I'm extremely sorry, I meant to type "laptop". However, judging by your response, I don't think it made much of a difference... And I should have also noted that I am running this on a virtual machine, and so directly used to .iso file to install it.
It's a desktop... not sure what the video driver is, but it's an Intel propietary(sp?) video driver, standard. And no, it won't let me connect to the Internet, remember? =D
I installed the official release from the Microsoft website... I'm not exactly sure what you mean... And no, this is from a clean install. Remember, I couldn't modify anything.
When I load up Windows 7, the first strange thing was the Windows Classic theme... unless it was set there by default, which I don't think it is. When I try and access anything at all (Control Panel, Network Manager, etc.) It refuses me, saying "You do not have permission to access the...