I am now on my 4th time downloading this upgrade. When I ran it, it told me "Something went wrong..." and an error number 0x80004005. So I turned off virus scanning. I removed my dual booting and linux partitions. I made a bootable usb stick and rewrote the MBR, just in case. No change.
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Aboard a cargo ship: 2 Win7 machines, one at Captain, one at Chief Engineer. Systems both new HP boxes about 6 mo. old with Win7 Pro, Office 2007. Systems see each other on a wired net but Captain is the only one allowed to send email. Emails are sent via Inmarsat satellite radio connection...