Wedge

I have yet to encounter that. But it's probably because I use 7-zip to handle the unzipping.

I normally use Ark on Linux and WinRar on Windows and I've never seen that

I use the same software. It happens after a prolonged uptime of a week or month. I have a habit of doing that :P

Winrar here.

7zip is awesome. It unzips rar too :>

I doubt the issue Is it.

Oh yeah I never meant to imply it was. :)

The Winrar problem seems to be gone... Or at least doesn't happen all the time.
Also, the installer problem on 'calculating...' is gone, too. Don't know why or when. As long as it's gone, I'm fine with it...

I'm not finished setting up my machine, but at least now I'm working in a situation where I don't feel too bad with the Explorer. Actually-- I absolutely love overusing PT Sans for most fonts on my system. (No kidding, I'm using it in Wedge as well... :whistle:)

Here's a screenshot just for fun!



(Click for full size.)

Of note:
- no longer selecting full rows. I can safely click anywhere on the right side (Taille/size, Modifié/Modified, Type) to unselect something.
- Sort bar is no longer transparent
- the font!
- taskbar looks okay (I actually built my own background for the taskbar and used it on a Kaamelott background I like :P)
- quick launch bar is back
- Classic Shell is used for both the Explorer and the Start menu

I'll be gettting rid of the Organize bar eventually. And if I can find out how to change the line-height on folder listings, that'll be nice. Otherwise I'll just switch the font to Tahoma eventually... (like on good ol' XP.)

Oh, and setting up ClearType is quite hard... I still haven't got around to getting the exact same settings as in my XP. Too bad I can't import from it... Eheh. (Even if I could -- my HD is dead anyway.)
Still, I don't know if it's a font change in W7 or ClearType settings, but Verdana looks way better in W7 than in XP for me. And Lucida Sans Unicode Bold looks awful, while it looked great in XP.
I used to have PowerStrip running, enabling me to change the gamma for my screen, and would always lower the gamma because I found my interface to be too bright. This is no longer the case in W7, and I'd rather have a setting that's more faithful to what everyone else will be seeing, so I don't create distorted color schemes ;)

So overall it's all for the better... I guess!

The ClearType on Windows 7 is different to the one on Vista and XP.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/06/23/engineering-changes-to-cleartype-in-windows-7.aspx

Anyway there is a trick that allows you to use your own font in the command prompt, but it requires registry editing.



As you can see. I'm using Droid Sans Mono.

Speaking of PT Sans did you look at my blog lately?

I've installed XP Mode on my Win7 and I'm upset... Supposedly this was to be a simulation of any WinXP program in Win7, but the graphic drivers supplied to XP are for a standard S3 Trio card... Meaning I can't run any 3D games on it!
And *of course*, the program I really need to run on XP Mode is a 3D one... <_<

And isn't XP Mode supposed to provide shortcuts to its programs within the Win7 start menu? I don't see any shortcut to IE6 there...

Also, I don't get why it's taking up 3GB of my hard drive space... The ISO is only 500MB and it's using only a few MB of disk space for now... Tss.

Oh, and that stock XP install... I didn't remember it sucked so much!

The ISO is only 500 MB but the install profile is physically bigger; I remember it taking over 1GB when I first installed WinXP (pre SP1) way back in the day.

It wasn't designed for playing games, but for emulating apps that didn't work properly otherwise.

Yeah, but what when my games fail... :P

Will I have to go and look into VirtualBox again? And what do I do to install XP Mode on it? :lol:

Oh, while I'm at it... Win7 has a beautiful bug. If you put an admin program into the Startup folder, it will never run it. I have to manually launch them from the startup folder, and confirm the dialog box to run it in admin mode. If I don't run my apps in admin mode (in the shortcut), then they launch... Albeit with reduced permissions that make them completely useless.

Isn't that swell?

It does work quite well, though I haven't tried 3D gaming on it. As for installing XP mode, if you have an ISO, boot off it in VirtualBox.Very, but at the same time, anything that needs to be run at startup as an admin permission probably should be running as a system service instead anyway (which means it automatically gets higher permissions). Unfortunately it's not the sort of thing you can just magically make work, stuff needs to be able to be run as a service to work properly.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/12183/how-to-run-xp-mode-in-virtualbox-on-windows-7/ and use antiwpa to activate, it won't modify your xp mode installation just tricks winlogon into thinking it's in safe mode as WGA does not operate in safe mode.  :niark: