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I thought this was funny. I ran the troubleshooting for power. It said it found a problem and fixing it. No questions asked. In the end it showed me this. What?

Do you know an easy way to turn off 31 language packs in the Windows Update? Me neither. I know the hard way to do it. Right click on each one of them and select the hide option. Simple and easy, right? Or you can just install all of them and be done with it. Why don’t I leave them hanging there? Because I may not see something that I really want to install in this mess. Please get this fixed in Windows 7 at least. Forget about Windows Vista.

Update: I need to check if RC was updated, but on RTM, you can select multiple packs and hide them. Make sure you select only non hidden packs. If you mix, it won’t show the hide option.

It is still not perfect. 

Downloaded imgburn and burned the same image to the same disk without any problem!

Windows 7 partition just disappeared from my computer 2 days ago. Turns out that the PCI IDE card from SIIG that I used was not connected properly. Before closing the PC case I booted in to Windows 7 to make sure everything works fine. Logged in and verified that there were no issues and then I shutdown. I forgot about the shutdown issues. After shutdown I saw what is going on inside. All fans are running including CPU, GPU and power. Even the LED on the motherboard was lit up.

Here are two pictures taken using iPhone.

Update: There is a solution to this issue. Totally unrelated place to fix it. Read it in the comments of this post.

While reading the post on SSD performance in Windows 7, I realized that one of my experiments may have had some merit. But since it wasn’t really a true SSD and it wasn’t even Windows Vista, may be it didn’t do any good? It was a 1GB flash drive where I kept my page file when I had Windows XP running on my computer. After reading a lot of articles about flash drives and their performance, I decided to stop that practice. On Windows 7 now it is recommeded to use a real SSD for page file storage if you have one. 

I have installed Windows 7 RC on a really old and noisy PATA drive. Yesterday night I left the computer on and it was churning all night. I have disabled sleep because of motherboard incompatibility. By morning it was silent. I will leave it on tonight to see how it goes. The post says engineers have tried to minimize read and write. 

Unlike Vista, the Windows 7 beta performance did not degrade much over a period of time. Vista performance degraded on the same computer which has many hard drives and lots of applications installed. The CPU and memory were never the problem. Windows 7 experience index details gave me warning that under certain load the hard drive may cause slow performance even though the score is 5.3.