upgrade issues

Okay, so a couple days ago I bought Windows 7 as a part of a promotional thing and got a student discount. I downloaded the .iso and burned it to a disc. I've installed it on my computer, and now almost everytime I attempt to install something I run into some kind of error or bug that basically...

I've recently not only upgraded to Win 7 but am now also using the Office 2010 beta but had this problem with Word 2007 as well, but it's not a Word issue (I don't think). Basically when I used XP, I was able to hover over a document name in Explorer and if I had put information into the...

Well, that pretty much says it all. I encrypted a directory with bitlocker in Vista Ultimate and then did a new install with Windows 7 Professional. The encrypted file is on another disk. Is there anyway I can decrypt the file? As you might expect, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

This is for my wife's laptop. We bought it with Vista installed and the option of a free upgrade from Dell to Windows 7. I followed both supplied disks including removing the McAfee Anti-Virus, Itunes, Google Toolbar and proceeded with the upgrade. This ran for about 2 hours at the end of...

im not a tech savy person in the first place, but i upgraded to windows 7 and now its saying no audio devices are found. i believe i have an hp pavillion dv6-2066dx, but other than that i dont know much about it. also it says i dont have the authority to do system restores or even fully download...

Here is the situation, I have two computers on my home network, one is a desktop running windows 2000 and it has an external hard drive attach to it. The other is a laptop recently upgraded to windows 7 home premium. I had Windows Vista before and was able to map my Windows 2000 hard drives...

I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FE11M laptop... Intel Duo processor 1GB RAM etc etc... Not a bad spec but a year or so old...with XP or Vista installed I got roughly 2.5 hours max battery life... Just upgraded to Windows 7...the battery life goes down at a rate of nearly 0.5% per second, I am getting...

Hi there, we bought a pc from pc world and sent off for the windows 7 upgrade. I tried putting in the disc today but it said our computer wasn't listed and that we should download the windows 7 drivers (does anyone know how i find these and what do i download and how do i install windows 7...

I turned my computer on this morning,it booted up as normal and I noticed a critical update was downloaded. Turned it off after 4 hours of usage. Turned it back on 3 hours later and nothing but a dark screen and a long continuous beep, pause, then beep again. I powered down, waited, powered...

Hi, tried to install my new Windows 7 on my PC here today but instead got the message: Windows was unable to create a required installation folder. Please reconfigure your boot.wim file to use the flag of 9 settings for the first image, and restart your installation. Error code: 0x8030002F...

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...