Windows 7 Beta Issues (Explorer and External USB Drives)

Windows 7 BetaI’m continuing my adventures with Build 7000, and right now the biggest problems I have seems to be related to the File/Windows Explorer itself. I’ve had issues with removing external USB drives. Something seems to hang on to the drive even though it’s removed and I’ve noticed that I cannot do a Windows Restart after that. It hangs on the “Logging off” screen.

Also, I’ve had problems several times now when copying files from machines on the network and from USB drives. The file copying progress dialog just sits there and refuse to complete. When clicking on dialog Cancel or Close, it tries to cancel but never completes. If I try to kill the dialog from Task Manager, it goes away, Explorer (you know the whole Desktop reboot thingy) restarts but some explorer processes seems to stick.

Hoping for a newer release soon, build 7000 is just a tad too shaky :)

If some Windows 7 guy from Microsoft (Jeff?) reads this, can I please have access to a fresh build? *plplplplease*

But I love the new Task Bar and the option to drag/drop System Tray icons. That part works very well and I hope Microsoft will keep it. Currently I got Outlook new mail notifications and Messenger there together with the standard white (dull colors!!) Windows 7 systray icons.

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  • I have the same problem. I reinstalled Windows 7, and didn't have the problem for a week, but then it came back when I was copying a bunch of files from another computer, seems to happen almost any time I copy from a network location, more often if I'm copying more than one file. It is so annoying.

    I love 7 and plan to buy it, but I'll have to download it and run it unactivated before I take a chance and pay for it, since there's no other way to make sure it won't keep happening on my system. i hope someone finds a fix for this.

  • I'm having similar problems with W7, all my USB drives (iPod, kindle, backup HD) hang Explorer and fail to read anything. Big problem.

  • I have similar issues - copying from an mp3 player (which doubles as a usb drive) hangs repeatedly after about 2 or 3 files -removing the drive from usb kills the hanging process but then i cant empty a 2gb mp3 collection 2 files at a time - doesnt happen with an external usb proper hard disk drive and the same usb key works fine on a vista laptop and a very old thinkpad t23 which is just usb1.1 as well - i have to check if the same pc with xp runs fine but i dont have a spare licence to try - was using the beta so that i can buy windows 7 straight when its released - have a good mind to give ubuntu a try now!! (oh but i miss office 2007 which i use all the time)

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