vista upgrade

Parental Controls Help [Solved] Hey there, I've had my laptop since Christmas of last year, and I got it with Vista. My dad set parental time controls on it, setting the time I could log on to 6AM - 12AM. Recently, he upgraded my laptop to 7, and switched my account to an administrator soon...

Just installed Windows 7 over Vista on Sony Vaio notebook. Turns out that the networking does not work. Routing tables etc are ok; I can ping arbitrary hosts on internet and on my LAN, however all www connections (with Firefox as well as IE) are dead -- both in LAN as well as on the internet. So...

upgraded from vista to home premium on my fujitsu seimens amilo laptop now the f keys aren't working and 1 of them is to turn my wireless on? any ideas please:redface:

hi upgrading my 32 bit vista to 64 bit Windows 7, will not run through vista, so have run the compatibility tool and it say that I can up grade. So shut down and start up with the CD in drive it starts up goes past the install and asks me which drive to in stall it. Tried putting it on the C...

After updating my HP a6500f desktop to Windows 7 Home Premium I am experiencing the following issue: Any of my 3 brands of External USB drives disconnect in 64 bit Windows 7 OS when transferring large files to USB from...

Hi all I did not really know where to post this, but any way, one of the things i like about windows 7 is the way it displays all the custom artwork i make when i encode a film to .mp4 video as can be seen in the screen grab below. No codecs needed for them to play as well, which is one of the...

Recently installed Win. 7 Ultimate over Vista Home Premium. Real easy, no problems. When I went to use the Windows Live Movie Maker to make a slide sbow of some vacation photos, I could not add music. When I installed a Music CD and tried to down load it into the computer, it went directly to...

My monitor (LG Flatron W2252TQ-TF) will not not display at all on my new DellM1530 machine. I had Vista installed on there last month and was convinced to switch to the beta version of Windows 7 (which is actually pretty nice). However...I really need the second monitor working as it's...

Hi! I am trying to setup media center to watch live tv. I had no problems watching live tv on Vista before I upgraded to windows 7. When I get to the step in TV Setup that says "Downloading TV Setup Data" I get a message that states: Download Failure The new TV setup data could not be...

I just installed Windows& from Vista. I have a HP Pavilion dv9930us notebook with a 64bit OS. Everything seems to be working fine except my nvidia video card driver cant be detected and also I am getting TWO control panel errors Base System Device Location: PCI bus 9, device 9, function 3...

I just upgraded my Windows Vista (64 bit) to the Windows 7 Home Premium (64 Bit). The first issue I came across is I could not get my Linksys Wireless G adapter to connect to the network. After some investigation I decided it was the driver and un-installed the adatpter with the intention of...

I just used the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to see if everything would go through fine when I tried to upgrade. Most things seemed fine, but a few things did come up that I have some questions about. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here are the messages I received: ATI Catalyst...

Hey all this is the basics of my rig: Asus N80v Nvidia 9650M Card 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 4GB DDR2 RAM 64 bit - Windows 7 Home Premium I updated my graphics driver from Nvidia's page just recently so I could enable aero, however since then once I use an aero enabled setting, the...

hi, i just installed 7 and im very impressed however my laptop randomly turns off!!! its getting frustrating! the battery icon says i need to change my battery but i only did this 6 weeks ago and worked fine on vista if any1 has any ideas how to fix this i would be grateful thanks!!

I was in the middle of upgrading Vista Home Premium 32bit to Windows 7 when the installer told me I needed to update the drivers for my IDE drive. Well, I don't have any IDE drives, and my IDE controller is disabled in bios, so I found that strange. Looking in device manager, under Storage...

Since upgrading from Vista to Windows 7 I've got a problem with games folder, namely over 500 icons with no name, that I can't click on or right click and delete. anybody have any ideas how I might get rid of them? I've attached a screenshot of the folder to illustrate what I mean Cheers...

ok guys..i just installed my windows vista home premium laptop to windows 7 ultimate last night..and i was very excited to use..lol here is my problem.. i just installed warcraft 3 frozen throne and RoC from my Disc ( original ) installed fine...BUT when i try to run the game..it doesnt fit on...

I went from windows vista 64 to windows 7 OEM, and have been having trouble for days. My latest trouble is that I finally got 7 to install, but when i restart or turn it back on it goes to gateway System recovery options! its been doing this all week. 7 is installed, but it wont boot to 7. I've...

I went from windows vista 64 to windows 7 OEM, and have been having trouble for days. My latest trouble is that I finally got 7 to install, but when i restart or turn it back on it goes to gateway System recovery options! its been doing this all week. 7 is installed, but it wont boot to 7. I've...

New member here,got a W7 install issue. First time I installed W7 I did a clean install but I guess I chose the wrong drive partition,(it's not obvious what to use!)as it wound up in my recovery D disk. So all 15 GB's are used up. I did subsequently reinstall,again doing a clean install over...