system upgrade

I have a Gateway laptop, running Windows 7 Professional, and it is a 64-bit system type. The laptop uses Pentium Duel Core CPU. The processors are T4200, and run at 2.00 GHz each. The RAM is 3.00, and the Hard Drive has 175 Gb free space. I also run Microsoft Security Essentials. The problem is...

Got an interesting one. I have one PC left running Vista that has two sets of spanned volumes as follows: All drives are dynamic. Silicon Image 3124 SATA Controller Card: Port 0 - 1TB Port 1 - 1TB Port 2 - 500GB Port 3 - 500GB Marvell Controller on MB Port 4 - 500GB Port 5 - 500GB...

I just completed a successful upgrade as I did not want to loose anything on the computer. The only item that had to be upgrade as well was a .net feature and then it went quite smoothly. Now that it is complete I am looking for the Wow factor but don't really know what to look for as the...

Hi everyone, I’ve just upgraded to a new system and installed Win7 x64 Ultimate. I’m still adapting to the new OS so I’m faced with some small problems one of which is Sticky notes: I’ve read many threads about not being able to change the font for sticky notes, however, the font that is...

HI All, Appreciate if anybody can help me here. I just bought a Toshiba Satellite L640 running on Intl Core i3 350M with 4Gb RAM. I'm currently using Windows 7 pro 32 bit. I'm trying to clean install Windows 7 pro 64 bit but face error as attached after booting up on the DVD and...

I am an experienced system administrator (mostly on Unix, but also on Win XP). I've recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. The data disk, where all of the user project folders are stored is separate from the system disk, and untouched by the upgrade. I am the owner and...

I've read a lot of threads on this forum already by people who've had similar problems to this, but frustratingly enough none of the solutions that helped them seem to have fixed my issue. I have a new install of Windows 7 (OEM Home Premium). The PC formally was used for Windows XP. The...

PLEASE HELP i have a vaio vgn-cs120j with windows vista home premium preinstalled on it everything was working fine but when i installed windows 7 on it the fn and touch sensor av control keys are not working please help

Trying to get this working.... new to forum, so please point me to the right place if I am not asking in the correct forum. I have a Dell XPS 410 system with a NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2. (Dual Port DVI Card) Dual Dell 30" Monitors 3007WFP. System worked great on XP. No issues at all...

I am trying to upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Win 7 Ultimate using a DVD bought at retail. The upgrade process hangs while Gathering programs and settings, always at the 86% mark. Yesterday it hung at 6:00 PM and I let it run overnight -- at 9:00 AM next day it was still hung. No error...

I've searched high and low and although I can find similar problems and tried everything I can, I still have the following problem. After letting windows sit and I return to my computer, I move the mouse and the computer wakes up...sometimes. Other times the mouse pointer moves, and my monitor...

i have a video card NVIDIA MX440 with 64 Mb, installed in my mother board, and recently i changed my OS, upgrading it with a windows 7 enterprise version, [formerly i had a xp pro OS] it happens that i cant have the aerials and transparencies, which is an extraordinary new feature of the 7 i'm...

Yes, it's that dreaded error message...and I am receiving it anytime I try to install any program/game. It's getting beyond ridiculous and I cannot find the exact problem. Before it told me I had to upgrade C# and C+, so I did, and nothing happened. I still got the message even afterwards. I...

Hi, since I upgraded to windows 7 a while ago I could never get aero working. When I install my graphics card drivers aero turns on. The problem is when I enter into an application, for example a game, aero switches off. Also upon restarting my computer after installling the graphics card...

I recently went from vista to win 7 and have now found I can't backup my files. I'm not sure how to go about fixing the problem, as I'm not fully competent with computers so any help would be grateful. When I try to backup files i get a message saying I can't with the code 0x80040154. I also...

I just upgraded from vista 32bit ultimate to my new windows 7 32bit ultimate. It was all well and good up untill i tried to connect my itouch to it. Itunes didn't open at all. I just thaught it was itunes being set up wrong for windows 7 so i went and reinstalled. It still didn't work, ive tried...

Hey all. I just put together a new system and installed an AMD Phenom II x4 995 (3.2Ghz). This is my first AMD chip and a significant upgrade from my old Pentium D but how hot should the chip run? I've got an ASUS motherboard for it and I'm running PC Probe II and the CPU temp seems to jump...

Jeg har da Millard Problemer med min computer efter at være skiftet fra windows xp til windows 7. * Manglede skriveadgang til config.msi * postgres og pctools der ikke længere kan sammen * iTunes der ikke virker og ikke kan geninstalleres * Dele af tekst der lige pludselig forsvinder -...

hey guys, i installed a valid copy of windows 7 on my PC.. but in a different partition. before i isntalled, i shrunk the volume of Vista C:\ and it only allowed me to have 54 GB unallocated space- there was at least 190GB of space that was unused in the hard drive, buit when i pressed hrink, it...

I was using vista x86 up untill windows 7 came out, it was then I decided to go for my first x64 operating system, win7 x64 I have an i7, 3gb ram, 2 x 4870 etc. so I thought it would be fine. Ever since I've moved over, games take up a stupid amount of memory, they'll go to 80 - 90%. I recently...