Recent content by 2ndwindranch

I know Windows Mail will not be available in Win 7 and Win Live is there for me to use, however, I'm planning on doing a clean install anyway, and probably moving to OpenOffice mail, if not that, I'll use Win Live. Can anyone tell me what I need to backup or export so I can successfully...

Also, check out this thread... http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-installation-upgrade/24197-missing-bootmgr.html

After this post, I went to Microsoft's website and went to the Microsoft Store. It is still listed there, but is definitely a "Limited Time Offer". So, I just bought it directly from there. I sure wish I would have done that first as it would have saved me so much less in gas and driving around!

I live in Northern California and went into a Best Buy, they had the boxes of the 3 pack on the shelf, no pricing. Then I got frustrate and left because I couldn't find anyone to help me... then I went to Fry's and they had NO 3-pack boxes on the shelf at all. I asked where they were, he said...

I have 3 computers here at home 1 64 bit Vista (newer laptop), and fairly beefy XP desktop, then my older but not too outdated laptop running XP. It is this 3rd laptop here that I'm worried about upgrading. I want to do clean installs on all 3 machines. I'm worried about what to do or what the...

Are there any suggestions for what to do if no DVD and the bios won't recognize a bootable USB?

I would leave the recovery partition unless you are 100% certain you will not have any issues with Win 7, otherwise, as stated by Jessica, you will be totally out of luck restoring back to a factory Vista machine.