system upgrade

I recently went from Vista 32-bit to Windows 7 32-bit on my Acer 5536g laptop and I can't for the life of me get the DVD burner to work. It worked fine on Windows Vista: I used Windows DVD Maker to encode and burn DVDs to watch on my DVD player. However, after having switched to Windows 7...

Memory manufacturer Corsair researched what are the advantages of having more than 4GB of RAM. In the analysis titled “Doing More With More Memoryâ€Â￾ company showed benefits of having 8GB over 4GB of RAM. They conducted a test with Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard, a 2.6 GHz...

A friend of mine was going to install Win7 on a free partition of a hard drive. On the second hard drive he has three partition, where on the first one his XP was running. From XP he started the Win7 installation. I was installing Win7 by booting from DVD and following errors didn't occure on my...

Hey guys im running a completley fine version of Vista 64 but i want to upgrade to Windows 7 64 since i tried it out on my laptop and i preferred it to Vista. Anyway I have 1 Hard Drive split into 2 partitions, one been 70gb - 10gb free space (Windows Vista) and the other is 300gb - 60gb free...

Hey everyone, this is my first post :) I have downloaded the windows 7 RC, 32 and 64 bit editions, from microsoft and was really exited to try it out. The computer i wanted to test it on is fully backed up and is made up of the following: abit IB9 motherboard, intel e6320, gts 250, seagate...

I'm using Windows 7 on my PC with no issues. My wife however has a bit of an older system (that I upgraded recently) and it has been having issues. Many times with the computer left on, she'll turn on the monitor when coming back and there will be a message there about Windows recovering from...

I recently (1 week) moved from Vista to the RC with a clean install that was supposed to format my laptops hard drive. Now when I view my C: drive's properties it says 168gb used and 33gb free space. I have a couple word docs and maybe 1gb of music that I've actually put on since I installed...

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...

Okay so obviously I have a Toshiba X205-S7483 laptop, year and a half old. The problem I am having is that from time to time, sometimes much more frequent than others Windows 7 will temporarily freeze. The freezes vary from single programs to the entire computer hard locking. I have tried and...

Ok decided to try installing the RC on an older system I have laying around. Guts are a Dell Optiplex GX270 SMT (P4 2.4Ghz, 2Gb PC2700 ram). I have upgraded the power supply to a Coolmax 500w, put in a Samsung 140Gb IDE HD, an IDE DVD drive and am using a XFX GeForce 6600GT 128mb AGP video card...

I am currently running XP as my main OS on one partition but I also have Windows 7 Beta on a separate partition on the same hard drive. Right now I cannot currently access Windows 7 when booting up, I have no clue why that is as I used to be able to do that. What I want to do is delete the...

Yesterday, I spent the whole day downloading the new Windows 7. I was completely excited. Until, I started installing it. This is my problem. None of my keys are working. AND it is asking me for the activation keys, since it says it EXPIRED. ...I JUST GOT THIS TODAY, practically. Now, I'm...

Hi guys After testing different Windows OS'es -- I still have to say that Windows XP PRO 64 Bit edition with SP2 stiill rules the roost in speed etc by quite a large margin. Using asus P5QL -CM Mobo with 8GB RAM and Intel Quad Q9400 2.66 GHZ. Using built in video driver (Intel G45 / G43...

Hi all, I really enjoyed readyboost feature on build 7000. I'm using 2GB of RAM and readyboost gave a good performance boost. I upgraded my system to build 7022, it's working a bit better but I cannot find readyboost on USB drive properties. I really like to have the performance boost...

The Driver detected a controller error on: \device\ide\ide port 0 It seems this event causes the desktop of what ever I'm doing to freeze for a while. From the specs below, take out one stick of RAM for 3gb Take out the 80gb ide hard drive THe 500gb SATA drive is partitioned into...

Using Windows Server 2008 to manange my network with XP SP/3 clients, i was able to create in the domain GPO mappings to auto map drives when a user logged in based on what OU the pc belonged to, who the user was, and / or what Security group the user belonged to. Just to play around, we...

After the horror story I had installing, I found a diamond in the rough. I put a 64 bit win 7 on an old athlon 64 2800/i gig of RaM/ and AGO video card (which means no Aero)/ all on top of a 754 mobo. I must say that this is fast. Maybe the fact that I'm not using Aero has me cruising, but I've...

Hello I am trying to install the latest Windows 7 build. I am running into a problem on the install. It says I have to uninstall my Anti-Virus software to continue. I have McAfee, I was wondering if I will be able to reinstall after I upgrade to Windows 7? Also it says I will need to update...

Hey, I recently, well today. Upgraded my system from 512mb RAM to 1GB, But ever since after that it appears to always go to a blue screen then reboots my computer at random times. Ive tried everything even the virtual memory thing and its still not haviny any of it.. Is there a possibility i...

The problem i am having is this...The Server 2008 installed fine on my little home server here. Runs smooth. However when i try to play MP3s on it it will run but if i start doing anything else next thing i know my cpu usage spikes to 100 and the song slows down and gets all choppy. Just opening...