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Well you’d have to qualify the answer for it to be factual and useful; for example: for default installations Windows 7 will be more disk i/o intensive due to SuperFetch, the Indexing Service, et al..
For customized configurations where both Operating Systems are running a rougly contrugent complement of services and processes with similar settings — i/o traffic should be roughly the same, though Server 2008 R2 may still come up a little quieter…
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Overall I’m pleased too, though I don’t like the way the Favorites pop-up on the right but are then pinned on the left; in fact I haven’t liked the Favorites behavior since IE8, which just got worse with 9. I also wish Microsoft would re-unify it’s UI design scheme, the OS it’s applications and utilities looks like a bad science project run by a schizophrenic committee and handed off to their kids to finish.
I can’t remember her name but the woman originally behind the native Windows 9x/NT UI who I believe drew on or was also involved inTaligent composed brilliant design guidelines — and for a while at least everything Microsoft had a very consistent, efficient and congruent ‘form that follows function‘ approach to design that was uniform across everything the product line (no less the OS itself), and a lot of popular applications as well.
Now with the advent of Vista, Windows 7, and the Server 2008/R — regardless of whether you use the Theme overlay system or not; I count more then fifteen completely different design motifs that have little in common other then they ship on the same product; which I think is very warty…
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Looks good Arris! Didn’t see that you had a bunch of themes in the UCP, don’t know how I missed that! Is the board on phpBB3 now?
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That, is weird! There are several threads buried on this forum on editing MSI installers to circumvent version info that might help, but you’ll have to search/dig… This is a wierd one on me… ASUS does tend to do a lot of it’s own propritary thing with the chips it licenses from others, but Realtek audio is about as generic as it gets — I’m a bit surprised this is such a hoop-dance. That said, if you get to the bottome of it, I thin the reveal should be very interersting.
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I’d amplify what halladayrules is saying: while individual performance tweaks like disabling services alone will not typically offer noticeable performance improvement, and may even be in the window of margin of error of any performance measurement because tweaks of this kind are not effecting substantial performance bottlenecks — a concatenation of performance adjustments to Windows NT 6.1 that includes disabling unnecessary Services does in fact free valuable resources, not just RAM, but reduces i/o traffic, frees threads etc. for a performance improvement that is measurable with demanding applications, benchmarks, and games. Not ‘myth‘ but measureable fact…
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It’s a fair bet that any problem you’re having with the Driver on Sever 2008/R2 is also being experienced by anyone using any 64-bit version of Windows 7. Sans trying some of the trouble shooting and version circumventing steps I’ve recommended, I’d suggest checking ASUS forums for x64 Windows 7 User discussion for your audio.
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Clear and check your event log, to see what’s going on with driver installation and sound play-back… I also was editing/adding to my preveious post till a minute after you posted, so look there for more possibilities… And you’re not making it very clear whether you’re useing ASUS driver or Realteks…
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Have you got the audio to work under other iteratons of the Windows OS, and if so, which versions using what driver? Vista and Windows 7 drivers should for the most part work on Server 2008 R2 without issues — your problem may be installation/registry/file corruption from exerpimenting or a bad installation. When the installation was new/clean, did Windows Update give you a Realtek audio driver option in optiona updates, and if so did you try it?
The other possibility I can think if is that if your audio hardware won’t work with Realtek reference drivers at all (on any iteration of Windows), and requires propritary ASUS drivers, is that the ASUS driver installer may do OS version checking which can usually can be circumvented by extracting the driver MSI and removing the version check. You may also be able to ‘fool‘ some driver version checks by running them in compatibility mode.
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Try this, it won’t do any damage if it doesn’t work: go here and download the “Vista, Windows7 Driver (32/64bits) Driver only (ZIP file)” extract it to a directory you can easily find. Then go into Device Manager and find the ❗ icon for your uninstalled audio device, right click and select “Properties”, then the “Drivers” tab, then “Update Driver”, and => “brows my computer for driver software” and point it to the directory you extracted the driver files to (you may have to go to a sub-directory)…
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@Arris wrote:
Don’t todays’ browsers have spell checking for all text-fields? At least my Firefox has an English Spell Checking plugin in it.
Well IE does not by default, and while you can get IE spell check add-ons, they’re slow and ugly in their execution… The phpBB spell-check plugs I’ve used are very fast, much better behaved then anything I’ve tried in IE, and are easy to install in phpBB. So while it’s not a forum necessity by any measure, it is a nice feature/benefit; as many posting here that would benefit most from a spell checker probably aren’t native English speakers, and any spell checker they have installed in their browser may not be English…
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How about the following structure?
Other Windows Operating Systems
* Miscellaneous - All topics that don't fit in the categories below.
* Hardware - Drives and hardware related issues.
* Applications - Issues with installing and using software.
* Games - Problems with gaming in Windows.
* Tips - Discussions about Tools, Utilities and Applications that make life easier.
* Tweaks and Tricks - Personalization and productivity tips for Windows.I think it’s fine but Applications, Tips, and Tweaks & Tricks have some overlap and probably could be reduced to two sub-forums for more clarity…
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I have seen forum software in which it is possible to set the topic icon at the moment you create a new topic. Don’t know if this is also possible in phpBB but is currently not possible because of the custom template, or if there is an other reason. By adding custom icons it will be possible to quickly indicate about which OS the topic is about. If all of this isn’t possible for some reason, we ‘ll have to make some rules regarding topic names and I will have to manually edit the existing topics, because indeed, it would be confusing if we just migrate the topics to a Windows General section. It isn’t that much work like Indrek says.
Yes Icons would be neeto; but anything that works is good! There appear to be quite a lot of Server 2008 topics that won’t apply to 2008 R2, and could create confusion if they were just merged without some kind of indicator of which iteration of the OS was being discussed.
Lastly, it warrants mention that not just forum link color, but also the quote and code contrast colors are not very contrasty; so in this vein I’d suggest always allowing the native phpBB3 theme as a user option, as while it’s not very pretty, it is very functional across a wide range of issues like: color blind Users, different displays and display settings, it has a lot of carefully thought out details that individual theme Developers frequently miss, and your forum will still present publicly in the site theme default.
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While eBoostr appears to be a fine product that delivers on promises made, as does SuperFetch and et al. — I can’t help wondering with the ridiculous amount of RAM installed on so many systems if it might not just be more efficient in some cases considering how many Workstation actually are used and the kinds of application run — if all the elaborate automated memory management were just disabled (as well as other fancy clever automation), and the User just left all the applications he regularly uses running — if more resonsive results might be achieved…
Many Windows Users that I’m familiar with have cultured habits of what I guess I’d call ‘resource hygiene‘ probably based on experience learned with systems with less available memory, and the performance hit from having too much running at once. But I see a lot of UNIX, Linux and OSX Users don’t have this proclivity and have virtually everything they use running all the time… Windows is also strapped with a user interface that makes managing a lot of open applications less ‘tidy‘ and more manually intensive then some of the Linux Window Mangers like the TWM’s; so this may play a role as well…
The exception to all of this would appear to be those those really resource intensive applications and games that ‘need everything‘, but then again: shouldn’t Windows more efficiently manage resources of running applications and not really benefit from cache and automated memory management offered by tools like eBoostr and SuperFetch if everything is always running?
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For phpBB plugins I’d suggest any one of the many spell checkers, and re. sub-sections I’d suggest seperating Applications from Games entirely, i.e. just have generic ‘Games‘ and ‘Applications‘ forums, mixing Games and Applications and having a seperate Applicatios Tips forum seems redundant and confusing…
My biggest concern though is there are some really valuable Windows OS version specific threads that will be obscured if all OS version threads are merged into one common sub-forum. If no update to topic titles is made it might be a bit confusing opening a thread you thought would relate to what you were looking for when it’s actually discussing a different version of Windows.
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[s:1vicb0ad]Nrltiolg…[/s:1vicb0ad]
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