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Hi, i currently have Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit & i want to upgrade it to Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit & i see the upgrade option when i boot from the cd but what i want to know is this, will i lose all my files that is in my user folder, my docs, roaming & desktop or will it just upgrade the OS...

Hey guys, im new to the forum and looking for some help. My windows vista comp was being dumb and i tried installing windows xp. The windows xp i was installing was a cracked version. Now everytime i start up my computer it says error system32/system. I am pretty sure i need to buy a new os...

I recently installed windows 7 on my computer that was recently running vista. Come to find out it was a bootleg of windows 7 ultimate. It works fine but says to avtivate. I want to install either w7home premium or professional. Can i just buy the upgrade or do i need the full installation...

My system currently dual boots with Windows 7 RC (obviously the trial has ended so the system shuts down every 2 hours) and XP, with 7RC being the primary OS. I want to remove both operating systems and have my full copy of Win7 as the only OS. The last time I tried to install a single OS over...

Hi 4 days ago I installed windows 7 ultimate (clean/full install) and the picture/graphic on my monitor looks ok (movies,pictures,internet and so on) but after windows uppdate uppdated the nvidia drivers, the picture om my monitor looks strange. It's hard to explain but it feels to bright...

Hi, My computer notified me last night that my version of Windows 7 Ultimate may be a pirated version! And I think it intends to shut windows down on my computer if I do not provide an Activation Key that it likes. I bought a Full install (OEM) version of Windows 7 Ultimate last night and...

Hi My Windows7 PC (64bit) has become infected with trojans/viruses and I need to do a full re-install from scratch. But when I try to boot off the CD/DVD drive it keeps (eventually) going to my hard disk and booting from there. How do I FORCE it to boot from the DVD? I have tried hitting F10...

Sorry if this has been covered before but this problem is diving me mad. Running 64 bit windows 7. using an external seagate freeagent desktop 750GB and a 250GB sata hard drive in a winstar hard drive dock. Boot up and everything works fine. After a period of time - usually about 30mins. both...

I'm just installed 7 Ultimate (clean, full install) on my Dell XPS M1530 laptop. So far, so good although I do not really notice much difference in performance. I do have one minor complaint. I cannot get the slider volume control in the taskbar to open or stay open. The volume icon is there but...

By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews Windows 7 OEM prices compared to Windows Vista Windows 7 SKU Full retail MSRP 3 OEM full install MSRP Comparable Vista SKU Full retail MSRP OEM full install MSRP Home Premium $199.99 $99.99 1 Home Premium $224.99 $89.99 2 Professional $299.99 $134.99 1...

Can anyone answer this question please? If I use Windows Easy Transfer to save all my settings (on Windows 7 RC 32 bit) and then decide to do a full install of the Windows 7 64 bit version (in Oct), will Windows Easy Transfer still be able to recover my User Accounts etc using Windows Easy...

Does anyone know with absolute certainty..... if I am running only Windows 7 RC, would I need a full Vista install or would an upgrade only install work? I am purchasing tomorrow and I want to make sure to get the correct one. I thought I read somewhere that you could not do an upgrade Vista...

Actually, I had this problem with 7000 and 7022 as well. Insert DVD Launch setup.exe from within Win7 7048 Click "Install Now" Almost immediately I get: "Windows Setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files. To install Windows, make sure that a partition on your...