Well it's the public beta - build 7000 - and I updated everything I could. I have Steam and Firefox and a few other things installed, but that's about it. Mostly games thus far, not many applications.

The installer just hangs. Bah.

Games are not applications?

What's the difference?

Impulse installed fine for me on x64 W7.

Maybe you should try a fresh install of W7, then install only the Windows Update files, then Impulse before anything else.

I rather like the windows 7 approach. Nice and clean, with *optional* bloatware. If it wasn't for fat arsed bureaucrats with half brains, Microsoft would likely not have made it happen.

I'd hardly call Windows Media Player 'bloatware'... to me it's an integrated and essential part of Windows, Particularly so now that MS has improved it in Win 7.... and there's no additional downloading of a media player (which similarly becomes resource hogging bloat anyhow) to hear/see what I want.

No, the greatest purveyors of bloat are the RTM manufacturers, like HP for example, who load so much crapware that I would never buy a proprietary brand PC, ever.  If the EU needs to be coming down on anybody, it's them.

This is good advice. We have no clue what's causing it, but we do know that Impulse seems to install fine on our systems with a clean setup.

Have you installed any security applications, such as antivirus or firewall?

My suggestion, if all else fails: Download Process Explorer and Process Monitor from Sysinternals, take a look at Mark's blog to see how he uses his software to troubleshoot problems, and see if you can't zero in on a particular problem.

Just installed Windows 7 Beta....How can I get Object Desktop to activate on Windows 7...I.E. Windowblinds keeps telling me it cant write the activation signature...How can I fix this...

Figured it out...used Impulse,though WB/Logon Vista don't work...Icon Pakager and cursorfx work fine though...Haven't tried the rest of OD yet... 

I guess it's time to renew my subscription and see if I can help you . . .

EDIT: Ok. Yeah, not all programs seem to work. The massive UI changes seem to affect WB to the point where it simply doesn't seem to work at all.

Yeah I know...But got another problem...since I activaed OD in Windows 7,I can't get Wb to load skins in vista??? Anybody know how I can fix this problem??? thanks in advance for any help.

Send an e-mail to support@stardock.com. 

I've got an issue...I'm set up to triple boot Win7, Vista and XP.  Now, I can't boot into XP.  It gives me the selection at the bootscreen, but when I select it, all I get is a black screen.  Nothing else.  Booting into Vista still works when selected.  I can't find anything on the net on a fix.  Anyone else having this problem?  In the end, it isn't that big a deal as that install of XP was pretty fresh and there weren't many applications on it.  I can always reload.  Just wondered if anyone else knows anything.

Dual/triple booting is always a bit tricky and risky. Especially with Windows OSes. You've got three OSes, each wanting to write its own boot loader when you install it, nothing really cooperating.

Check to make sure your XP partition is marked as being bootable. It may also be that the last OS you isntalled didn't detect everything correctly when installed. I can't really offer that much help, except that frankly the more OSes you try to stuff onto one computer, the more troubles you're likely to get.

Best bet is to install each to a different hard drive, and have the other drives disconnected during each install.

That way, there is no boot manager needed. All you have to do is change the boot order in the BIOS to go to whichever OS you want.

Another advantage of doing this is that (for W7) you won't have to claim ownership of the other drives partition's once the other drives are reconnected. W7 will simply assign a drive letter to each partition and allow normal access.

Thanks guys.  I've got a lead on something and I'll post back if it works out or not. 

Emailed Support...but all they said was is they don't support windows 7....did'nt tell me how to fix the problem of not being able to apply downloaded skins with WB in vista....the curious thing is WB will apply the skins that it installed with,but will not apply any downloaded skins????? which makes no sense to me.I have uninstalled ObjectDesktop completely on both partitons and then re-installed it on the vista partiton only and it still won't work...can anyone tell me why and or how to fix the problem??? thanks in advance for any help.

Raven: No, of course they don't support Windows 7 yet. It's not out of beta, and I'm quite certian that WB will need many changes to work with Windows 7 (there are a lot more elements in Windows 7 for WB to skin). It's gonna be a while until they have full support for Windows 7 for all of their products.

If you're having troubles in Vista, however, that's a different story - they should support Vista. Ask support if you're having troubles in Vista.

That was not my experience!  When applying a Windowblind, Win 7 went to Windows 'basic' and I had to reapply Aero.

At least for Nvidia cards, you should only use the drivers from Windows Update. Those are the official Nvidia W7beta drivers.