I haven’t had much of a problem with Windows 7.  But there is one little thing that has always bothered me.  The unfortunate thing is after each beta install, I forget what I did to fix it, so I’m going to write it down now.

When printing on both sides (I like to save paper), after upgrading to Windows 7 my HP LaserJet 4250 seems to have forgotten that it has a duplexer.  It only allows duplexing manually even though the printer does, in fact, have a duplexer.

It’s not THAT big of a deal, I can just re-feed the paper and print on the back side.  But why should I have to?  It should do it by itself.  So here’s how I fixed it:

Open “Devices and Printers”

Right click on the printer to set up, and select “Printer Properties” (NOT “Properties”).

Set the “Duplex Unit” to “Installed”

And all should be well again.

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Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 Beta (x86): http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/D/4/AD4D3903-E06D-456D-AED4-D53895D2C1A9/Windows6.1-KB958830-x86.msu

• Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 Beta (x64): http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/D/4/AD4D3903-E06D-456D-AED4-D53895D2C1A9/Windows6.1-KB958830-x64.msu

I installed on RTM build 7100.  Don’t forget to go to Control Panel => Turn Windows Features on or off and enable “Remote Server Administration Tools”.

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I love using Windows Live Writer instead of BlogEngine.net web editing.  That’s a no-brainer.  But I installed Windows 7 Beta, and Live Writer no workey.  It just crashed on startup.  Others have reported it hanging on startup.

Finally found a simple fix.  It’s pretty obvious, but I’ve had such success with Vista and Windows 7 that I had forgotten about program compatibility.

Right-click the Live Writer shortcut, Select the “Compatibility” tab, check the “Run this program in compatibility mode for” checkbox, and select Windows Vista.

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