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I am TRYING to upgrade to 7 from vista. I ran the windows 7 (Damn lost for worda) upgrade compatibility from micorsoft. It gave me software issues. They have been resolved. I did an upgrade install. When rebooted it gave me a choice of windows setup or vista. Well I chose windows set up. After...

Just wasted 2.5 hours trying to get Windows Easy Transfer to transfer Outlook 2007 files from Vista to 64 bit Windows 7 using Blkin Easy Trnsfer cable. Any suggestions?

Can anyone help please I done a reinstall about a month ago, just a couple of niggles to get rid of, everything went fine,but now my programs don't open up as quick as they did before the fresh install.I have an ACER ASPIRE DESKTOP 1TB LOADS OF MEMORY I clean out the rubbish regular, The...

I have a retail upgrade to my Vista home premium to Window 7 home premium and it goes all the way to 62% finishing and then strops the installation and reloads me back to my OS. I have tries several times. I even made a copy in case the dvd was bad. still same results. The compatability...

My old pc was running vista and crapped out on me. I now have a new PC running win7. My old PC was backed up on a MYBOOKWORLD external harddrive that is shared on my network. When I goto restore the files, after hitting the "next" button (pictured) the sys will not respond. Please can anyone...

Consider the following scenario: You have a Windows Vista or Windows 7 machine. After you boot the machine, you hot plug a PCI Express card. The PCI Express card may not be detected in Windows. In the event that the card is detected, you may experience... Link Removed

I am trying to upgrade to Windows 7 64 bit from Vista 64 bit. When I put in the Windows 7 installation disk into the DVD drive and click "Install Now", it goes to a full-screen setup page, which reads: - Setup is copying temporary files... - Setup is starting... - Then an error message pops up...

No doubt this has been answered in this forum MULTIPLE times already, but I am in a bit of a quandary and need to get my laptop operating quickly - so I apologize if I'm trying to 'short-cut' doing the research to find the answer in some previous post, but I need my laptop back fast ...

Hello I am new to the forum and I really joined to post this question; although looking around the forum I think this may be an invaluable source of information. Anyway my question is this, I am purchasing a new computer that is not going to have an Operating System, and purchase the upgrade...

Hp came with two drives. vista 64 set it back to factory specs and installed win7 64. seem okay. just noticed that the other drive is empty - correct. but properties says there is 43GB there! it is set up to show hidden files. how do i tell win7 64 that hey! the drive is empty. thanks

Hi, I bought and downloaded about a year ago, Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade to install the new OS on a computer that was bought with a Vista system already installed. Now I have some problems with the computer and I'd like to perform a clean reinstallation of Windows 7. Is it possible to do so...

hello there - thank you for reading my post. i have 3 computers - a laptop (vista wireless), a home theater pc (win 7 wireless) and my main computer (win 7 wired) with all my media files. i have a network setup and the laptop and the HTPC can connect to each other when i click their icons in...

Fixes an issue that occurs when you open an earlier version of a document from the same WebDAV site by using Microsoft Word 2010 or an earlier version in Windows 7, in Windows Server 2008 R2, in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008. More...

Fixes an issue in which the legacy Vista-style green progress bar shows when you start or restart the Chinese Traditional HK version of Windows 7 Link Removed

Hi all, I have a Sony Vaio VGN-AR51SU Laptop which was running Windows Vista 32 Bit. I purchased windows 7 and installed the 64 Bit version. Everything seems to work fine apart from my Matshita BD-MLT UJ-220S Bluray burining drive. The laptop only sees it as a CD Rom. the device appears with...

I have reset firewall settings to default on all three computers. Win7 Pro only sees other Win7 PCs and not a router-shared drive nor the XP, and yet the Win7 Starter and Win7 Home both do. All have same workgroup name. Any suggestions on how to remedy this would be greatly appreciated. Thank...

I went thru this with Vista, don't remember what the solution was.. when search for a file by typing file name (or partial file-name (or extension)) in search field in folder window.. the results don't tell you where the files are !!! what is the purpose of a search functionality if...

Ultimate Windows Tweaker TweakUi on steroids. The Ultimate Tweaker for Win 7 and Vista from the Windows Club. Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but if so it's worth mentioning again. Just put Ultimate Tweaker for Win 7 in Google to find the site.

Describes how to use the Bootrec.exe tool to troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows Vista and Windows 7. More...

My toshiba A200 laptop was upgraded from vista HP to ultimate with a clean install on new 500gb hard drive and it has worked pretty flawlessly for the past few years from the RC version. But in the past few months it has started crashing, rebooting and rebooting and rebooting, now freezing when...