I decided to give Windows 7 Beta 1 a shot and have had nothing but success (with some driver hunting) so far and I’ve installed it successfully on three different laptops.
First, I installed on my MacBook Pro via BootCamp. I actually performed an “Upgrade” instead of a “Clean Install” on that one and it went smoothly requiring no steps following the install–everything just worked.
Next I tried my oldest machine, a Compaq laptop which Vista just wasn’t usable on. It also installed smoothly and all devices worked after a quick trip to Windows Update.
I then went on to install on our next laptop: a Toshiba Satellite M45-S355. The install went well once again but, even after a trip to Windows Update, I still didn’t have my WiFi adapter working. So I set off on several searches for wireless drivers and came up empty for about an hour. Just when I was about to give up, I found this site. It seems Toshiba doesn’t have Vista drivers listed at all for this machine on their U.S. site but I did find them on their Europe site. Posting this in case anyone else runs into the same problems hoping that this saves them the time and frustration I just experienced. Anyway, I ended up using the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Vista 32 drivers (direct link) and everything’s all happy now.
Update: I also noticed I had a “Mass Storage” device without drivers. From the same site, I downloaded the Texas Instruments Flash Media Driver and it also installed successfully. All devices seem to be covered now.
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Thanks so much! This helped me out alot when installing Windows 7 on the M45-S269. However, I’m unable to find a video and audio driver for it–did you have problems with this?
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=SB&os=&category=&moid=1132269&rpn=PSM42U&modelFilter=M45-S269&selCategory=3&selFamily=1073768663
Gus, I’m trying RightSideUp v1.2 on Windows 7 RC.
Running the program works fine.
However, when I click Tools > Options and click “Enable on Folders” I get an exception – unauthorized access to the registry. To work around this, I ran RightSideUp.exe using “Run as Administrator”, which solved the exception.
However, even though “Auto-rotate with RightSideUp” is now added to folder context menus, it doesn’t do anything. Perhaps also an authorization/priveleges problem?
David.
Hi David, you’re right about it all probably being related to running as an admin. It’s been a while since I looked at the code but I suspect it might be privileges related as well on the explorer integration side.
That said, if you’re using Windows 7, I didn’t think there was much of a use for RightSideUp anyway anymore as the Photo Gallery auto-rotates for you. Have you tried out the Photo Gallery yet? I’m pretty sure it at least does it for you on import.
I personally use Lightroom now and it does the auto-rotating for me on import as well so I haven’t been using RSU for a while now.
If there is a scenario where it’s still useful to folks (you’re the first to mention it btw) with Win7, I’ll try to find the time to see if it can be fixed.
Thanks…
Hi Gus, RightSideUp is still useful for me, since the thumbnails in Explorer (even in Windows 7) still don’t use the EXIF rotation. As a result, the images are not rotated.
BTW, if you can, some sort of progress window (non-modal in Explorer, please) would also be useful. It is hard to know when the folder is fully processed. Even in the GUI, it would be good to know if it is proceeding and how long before it is finished.
Thanks Gus.
David.
BTW, as well as the Explorer thumbnails not rotating the images, the Preview function also doesn’t examine the EXIF rotate data so the photos are sideways.
David.
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