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I think I may have gotten everything cleaned up.

Boy did I do something really dumb today. I spread a virut infection from one computer to another using a flash drive. The scary part is I also have a shared network server that may have got infected. The virus created an executable and an autorun.ini file on the flash drive. I have been very relaxed and taken a lot of dumb chances around the shop. live and learn

What kind of things do you want the server to do? it sounds as if you just need a computer with file sharing turned on. You could set up each person with thier own account and only give them access to their folders. You could have some folders with shared access.

The default gateway for most linksys routers is 192.168.1.1 I am sure you knew that, but made a typo.

We got a g4 imac in our repair shop that needed a reload. The problem was it had a bad optical drive. If we had a firewire optical drive around, that would have worked, but we did not. I did have a mac mini at home, using firewire target disk mode, we turned my mac mini into an external firewire drive. It worked really nice. its loading the os as I type.

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I have not been able to activate Microsoft computers all morning with the online activation tool. I called Microsoft to activate with a Microsoft technician. I get this response from them, we can't activate your product at this time do to an "Unscheduled Maintenance". That is such a nice way to say are systems crashed.

Why is that? Why would it be os specific?

I would try both pinging in regular mode and in "safe mode with networking". they should be very steady and regular. It may help you isolate the problem. If the pings are smooth only with "safe mode with networking", you may be able to isolate what is booting in regular mode which might be causing the issue ping google.com -t the -t option will allow the pings to keep going untill you stop them

to rule out IE being the issue, I would see if you are able to ping. open up a command prompt and try the two following commands ping google.com and ping 4.2.2.1 if you are getting pings returned, then this would point towards IE being the issue. If you get ping returns using the second only, then that indicates you may have a issue with dns settings.

75kb/s sounds is if your xp install was broken. I have a hunch, with a clean install of XP you would get 500kb/s also. I agree, I like Windows 7. I just started using on one of my main work computers

how did you fix it? you may be able to help somebody else with the info.

Its so cool, you can hear a song in the car, remember just a fear of the lyrics. When you get to the computer google the lyrics, then download via "Amazon mp3". So easy :-). Best $.99 I spend.

My favorite feature of Window 7 just quit working on me, taskbar preview. Now when I hover over the icon in my task bar I get a quick preview(about a second), then it disappears. Grumble.

as a way of ruling out issues, does it run ok with IE?

typing the command "mount" will show you what is mounted where

You can use the rc version till June 1, 2010 for free. That is what I am doing. download it free here

I already had installed the 32 bit version before trying the work around. I did not want to take the time to reinstall the 64bit version again. It probably would have worked. As to the errors, I got them all the first time through, but the second time it worked just as it said it would.

Yay, its working! I was so excited about using Windows 7, the thought of not being able to use it made me sad. I needed the feature of saving invoices as a pdf file. This is a huge necessity for my business. Not getting this feature to work with Windows 7 would have been a deal killer. I got it working using the following work around. This may have also worked using the 64 bit version, but who knows. I am happy with the 32bit version anyways. I am not sure if I am just happy to be using a fast dual core or getting away from XP(vista never appealed to me, I realize Windows 7 is very similar).

It is build 7100 rc. I guess this is not gold. This is what Microsoft allowed me to download. My computer does have an Athlon 64 proc. I am getting the same issue with the 32 bit version. I am going to try a few different workarounds I have found.

first issue I found. Quickbooks PDF converter does not work. This is needed to create invoices. Hopefully I can work this one out. edit added later// This seems to be a vista 64 issue. I may just install the 32 bit version of windows 7. I can't function without this feature Their appears to be some work arounds, I may give them a try. edit added later// I am downloading the 32 bit version, I am pretty confident this should solve the issue.

I really like the taskbar. It has a bit of the OSX dock feel. I mainly like the preview feature if I have multiple instances open in firefox.

I was under the impression that you just use vista drivers, but I am not really sure.

At home I mainly use OSX as my main system. I have a mac mini, it runs fine for what I do. Pretty much everything I do is web based. At work I have been using an old sempron laptop with XP. This machine mainly just plays itunes, runs quickbooks. I also use most lots of google apps: docs, mail, calandar. I just switched today to a simple dual core amd laptop with Windows 7, build 7100(64bit). I really like it. So far it has been a good experience. Everything I use has installed smooth. In our shop, we have sold about 70 new computers in the last two years, of which maybe 4 have had Vista, ever