Windows 7 Aero

[saurey]

Anyone get it to work? That means Glass, full transparency, etc.

If you did, can you please share?

[Randomocity]

Aero works fine right out of box.

[Jacko]

Yep, its installed and working out of the box and is great. 🙂

[hufn]

Yep – me too 🙂

[bkito]

Seems to be working here… though I do wish I could figure out if there is a graphics chipset driver upgrade I should be downloading…

[Memphis1985]

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Seems to be working here… though I do wish I could figure out if there is a graphics chipset driver upgrade I should be downloading…
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There isn’t… yet.

[Ysabel]

I got it running on my desktop on a dual-boot.

Why they do not allow you to change the background colour when you got the Aero Glass transparency on? You can only change when you go back to the Classic look. That was my biggest bug-bear with Vista.

I don’t think those programmers ever use the Windows Explorer and look at the white background in a strong light to navigate around. 🙂

[Jacko]

Erm…you can change the background colour in vista…

[TCMuffin]

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Seems to be working here… though I do wish I could figure out if there is a graphics chipset driver upgrade I should be downloading…
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I have installed and run DriverMax which has made installing all the latest drivers for Windows 7 a breeze, which is also true for the original XP installation.

This increased my Windows Experience score from 2.2 to 2.3 – which is a marginal improvement 🙂

Prior to the driver updates, the Aero interface worked just fine. So you have question whether or not it’s worth faffing around with the latest drivers.

Having said that, I’m absolutely anal about having all the latest drivers on all my systems 😉

Jayne

[saurey]

My Experience score falls shortest on HDD. It only gets a 2.0

[baldrick]

My HDD only gets a 2.0 I wonder if it’s dependent on drive model. mines a toshiba drive

[TCMuffin]

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Seems to be working here… though I do wish I could figure out if there is a graphics chipset driver upgrade I should be downloading…
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I have checked my display driver and I have Driver Version 8.15.10.1620 (Driver Date 17/12/2008).

Hope that helps.

[Billy Rubin]

I now get 5.4 for my Western Digital HDD after a Win 7 suggested driver download, previously it was 2.0.

[saurey]

I’ve got the toshiba drive. Pretty crappy deal if it’s the slower of the drives or there’s no solution to it.

I get random IO sometimes in 7 and I can’t trace the source. It’s almost like it’s defragging or something for no reason.

[baldrick]

I now get a score of 5.4 for my HDD by unticking the enable write caching on the disk. It’s under drive properties policies tab

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