[JonusC]

Well ReadyBoost is an entirely different thing, that would require more steps. For now this thread should focus on SuperFetch…

…the main issue right now I think is trying to actually find a way to test if SuperFetch is indeed working as intended. I’m in the process of installing both Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 in Virtual Machines to export the hives and do complete comparisons (and try to map the differences), thanks to the amazing software “Registrar Registry Manager”, and to test Superfetch attempts – well – I think using Process Monitor on a program and the service to watch if it reads the PF files when you launch the program might be the only way to test it, but there would probably be additional tweaking of P.M. to figure it out and not have to sort through millions of queries….

So Windows 7/2008 R2 doesn’t use emdmgmt.dll for ReadyBoost and ReadyBoot? Or the ecache.sys kernel driver? Hmm…

GnatGoSplat, do you think you could list the Registry path nodes you used (from 7) and also list the files you copied from Win7 to get to the state you’re in? It’d be good to compare/see if it’s any different to what AsciiWolf already did.

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@JingoFresh wrote:

JonusC,

I would not consider OS X to be in the market in any serious capacity anymore. A lot of the multimedia stuff has moved to Windows, and OS X is pretty much for the people who prefer the brand. That’s it.

Good point. The main reason OSX had such successs in the broadcast/production industry is because of it’s High Memory support, but since x64 is becoming more and more mainstream these days there isn’t really a lot going for it – apart from it’s ease of use.

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Linux, Windows and even OSX are not really competing in my opinion – as far as professionals go anyway. Linux is a server/programming OS winner, OSX is a multimedia/creative production workhorse, and Windows tries to do a bit of everything (albeit greatly excelling in some areas and somewhat lacking in others).

Self-healing… hmm… I just make weekly incremental backups over a 3-month cycle (i.e. once they are 3 months old they are deleted). It’s quite painless and quick to do that when you have a C: partition dedicated to the OS (and you install everything to E:Program Files, and C:Users is located on E:Users but mapped to D:)

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That’s a VERY good point. And the same reason why I made that post on the Windows 7 Games (in Wishlist).

Yeah I’m going to stay out of this one… 😯 people on R2 could easily make do with VMWare Player 3.

[JonusC]

My opinion is for me to remain impartial on the matter, because I know each has their advantages and disadvantages – despite my personal taste I understand that everyone has their own right to choose. Unless you live in North Korea…

But to be completely honest, while I do think Win7/R2 is faster on slower hardware, I still don’t trust it’s stability or compatibility is anywhere near that of Vista or R1.

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@RemixedCat wrote:

@ JC you are actually stable with the 191.x drivers from nvidia?! OMG!

fallout3 crashed all the time for me. I just gave up on it.

but borderlands works great.

Yeah it seemed to be with many DX9 games, but i’ve only been running 2K8 R2 with these 191’s for a few days – haven’t had a chance to try any games or benchmarks yet. EDIT: Apparently they have returned lots of legacy support, for example one of the first things I tried was GTA1 – it actually works again in Win7 😆

[JonusC]

Indeed.

Anywho, the main issue I find with Windows 7 users is relying on the cryptic-at-best-descriptions of the Security GUI. You need to remember, when editing permissions, to check the “Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object” and Windows will be all “OMG are you SURE dude!?!?” when all it means is to “propagate this new Permission Rule to all objects inside this object; where they are marked to inherit from the folder above them” (and most files/folders, if not all unless specified otherwise; do inherit permissions from parents by default).

It’s why it’s a good idea to get that ‘Take Ownership’ shell extension, or make your own. This is the one-liner I use with FileMenu Tools (a context menu customizer) which works on Folders only (not files) but will go through and take ownership/add permissions to all of said folders’ files/directories:

@cmd /c @echo off && echo WARNING! This will take ownership and grant permission of && echo ALL containing files and folders recursively, INCLUDING && echo system folders. This can be dangerous and is undoable! && echo. && pause && takeown /f %FILEPATHS% /r /a /d y && echo --- && icacls %FILEPATHS% /grant administrators:F && echo. && echo. && pause && EXIT

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@JingoFresh wrote:

You should *always* keep aero on.

It offloads work to the GPU, so even if you don’t like all the new featres, you can disable them, but you should still keep aero on for better performance.

Oh don’t worry, I knew this before I even first tried Vista. Alas, while window drawing, dragging and refreshes were faster with DWM acceleration, some things were “lagging”. Perhaps it’s my 9600GT, perhaps it’s only the fact I have 3GB DDR2-800 RAM (2-2-2-5 though mind you), but the most common UI lag was from context menu’s. Usually it’s a registry fragmentation or PreFetch issue – you right click, it has to load all the namespace extensions – Anti Virus option, Notepad++, FileMenu Tools, WinRAR, so on and so forth – it has nothing to do with DWM, but for some reason using classic/no themes in Win7 made it nearly an entire second faster.

Although, I think it may be because I’ve left Win32PrioritySeperation to the default “Background Services” setting of Long + Fixed Quantum with No Boost to foreground Threads… I remember reading once that some Vista machines can actually be faster when you leave Background Services as higher priority.

Maybe it’s my hard disks? Regardless, it’s much better… it could also be because I’m using the latest 191.x nVidia drivers, beforehand I was sticking to 186.x as the 190’s crashed in Fallout 3 🙁

@JingoFresh wrote:

Anyway, sound is indeed a bit of a mess at the moment, with pulse, oss and alsa, but your card is more than likely supported, and you just had to know which module to load.

Yeah, I never had a great deal of success with either my SB Live! 5.1 (Dell OEM, yes it’s an EMU10k1 chip) nor AC’97 ‘Azalia’ onboard Audio [Realtek ALC889A]. But hopefully things will get better soon.

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@RemixedCat wrote:

what I rteally don’t get with driver companies are. They can get something called MSDN so they can get the OS like a whole year before the consumers can get it! SO WHY DON’T THEY? windows 7 was publicly avalible like in late january! so why couldn’t they start working on the drivers then and have the perfected BEFORE THE RTM!?. This agrivates me to no end. THIS IS THE WHOLE REASON MS HAS STUFF LIKE MSDN IS SO THEY CAN GET THE SOFTWARE DONE AHEAD OF TIME!

It’s all about what the wisest business decision is… that’s pretty much the fact of it. Whether you can see the reason behind that, or believe in a more refined… alternate way of things… what’s the policy on Politics on this board? 😆 Education is funny… 🙄

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I sure hope whoever makes this (I will take a look sometime this week) makes it a requirement to insert the Windows 7 disc.

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@RemixedCat wrote:

Yesh linux has alot of problems with sound! I still cannot get any multichannel working on my creative soundcard in debian and ubuntu!

Omg… don’t get me started on Creative 👿 … it was hard enough getting my Audigy to work on Windows 7 x64, I have to use the hacked drivers by daniel_k – and use ReadyDriver Plus to disable driver signing… my next card will be one of those ASUS Xonar’s or something else I think. Probably something with ASIO support for my music production.

The only debian-based distro I’ve used was Ubuntu, I never bothered with the others… I’m more a fan of the Red Hat forks (Fedora + Mandriva being a couple of major originally-RH-based distro’s)

@RemixedCat wrote:

the reason I use WMP is becuase it integrates very well with my sansa fuze. {…}

Ah fair enough, yes it uses Portable Device Enumerator rather than Mass Storage or w/e. I use an iPod Touch [shame] and MediaMonkey always had great support for iPods 🙂

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Wow! VMWare Player 3.0 can now create machines, supports Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL (!!!) and is FINAL and FREE for personal use…

I think I’m in love 😀 I’m gonna be trying Doom 3 in it tonight 😆

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Just thought I’d mention this:

ReadyBoost is dependent on the SuperFetch component and there is no way to get it working until we can solve that. So everyone should keep an eye on the SuperFetch thread for the time being 😉

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@AsciiWolf wrote:

Looks like I must also create new update.cat file…
But there’s one small problem – I don’t know how to do it… :/

I believe that would require some intense reverse engineering, since they are digitally signed. I’ve tried building my own simple .MSU before (i.e. a Hotfix) and it’s just about impossible. Well, it’s beyond me anyway.

Perhaps the way to go would be to create a custom installer script in AutoIt, or in Batch + additional Command-line tools.

EDIT: Is VirtualPC for Windows 7 and Windows XP Mode final/gold yet or still pre-release?

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@JingoFresh wrote:

Yes, it is indeed restricted for normal uses. I do wonder why this is…, but you can easily add the right to your normal user account with a few group policy changes.

Come again? EDIT: Sorry, for some reason I thought you were talking about a context menu entry 😆 nevermind, I already did it 😉

@JingoFresh wrote:

What I ment was, if I select 1000+ (or whatever) files of many types in one folder, in Vista and XP it will say “523 MB total” in the status bar straight away. In Windows 7, it doesn’t.

I can’t recall exactly, but this can definitely be changed by a registry setting.

Or do you mean not having to click the show more details part?

I mean this…
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…it’s not on the status bar, like it was with Vista and XP, and I have to make another click just to see the sum of all the KB’s that are already counted in the column. Clicking ‘Show more details’ thrashes the HDD when they files are big (and the folder isn’t indexed), so it obviously triggers a re-count. If there is a reg tweak or g.p. setting I’d love to know it… I’m still due to finish the mapping of Vista and XP registry hives…

EDIT: Wow, Server 2008 R2 is faster than 7… I think I’m going to keep Aero on, it’s actually not sluggish after installing all my usual shell hook programs 😀

@JingoFresh wrote:

Ahh, I thought you were talking about a variant of mplayer, but you meant mplayerc. I’m just more used to seeing it written as MPC. mplayer/smplayer is quite a different beast, which you may also want to check out. It’s quite a bit more configurable and handy then MPC.

I think I will. But tell me, it’s not another VLC is it? I could never get DXVA-accelerated WMV and MPEG-4/AVC acceleration in that (i.e. GPU accelerated HiDef).

@JingoFresh wrote:

I still need a *nix for a lot of network auditing and security stuff…and prefer it for some programming stuff.

Slack 64 and R2…best of both worlds :>

Yeah, I don’t do anything Network Engineering related anymore – but I do still play around with code hacking every now and then. I am starting development for Symbian S60 [Nokia Smartphones] which is impossible in a non Windows environment, and although I do a lot of OpenSource development (mainly Joomla/PHP) I just find it easier to do in Windows these days.

Mind you, the main reason I was pushed back to Windows from Slack was the poor situation of Sound stacks in all Linux flavours. I never could get a persistent situation of stability just for listening to music in Amarok while still getting sound support in Firefox (Youtube for e.g.), I would have to shutdown Amarok completely. That’s the best I got after weeks of fiddling, and I had a multiple sound engines/subsystems installed (whatever they are called… you know what I mean) and just got sick of juggling it all…

Basically, I’ve gotten too old for that s*** – i’d rather be at the pub 😆 but it was fun while it lasted. Maybe i’ll revisit the world of OpenSource OS when AROS matures a little more.

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