Windows 7 Beta…Going well so far
Hardware/Drivers that Worked
- MacBook Pro, everything but audio…I’m still working on that
- I got my audio working thanks to a comment on this site: http://www.gearlog.com/2008/11/windows_7_on_a_macbook_pro.php. The comment is by Shannon and is near the bottom of the page at the time of writing this. The short story is you need to install RealTek HD Audio Codecs Driver 2.09 in Vista compatibility mode and running setup.exe as administrator. Shannon listed more detailed steps.
- HP LaserJet 1012 (used the 1015 drivers), was flagged as needing troubleshooting, but it installed and printed a test page fine.
- Apple Bluetooth Keyboard
- Dell 2408WFP
- Logitech MX1000 Laser Mouse
- Sprint SmartView Sierra Compass 597, I had to install the SmartView Application and then manual go in and install the drivers from device manager. The drivers are in C:\Program Files (x86)\Sprint\Sprint SmartView\SierraPackage\Drivers for a 64 bit OS.
- Epson Perfection V200 Scanner. Again, the drivers didn’t automatically install, but I could go in and manually install them from C:\Program Files (x86)\epson\escndv\es007a and everything works just fine.
Software Installed and Working
- Skype
- Firefox
- Tweetdeck
- Office 2007 Enterprise
- Colligo
- Live Essentials
- Digsby
- Ardfry DNG Codec
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.2
- Adobe Reader 9
- LOGOS Bible Software
- iTunes 8.0.2
- Live Sync
- Live Mesh (appeared to disable Aero – this may be fixed after a restart). I finally got around to a reboot. This didn’t solve the problem. For now Live Mesh is uninstalled and I am getting by using Live Sync to keep my files updated between desktop and laptop. I haven’t used the online desktop enough yet. I’ll keep working on this problem.
- SnagIt 8.2.3
- WinRar 3.80
- DivX 7
- Nero 8
- VMWare Workstation 6.5
- Picasa 3
- Age of Empires III (with War Chiefs Expansion)
Software that Didn’t Install or Work
- Daemon Tools
- Cute PDF Writer
I’ll continue to edit/update this list as I install more software and play more with Vista. But for now it’s bedtime.
Can you please elaborate on how you went about getting the Compass 597 to work? I installed Smartview, but I got an error stating that the OS was recognized. When I go into Device Manager, I don’t see the 597 listed under “modem”.
Download the latest version of SmartView from Sprint’s website run the install and the application installs, but the driver’s don’t. If you go to your device manager you should have a device that doesn’t have drivers…I thin it was data device..something along those lines, I know “data” was in it. If you right click on and and chose to update driver software, browse my computer for driver software, let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer, have disk. Browse to “C:\Program Files (x86)\Sprint\Sprint SmartView\SierraPackage\Drivers” and click ok…the drivers will be installed for the data device and now you’ll have 4 additional devices that need drivers…all of these drivers are in the same spot and can be installed in the same way.
Thank you very much for clarifying that for me. Thanks to you my Compass 597 is working. Now if I can only figure out how to get the dvd burner working.
Thanks!!! My Compass 597 is finally working thanks to you!
Now it’s time for me to get the dvd burner working.
Could you explain how you got an hp 1012 to work? It installs if I use the vista driver but still has the 1012 listed as an unspecified device in Devices and Printers and it doesn’t print a test page.
I actually realized that when I got it working from Windows 7 it was as a network printer connected to my desktop (which was running Server 2008). When I connected it directly to my Windows 7 box I actually had problems with it as well. I’ll need to modify my blog post. Currently I’m having some hardware failures on my Windows 7 machine…as soon as I get new hardware I’ll work on getting you an answer