1:1 View not working in Windows 7?

Question

Hi folks,
I know it's not officially supported but I was wondering if others have seen this as well:
I'm running Windows 7 Build 7000 x64 on a Intel Quad Core, 4Gb Ram, NVIDIA 7600GT. When I run LR 2.2 or 2.3RC either in 32bit or 64bit mode then whenever I go to 1:1 zoom in Develop mode I don't see the image but a gray area instead. When moving the area the picture shows but as soon as you release the mouse button, the image is replaced by a gray area again.
Also, in Library mode I see weird behaviour as well. The image gets distorted, rotates or is shown partly or as a jigsaw.
Anyone seen this as well?
Cheers, Danny.

Answer 1

It is too bad that there is pent up demand for a new OS that is not Vista since Windows 7 is indeed still Vista. It is only Windows 6.1 - that is an incremental upgrade to Vista's 6.0. I am sorry but the fact of life is that the reason so many things seem to work "well" in Windows 7 is that the core is the same OS for which the apps were designed. Again, however, it is still a beta of that upgrade and still has numerous issues consistent with a beta.
Now to a few of my list of identified issues. Outlook 2007 on both machines I have tested has resumed a periodic error/shutdown for which MS indicates a patch is available. The patch has been long been installed - it has even been uninstalled and reinstalled and the error and supposed solution still pop up. Actually, Office 2007 was unistalled and reinstalled and the error will still pop up every day or two. If, I go back to Vista SP 1 it goes away.
On another front, if I set up a column with an auto-calculating field in Excel, change the formula and drag the handle down to change the rest of the column, the column will completely update but the mouse pointer will freeze half way down . In Word, I will occasionally have the graphical indicator that something is being saved when nothing is being saved - there isn't even a hit in the processor activity to indicate anything is active (other than Word). Lines of small font text near the bottom of a page in Word will also periodically (and randomly) appear compressed or expanded.
To go on, neither laptop will go back to sleep at a specified interval after being awaken for a backup function - this was not an issue with the same settings under Vista. For another, after deleting a couple menu items from the start menu, the corresponding items in the taskbar/superbar were frozen (and could not be removed).
Of course, biggest of all, there are numerous people who can attest to the fact that the Windows Home Server backup/restore function is completely useless. It is also deceptive since it creates valid backup copies that you then can't open. Those, of course, are all MS apps and OS functions so I guess MS is "non-standard" too.
My point here is not to criticize the state of Windows 7, and I also apologize to everyone just here to see LR discussion. Windows 7 is going to be a nice OS and I am quite willing to deal with a few minor issues in the beta. With the exception of the backup issue, all of the above (including the LR display issue) are indeed minor issues. At its core Windows 7 is solid and around the edges (i.e., the new stuff) it has issues. That is exactly what I expect from a beta. I am really just tired though of hearing people imply it is something akin to perfection and needs to be out immediately, or suggesting that there is something wrong with an Adobe app that is being run on an unsupported beta. As I said before, if I worked for Adobe I would waste a penny on Windows 7 fixes until the RC is out.
Stephen