upgrade issues

So I upgrade to Windows 7, Home Premium 64 bit from Vista 64 It all went well until I tried to open a 32 bit programme. IE 64 opens okay, but that’s it. If I open any 32 bit programme (and some of the management programmes) I get werfault.exe*32 in the processes in the task manager...

Hi guys, Hope someone could be so kind and help me out! I am attempting transferring a FULL SYSTEM BACKUP (all programme files and any data on the C-drive) from my old Windows XP HOME PC to a new WINDOWS 7 PC and was wondering if this will work and what problems I might encounter? It's just...

Hi people.... I was wondering if any of you would be kind enough to help me with a question I have. (Please bare in mind I know next to nothing about windows OR drivers!) Now, I have an Elonex Artsan lx HTPC and have recently upgraded from XP to W7. I had to do a clean install as the upgrade...

Hello I bought student win7 offer from digital river. Downloaded it to my mom's computer, extracted the file. Copied those files to CD...put in in my laptop, set to boot from CD but it does not start the install. It goes to Linux boot....I want to erase linux and install the window 7...

It's just dont work! I can't find any upgrades, and, once I will find them and load, i can't install it.

I have got Windows 7 working by upgrading from Vista and now have a dual boot system. I cannot find out how to delete the vista partition or any other way of reclaiming half the disk! W7 won't let me partition, format or delete the vista partition. Can someone tell me how to do it?

i'm using windows 7 ultimate upgraded from vista home basic, i am able to read dual layer disks which have content on them,but when i insert a blank dual layer disk,it is not being recognised.i had no issues reading from vista,problem started immediately following installation of windows 7...

Ever since I installed the new Windows 7 upgrade, my laptop speakers won't play a thing, ever. Yet if I plug headphones in, I get sound coming out of the headphones. Also, whenever I try and play anything in Windows Media Player, it comes up with a message saying "Windows Media Player...

Hi all. I did a download upgrade to Win 7 on my Vista machine. It went extremely smoothly, and I love Win 7 so far. Except: I had been using a program called Magic Folders with Vista. This is an app that hides folders of your choice, even encrypts the files therein if you want. When I...

If there is a way to avoid providing contracted-for services, they will. I called because, post-upgrade, my Outlook 2007 completely stopped working. Because my Outlook 2007 is a "volume license" (from my hosted exchange service provider), they were insisting I get tech support from my mail...

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 all, first time I have posted, but I am stuck. I am attempting to install Windows 7 Professional on my machine but am experiencing extremely slow (2 hrs) install. Then when it did install it took 20 minutes plus to boot up. I have tried removing all the RAM but one stick, using just a...

Oh my God ! I have a Windows 7, and now i lose everything, hix ( sorry about my Poor English ). What's happening with Encrypt tool on Vista and Windows 7 ? Last week i encrypt a TEXT file, that include alot of important informations. When Windows 7 is released, i Upgrade to Windows 7 and now i...

Hey all, I've got: HP notebook a Pavillion dv9000 9930us 4 gig DDR2 SDRAM Nvidia Geforce 8600M GS 320 gig HD Was: Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Now: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and windows 7 does not love me. Every time I install things look to be going smoothly, then on the first boot (and...

I've been using the Win 7 RC for quite a while now, and really have enjoyed it. Ordered a couple copies of the Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade for my wife and I. Got her PC all updated no hitch. Unfortunately, I've been fighting the process on my system all night long. It's just been one thing...

hi there, I try to upgrade my laptop from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate. But when it comes Expanding windows files(21%), it request to restart and after restart i have 2 options: Window Setup and Windows Vista and then i choose Window Setup. But after it starts up and says: "Windows...

Hi, I'm having this issue since I moved to W2008 R2 64 bits. I was using W2008 X64 before and it worked absolutely fine. As I'm using W7 X86 on my notebook since it was available on the MSDN website as a RTM version, I thought I would like to have a homogeneous working environment so decided to...

Hey all. I have searched around for a couple days now to find some info on my error and resolve my problem. However, i could not find any one particular case to mine. I get a BSOD ATLEAST 5-6 times a day since my upgrade to W7. Before with XP i never had a BSOD in over 3 years. Anyhow here is...

My computer had Vista Ultimate on Drive C, and XP Pro on Drive D (dual boot). I wanted to upgrade to Windows 7, and couldn't upgrade from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Professional (which is what the Action Pack CD is). I purchased Laplink PcMover Update and ran it on the XP installation then...

Hello All, I had XP Pro installed on one drive then I installed Win 7x64 on another. After setting up 7 without any hassles I rebooted and received this error: "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check...