Windows 7 build 7000 (Beta 1) QnA!

[Unknown_97784568745]

I have 16bit color in Windows 7 if I install drivers for my 9600M GT. (WDDM 1.1 and 1.0)

It's set to 32bit (both in Nvidia's control panel and in vista's display settings), but images with gradients are clearly dithered while they look fine in Vista.

[Ricmacas]

I have 16bit color in Windows 7 if I install drivers for my 9600M GT. (WDDM 1.1 and 1.0)

It's set to 32bit (both in Nvidia's control panel and in vista's display settings), but images with gradients are clearly dithered while they look fine in Vista.

There are a huge amount of issues with graphic drivers on Windows 7. Wait for capable drivers with W7 certification...(P.S.: Does that even exist?)

[Unknown_97784568745]

There are a huge amount of issues with graphic drivers on Windows 7. Wait for capable drivers with W7 certification...(P.S.: Does that even exist?)

I hope Nvidia releases new drivers for this beta when it's officially released.

[Roger H. Veteran]

Anyone else having this issue? I'm using Dell Inspiron 6400.

i plugged in my old battery that i know is bad (Lenovo has a app that shows exact details about their batteries but notebook hardware control should have some of those features for non IBM PCs :) ) It shows the samething on my laptop with that battery. I know this battery only gives me like 1hr of usage - my new 9 cell gives about 5hrs.

Edit - hmm oddly enough, it doesn't estimate remaining percentage though. It just states 100% the whole time. I'm sure the battery is prolly at 75% by now. On Vista it wouldn't give me that warning but at least i could still see the battery percentage falling like crazy.

Edit 2 - Well i guess it does work, just took a while. It's showing 89% now though. Oh well :)

[Brandon Live Veteran]

Thanks guys, so Windows 7 is telling me to replace my battery with a new one? Cool, thank you :p

Yes, Windows is telling you this because the hardware is telling Windows that the battery is not holding a charge as it should be.

If you run "powercfg.exe /energy" from an elevated command prompt and let it run the 1 minute test, it will generate an HTML file with lots of interesting details about what your batter reported, along with warnings about drivers or other factors that could be reducing your machine's battery life.

[Inctye]

I would to see them bring back the time estimates on how much longer the battery will last. This is very useful especially when sometimes you might only be typing something up and the battery lasts longer, but other times you are doing heavy wifi usage and the battery drains down faster.

[dcoaster]

Edit 2 - Well i guess it does work, just took a while. It's showing 89% now though. Oh well :)

...Or maybe Windows 7 is just that awesome with battery life... :p :D

Yes, Windows is telling you this because the hardware is telling Windows that the battery is not holding a charge as it should be.

If you run "powercfg.exe /energy" from an elevated command prompt and let it run the 1 minute test, it will generate an HTML file with lots of interesting details about what your batter reported, along with warnings about drivers or other factors that could be reducing your machine's battery life.

Off topic Brandon, but does that command work with XP and Vista computers too?

[XPero]

Yes, Windows is telling you this because the hardware is telling Windows that the battery is not holding a charge as it should be.

If you run "powercfg.exe /energy" from an elevated command prompt and let it run the 1 minute test, it will generate an HTML file with lots of interesting details about what your batter reported, along with warnings about drivers or other factors that could be reducing your machine's battery life.

Cool, good to know. Cheers

EDIT:

Battery:Last Full Charge (%)

The battery stored less than 40% of the Designed Capacity the last time the battery was fully charged.

Battery ID 1011Sanyo DELLUD2646

Design Capacity 53280

Last Full Charge 17039

Last Full Charge (%) 31

Yep, my battery is not in good state.

Edited December 29, 2008 by XPero

[acnpt]

I would to see them bring back the time estimates on how much longer the battery will last. This is very useful especially when sometimes you might only be typing something up and the battery lasts longer, but other times you are doing heavy wifi usage and the battery drains down faster.

Im getting battery time remaining estimates and a percentage.

Both by clicking on battery icon, and hovering mouse over battery icon.

Maybe it takes a couple minutes to estimate?

[Calum Veteran]

Oh this is too cool. Check out the installer window for the Nvidia 181.00 Vista drivers.

OK, please may you, or someone else, tell me what is so cool about this window please? It looks the same as any other window to me... I don't understand :s

If so, that's a really neat idea. Thanks for the heads up. I was just assuming the battery was fine. (Y)

Still, maybe something like: "The battery is faulty. Replace the battery to increase its effectiveness."

I agree. I'm sure there are even better words than "Bad" or "Faulty". How about "Inefficient"? Or even "Your battery is not holding as much charge as it should, replace the battery to sort out this problem. Click here for more details" and the "more details" part can explain what it means.

I mean, even though the later which I suggested is a bvit long-winded, anything is better than "Your battery is bad". That phrase has a number of meanings and even if I saw it, I wouldn't know what it means, so I wonder what the average computer user would think...? :blink:

[KyleGM]

Can anyone actually confirm this is the build Microsoft are releasing? xD I was holding off to wait until they officially announced it but I gave in tonight and am ready to install, just going to be slightly annoyed if it turns out I have to download another one in a couple of weeks :p

[Roger H. Veteran]

Yes, Windows is telling you this because the hardware is telling Windows that the battery is not holding a charge as it should be.

If you run "powercfg.exe /energy" from an elevated command prompt and let it run the 1 minute test, it will generate an HTML file with lots of interesting details about what your batter reported, along with warnings about drivers or other factors that could be reducing your machine's battery life.

Sweet! I was looking for that for a while but couldn't find anything on how to get that. They kinda talked about it at WinHEC but since i'm no engineer or anything like that i didn't get all the details. I did the "/?" switch and got tons of options to play with :) Thanks.

I always knew this battery sucks, as i said the Lenovo Power Manager application show this sorta info (and warnings) on Windows XP and Vista.

Battery:Last Full Charge (%)

The battery stored less than 40% of the Designed Capacity the last time the battery was fully charged.

Battery ID 4481SONY92P1141

Design Capacity 56160

Last Full Charge 6790

Last Full Charge (%) 12

Also found out a bit of info i didn't know:

Platform Power Management Capabilities:PCI Express Active-State Power Management (ASPM) DisabledPCI Express Active-State Power Management (ASPM) has been disabled due to a known incompatibility with the hardware in this computer.

That's definitely interesting. Didn't even know there was an "issue" there.

Oh and here's a lil tidbit i thought would be nice... (then again after i thought about it i figured it would cause too much support calls or something). This was back in the 2000, XP, Vista days however.

... Since the battery can only hold 12% that it somehow state that. Instead of saying 100% it would say it's fully charged but only showing 12% of original capacity. This would kinda give people a headsup long before. NOw seeing the screenshot (above) and doing the powercfg thing - it kinda starts warning you at 40% which should be plenty of time before battery goes totally flat like mine. They should somehow show a warning or something somewhere with that.

[Inctye]

Can anyone actually confirm this is the build Microsoft are releasing? xD I was holding off to wait until they officially announced it but I gave in tonight and am ready to install, just going to be slightly annoyed if it turns out I have to download another one in a couple of weeks :p

Nope. The only way to confirm is to wait until the second week of January and find out.

[KyleGM]

Hmmm lol Can anyone even confirm its a real build and not just a modified 6956 one?

[ale0crysis]

Hmmm lol Can anyone even confirm its a real build and not just a modified 6956 one?

lol

6956 it's a M3 build

7000 it's a Beta build (official but not the last, 7012-7013-7019 etc)

7004 it's a RC1 build

[Denholm]

lol

6956 it's a M3 build

7000 it's a Beta build (official but not the last, 7012-7013-7019 etc)

7004 it's a RC1 build

You can confirm 7004 is an RC build :ninja: ?

[DrOmango]

I STILL CANT FIGURE OUT GETTING BIOMETRIC TO WORK! softex is piece of ****, and authentic inc lacks support :angry:

You can confirm 7004 is an RC build :ninja: ?

lol

[ale0crysis]

You can confirm 7004 is an RC build :ninja: ?

like CONNECT members says and NZL Microsoft Officer says and confirmed with one shot : yes

but any beta-tester has it, just few ninjas microsoft employers so don't go out to search this it's useless until now.. many other beta builds have to come :whistle:

:| :shiftyninja:

[Roger H. Veteran]

I STILL CANT FIGURE OUT GETTING BIOMETRIC TO WORK! softex is piece of ****, and authentic inc lacks support :angry:

lol

I've got a Thinkpad with built in fingerprint reader but it doesn't show up in the Biometric area of Win7 yet either. I keep going back every upgrade to see but maybe it just needs a new driver model or something that supports Win7?

[sharp65]

I think it does, my HP built in finger print reader shows up after I installed the vista driver but you can't do anything with it.

[PR.]

Got it installed on my MSI Wind clone netbook, been really nice to use, no major issues so far.

Has anyone got a version of the Cisco VPN Client to work?

I installed it and it made Win7 unbootable, fortunately that recovery partition it automatically installs did the system restore to just before I installed the VPN client, and I was back up and running in a couple of minutes, which was really nice. Very impressed.

[MuffloN]

Just noticed something odd, where is the "run as administrator" command for run in Win7?

[+Elі Subscriber²]

Can anyone tell me why W7 won't find my XP drive? I've gone through everything I can think of. When I boot in XP, I can obviously see my other drive, but in W7, I don't see my other drive.

Already answered on page 16 of this topic Here

[svnO.o]

I've posted a bit of my experience with the new beta here if anyone is interested: http://programming-designs.com/2008/12/win...rmance-shocker/

Didn't really get into looking at much else besides that aspect of Windows 7 yet.

[MuffloN]

About biometrics: I've got my UPEK fingerprint reader to work just fine, I can confirm that UPEK software (PSQL) pre 5.8.2 fails to install, but version 5.8.2 works and installs perfectly.

And there was still the question: How do I run a elevated command prompt in Win7? I haven't found "Run as Administrator" :whistle: