The ultimate Windows 7 FAQ

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• Ivan Icrontic’s Loveable Bot

  Oct 2009

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• jeremy huber Guest

  Oct 2009

  I was trying to install defender in windows 7 home premium and a dialog box opened and said windows VISTA already has defender installed, go to my webpage on google for proof Windows 7 is a service pack at:
  
  http://sites.google.com/site/windows7isavistasevicepack/

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• Thrax Professional Shill, Fashion Police, Complex Hierarchy Interpreter, Community Leader, D&D Supernerd, Supporter, Dance Commander, Official Rep, Expo Attendee

  Oct 2009

  Right symptoms, wrong interpretation.
  
  Windows Vista and Windows 7 share the same major kernel version number of 6.x. That means both OSes appear to be Windows NT version 6.x to program installers. However, Windows Vista is version 6.0, and Windows 7 is version 6.1. Most installers are only trained to look for 5 (Windows XP) or 6 (Vista), as it was not expected that the company would use 6.1 for the next version of Windows. Program installers which are not trained to look at the number after decimal will think Vista and 7 are the same OS, as Defender has done.
  
  What you evidently don't know is that Windows 7 was originally scheduled to be versioned Windows NT 7.0. The changes are that significant. Microsoft didn't do this precisely because so many app installers do version checking, and upping the version number to 7.x would break a lot of existing applications.

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• AlexDeGruven Writer

  Oct 2009

  Nice work. Can't wait to see this doc evolve. Still in awe at how well 7 works with all of my hardware, both physical and virtual. I even liked Vista somewhere around Snarky's level, and I think 7 was a fantastic jump forward.
  
  Also,nice job at addressing without feeding the troll.

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• FelixDeSouze Member

  Oct 2009

  You didn't include whether it made breakfast or my bed. I'm gutted

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• Sheza Guest

  Oct 2009

  Windows 7 codename was Windows Vienna.

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• Thrax Professional Shill, Fashion Police, Complex Hierarchy Interpreter, Community Leader, D&D Supernerd, Supporter, Dance Commander, Official Rep, Expo Attendee

  Oct 2009

  Not really true. Windows Blackcomb was supposed to succeed Whistler (Windows XP), but the project's timetable went wildly off course. Longhorn (Vista) was supposed to be a minor refresh, but got bumped up to a full release of Windows. When work on Blackcomb resumed in 2006 it used the Vienna codename, but by the time Windows 7 development had started in 2007, Vienna had officially been renamed to Windows 7 internally.

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• chrisWhite 3D | VFX Artist | Writer Member, Supporter

  Oct 2009

  hmm, I think I would stipulate that if users are using a laptop and they regularly access public and non-corporate private networks they should leave the Windows 7 firewall on when not connected to their home or work networks.
  
  Great article man, very thorough!

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• Jetkat Guest

  Oct 2009

  Wondered if anyone else was noticing problems when you copy file(s) (using windows explorer) from the hard drive over to a usb flash pen, then at times it will just suddenly stop coping about 1/2 way and then say it can't "see" the target drive and just stop(the flash pen anymore) which leads to a reboot. I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate, 64bit on an HP m9517c machine with all the updates. Seems very strange. Also happens when backing up data to the push in media drives.
  
  Any solutions? (BTW - I have tried melting down 4 different times, no upgrading...)

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• AlexDeGruven Writer

  Oct 2009

  chrisWhite said:

  hmm, I think I would stipulate that if users are using a laptop and they regularly access public and non-corporate private networks they should leave the Windows 7 firewall on when not connected to their home or work networks.
  
  Great article man, very thorough!

  You can set firewall policy based upon 2 different conditions: Work/Home, and Public (covering the 3 different network types that MS has defined). On my systems, I have my home network defined as a Home network and have the firewall turned off for them (since I"m behind a hardware router), but for public networks, it's on.
  
  Really thoughtful design on that setup, makes it a bit easier to get all the little features that require different holes in the firewalls to work properly.

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• Zuntar Member

  Oct 2009

  Very nice Robert sir!!

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• Thrax Professional Shill, Fashion Police, Complex Hierarchy Interpreter, Community Leader, D&D Supernerd, Supporter, Dance Commander, Official Rep, Expo Attendee

  Oct 2009

  Thanks. :D

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• McBain Dates your mother Member, Supporter

  Oct 2009

  Pimped on Gizmodo....nice work Thrax....
  
  http://gizmodo.com/5392180/windows-7-guides-the-best-of

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• propedor Email Confirm

  Nov 2009

  Jetkat, this should solve your problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976972

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