Recent content by elloco999

Hey everyone, Last night I solved the problem using a repair install As advised to me here. It took quite some time, but after is was done all was working fine. If all continues to work fine, I'm going to leave it at this. If not, I will try Drew's method of doing a clean install and then...

That sounds like a good workaround! If/ when I decide to reinstall, I will definately try that! By the way, my wife (it is actually her computer) told me just now that these problems did not exist when windows was just installed. Only later, after the computer hanged at one time did the...

Technically, you are correct. You can't "upgrade" windows XP to windows 7. But, a student license can't be installed on a PC that does not have a genuine XP of Vista installed on it. The way I installed win 7 is to boot from the DVD, then choose the upgrade option. Try this with a vista...

I performed an upgrade install. Would rather have done a clean install, but since it is a student license, I could only upgrade. Previous OS was XP Pro. I already tried going back to a previous restore point, but even in the first restore point the problem persists.

Hi all, I've installed Windows 7 Professional several weeks ago and it is mostly running just fine. But there are also a lot of options not working. For example, nothing happens when I: click My Computer -> Properties In the windows update screen, when I click the installed updates link...