Awesome! Thank you! That looks better. Like Brad said, That taskbar's a mess!

Yes, the taskbar is much improved by reducing the icon size ... in fact now that it's at a regular size I don't mind it at all, and I rather like the interactive icons, much better than the Vista ones.

I was rather hoping that reducing the taskbar and updating my GPU drivers would allow WindowBlinds to work properly, but alas, it still applies only 'windows classic'... however, the distorted start button and sys tray are gone.  Obviously, WB is not set up as yet to skin the wider taskbar.

I'm currently running a triple boot and choosing which HD to boot to via my motherboards boot menu. As long as you have the ability to do the same, you should have no problem.

Vista drivers seem to work on Windows 7! Installed nvidia drivers wiithout any issues.

its public beta atm. just go to microsofts site and download. I think they have a limit of the first 3 million people.

Thanks

Ok, guys. I have a problem I have been talking to others about on this forum but getting nowhere. I want to dual boot with Vista already installed. I can't get 7 to see my F drive, which is my second internal drive and where I want 7. Could it be because the first drive , the one containing Vista, is a SATA drive, and the F drive is an IDE drive?  I was told to format F and not to make it active. No good. I was told to make C inactive, can't figure out how to do that.

PuterDudeJim how big is your sata drive....?

if it's a big drive and have a lot of free space on it just use vista to partition off 25-30 Gigs and put it on there.......

I was wondering that, whether the most recent nVidia drivers for Vista would work in Win 7... thanks for the heads up, Aaron.

I updated using the nVidia drivers in Windows Update, but the sys tray and other elements disappeared, so I had to roll them back.  I'll try the Vista drivers and see how I go with those.

Also, whether or not it was the nVidia drivers included in Win Update or WindowBlinds, but I had issues with reapplying wallpapers after unsuccessfully trying out a WB... the screen went totally black, and when I finally got a wall of my choosing to stick it would not fill the screen until after doing a reboot.  This may have been in part the drivers and Windowblinds being incompatible at this time, but also that the WB applied the skin's wallpaper, thus changing the Windows settings for size and rotation of the slideshow feature.

Now that sounds like a personal question...lol!!  Not!  I think it is 230GB.  That may be a good idea.

Shelby GT, I think it has to do with the fact that my second internal drive is IDE, the first is SATA. Both are primary.

Add a partition to the sata drive and see if that makews any difference...

Yup . Unlike the XP to Vista transition, they didn't change the basic driver model this time. That means less compatibility complaints .

Well, not entirely true . . . they did add some new features to the driver model to allow a unified device management center - which is intended to allow device driver makers to put all of their custom settings in one central location, rather than having their device drivers have a separate control panel. That doesn't interfere with existing drivers, however. Current drivers will work the same. It's only new Windows 7 drivers that should be using it.

Humm - I'm thinking about doing a dual boot now to have a good look at the hardware accelerated stuff. To be honest, it looks pretty crappy in a virtual machine where the fancy stuff that requires the hardware acceleration if turned off.

People that have a system that isn't capable of Aero are gonna get a pretty bad experience, from what I can tell. I've already sent a few bug reports on very obvious graphical glitches like black bars appearing when hovering over icons.