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Windows 7 Profile Question
I know this is a Vista forum, but I do not see any Windows 7 forums. My
apologies for posting this here. Perhaps someone can help with this: This has carried through a number of recent builds of Win7 and now is in the RC, 7100 build. Not sure if this is a change in functionality or a bug. If you want to copy the profile of a local user, you can login to the PC (Vista and earlier) as the local Administrator, go to System Properties User Profiles, choose a user's profile, then click the Copy To button to copy that profile to another profile. In Win7, the Copy To button is grayed out when you choose another user's profile. All you can choose from is Change Type or Delete. What happened here? |
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Windows 7 Profile Question
JakBob wrote:
I know this is a Vista forum, but I do not see any Windows 7 forums. My apologies for posting this here. Perhaps someone can help with this: (snip) Here you go: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...egory/w7itpro/ Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |
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Windows 7 Profile Question
What I would like to know is why the beta of Win7-64 is incompatible with
nearly every Vista 64 driver I have tried (not all, but most). Well, I downloaded the RC: hopefully that actually works. |
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Windows 7 Profile Question
pupick wrote:
What I would like to know is why the beta of Win7-64 is incompatible with nearly every Vista 64 driver I have tried (not all, but most). Actually, I'd be more curious to know why you'd expect it to be any different. Different operating systems almost always require different, specifically designed device drivers; always have, always will. Additionally, very few device manufacturers bother developing and, especially, releasing drivers for beta versions of an OS; at the beta stage, the OS' code is still too "fluid" to make the effort worth while. Well, I downloaded the RC: hopefully that actually works. Actually, as the final code for the OS firms up, there's likely to be less backwards-compatibility, not more. Eventually, though, the device manufacturers will catch up and start producing Win7-specific drivers for those devices that they which to continue supporting. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot |
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Windows 7 Profile Question
"pupick" wrote in message ... What I would like to know is why the beta of Win7-64 is incompatible with nearly every Vista 64 driver I have tried (not all, but most). Well, I downloaded the RC: hopefully that actually works. It's compatible with nearly every driver I've tried. What hurt Vista sales the most was that MSFT did not find the way to goose 3rd party driver makers into making the drivers a lot faster than they dragged their butts in doing. We kept telling them this in the Beta of Vista, and they desultorily clucked that they couldn't control this. Now I see pronouncements from everyone and anyone at the Redmond campus that "Alas they did not get proactive enough in getting the driver makers to make drivers for devices in Vista but now they are chastened and educated." They all have cell phones and the numbers of the teams for 3rd party who make drivers so.... We'll see. CH |
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Windows 7 Profile Question
Well, Thanks, sort of. Some of us have aleady asked in the TechNet forums
and no one knows. Was hoping someone here might. "Malke" wrote in message ... JakBob wrote: I know this is a Vista forum, but I do not see any Windows 7 forums. My apologies for posting this here. Perhaps someone can help with this: (snip) Here you go: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...egory/w7itpro/ Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |