Windows 7 Messed Up

Discussion in 'Water Cooler' started by tech, Sep 17, 2009.

  1. tech

    tech Regular Member

    So as some of u know i have Win7 Enterprise 90day Trial and its starting to mess up already..

    Desktop is froze, meaning i cant do ANYTHING on the desktop, Windows explorer stopped working shortly after..

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    I hope i can shutdown...
     
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  2. Michael

    Michael Regular Member

    When you press the caps lock key does the light go on and off on your keyboard? If it doesnt it most likely wont recover from the crash. I am sure in windows 7 you can restart explorer.exe when using task manager without any hiccups.
     
  3. tech

    tech Regular Member

    Yes, But...I like red error messages =), Havent had any in a while..

    Ill try and restart it in tsk mngr


    Seems on Win7 im always running 2GB + RAM..

    I suppose i do have like 30 tabs and lots and lots of programs open..
     
  4. Chani

    Chani Grand Master

    How much RAM do you have?

    I have 8GB, and a LOT of tabs open, and I've never frozen before.

    Oh, and I'm running the 64-bit version of Win 7 Ultimate.
     
  5. FullMetalBabe

    FullMetalBabe Zealot

    I used to have 512MB and it could hold more than 60+ tabs open.... Never crashed.

    Now with the 4gigs I have I can do more :D !!
     
  6. Wayne Luke

    Wayne Luke Regular Member

    This is normal behavior actually. When you have multiple applications it Windows will page them in and out of RAM as necessary to multitask. When you switch to a new window, work doesn't stop in other windows. Those applications keep using resources. Even XP does this and I wouldn't run any modern computer with less than 4 GB of RAM installed. 6 GB if you're using a 64-bit OS.

    Personally, I blame Chrome. Unlike other MDI documents, each tab in Chrome is an actual copy of the application with all the resources allocated to as if you only had a single tab open in Chrome. It is a fairly power hungry setup to run many tabs in that browser.
     
  7. kev

    kev Regular Member

    DOS boot up disk, fdisk - enable large disk support - I think its either 1 or 4 to delete partition, delete non-dos partition - restart - create partition - restart - format c:

    Install windows xp.
     
  8. tech

    tech Regular Member

    Working fine now, i probably did something..

    I have 4GB ram btw..

    Im on a laptop so i cant have more..(only 2 slots) but i really wish i could upgrade my GFX card..=(


    How are u running Ultimate?

    I thought the only available version are the RC and Enterprise Trial..
     
  9. Chani

    Chani Grand Master

    The RC is Ultimate. :)

    At least that's what it says on the Welcome screen. ;)
     
  10. OneUpDave

    OneUpDave Guest

    Yes, the Release Candidate is the Ultimate version. Which I'm pretty sure I'll be buying through the college Microsoft program. I loved Win7 since the closed beta, and it's still a great OS now, so I actually high hopes for it. :)
     
  11. Wayne Luke

    Wayne Luke Regular Member

    Already bought three copies through the presale. Only got two copies of the Premium version though as it fits my needs really. Since they were only $49.99 each, I can't argue much.
     
  12. Chani

    Chani Grand Master

    Agreed! I don't like going back to XP when I need to...
     
  13. Chani

    Chani Grand Master

    Say what?!? $49.99???

    I might need to get my teacher-mom to buy it for me! :D
     
  14. OneUpDave

    OneUpDave Guest

    In my honest opinion, it's worth every penny for the full-priced retail version, although I would definitely get it while it's hot! Believe me, this is what Vista should have been, and will easily replace XP as the standard, not unlike XP replacing 2000.
     
  15. Wayne Luke

    Wayne Luke Regular Member

    Microsoft had a presale on licenses back in June and July on their website. That was the price they offered it at. I got three copies. My mother ordered two copies for her computers.
     
  16. Chani

    Chani Grand Master

    Damn damn damn!

    I wish I would've known about that! :(
     

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