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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #45 on: January 07, 2010, 06:29:47 PM »
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #46 on: January 07, 2010, 07:17:26 PM »
OEM = NO SUPPORT!

Also, can't be moved to another machine (leagally  :ninja2: )...
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #47 on: January 07, 2010, 08:46:55 PM »
Well I doubt he'll be getting another machine for awhile.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #48 on: January 07, 2010, 08:57:01 PM »
i updated my windows machine to 7 last weekend - so far it's been smooth sailing, but boy did the upgrade process take a long time!  the upgrade advisor had me de-install a bunch of stuff before it let me start installing, which took about an hour.  then the actual upgrade took about 4 hours.  then there was about an hour of downloading and installing new versions of most of the stuff i uninstalled.


the only thing i've found that doesn't work is the button on the top of the keyboard to turn the wireless network transceiver on and off.  suspect that's an hp issue rather than ms, though.


all-in-all - great!  seems much more responsive than vista, and very stable.


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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #49 on: January 07, 2010, 09:09:00 PM »
Super stable and super fast.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #50 on: February 07, 2010, 03:25:29 PM »
OK Vista Business. You've screwed me once too often. You're outta here.

Let's see how this POS XPS runs with the new hotness.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #51 on: February 07, 2010, 04:04:41 PM »
Hrm....
 
So. Vista deleted my User account (or corrupted, same difference). Access in Safe Mode but it won't let me create new account and copy settings over. Stalemate.
 
Fine, this is the final straw, in goes the Win7 boot disk. Don't have the storage to wipe and install clean, so I try the upgrade route. Cannot upgrade in Safe Mode. Cannot get into Normal mode to run upgrade there as required, so I'm now at a deadlock.
 
Any ideas clan?
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #52 on: February 07, 2010, 04:39:54 PM »
Ahhh...I knew how to fix this issue with Vista.  I had to go to REGEDIT and rename.

Ahhh...hereit is.  Try it.

Ok now if you have another profile on the system with admin priviligies then log onto it
1. Open command prompt as administrator
2. Type Regedit
3. Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
4. There is 1 line for each profile. Crucially if a profile is bad there are 3 things worth checking

    a) Ensure the key name doesn't end in ".bad"
    b) Ensure the RefCount value is 0
    c) Ensure the State value is 0

5.Reboot and you should be able to log into your account just fine

Or this from Microsoft

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Fix-a-corrupted-user-profile
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #53 on: February 07, 2010, 04:53:07 PM »
OK, I'll give that a try tomorrow. Shut down that machine for now, before I got tempted to be heavy-handed with the bugger.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #54 on: February 08, 2010, 05:17:01 AM »
Fixing those registry values didn't work. Renaming the profile keys as detailed here seems to have done it, for now.


How hard is it to just work, huh?  ](*,)
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #55 on: February 08, 2010, 06:09:43 AM »
Ya I know.  I had a customer this happened to at least a 1.2 dozen times.  After the laptop went to XP...not a hitch.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #56 on: February 08, 2010, 06:33:38 AM »
As soon as I knock out the projects that need to get done today, 7 is going on this beast. Work machine or no, I've had it.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #57 on: February 08, 2010, 06:42:04 AM »
Dat a b'y...fight da man.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #58 on: February 08, 2010, 08:27:16 AM »
Quote from: minemapper on February 08, 2010, 05:17:01 AM

How hard is it to just work, huh?  ](*,)



That's what I was saying before I bought my first os-X based iMac...
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #59 on: February 08, 2010, 09:22:23 AM »
That's funny.  I find myself saying that to Vanessa's Macbook all the time.  God forbid you want to do something that wasn't originally written on the box.
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