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Microsoft issues patches for stability
SOFTWARE DABBLER Microsoft issued a set patches Monday night for its latest desktop operating system, Windows 7.
The updates are stability and reliability fixes rather than security patches, so they don’t address any of the continuing vulnerability problems that hackers exploited in Internet Exploder, much to Google's chagrin.
The patches are available in a selection of flavours - Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit, Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit and Windows Server 2008 R2 for Intel's Itanic systems.
The Microsoft Support Service outlines the stability and reliability problems fixed by the patches:
This update resolves issues that affect some computers that are running Windows 7 or are running Windows Server 2008 R2. These issues are reported by customers who use the Error Reporting service or who use Microsoft Customer Support Services.
Issues that this update fixes:
- Keyboard function keys or keyboard shortcuts, such as mute or calculator, may not work correctly.
- The notification icon for an application may be moved or lost when the executable application is updated.
- On a computer that is running Windows 7, you configure the Screen Saver Settings to display the logon screen on resume. Additionally, you configure the computer to go to sleep. However, the computer may not go to sleep after the screen saver starts. Instead, a black screen is displayed. This problem causes the operating system to stop responding. You must restart the computer by holding down the power button.
Of course, if you prefer to wait for the mountain to come to Mohammed, the Vole will be adding these patches to Windows Update. µ
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seems like final w7 is less stable than beta (regardless of the hardware platform I run it on). I'll see if the patch fixes issues with power save modes (it better did)
I'll actually second the large file transfer part. If I try to move several hundred gigs I find the interface is terrible, it doesn't give proper progress indications or anything for minutes. But if I do it as a copy followed up by a delete it works fine.
@Scott
For large files
Make this registry change.
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then right-click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\SessionManager\MemoryManagement
3. Point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. Type SystemCacheDirtyPageThreshold, and then press ENTER.
5. Double-click SystemCacheDirtyPageThreshold.
6. In the Value data box, type 0x20, and then click OK.
Notes
* "0x20" corresponds to a decimal value of 32 MB.
* The range of values for the SystemCacheDirtyPageThreshold registry entry are as follows:
Minimum value: Total physical RAM in MB divided by 64
Maximum value: Total physical RAM in MB divided by 2
Default value: 0
The default value is a nonexistent key. If you add values that are out of range, your computer will revert to the default behavior. The value that you add is measured in MB.
7. Exit Registry Editor.
It most definitely does not have the same Kernel as Vista. That would be the same as saying Linux 2.4 kernel is the same as Linux 2.6 kernel. The Windows 7 kernel may have originally started out as the Windows Vista kernel but they have made a lot of changes since they started the development of the OS. The Windows 7 kernel is considerably faster, better with multitasking as well as media playback. On my old Phenom 9850 I was unable to play x264 1080p content smoothly without using GPU acceleration on Vista, after upgrading to Windows 7 I was able to without acceleration (mind you with acceleration there is still a massive difference in CPU usage).
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Same here except I use a Mac. I also have XP for computer games. Have not tried 7. I came on my Acer Timeline but I wiped it out of the box after making backup disks for resale value then installed Ubuntu.
From the little I seen of 7 it looked just like Vista, I hear it has the same kernel.
I still get "Not Responding" and many other problems from vista that will never get fixed. I bought one windows 7 computer for multimedia but the rest of my computers run Linux. While windows 7 is improvement over vista its still a dog in my mind.
It also cant copy files from my firewire drive without crashing and doing so ridiculously slow when it does not crash with small files.People are so used to these meltdowns they just think thats how computers are supposed to work. I do like multimedia on windows 7 but thats about all.
Linux used to have quite a few crashes for me but they seem to have improved so much it rarely happens to me anymore.