
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Quoted: Yep I have a Toshiba and Windows 7 is big pile of shit. Vista was actually much better. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it starts.  *2007* Vista is a POS, XP is WAY better. *2001* XP is a POS, win 98 is FAR more stable. *1997* Win98 is a POS, Win 95 had it right. *1994* WTF is this Windows 95 shit? Windows 3.1 for workgroups works WAY better! |
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Yep I have a Toshiba and Windows 7 is big pile of shit. Vista was actually much better. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it starts.
*2007* Vista is a POS, XP is WAY better. *2001* XP is a POS, win 98 is FAR more stable. *1997* Win98 is a POS, Win 95 had it right. *1994* WTF is this Windows 95 shit? Windows 3.1 for workgroups works WAY better!
lol. In general, I agree with you. Normally I'm an early adopter (beta via msdn; buy a full copy as soon as it's out), but Win7 is the only one of the OSes you listed that I had problems with that were enough to get my to stop running a beta pre-release. I am running it now, but I wouldn't have bothered if I had to pay retail prices for it. EDIT: Wait, you forgot Win2k, NT4, ME, and 98SE. :p |
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Your sleep issue soundd like a driver issue. I had the same probel with a vista laptop. Worked fine till it fell asleep. When I woke it back up nothing worked. Caused by a driver conflict with my video card. To date this issue has not been resolved. Why people continue to accept shit from microsoft that doesn't work riht out the box I will never know. Use firefox has become a standard answer for any ie problems. While I agree this will solve most problens, I would be fucking pissed if every time I bought a colt rifle, I had to go out and replace the bcg with bushmaster because colt said " fuck it, good enough, there's an aftermarket fix out there." Microsft just releases one pile of shit after another. If it wasn't for a superb buisiness plan and some of the best marketing in the history of the world, they would have gone the way of the dodo long ago. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile It is just you. http://i582.photobucket.com/albums/ss265/schizrade/hurr_durr.jpg Damn, your right. I never thought about the fact that it might be me. I guess that cs degree, all those microsoft, comptia, and cisco certs don't mean shit. Even though I manage to feed my family every day by managing hundreds of computers, and multiple networks, I never stopped tp think about the fact that all of microsofts flaws were actually caused by me being a bumbling retard. Thank you so much for showing me how little I know. Fuck, I hope one day I might have the great computer knowledge that you seemed to have gathered over the years so that I may email myu grandmother with out fear of the bsod. Please, teach me oh great one. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Stone cold reliable, been using it since beta. I have no idea how some of you guys manage to fuck this shit up. I mean, you'd almost have to work at it. as a computer tech- I sometimes wonder how the fuck people do it...its almost amazing. I swear if you had a pop-up box while browsing tijuana donkey porn pop up saying "click here to install computer-destroying virus" many people would. PS- i am not ripping you-i am just speaking in general |
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Quoted: Quoted: Yep I have a Toshiba and Windows 7 is big pile of shit. Vista was actually much better. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it starts. *2007* Vista is a POS, XP is WAY better. *2001* XP is a POS, win 98 is FAR more stable. *1997* Win98 is a POS, Win 95 had it right. *1994* WTF is this Windows 95 shit? Windows 3.1 for workgroups works WAY better!  I've only had trouble with Windows two times over the years. 1. Windows ME was a real POS. 2. Windows XP circa 2003-2004, somewhere around that time - roughly the last year before Service Pack 2 was released. SP2 changed XP from a nightmare plagued with holes, viruses and spyware into a very solid, usable OS. I haven't installed Win7 yet because I'm happy with my XP setup and if it ain't broke don't fix it. I probably won't switch until I buy my next system. |
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Stone cold reliable, been using it since beta. I have no idea how some of you guys manage to fuck this shit up. I mean, you'd almost have to work at it. 2 of my 3 best friends, and my girlfriend are IT geeks, the 3rd has a minor in IT and his dad is a beta tester for MS. They all say the same. |
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the sleep but no recovery could be a lot of things. click the start button, type "power" in the search box, you should get a search result for "change power saving settings" or something like that. by default now, i think it sets new systems to a "balanced" or "power saver" mode that will spin down hard drives, network, etc. some hardware will not restore properly.
the "high performance" option will be hidden by default, click the little down arrow by "show additional plans", and select "high performance". Click "change plan settings", and then, "change advanced power settings" should be options for turning of the hard drive and some other things. I usually set the hard disk to "never". if all else fails, also set the entire computer to never sleep. (but let the monitor power off) As for IE, i've only had it crash when a bunch of flash stuff is running...so who knows there. Firefox doesn't work well at work, so i use IE there, but i use firefox at home... |
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the sleep but no recovery could be a lot of things. click the start button, type "power" in the search box, you should get a search result for "change power saving settings" or something like that. by default now, i think it sets new systems to a "balanced" or "power saver" mode that will spin down hard drives, network, etc. some hardware will not restore properly. the "high performance" option will be hidden by default, click the little down arrow by "show additional plans", and select "high performance". Click "change plan settings", and then, "change advanced power settings" should be options for turning of the hard drive and some other things. I usually set the hard disk to "never". if all else fails, also set the entire computer to never sleep. (but let the monitor power off) As for IE, i've only had it crash when a bunch of flash stuff is running...so who knows there. Firefox doesn't work well at work, so i use IE there, but i use firefox at home... The only thing that I have the power option turn off is the monitor. I have everything else set at never. |
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Stone cold reliable, been using it since beta. I have no idea how some of you guys manage to fuck this shit up. I mean, you'd almost have to work at it. It is truly amazing at times the shit that people will do to a system and then honestly think they did nothing wrong at all. "It just started doing that for no reason, I did not install/do/click/change ANYTHING!" Running 7 on 5 different machines currently, from a 4 year old laptop to a brand new dual screen mobile workstation. Zero issues. None. Working on getting a build together for my end users so I can roll it out to a few testers in my office. Will be full 7 by next summer. I refused to go to Vista. The entire rest of the office is still running XP. |
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Snow Leopard FTW. Yup,so far.  Shhhh, let's try to just slide on out of here before the mob tears us limb from limb. I like the Mac platform. It does what it is designed to do very well. That being said, I will never endorse putting a Mac in a professional office that has no need of graphics/CAD. Most office dwellers are simply not capable of understanding how to use a Mac. I can and have used a Mac for the majority of my needs but the existence of Bootcamp and Parallels speaks to the need to have access to a Windows system on occasion. I simply do not want to teach my users how to use a Mac or listen to them bitch because the screen looks different. |
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I like the Mac platform. It does what it is designed to do very well. That being said, I will never endorse putting a Mac in a professional office that has no need of graphics/CAD. Most office dwellers are simply not capable of understanding how to use a Mac. I can and have used a Mac for the majority of my needs but the existence of Bootcamp and Parallels speaks to the need to have access to a Windows system on occasion. I simply do not want to teach my users how to use a Mac or listen to them bitch because the screen looks different. I was just playing. Truth be known, I'm still using Tiger.
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Your sleep issue soundd like a driver issue. I had the same probel with a vista laptop. Worked fine till it fell asleep. When I woke it back up nothing worked. Caused by a driver conflict with my video card. To date this issue has not been resolved. Why people continue to accept shit from microsoft that doesn't work riht out the box I will never know. Use firefox has become a standard answer for any ie problems. While I agree this will solve most problens, I would be fucking pissed if every time I bought a colt rifle, I had to go out and replace the bcg with bushmaster because colt said " fuck it, good enough, there's an aftermarket fix out there." Microsft just releases one pile of shit after another. If it wasn't for a superb buisiness plan and some of the best marketing in the history of the world, they would have gone the way of the dodo long ago. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile It is just you. http://i582.photobucket.com/albums/ss265/schizrade/hurr_durr.jpg Damn, your right. I never thought about the fact that it might be me. I guess that cs degree, all those microsoft, comptia, and cisco certs don't mean shit. Even though I manage to feed my family every day by managing hundreds of computers, and multiple networks, I never stopped tp think about the fact that all of microsofts flaws were actually caused by me being a bumbling retard. Thank you so much for showing me how little I know. Fuck, I hope one day I might have the great computer knowledge that you seemed to have gathered over the years so that I may email myu grandmother with out fear of the bsod. Please, teach me oh great one. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile You're welcome. Oh and nobody cares about your resume. |