Windows 7 Causing Problems

I've found W7 to be great so far but I agree with what others have said and do a fresh install, and steer clear of compression. I recently put W7 on my desktop (tripple booted with XP and Ubuntu) and an old vaio laptop. I've found the W7 OS uses less resources than a fully updated XP OS. XP with no updates is lightning fast but add all the security updates etc and it just bogs down.

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Originally Posted by zuno555

I find it difficult to believe that you can't find drivers for some hardware. Even vista and some xp drivers work in win7.

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Took some time to find my printer drivers but did manage in the end - were not in the standard Win 7 package. Likewise my Canoscan 1220 scanner will not work - says I need a WIA driver but I cannot find one anywhere that works - no scanner is not listed on the canon website for use with win 7.

My motherboard is also not 100% compatible but is running on Win 7 drivers but I have no sound from my onboard sound as the Win 7 drivers do not seem to support it. I will hunt out an old sound blaster card I have and try that.

Garry

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Originally Posted by garrycol

My motherboard is also not 100% compatible but is running on Win 7 drivers but I have no sound from my onboard sound as the Win 7 drivers do not seem to support it. I will hunt out an old sound blaster card I have and try that.

Garry

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Have you tried installing the XP drivers? I installed XP graphic drivers on my old Vaio laptop as Sony had not brought out any new drivers for Win7 (most wouldn't upgrade the OS as the laptop is nearly at the end of its life). The installation program executed fine within Windows 7 and now I have full resolution on my screen (as opposed to 1024*768). Worth a shot perhaps??

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Originally Posted by garrycol

no scanner is not listed on the canon website for use with win 7.

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The driver listed here is said to work, if in fact, that is the same scanner model as yours. May be it a go.

windows has a program you can run to see if your computer is compatible to upgrade to win7

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Originally Posted by stuee

Have you tried installing the XP drivers? I installed XP graphic drivers on my old Vaio laptop as Sony had not brought out any new drivers for Win7 (most wouldn't upgrade the OS as the laptop is nearly at the end of its life). The installation program executed fine within Windows 7 and now I have full resolution on my screen (as opposed to 1024*768). Worth a shot perhaps??

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The WIA message is what I got after I installed the drivers I used in XP.

Still sorting some issues associated with Win 7. One is Windows updates. At present there are about 30 language packs that Windows wants to load but I do not want them so at each update they sit there annoying me. With XP you could tell windows not to list them again - can you do this with Win 7. I assume so as there is a menu to "unhide" hidden updates but I cannot find how to hide them.

Any ideas

Left click to select the update you want to hide then right click to reveal a drop down menu. Choose 'Hide Update'.

Thanks for that - just what I was after

Cheers

Garry