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Sunday, May 17, 2009

WIndows 7 D630 - Alps Touchpad

Found this site which referenced a newer Vista version of the TouchPad drivers.
http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-support/882-laptop-touchpad-not-working-windows-7-7000-a.html

I went to the Toshiba site and downloaded the newest version available for Vista:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_driver_details.jsp?service=EU&selCategory=2&selFamily=4&selSeries=243&selProduct=821&selShortMod=null&language=13&selOS=all&selType=all&yearupload=&monthupload=&dayupload=&useDate=null&mode=allMachines&search=&action=search&macId=&country=all&selectedLanguage=13&type=all&page=1&ID=65296&OSID=26&driverLanguage=42

I have installed this on my D630 and so far so good - no errors.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Windows 7 RC Quest AD Powershell ISE

I added the Quest AD Powershell Management tools to my Windows 7 RC build.
They work great in the built-in Powershell ISE.

You do have to have a single line first in the script to make them available:
add-pssnapin Quest.ActiveRoles.ADManagement

Windows 7 RC WinDirStat

Another program update.

WinDirStat v1.1.2 is working just fine. It did flag a installation warning that I had to click on the 'This Program installed Correctly' button.
http://windirstat.info/

Great little program for finding what is chewing all your local drive space.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Windows 7 HP 1022n

Downloaded the newest Vista driver from HP for the 1022 series printer.
Ran the install and then pointed the printer to use this driver for the 1022n printer and it works great now.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Windows 7 RC Printer Drivers

I have installed the following printers on my Win7 RC build:

  • HP Color Laserjet 3800dtn
    -driver installs without problem (did not use the universal driver)
  • HP Color Laserjet 3600
    -there is no driver for this unit - using the universal color laserjet PCL driver
  • HP Laserjet 1022n
    -no driver for this one, using the Laserjet 1015 driver
  • HP Laserjet 8100
    -driver installs without a issue

These drivers were either obtained using the Windows Update or direct download from HP.

Windows 7 RC Programs Loaded

Programs running on my Windows 7 RC build

  • Microsoft Office 2007 SP1
  • Citrix XenApp Client
  • PGP Desktop v9.9.1
    - This has issues with the seamless detection and asking of passphrase
  • VMWare Workstation v6.5.2
  • Live Messenger
  • Live Outlook Connector
  • Microsoft Money Deluxe v17.0.120.1415
    - There are some problems with this crashing during certain transactions
  • Cisco VPN Client v5.05
  • RoyalTS v1.6.6
  • Adobe Reader v9

Windows 7 RC on Dell D630

I have rebuilt my laptop with Windows 7 RC.

So far it runs great. No extra drives and it found all the hardware.

It works with the dock and dual monitors without issue.

Hot undock and hot dock works as well.

Running 4GB RAM and Windows consumes about 25% with only Live Messenger and IE running.