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    Windows 7 Windows 7 and Mail

    Have been using Windows Mail in Vista Ultimate for a year or so and am surprised to learn that Windows Mail is not included in Windows 7. When you install 7 over Vista (not a clean update) - Will the mail files created by Vista be available (readable) when the installation is complete.
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 install Freezes at "Completing Installation"

    I ordered a Windows 7 Home Premium Family pack about 2 months ago and it arrived last week. While I wasn't expecting it until October 22, I figured "why look a gift horse in the mouth". However, when I try to install it I hit a problem. I had Vista Ultimate installed and attempted an upgrade...
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    Windows 7 connection drops

    I have a customer who has upgraded from vista ultimate to 7 ultimate (32 bit). If he is actively useing the internet he has no problems, if he lets it go idle it drops the connection. He is wired into his router, all drivers are up to date, all power management is off. Other PC's running from...
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    Windows 7 upgrade question

    I am running Vista Ultimate and I am thing about upgrading to Windows 7 Home Preminum. My question is, if I want to do a clean install say a year after I install Windows 7 can I just install Windows 7 or do I have to install Vista first. I never have upgraded before. Thanks for any help.
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    Windows 7 Black screen and cursor

    I'm dual booting Vista Ultimate 64bit with Windows 7100 RC with different partitions on the same HDD and every time it boots up the screen just turns black. Then I try to do the "explorer.exe new task" trick but when I press Ctrl+Alt+Del nothing comes up except my cursor. I have reinstalled...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 RC 32-Bit Installation Freezes :@

    Hey, i am trying to Dual Boot Windows 7 RC On my PC with Windows Vista Ultimate x86. On the installation process it copy's windows files in a instant and then when it gets to Expanding Windows Files it freezes at 0%, i waited and waited and in the end got annoyed and restarted the installation...
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    Windows 7 Installed 7 from Vista Ultimate - Program Listing Missing

    Just installed Win 7RC... I installed it from Vista Ultimate... It completed fine, but when I go to Start and All Programs, no programs show.. I can get to them thru the explorer, but have tried uninstalling, and reinstalling in Win 7, and still nothing showing under all programs.. any ideas...
  8. Windows 7 File Folders Empty - Image & Video files gone

    Dual boot - Windows 7 RC1 7100 64bit / Vista Ultimate 64bit / USB2 External Drives I'm posting this problem history for the benefit of others who may be having the same or similar problem. I have several 500GB USB2 external drives that store seldom used image and video files. I opened a...
  9. Windows 7 Wow..Win 7 Did this?

    Hey all- Fairly new here at the forum. Upon installation of Win 7 RC on a partition created on a Vista Ultimate machine I have noticed some peculiar things happening when booting back into Vista ( given the choice of OS when rebooting ). I have multiple versions of Photoshop from 7 through CS 3...
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    Windows 7 win7 64bit new installation error 0x80300024

    I'm running: VISTA ULTIMATE Seagate 250GB - VISTA 32bit installed Seagate 1TB - Data Files Seagate 250GB - want to install WIN7 64bit During installation when selecting the blank hard-drive Seagate 250GB for installation WIN7 64bit, I get the following: ERROR: 0X80300024 and can't proceed. Any...
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    Windows Vista Cannot connect to Exchange Server 2000 with Vista

    I have a Dell Latitude with Vista Ultimate 64 bit. I'm trying to set up my email account in Outlook 2003 to work with Exchange Server 2000. But for some reason I cannot resolve the exmail. name on our exchange server. i have tried to resolve it in the host file, but no luck. Is this a problem...
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    Windows 7 32 bit VM on 64 bit OS for driver compatibility

    hey guys, don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but here goes. vista ultimate 32 is my main OS now, but i have the Win 7 64 bit on a separate drive. pretty much everything works except for my mustek scanner. this is a pretty much necessary piece of equipment for my work, being a...
  13. Windows 7 Dual Boot Comms problem

    Hi all I have VM Cable and I am dual booting Vista Ultimate SP2 and Windows 7 RCM. Over the last two days my internet access has stopped in Win 7 but when I switch back to Vista everything is working! I also have a wireless router and just now with Win 7 telling me that there is no connection...
  14. Windows 7 Run chkdsk and dual boot

    For some unknown reason, whilst trying to install Windows 7 to a new drive on a dual boot with Vista Ultimate, towards the end of the installation it said that it could not continue and I had to run chkdsk on the C: drive. I waited and chkdsk did run giving all sorts of errors but then the...
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    Windows 7 System Recovery

    OK. So this will be a very long story so get ready. I had Win7 dual-booted with Vista Ultimate. Please note that them two operating systems did come with the computer. I had to delete my Vista partition because it had a virus. So now I am left with Win7. But now this has a virus. When my comp...
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    Windows 7 Where'd my HDDs go?

    Hello, all - brand new member here. Good-looking forum, looks like it has a lot of useful info. I did a search for this, but didn't find anything exactly like what I'm experiencing (found a couple of things that were close, tried those solutions, no dice). I just installed W7RC into a...
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    Windows 7 skype and webcam not working during video calls

    ok, using 64 bit Win7, skype seems to function pretty well. but today when i did my first video call, the other person was unable to see me at all. if i go into the skype options, my webcam [logitech QC Pro 9000] shows and I can see myself, but there doesn't seem to be any way to turn my video...
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    Windows Vista Windows Live Messenger!

    Right! About 3 days ago, i went to talk to a friend of mine, so i did the norm, clicked her username and prepared to type! As i was waitig, the screen popped up with her name, the e-mail and the normal box, how ever it was whited out, aswell as MSN, i couldn't do anything, or click until it...
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    Windows 7 Nslookup.exe-application error

    Hi: I keep getting this error message. I uninstalled I.E.8 and I quit getting these messages, when I reinstalled I.E.8, I Started getting these messages again. I also have Mozilla Firefox installed but I use I.E.8 as my primary web browser. I like using explorer, so is there some thought you...
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    Windows Vista Hard Disk Porblems

    For start: After I installed Acronis Disk Director Suite on my Vista Ultimate SP1 32bit on C: drive, I splitted my hard disk to an additional hard disk which is D: When I restarted my computer I got an error saying "NTLDR is missing", I followed these insturctions: Link Removed - Invalid URL...