installation problems

I purchased the Family Pack upgrade a few days ago and have upgraded a deks top and two laptop computers. I am very pleased with Windows 7 and its' operation on all these coputers and have only encountered one problem. I have a laptop which was running XP. After upgrading in the 32 bit...

I have an IDE DVD multi reader/burner (Pioneer DVR-118L) that is showing up in the bios fine I think (I can select it as the first boot drice - it's listed with brand name and everything in the bios) However it doesn't appear in Device Manager or Disk Manager or anything in Windows 7. I have...

I have Vista on a Dell computer thats 2 years old. I bought the Vista upgrade to 7 version at Best Buy. I ran the upgrade advisor and it never would complete it's run. I saw from the Windows Community Forum that I should do a clean boot and then rerun the upgrade advisor. I did that, found...

Hello, I've been using ubuntu linux as my only operating system for almost a year. The only reason I've been tempted to pick up windows again is for gaming. I heard good things about windows7, and went ahead an grabbed it. in windows, I've been getting blue screen errors and application crashes...

Hi i have been attempting a clean install of win 7 since yesterday i do not want to upgrade i want a new start, but i keep running into the same problem over and over again. I set my bios to boot from cd-rom first and after i press any key to boot from cd/dvd it says loading files etc. Then...

I did a Clean Install on Windows 7 onto my PC and there is no games in the Games Explorer, Also when I click on the start button, there is no games button there at all under where where my computer and my documents are at.

Hi there; My DVD drives (LG GSA-H55L DVD and Pioneer DVR-106D) don't work after installing Windows 7 x-32 RTM. Both worked fine under Vista and obviously worked during the install. They don't show up in Windows Explorer and in Device Manager they have that nice little Exclamation point in...

I am currently running Win 7 Enterprise Build 7600 90 day trial. I had previously ran the earlier candidate and made the commitment to purchase it when released 10/22/09. I have installed the 64 bit version on a very capable desktop and it is wickedly fast. I do have a couple of concerns...

I use a Linksys Wireless-G adapter, having a lot of problems getting it to detect/install the drivers. In device manager it detects as an unknown device (and both plugging in/unplugging the device has windows make a noise as it should). However when I try to install the driver via device...

A friend installed W7 RC on my son's computer and it is now suddenly shutting down. I read some posts online that point to Windows 7 being sensitive to Video card heat so whenever he watches a movie on his computer his video card heats up and windows shuts down. He never had that problem with XP...

I have spent a week trying to do a clean install of Win7 RC on a newly rebuilt computer - but no success. System is Asus P5KPL-AM/PS MB (new), Asus EN8400GS PCI-E vid (new), 2GB Kingston DDR2-800 RAM (new), and an Intel P4-3.4 CPU (used but working). I first tried a clean install on a...

Hey everyone, I want to say thanks to the people that gave me help in the other thread where I had serious installation problems of Windows 7. I tried the 32bit instead and burned the DVD at the lowest possible speed...and here I am! Sometimes it's too simple. Now I want to do a clean install...

I downloaded 2 different downloads, and burned on two different DVDs. I get a screen that says "loading files" (first screen) and they both freeze at the EXACT same spot :confused:. I had vista earlier, then got windows 7 RC so it has worked fine before. I wiped my HDD with killdisk (to get...

I had XP Professional running on my computer . When i used to start my comp , it wud show " Invalid boot.ini Booting from C:\ " and it wud start normally. Then I Installed Windows 7 beta , which was already expired . After installation , XP dint boot at all . I tried Putting XP as the default OS...

for all thoes people who are experiencing this problem, i have a few tips that worked for me. Solving Windows freeze on startup....(this can happen when even booting from the startup disk, it has nothing to do with any drivers or software related issues) If you have sprung upon this problem...

I have Windows XP (SP3) in a 32-bit OS loaded on my primary hdd. I loaded Windows 7 (64-bit) on a secondary hdd and can select upon boot which OS I want to use. I seem to be having some trouble with this config because I've had to reload Win7 twice so far. Once I get it loaded and office back...

Hay guys, been a bit of a "lurker" of this place, providied some great info on annoyances of Vista an how to get by:) Anyway I'll give this ago an hopfully I can explain my self well enough to get some answers on my issue:D Basically after a weeks ( giving it as much time as I can) of trying...

Hi guys I've been using Windows 7 for a few days now and its turning out to be pretty great. I am having a recurring problem though. For some reason, after i install a program, sometimes a few days later it will no longer be on the computer. The entry still exists in the start menu and in...

I have an HP 8558 networked printer connected to an SBS2003 server. Windows 7 RC1 ic connected to the SBS domain. One of the updates offered through Windows Update is 'Microsoft driver update for HP Color LaserJet 8550 PCL'. The driver ID appears to be 3175. I have now installed the update 4...

well, the problem started when i wanted to install windows 7, because they told me it was faster and better than xp...so i did it. Then when i installed it in my pc all went well except that playing online games, such as call of duty multiplayer, i have lag spikes.. my connection gets...