windows upgrade

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...

So I've been running Vista Business until today. My dvd drive has worked fine until I finished the Win7 Pro (32 bit) installation, and now my dvd drive is not listed in "my computer" or "device manager" at all. I installed windows 7, so of course it works outside of windows...and I can still...

Want to install Windows 7 on second drive....How? I am currently on Vista which is on C: drive, and I want to install Windows 7 on F: drive. How can I do that? Also how will I select which Windows I want to log on to? Thanks.

hello all. i have network computers in my home with 2 client computers and 1 server. on the server i store all of my pictures in a different partition. I have tagged in the past all of my pictures using the "image gallery" app (I think its MSN app). Now, i upgraded all the computers to be using...

I have set up a Vista SP2 install I am going to in-place upgrade it to Windows 7 Ultimate (just playing, remember). What I would like are any suggestions from forum members as to what software I might install prior to the upgrade which might have shown a tendancy to mess up the Windows 7...

I’ve upgraded my Laptop from Vista to Windows 7 - all appears to be working OK except Internet Explorer 8. When I try to connect to the internet, IE displays the “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpageâ€Â￾ error – however Firefox has no problem connecting to the...

Hi all I know there are several install threads, but I am not the most techie minded and get confused easily so thought I would start my own thread to keep track. Right I got win 7 upgrade student version, and new ssd to put it on, and installed it and works fine, but when I went to register...

My concern: If I completely re-install windows vista 64-bit via format, then apply a windows 7 home premium upgrade. Will it be corrupted due to two different operating systems being installed to complete the windows 7 package If I paid $199.00 for a full version and installed it then I am...

I have a Matrox M9120 PCIe x16 graphics card. It was running fine in Vista x64 with the 1.0.3.35 driver. I ran the Windows 7 x64 upgrade, and everything seemed to be OK until I discovered that I couldn't open Windows Media Center or view DVDs or other videos. I tried to upgrade to the latest...

"Unidentified Network" problem, no solutions working -- EDIT: Problem solved The "unidentified network" problem seems to be fairly widespread. In my case, I just upgraded my computer from 32-bit XP to 64-bit 7 via custom install of a Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Pack. Some basic details of...

I have been scouring the forums trying to get this issue resolved to no avail... please help :razz: Im running a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ430N with GeForce Go 7400, and just upgraded to Win 7 Ult 32 from Vista Biz 32. After the upgrade everything appeared to be working fine, but now i have backlight...

I bought my computer in beginning of September... which I can order free Windows 7 upgrade from the company of my computer. The company is Gateway and before when i was trying to order Windows 7, a lot problems happened and i lost the faith to Gateway. Luckily they finally gave me order...

Hi, I recently downloaded Windows 7 Professional 32-bit and when I run the "Win7-P-Retail-en-us-x86" it gets about a third of the way through "Unloading the box" when I get an error message saying "An error was encountered. Unspecified error". Does anybody know why I'm getting this message? If...

How I wish I listened to my head not my heart. I wanted Windows 7 to be a success because I like using Microsoft's software, I'm not a Mac fan simply because I never used one. A couple of months ago I bought an Acer Aspire 5810T, great computer but with Vista installed. No problem I thought, I...

hi ho ! I'm new here and my english aint the best since its not my mother tongue. so pls forgive my bad english, hope you'll understand my questions anyway i am a student and like to take advantage of this cool offer of M for students regarding Windows 7 currently i run : Vista...

ok so ever since i installed windows 7 ive had a few problems most of them ive worked out i did a clean install of windows 7 professional from vista home premium as most of you know i wasnt able to just upgrade but i notice that my battery life is terrible...worse than when i had vista after...

I have been running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit RTM happily for a few weeks now. All of a sudden my mmachine freaked out. I have an older USB flash memory card reader mounted in a 3.5" bay in the front of my computer. I have had no problems with it conected previously. The other day I needed to...

Hi everyone i was randomly searching the web and came upon this web page : Link Removed confirming that i can upgrade from rc1 to rtm ultimate However it doesn't tell me if what version to buy windows 7 ultimate upgrade or...

Hi all, I did a search on this and I cannot find that the problem has been resolved, not in a way that works for me anyway. Issue: when I try to open C:\Documents & Settings I get "acess denied". This despite that my being logged in as admin. I mean, I installed Windows 7 RC1 on the machine...

I'm running XP in a BootCamp partition on my iMac. I would like to upgrade the XP with Windows 7 when it is available. I have ordered the upgrade version. The Mac BootCamp doesn't let you use upgrade versions for Windows, because you have no way to verify that the earlier operating system was...