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6. May 2009 @ 17:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
case doors never decreased air flow with front case fans for the optical drives for me before. the doors don't have suctions and keep create a vacuum or anything, the air is still able to flow through the sides and openings. in some sense, yes they do block air-flow, but it seems very minimal. well, atleast for the cases i've tried out.

@eddie: yeah, i agree i have had vista for awhile, and after changing some tweeks, it works completely fine. maybe im just lucky, but all my drivers are supported in vista, and my programs work just fine. everything also looks a lot nicer, too! perhaps we are just the lucky few.
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7. May 2009 @ 00:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Vista is downright stable with proper tweeks, but a couple of days with Windows 7 make you relaize how terrible vista realy is.

As for optical drives, they sometimes open on their own, without user input. Usualy this is an accident while using media software...but accidents do happen. The only drives that don't seem to have this issue are Plextor...but they break after a year anyway.

The only time I would use case doors is in corporate envornments, where the door is locked with a key to prevent access to the optical drive.

Perhapse I was a bit extreme in expressing my opinion on the matter...it is just my opinion based on years of personal experience. If you almost never use the optical drive, and you do not use bay coolers, then I supose there is little harm in blocking the bays.


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7. May 2009 @ 01:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I haven't "tweaked" anything and it still runs perfectly. Never had one problem. Emulators and everything work just fine. I guess it only happens to people with older hardware or parts that aren't vista certified.
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7. May 2009 @ 02:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No, it happens on Vista certified parts too. Have you tried to tune to a channel like 13.2, 13.3, etc... with media center? Have you tried to install to a RAID array when you have jbod drives connected to the mainboard? Have you tried to copy 13,000 files at a time without disabling indexing service? Have you noticed the constant UAC warnings, even for Microsoft's recomended updates? Have you tried to download a file with internet explorer only to find you have to click the gold bar at the top to do the job? Have you tried to open the "my documents" folder without dissabling the "deny" applied to the shortcut?

I could think of about a hundred more little annoyances that were in Vista (some are still in Windows 7, but many have been removed). Microsoft even seems to think Vista is a dirty word...Windows 7 refers to the Indexing service as "the indexing service from the previous version of windows"; not "the indexing service from Windows Vista".


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7. May 2009 @ 04:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Optical drives don't just open for the lulz, it only happens without input at the end of a burning process.



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7. May 2009 @ 05:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by sammorris:
Optical drives don't just open for the lulz, it only happens without input at the end of a burning process.
Perhapse this is true in linux. It is not true in windows. Just yesterday DVD Shrink opened my DVD drive, and I had no disk in the drive at the time.


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7. May 2009 @ 11:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It's never happened to me in Windows 98SE, Me, XP (2002, SP1, SP2, SP3) and Vista (H.P. x86 and Ultimate x64). The problem must be with that version of your software.



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7. May 2009 @ 20:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I guess I don't have the same uses as you do...
I have dvd shrink and that's never happened to me before.
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8. May 2009 @ 00:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by eddie456:
I guess I don't have the same uses as you do...
I have dvd shrink and that's never happened to me before.
Shrink from an ISO image to burn to a disk with no disk in the drive, it will eject on you.


 
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