OT - Windows 7

[Justin Thompson]

Quick question - hope someone can help.

Why does Win 7 want to fall back to a "basic" colour scheme?

When I start to watch an AVI file in Win Media player it almost
immediately pops a message to say that perfromance is slow.... running
low on mem for Aero...suggest I go to basic display

Why would it do that? I have Win 7, a damn good sys - with 6Gb of mem.

I did read that it caused some incompatability with progs - but I
using an AVI in MS media player... so surely that should be
compatible?

I have breakdown of how file was encoded if people interested - but
lets keep simple for now... Why would MS media player make Win7 do
that?

Any help appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[mikeyhsd]

may not be memory, might be the video card quality.

give VLC a try.

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Quick question - hope someone can help.

Why does Win 7 want to fall back to a "basic" colour scheme?

When I start to watch an AVI file in Win Media player it almost
immediately pops a message to say that perfromance is slow.... running
low on mem for Aero...suggest I go to basic display

Why would it do that? I have Win 7, a damn good sys - with 6Gb of mem.

I did read that it caused some incompatability with progs - but I
using an AVI in MS media player... so surely that should be
compatible?

I have breakdown of how file was encoded if people interested - but
lets keep simple for now... Why would MS media player make Win7 do
that?

Any help appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[Justin Thompson]

may not be memory, might be the video card quality.

give VLC a try.

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The solution is not a problem - I could just chose to ignore the
prompt - I am more interested in understanding why

The card is not bad.... an ATI chipset 4870 with 1GB of on board mem.

If it were to work with anything - you would exepct MS to make sure it
works with their own player - so.... any more ideas?

Cheers

 

[Peter Foldes]

A Beta is still a Beta

 

[Justin Thompson]

A Beta is still a Beta

RC.... RC

 

[Peter Foldes]

RC=Beta. RC is still a Beta. RC is Release Candidate. It is nothing more and nothing
less. Still changes will be made before it comes out of RC and then when it does it
will be Gold

 

[Peter Foldes]

And I forgot. When it goes out of Beta(RC) the version that you now have (RC) will
need to be uninstalled to install the final released (Gold) version. This Beta (RC)
version is expiring at the date that was given when you downloaded it. I just
thought you might want to be aware of this little fact

 

[Justin Thompson]

And I forgot. When it goes out of Beta(RC) the version that you now have (RC) will
need to be uninstalled to install the final released (Gold) version. This Beta (RC)
version is expiring at the date that was given when you downloaded it. I just
thought you might want to be aware of this little fact

" I just thought you might want to be aware of this little fact"

LOL - I know- why on earth do you think I might need to be reminded?
Beta is different from RC - and RC is differnet from RTM... I
know...which is more than you seem to.... but...

But what I dont know.... is why the RC is behaving as it is with
regard to moving to "Basic" display mode.

Now instead of a smartarse "beta is beta" comment - may be you can
elboarate and explain that this is a known issue with the RC
version..or soemthing that actually moves the point forward...

Otherwise - please just go back to sleep.

Thanks and Cheers

 

[Peter Foldes]

Smart Ass answer

Again Windows 7 is still Beta. If you want an answer to that issue if there is any
then post over to the Windows 7 forum where all issues such as yours is discussed.


Microsoft has established an excellent special web-based Windows 7 Beta Forum you
can access here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/w7itpro/

Please repost your inquiry in the "Windows 7 Installation, Setup, and Deployment"
forum:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/threads/

 

[Richard Urban]

You didn't post this in the Windows 7 beta news groups because you think it
is not a beta?

Or don't you have access to the official Windows 7 beta news groups?

Again beta!

 

[VanguardLH]

Why does Win 7 want to fall back to a "basic" colour scheme? ...

The Microsoft Community for Windows 7 is found at:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/w7itpro

 

[philo]

Smart Ass answer

Again Windows 7 is still Beta. If you want an answer to that issue if
there is any then post over to the Windows 7 forum where all issues such
as yours is discussed.


Microsoft has established an excellent special web-based Windows 7 Beta
Forum you can access here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/w7itpro/

Please repost your inquiry in the "Windows 7 Installation, Setup, and
Deployment" forum:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/threads/

Correct

RC is still a beta product

 

[Muad'Dib]

" I just thought you might want to be aware of this little fact"

LOL - I know- why on earth do you think I might need to be reminded?
Beta is different from RC - and RC is differnet from RTM... I
know...which is more than you seem to.... but...

Because CLUELESS people post such nonsense on a regular basis. As
suggested, go to the WIN7 forum, where you should be asking the question
in the first place TO GET YOUR ANSWER, NOT in the, lets see, VISTA news
group! Good-lord-a-mighty, what is so mind boggling about that people?
Why do you think there are different places for different OS's? Pretty
easy to figure out, well, unless you ARE clueless..

G'day

 

[Saucy]

RC is still a beta product

It's just semantics. The RC is a beta .. Microsoft uses "RC" now to say
'late beta'.

Saucy