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^{I've finally retired XP from all three of my machines in favor of 7}

12/19/2009 8:04:42 PM

ScHpEnXeL, thats what i inferred from the Microsoft site. Does anyone know if it keeps your files and programs intact just like they way they are now, or does it move them all to a folder??

12/19/2009 10:21:08 PM

dude i just answered the fucking question

if you select "upgrade" then nothing changes. all programs "stay" installed and all documents stay in relatively the same place

if you select "clean install" (or whatever they call it), then it will do a clean install of windows and you will have to re-install all of your programs. documents are moved to a windows.old directory but are not deleted or anything like that. this options tends to do better and have less problems..but is a little more time/work for your part

12/19/2009 10:24:51 PM

^To be clear, not ALL programs get transparently moved over.

Office will work after the upgrade, iTunes I'm not sure about. Most consumer applications will work, many professional applications (notably Adobe and Autodesk products) will require reinstall because of the licensing verification applications.

You will not LOSE any of your data though. No need to do a backup just for the upgrade, but everyone should be doing regular backups anyway.

12/20/2009 4:24:14 PM

i seem to remember it telling me what programs wouldn't be able to transfer and would require a reinstall and then giving me the option to continue or do a clean install instead

12/20/2009 9:01:32 PM

btw, just got an email from the Student Offer:
HURRY, the Windows 7 store will be closing on Tuesday, January 5, 2010

12/30/2009 12:01:01 PM

i installed it today on my thinkpad t60! i like it so far

1/2/2010 7:07:16 PM

Installed it on my new 2.8 ghz Lynnfield i7 rig I got for Christmas. Fucking loving it. Now running 7 on my home quad core and work dual core.

1/2/2010 7:26:19 PM

is microsoft security essentials enough or do i need to install any other antivirus/antimalware software?

1/2/2010 7:38:22 PM

I am running MSE on my work computer and still just running AVG on my home PC. No problems with either, yet.

1/3/2010 10:51:13 AM

MSE is plenty and not a resource hog..don't waste your time/money/whatever on anything else, imo

1/3/2010 10:59:57 AM

thanks
i installed malwarebytes since someone suggested it along with MSE on some blog

1/3/2010 11:11:53 AM

battery doesnt charge anymore

says " plugged in, not charging "

i read somewhere that lots of people have this issue with win 7!!!

HALPPPPPPPPPPPP! its a thinkpad t60

1/7/2010 8:43:19 PM

I've had card reader problems with two computers with windows 7. Did anyone else have this problem?

1/8/2010 4:27:33 PM

I might have found a fix for the "Explorer has stopped working" errors.

From:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7files/thread/291c0945-c41f-4c8b-bca1-6b6d0836f62a

Apparently the newer versions of Firefox can cause these issues. To fix, you can install an earlier version like 3.0.xx
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-firefox-3.0.x/

[Edited on January 13, 2010 at 1:17 AM. Reason : ,]

1/13/2010 1:16:18 AM

^^I've had 2 card readers (one SD reader on a really old laptop, and a multi-card reader in my desktop) get picked up automatically by Win 7, and neither one of them can actually read the cards.

1/13/2010 9:20:35 AM

i've never had any problems w mine

[Edited on January 13, 2010 at 12:05 PM. Reason : you aren't putting SDHC cards in a regular SD reader or anything are you?]

1/13/2010 12:05:30 PM

^^,^^^^ it's a driver issue, not a W7 issue. get the latest driver or wait until the card reader's manufacturer releases a new driver (though vista drivers will probably work). I had the same issue so I just installed the Vista x64 driver (I have W7 x64) and it works fine now...

1/13/2010 12:18:33 PM

question... may be a stupid one...

but are you guys keeping the xp vm machine updated/running anti-virus, etc? (treating it like an actual computer as opposed to doing nothing but running programs and keeping those updated)

1/25/2010 12:19:25 PM

Windows 7, and my rig in general, has been giving me trouble for the past week. It was working great, for a while. Booted up one day and the sound didn't work. Speaker was x'd out, and it said "Audio Output Device not installed." I was using a Creative Audigy 2 ZS sound blaster in there, but it wasn't even being detected. Not even an unknown device in device manager...nothing. Downloaded new drivers, wouldn't install because it didn't detect the device. Made sure it was seated correctly, still nothing. Switched it to the other PCI slot, nothing. Toyed around with the BIOS settings, and couldn't get a fix. I ran the Windows repair utility, but somewhere along the line, W7 began to slow down and would take a minute to bootup, and moved very slowly. I'm not even sure how that happened, but whatever.

After a while, I decided it'd be a good idea to update the BIOS. My motherboard (MSI K9VGM-V) was using a 1.1 version Award BIOS, and when I ran the MSI utility, it showed that there was a 1.8 version available. I tried to update the BIOS about a year ago and failed, so I tried again. This ended up being a huge pain. I ended up uninstalling W7 entirely, and the BIOS wouldn't flash from floppy or DVD. Finally flashed from a flash drive and it worked fine. Spent 2 days trying to get W7 to install correctly again. I discovered that my W7 DVD that I burned originally was scratched/corrupted, so I had to install XP, reburn the ISO, and do it again, but that DVD didn't work either, so I did it once more at 1x burning speed, which worked. After navigating a jungle of blue screen errors and failed installs, I got W7 back up and running.

Audio Output Device still wasn't detected . I ended up buying a $30 rocketfish 5.1 sound card from bestbuy, and it was detected. I'm still not sure what the problem was with the Creative card, but I'm going to chalk it up to "Windows 7 compatibility issues." Overall, I've been happy with Windows 7, and I'm glad it's finally back up and running like normal. I knew the risks of running a new OS on a 3 year old computer. I'd like to build a new machine, but I'm not enthusiastic about dropping a thousand bucks on the PC I would want.

1/28/2010 12:55:13 PM

Did you try the sound-card in a different computer to see if it was the card itself?

I had a Linksys WMP110 pci wireless adapter that simply was not compatible with Win 7 64-bit. Linksys basically told me this adapter wouldn't work with Win 7 64-bit and never will. Well, I learned all of this AFTER installing Win 7 because the pre-installation compatibility test told me all devices were compatible. I'm not sure whether I should be mad at Microsoft for not being able to recognize the incompatible device, or mad at Linksys for selling me a product that became obsolete after 8 months.

1/28/2010 1:03:39 PM

When I reinstalled XP to burn a new W7 DVD, the sound card worked. The sound card had worked all along with W7. I think there was a Windows Update at some point and it stopped working, but nothing I did caused it to be re-detected.

1/28/2010 1:07:37 PM

thank god for XP mode, its the only way i could get my old canon printer and scanner to work

its a small hassle having to open up the virtual machine everytime i want to print but its better than having to buy new stuff

1/28/2010 1:40:05 PM

I hooked up a friend of mines Canon Scanner that must have been at least 10-12 years old and Windows 7 picked it right up and downloaded the drivers. I have yet to come across anything that it won't find a driver for. That sucks that you have to run XP mode just for a driver.

1/28/2010 4:55:44 PM

Quote :

"Audio Output Device still wasn't detected . I ended up buying a $30 rocketfish 5.1 sound card from bestbuy, and it was detected. I'm still not sure what the problem was with the Creative card, but I'm going to chalk it up to "Windows 7 compatibility issues." Overall, I've been happy with Windows 7, and I'm glad it's finally back up and running like normal. I knew the risks of running a new OS on a 3 year old computer. I'd like to build a new machine, but I'm not enthusiastic about dropping a thousand bucks on the PC I would want."

After a quick check, Creative apparently doesn't support the Audigy ZS anymore at all, in Win7 or otherwise. And if you are running 64bit, you can pretty much forget about it. 3 years is all you get with Creative products.

The experience you just had almost mirrors verbatim my experiences with the first generation of Soundblaster Live! cards. When I went from 98 to 2000 and then XP, each time they either didn't work at all, or had massively reduced capability. Which is why I abandoned Creative products entirely. You can pretty much bank on the fact that their hardware will never be upgrade safe, or be supported for more than one OS release.

1/28/2010 9:20:05 PM

I've enjoyed W7 since I've gotten it installed... just wish it didn't mess with Grub when Ubuntu's already installed... really wanted a good triple boot system but so far it's been a pain in the balls. Any tried an XP/Ubuntu/W7 triple boot under Grub for the bootloader?

1/28/2010 10:08:51 PM

No, because there's zero reason to keep XP around and I have a girlfriend and a social life which puts linux out of the picture.

1/29/2010 4:42:34 AM

yeh... why XP + W7? W7 already does XP...

oh, and:

Quote :

"question... may be a stupid one... but are you guys keeping the xp vm machine updated/running anti-virus, etc? (treating it like an actual computer as opposed to doing nothing but running programs and keeping those updated)"

[Edited on January 29, 2010 at 9:18 AM. Reason : .]

1/29/2010 9:18:20 AM

There's no need to run antivirus on the xp vm.

1/29/2010 2:19:57 PM

Quote :

"I have a girlfriend and a social life which puts linux out of the picture."

lol

1/29/2010 2:55:15 PM

Quote :

"I hooked up a friend of mines Canon Scanner that must have been at least 10-12 years old and Windows 7 picked it right up and downloaded the drivers. I have yet to come across anything that it won't find a driver for. That sucks that you have to run XP mode just for a driver."

oh i guess i should have clarified, it would work in W7 32bit but i have W7 Ultimate 64 so it wouldnt find the drivers even though they were there

1/29/2010 6:13:36 PM

^True I assume he was running 32 bit and not 64 bit. Although I've been running 64 bit Vista/then 7 ever since they came out and I haven't run into a driver it couldn't find automatically.

Quote :

"3 years is all you get with Creative products."

My Creative Audigy 4 card that's like 4-5 years old was picked up by 7 64 bit right away. I guess there's always exceptions, but yeah in general creative driver support seems to be lacking on older products.

1/29/2010 6:40:32 PM

thanks noen you're a doll

Quote :

"yeh... why XP + W7? W7 already does XP"

don't have the pro version of W7 atm, and i wanted to have XP for some stuff at work. they're behind on getting some VPN stuff up to date and overall i just prefer to keep my work dev environment as separate as possible with the services i run anyway.

ubuntu was more just for the fun of it... but it's virtualbox for me i guess.

1/29/2010 7:03:15 PM

2/10/2010 12:48:18 PM

Anyone else get these nasty Kernel-Power 41 (63) errors?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kernel+power+error+41+%22windows+7%22

[Edited on February 10, 2010 at 1:54 PM. Reason : .]

2/10/2010 1:54:13 PM

^Haven't seen it before.


and...

LOL WAT:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/02/new-windows-7-antipiracy-update-to-phone-home-regularly.ars

2/11/2010 5:51:24 PM

apparently it was a realtek audio driver issue.

2/11/2010 6:23:34 PM

I really hate Realtek ... wish motherboard manufacturors would find a better integrated audio device

2/11/2010 8:29:01 PM

Quote :

"The update will be voluntary (meaning that you can choose not to install it) and can also be uninstalled at any time"

2/11/2010 9:41:37 PM

^^technically it was a bad microsoft high definition audio driver, installing the realtek driver fixed it.

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/11/restart-issues-after-installing-ms10-015.aspx

[Edited on February 11, 2010 at 11:25 PM. Reason : .]

2/11/2010 11:04:40 PM

Quote :

"potentially dangerous activation exploits"

dangerous for whom?

2/12/2010 8:38:55 AM

I don't know if this has been covered in this thread yet. I have an HP laptop that qualified for a free Windows 7 upgrade once it came out. The discs got here the other day, but now I would like to have Windows 7 on my desktop instead of upgrading my Vista laptop.

I've read about the work arounds for using upgrade versions to do clean installs, which is obviously what I would like to do. The discs are HP branded, but they are labeled Windows 7 Premium Upgrade Media. Before I trash my desktop partition (which is currently XP, but I can install Vista if that makes that upgrade work), does this have any hope of working on a non-HP machine?

Thanks

2/15/2010 12:59:31 AM

I think that's more trouble than it's worth. just upgrade your laptop and if you really want W7 on your desktop, you can still get it pretty cheap, i think

2/15/2010 9:29:32 AM

any suggestions on a 3rd party toolbar for W7 x64? supposedly Yz dock & rocket dock won't work on x64... haven't tried them yet though

2/22/2010 12:58:35 PM

I use rocketdock with no problems

2/22/2010 1:26:10 PM

^rocketdock on x64 vista (at work) with no issues.

2/22/2010 1:47:18 PM

thanks. figured it would. I see that rocketdock is still the popular choice

2/22/2010 1:48:54 PM

Having never used a 3rd party toolbar, I'm wondering how rocketdock would be superior to (or even necessary in the presence) of the existing Taskbar. Please let me know.

2/22/2010 1:53:58 PM

I use it on my second monitor... in xp I didn't really need it, but in Vista/W7 since you can't have two windows toolbars, I like using a 3rd party toolbar for my second monitor

2/22/2010 2:01:33 PM

just use ultramon

then you have the regular taskbar all the way across the screen

2/22/2010 3:37:08 PM