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Post by nike on Nov 2, 2009 2:15:06 GMT
I really can't see much advantage of Ultimate over Home Premium Ken. It has all the home user needs. Running it for the first time on these couple of lappies was a bit presumptious of me, but, it's running fine. I'm pleasantly suprised at how fast it is with just 512mb of DDR SODIMM. I'm having more hassles with the ones running XP.
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Post by ken on Nov 2, 2009 8:13:25 GMT
I loaded Ultimate to run the XP VM Kev. The VM works very well, except I had the same trouble and MSN Premium wanted to dial out. I'm going to install another VM just for my sims and not bother with MSN until they tell me whats going on. I will boot from the from a disk in my docking station to check my emails, at least that has a working XP system on it. Whatever the problem is in Ultimate, its passing it on to the VM. The XP on the VM is supposed to be independant of the host OS, so thats another Micro$oft lie.
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Post by ken on Nov 3, 2009 10:58:00 GMT
For non NHI members, who have perhaps followed this string.
I have overcome the installation problems I had using Win7 Ultimate, but you can only do it if you have additional licences. I restored my OS with an image of Win7 Home Premium, with all my programs installed and working. Then I used Anytime Upgrade, from the Start button, Programs. Then I simply put in one of my Technet, Win7 Ultimate licence keys and in 10 minutes had a working Ultimate OS.
I have decided that the VM isn't the way to go for my sims, and will continue to run them on XP from the docking station.
So after several days of messing about, I'm back where I started with a minor upgrade. Although it works fine now, I dont think its worth the extra expense for the average user. Home Premium will do anything you need really and the other versions are for company networking.
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Post by nike on Nov 3, 2009 11:33:54 GMT
Unless someone can help me out by finding a driver for the onboard video to suit W7 x86, for a Toshiba Tecra A2 PTA20A-02R002, both of these lappies now running W7 Home Premium are going back to XP Home.
The Toshiba support site is bloody hopeless to find anything on.
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Post by ken on Nov 3, 2009 11:51:30 GMT
Cant help you there Kev, I dont have much to do with Laptops. I have always used Acers, I still have Win7 Ultimate RC x 64 on mine and its always worked fine. It even found the drivers for my mobile network dongle, that I only use if I'm not on my network. I had better get on and put Home Premium on it, just to make sure its OK. I'v saved everything to my pocket drives, so reinstalling it wont be a problem.
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Post by ken on Nov 4, 2009 5:49:50 GMT
Well the laptops done Kev. I put Home Premium x 64 on and all the drivers got put in first time. All I had to do was put the WPA password in for the wireless network and I was online. There was 5 networks showing with all different routers, mine was the only Belkin and the only secured one. When will these people learn?? I used one of my Tescos disks again to install and changed the license key to one of my Technet ones before registering it. Easier than downloading and burning a new disk. A Paragon disk image takes care of re-installation. A Windows disk image will do the same job, if everyone remembers to make a small partition to store the backup images. Thats another good feature of the new OS. Images can be stored on an external if you have got eSATA, I've never had any success trying to restore from an image on a USB drive. Windows 7 will also make a backup image on a DVD, but it must be very limited and restricted to Windows. With a partition you can include all your programs as well. I hope someones learning a little bit from these bits and pieces. Anyone who's not got partitioning software, you can use your XP disk to make NTFS partitions. After making the partitions cancel the installation and put your Win7 disk in and install.
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Post by jorg on Nov 4, 2009 19:35:21 GMT
Ken, it's all very interesting, jorg
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Post by ken on Nov 4, 2009 19:46:45 GMT
Thanks Jorg. At least someone reads what I write. I spend months trying this new stuff out and not even Micro$oft take any notice of my reports. After 5 years of testing XP x 64 I said no more BETA testing, but I relented with Win7 and am pleased I did. Its a great OS and the tests were easier than XP x 64, they actually had drivers this time.
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Post by ken on Nov 5, 2009 16:09:22 GMT
The Beast was running on a 60 gig KingSpec SSD and that was fine with XP. Its got 2 x 1Tb for internal storage, plus the other hard drives that run from the docking station. I thought the KingSpec was a little bit small for Win7 Ultimate, its a big OS and the time you Office and a few big programs on. I replaced it with a Samsung 120 gig. That thing flies. This was the rating with the KingSpec. This is the new rating with the Samsung. Its read 120 Mbs, write 100 Mbs and 128 Mb cache
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