windows upgrade

Ok I've done an upgrade to my pc. I swapped out the motherboard and the harddrive. Before I did the swap I installed everything to the drive while it was in another case. Then I put it in my case that has two other harddrives. Now all of them were working when I did the change over. One of them...

Hey guys, I've been having a recurring problem at least twice a day, and more when I watch video, where I'm using my HP 6930p elitebook and the screen goes white with dull lines running through it. My laptop originally came with windows vista and was upgraded through my school to windows 7 32...

The following issues are preventing Windows from upgrading. Cancel the upgrade, complete each task, and then restart the upgrade to continue. You can’t upgrade 64-bit Windows to a 32-bit version of Windows. To upgrade, obtain a 64-bit version of the installation disc, or go online to see how...

I am an experienced system administrator (mostly on Unix, but also on Win XP). I've recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. The data disk, where all of the user project folders are stored is separate from the system disk, and untouched by the upgrade. I am the owner and...

I puchased a windows upgrade for my two home computers (laptop and desktop) from Costco a few months ago. It had the 64 bit version which I needed for my laptop and the 32bit version for my desktop. The laptop was running Vista and the desktop XP . I upgraded both machines and all was well...

I'm very glad to have stumbled across this forum! I've recently purchased a new ASUS computer (N61V I think), it came with Windows 7 Home, however for school the techies will only work with Windows 7 Professional, so thus, I cannot use it at the moment. I went through start, and went to...

I decided to upgrade my Dell 1525 Inspiron laptop from Vista Home Premium (32 bit) to Windows 7 Home Premium (32 bit). I bought the Dell disks and ran the upgrade assistant first. It told me to uninstall two programs - which I did. I should say I do not want to do a clean install for...

I have recently done a fresh install of windows 7 ultimate and it says that it has taken up nearly 35gb on my hd? Is this normal? i have a loptop with 100gb hd and checked it straight after install and it said i only had 65bg left

Recently upgraded one machine on our small office network to 7 in order to learn the product. All other transition went smoothly and impressed with increase in speed and ease of use for the average user. Stats are: Dell Dimension E520 Dual Core 1.8GHz 2GB Ram Windows 7 Ultimate PC is wiredAll...

I have just upgraded from Vista to 7. That went well. Before I performed the upgrade I carried out a backup to a second HDD for the first time. I have just gone to search the back up and have dicscovered it is in 149 seperate files and one global catalogue. Apart from going through every file...

I'm trying to do a 64 bit upgrade, I'm currently running Vista home premium 64bit on a dell studioXPS 16 laptop. I'm having trouble with my install, I get so far in the compatibility and I get this message. The following issues are preventing Windows from upgrading. Cancel the upgrade...

Hello, I recently upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista on my PC. I have all my media files on a WD external HD. The problem I am having with media player is in the libraries.. When clicking "organize" then "manage libraries" and then "music" it just disappears and does nothing. If I follow the same...

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...

it's a bit of a long story, but I have been battling the blue screen of death for months now on my machine. My system specs are: Dell Deminsion 8400 (really just the case and mobo are Dell OEM) Antec 650w psu Geforce 9600GT 512mb western digital harddrive 4GB Crucial ballistix ram Pentium 4...

Hi guys, I emailed Microsoft support this question and got a useless answer back; they just sent me a link to download the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor, which basically told me what I already knew (that my system is capable of running Windows 7). So I called them just now and the so-called...

I recently updraded from XP Pro to Windows 7 Enterprise, all is working well except for my sound. Device manager, sound properties tells me; this device is not working properly, tried uninstalling but after reboot, driver is still listed with yellow exclamation. Any help would be appreciated.:)

I recently installed W7U 32 from Vista and everything works fine except IE. I've tried to open it a dozen times and I always get this, " IE has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Window will close the program and notify you if a solution is available." It...

Hey all! Well after much arguing and frustration here is the guide on how to perform a Clean (or "custom" as Microsoft calls it) Install using the Upgrade Media with Windows 7. :) Enjoy! Paul Thurrott is the one to thank for this: Link Removed due to 404 Error

Overview Agood solution for XP users. This software installs Windows Easy Transfer on a computer running the 32-bit version of Windows XP so you can copy your files, photos, music, e-mail, settings, and more to a computer running Windows 7. If your computer is running another version of...

i am trying to upgrade my laptop from vista to 7 and every time i try to do it goes through just fine until it gets to the transferring files stage and then it gets to 49% and then hangs there and doesnt move. after awhile an error message comes up saying "windows cannot copy files required for...