windows upgrade

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...

Hello, I have Windows 7 curently installed on my personal computer. I uninstalled Windows XP to get it. After trying Windows 7 I like it alot except I changed my mind. I would like to have Windows XP installed on the machine just in case I ever need it. I want to keep Windows 7 as the primary...

Clarification on "Upgrading from RC to Final".. Hello all, I've noticed alot of people wondering if they'll be able to simply Upgrade from the RC to the Final Retail version once it goes live on October 22nd, 2009. Short answer: NO.. ;) You will have to do a Clean Install to go from the...

I am running the RC version, will I be able to buy the retail upgrade when it comes out or will I require a full retail version? Thanks in advance! ~Chuck

Hi, I've been having a lot of problems with these freezes. They occur in the boot up, when a device is changed and after a few hours of gaming, can be from 30 min to 3 h. I usually get the freezez in the startup after playing a game/watching a video , the error comes as a blue screen/black in...

Hey everyone :) I'm going to start off by saying that I know for a fact this is -not- a hardware issue as this worked prior to my install of Win7. :) Just bear that in mind is all. Since making the upgrade to the Win7 RC, things are good. Active internet, use of the system, even tweaks...

I upgraded from Vista Premium and can't seem to get IE 8 to open at all. Some help would be appreciated

I am running Windows 7 Build 7100 64 bit on an HP A6720F, Quad core AMD with 6 GB RAM. I did an upgrade from Vista SP1 and everything seemed fine. Now after 30 minutes or so, all 4 CPU's start running at 80-90%. Checking Task Manager processes only show about 3-4% usage, mainly from anti-virus...

I am unable to get either of these programs to reinstall after doing the current Windows RC upgrade from Vista. I always get an error box showing that the digital signature has a problem? A recent software or hardware problem, it says? How do I get past this? I have downloaded the new software...

After the upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 RC my disc usage went from 172 to 177. Is this to be expected? Is it because I did an upgrade? Or is Win7 Premium that much larger? Is there a folder hiding somewhere with installation or rollback files that could at some point be deleted...

How can I upgrade my Windows 7, to the latest build (7106 ?)

I'm very happy with windows 7 right now and I'm not using using Vista anymore. So, I want to remove it to save some space. I tried to delete vista primary partition from disk managment but it says "Windows cannot delete this active system partitionon this disk " Is there any way to delete vista...

Hi, I did an upgrade from Vista Ultimate to 7077 ultimate..Everything went smoothly with only one or two uncompatible programs. Unfortunately when I click on Start | All Programs every one of my installed programs icons are missing. I have to search for the program to start it and pin it to the...