|
Windows 7 beta discussion thread (pg. 9)
|
View this Thread in Original format
| LightsOut |
| quote: | Originally posted by El K Dee
oh btw...anyone try one of these h4XX0r cracks to deactivate the expiration? |
are these cracks confirmed? I would love to upgrade to this, but i don't want my trial to expire in the summer and be ed... |
|
|
| El K Dee |
| quote: | Originally posted by LightsOut
are these cracks confirmed? I would love to upgrade to this, but i don't want my trial to expire in the summer and be ed... |
I don't know...I downloaded one off a torrent and this is what a screen cap in the folder showed:
notice the "30 days remaining" after patching? so what? every 30 days you need to re-run the patch?
this is also an old patch (dec 28th, 2008) so who knows if it really is valid
PS. if you are thinking about getting win 7, u can only download it through torrents now as microsoft has taken it off their site. you can still obtain a product key off it however. |
|
|
| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by El K Dee
wtf...i aint turning that back on...
in vista i have UAC off and my sidebar loads...ugh |
UAC is awesome and if you don't use it a lot of doesn't work. Just turn the settings down, it's a lot friendlier now. Seriously, if you don't use UAC you're inviting yourself into a world of just like XP.
As for the sidebar, there is no sidebar in 7 - it's just gadgets wherever you want to put them on your desktop. Mind you, they'll dock to edges of the screen automatically so you can make a pseudo-sidebar if you wish. |
|
|
| Orko |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
UAC is awesome and if you don't use it a lot of doesn't work. Just turn the settings down, it's a lot friendlier now. Seriously, if you don't use UAC you're inviting yourself into a world of just like XP. |
I never understood this, world of like what? If you say ok, install a program that has a trojan in it, how is UAC going to help?
UAC is the most annoying POS ever. I just clicked 'change setting' why would it ask me again if i want to change it? Then you have to give another confirm "yes i want to save settings'.
And you have said before that things wont work. Like what? |
|
|
| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
I never understood this, world of like what? If you say ok, install a program that has a trojan in it, how is UAC going to help?
UAC is the most annoying POS ever. I just clicked 'change setting' why would it ask me again if i want to change it? Then you have to give another confirm "yes i want to save settings'.
And you have said before that things wont work. Like what? |
The gadgets don't work, for one. The menu for them won't even load up. It's the only reason I have UAC on (on the lowest level) and it's still f'ing annoying. Every time I start certain programs the damn thing asks me "are you sure you want to run it?" Ugh...so retarded. |
|
|
| El K Dee |
Cale, its still a sidebar. If you type sidebar in the search of the start menu, sidebar.exe shows up as well as "Launch sidebar".
The gadgets still need a host app and the host app is the sidebar...even with vista you can move the gadgets anywhere on the desktop.
I'd rather have UAC off than have a processor/RAM monitor running (thats the only gadget I use anyway). |
|
|
| infinity HiGH |
| That CPU/Ram thing pisses me off because it just reminds me that I need to upgrade my computer. The weather gadget is useful though. |
|
|
| Orko |
| Unfortunately desktop gadgets have not evolved beyond cpu/ram/weather. No matter the operating system, they are all the same. |
|
|
| El K Dee |
| quote: | Originally posted by infinity HiGH
That CPU/Ram thing pisses me off because it just reminds me that I need to upgrade my computer. The weather gadget is useful though. |
i download the other black one which actually shows the strain on each core and has the fancy graphs and stuff..not the default one |
|
|
| El K Dee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
Unfortunately desktop gadgets have not evolved beyond cpu/ram/weather. No matter the operating system, they are all the same. |
u can download free ones which allow u to have custom rss feeds, direct windows function access etc. |
|
|
| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by infinity HiGH
The gadgets don't work, for one. The menu for them won't even load up. It's the only reason I have UAC on (on the lowest level) and it's still f'ing annoying. Every time I start certain programs the damn thing asks me "are you sure you want to run it?" Ugh...so retarded. |
This, and like file virtualization and various "sandbox" type stuff...
Man, does UAC really bother people that much? I'm so used to it now, I guess.
As for gadgets, I use the post-it notes a lot, CPU/RAM/HDD/network meters, weather, currency exchange, and one that shows the top 3 CPU-hogging processes at 3 second intervals. |
|
|
| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
This, and like file virtualization and various "sandbox" type stuff...
Man, does UAC really bother people that much? I'm so used to it now, I guess.
As for gadgets, I use the post-it notes a lot, CPU/RAM/HDD/network meters, weather, currency exchange, and one that shows the top 3 CPU-hogging processes at 3 second intervals. |
It wouldn't bother me if I could add programs to a safe list but that seems to be too obvious. It's annoying when there are certain programs that I run on a daily basis and have to always confirm that I actually want to run it. It's redundant. |
|
|
|
|
