Recent content by steve.thresher

My conversion has now gone through successfully (third attempt). This time I uninstalled the apps that setup claimed would be incompatible (ESET Nod32 AV, SQL Server 2008 and Virtual PC) before running the upgrade. I don't know if that made the difference or if setup was able to pickup an update...

Hi Sam, Just thought I'd let you know each failed attempt successfully rolled backed to Vista. I had to power cycle the machine, as I thought there was no way to terminate setup, and the machine proceeded to recover itself which took about 15 mins. I've since found out you can hit Shift+F10 to...

The 'Send Feedback' link in the window caption bar was to allow users to offer their own suggestions which has nothing to do with the data that is collected by MS while you are running windows. Part of the licence agreement for the beta and RC is that you allow MS to collect data, you can't opt...

Try reading the blog again. It's written by members of the Windows 7 development team and covers all aspects of creating the new version of windows. I know a clean install is the preferred method but that doesn't provide MS with real-world data regarding upgrade sucesses and failures. I'm more...

I've already got the beta installed on a separate partition so I know the hardware is OK. Setup is being run from the hard drive so no concerns over media quality. I'm trying the upgrade as that's what MS has asked for on the 'Engineering Windows 7' blog (Engineering Windows 7 : Delivering a...

I've tried to upgrade my Vista64 Ultimate Edition twice to the Windows 7 RC but each time it has stopped at 63% transferring files and settings. In each instance it has been left for over 10 hours but nothing happens. The setup program still responds to input as I can click the close dialog...