NetworkSydney

Hi All,

Finally got around to installing Windows 7 onto some old piece of hardware. Overall, the experience went quite well with things such as RAID controller drivers already included and not needing to supply drivers. I installed the 64x bit version and it seems to run well on my old Athlon 64. The graphics are onboard so video isn’t the best especially on a 24″ Dell wide monitor. The sound controller is giving me a headache, Windows Update found the drivers for the onboard sound controller but is refusing to cooperate, it seems confused thinking that I only have rear speakers in a 5.1 configuration. I think I might just do without it for a now and get a cheapy Sound Blaster card later on.

Software wise it seems to be good overally, I still think however Microsoft just shuffled icons around and repackaged it. So far I have received a few popups regarding the application compatibility thing which might get annoying down the track. Apart from that I think I might keep using it and see how things go.

Ciao!

If you found regmon and filemon useful well wait till you see Process Monitor. It is regmon and filemon blended together then put on steroids to include network mon and a whole heap of othe stuff, all driven by the simple filtering options. Download from Microsoft today and take a look, I am sure I will need it in the future.