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<blockquote data-quote="pauljghosh" data-source="post: 654949" data-attributes="member: 74986">My experience has not been so great with Windows 7 probably because of the hardware configuration.&nbsp; I have a laptop, E6400 by Dell, that I am using as an HTPC.&nbsp; I upgraded to Windows 7.&nbsp; The problem was the automatic detection of external monitors built into Windows 7.&nbsp; Every time I would turn on the Plasma, after it had been off before, the laptop would make the ta-ding sound of plugnplay and then Media Portal would shift to the laptop LCD screen even though configuration in Media Portal is set to the external display.&nbsp; Once the shift would happen Media Portal would become non-responsive.&nbsp; It would also not shift back to the display it was set to run on.&nbsp; So, I searched and searched for a way to turn off the plugnplay feature of Windows 7.&nbsp; Since the laptop is running a NVIDIA Quadro NVS160M I came up empty - apparently NVIDIA does not have a way to turn off automatic detection.&nbsp; I did not find a way to turn off automatic detection in Windows 7 either.&nbsp; ATI does.&nbsp; They have an option for doing manual detection of monitors.&nbsp; So, sadly I returned to Windows XP SP3.&nbsp; With the DivX H.264 and AC3Filter being the primary codecs I can watch 1080p DD5.1/DTS content read from a SMB share on a Netgear Infrant NV+ over a gigabit connection without any issues.Setting the primary display as being the Plasma only and shutting the lid of the laptop also turned out to be unreliable as sometimes the screen would be black and blank and no amount of remote or mouse or keyboard activity would bring back Media Portal or anything else for that matter on the Plasma.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pauljghosh, post: 654949, member: 74986"] My experience has not been so great with Windows 7 probably because of the hardware configuration. I have a laptop, E6400 by Dell, that I am using as an HTPC. I upgraded to Windows 7. The problem was the automatic detection of external monitors built into Windows 7. Every time I would turn on the Plasma, after it had been off before, the laptop would make the ta-ding sound of plugnplay and then Media Portal would shift to the laptop LCD screen even though configuration in Media Portal is set to the external display. Once the shift would happen Media Portal would become non-responsive. It would also not shift back to the display it was set to run on. So, I searched and searched for a way to turn off the plugnplay feature of Windows 7. Since the laptop is running a NVIDIA Quadro NVS160M I came up empty - apparently NVIDIA does not have a way to turn off automatic detection. I did not find a way to turn off automatic detection in Windows 7 either. ATI does. They have an option for doing manual detection of monitors. So, sadly I returned to Windows XP SP3. With the DivX H.264 and AC3Filter being the primary codecs I can watch 1080p DD5.1/DTS content read from a SMB share on a Netgear Infrant NV+ over a gigabit connection without any issues. Setting the primary display as being the Plasma only and shutting the lid of the laptop also turned out to be unreliable as sometimes the screen would be black and blank and no amount of remote or mouse or keyboard activity would bring back Media Portal or anything else for that matter on the Plasma. [/QUOTE]

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