Haven't started installing programs yet. Still checking under the hood/bonnet so to speak. :)
Darn I forgot to pull the AGP card from my older machine. The current test machine only has a PCI nVidea card. :(
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Haven't started installing programs yet. Still checking under the hood/bonnet so to speak. :)
Darn I forgot to pull the AGP card from my older machine. The current test machine only has a PCI nVidea card. :(
oops ..
no time for this myself this time round :(
I shall look forward to hearing how it goes :)
Gah! Installers that do this should be burned in the face! The application invariably works anyway when the installer is forced to run (eg. by poking at them in ORCA) - way to build unnecessary obsolesence into the product!Quote:
at first it didn't want to install saying it was an unrecognized OS version
Windows 7... well, it's certainly a big improvement on Vista. A few neat window-management tricks, plus UAC is tamed and performance/responsiveness seems generally better all round. But unfortunately most of the inconsistency, complexity and freakish clutter of the Vista Shell/Explorer/Control Panel remains. :-(
So yeah, it's running nicely for me... in a VirtualBox under Linux.
So far Windows 7 is pretty much Vista except with a well behaved UAC and IE8 Beta.
I've never had problems with IE and perfer it over other browsers. IE8 is making me rethink that because of it's random lockups, failure to obtains DNS information so it can navigate to a selected website. And it's cluttered typed URL drop down list.
Windows 7 is working well, but no better or worse than Vista which works as well or betten then XP or Windows 2000.
As BobInce points out it is the installer and not the application that must be configured to work with backward compatibility.
Xara Xtreme Pro CD with patch is working well.
Xara X (the original) can be installed on Windows 7 and run well.
You do need to set all the .exe files in the root of the CD to Windows XP SP2 compatibility and Run with Administrator priviledges, and the .msi file must also be set Windows XP SP2 compatibility.
I installed Windows 7 on my Lenovo Tablet PC and am happy so far.
Everything including the fingerprint reader was recognized and I was able to use everything without installing piles of applications from Lenovo/IBM.
The touchscreen needed the install of Wacom drivers which went painless.
Windows 7 looks nicely improved to me.
What I like most so far:
The ability to create virtual folders. Folder like "Pictures" can be extended by just assigning as many folders as you want and set how content should be treated. Not that I wasn't possible before, but now its easy to understand and to do.
Sharing has changed a lot. Right clicking any data shows Sharing - Share nothing, Share with homegroup/read only, Share with homegroup read/write and Share with specific people. I like that a lot.
Homegroups are a nice idea but only work with other Windows 7 clients. The idea is to create a home network where you add other machines using a key created by the machine that started the homegroup. Cool idea, havent tried it yet.
Although on network operations with other OS it isn't faster than Vista so far, the GUI feels more responsive now. Definitely an improvement. If its faster its good, if it feels faster its good too.
The 5 days it runs on the tablet pc, which I use each and every day, I faced no problems, another improvement to Vista where the machine was stuck on waking up from sleep and various drivers freezing the OS again and again.
Nothing vital, but funny: There is a sticky notes gimmick I used to store some phone numbers quickly. When for fun I tried out to paint in them I found out that I cannot only paint there, but even pressure sensitive :=)
So far to me it doesn't feel like a beta version. Although the help is lacking content on various topics it feels pretty finished.
Oh, when I created users, I noticed a userid called $Alphauser which I removed. I didn't bother to check what rights that user had, but better be safe than sorry.
Cheers,
Juergen
Sounds encouraging Jurgen :)
However to stay on-topic, what of your Xara software with W7 ?
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I did an upgrade from vista to Windows 7 Beta. I have a lot of applications installed but only two applications did not work afterwards: Comodo Firewall and Xara XTREME 4. Xara Xtreme 4 crashed when run, so I deinstalled it and tried to run the installer from the CD. This said that the windows operating system was unknown, so I ran the compatibility tool and set the installation exe to Vista comptibility. The installation then ran correctly. Even so, Xara Xtreme 4 crashes almost as soon as I start it. The main screen draws, the About screen shows, under this the tip of the day starts to be displayed and then the program crashes. I ran the compatibility tool on the installed programs as well to no effect. During installation XARA tries to install a Windows Media Component which was also flagged as having compatibility problems. Windows 7 reported that it had fixed these.
I then repeated the process using XP compatibility with the same result. I am unable to get XARA XTREME 4 to run at all under Windows 7.
At the weekend I will try Version 3 and see if I can get that to run.
I have no idea what you guys are talking about. What's Windows 7?
RJP74, Just so you know mate this is a known issue in Xara although the issue was with Upgrading to (or between) Windows Vista Flavours.
The Main problem is with the activation code used.
If you have the chance it may be worth doing a Clean install of Win 7 and install Xtreme on to it, Although if you have previous versions of Xtreme then they should install correctly on your upgraded system.
But as far as my testing of Xtreme and Win 7 goes, Not too shabby (So far).