I am going to buy a Windows 7 laptop, but I have had experience with Windows 7 and personally hate it, so when I get this laptop I want to revert back to Vista operating system... How do I do it? Can the Vista be downloaded from Microsoft's website, or do I need to buy Vista in a CD?
View 24 Repliesi have a eee pc 1000 ha. the operating system is win 7 now, but performance is not good, slower. so, i want to back win xp again. it has no cd drive. hw can i back / reinstall win xp on it?
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI purchased a retail copy of Windows 7 Upgrade and installed it about a year ago. It detected my Vista installation but I reformatted and did a clean install. It activated no problem.I now want to wipe my Hard drive and start fresh...but I have an important question.Will my upgrade license key allow me to reinstall Windows 7 without putting Vista back on the computer first? I want to do a clean install. I understand that Upgrade keys need to "see" a previous Windows version in the setup program before you re-format the drive.But, this is the second install of Win7; wouldn't the setup detect that I have an installed copy of Windows 7 before I format?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI tried srf/scannow imagres.dll and icon cache already, and I still get this: from a pack I installed I just want to get rid of these ugly Icons
View 1 Replies View RelatedProblem Description: I was using Windows 7 (64 bit) and having difficulty operating some CS4 applications even when I changed the compatibility settings. I decided to clean install the 32 bit version of Windows 7 to see if this would remedy the problem. I had purchased the Windows 7 Professional package so both discs were available to me. The CS4 situation did not improve. However I am not concerned with the CS4 issue at present
what I would like to do is revert back to Windows 7 (64 bit) and I don't know how.
I went from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 (64 bit) to Windows 7 (32 bit)
and now I want to go back to Windows 7(64 bit) is this possible.
i had a terrible problem with a big quantity of extremely important photo files; i formatted a pen drive by error and now i cannot access my photos; the card in the camera card filed as fat; my computer only files in nfts; a window popped up telling i had to format; i didnt realized the risk and formatted; now i cannot open the files because for sure they now are nfts; how could i revert the mistake i did?, there should be a way of reverting from nfts to fat, isnt it?
View 4 Replies View RelatedApparently the CPU has been overclocked, but tends to revert back to AMD Phenom II X3 720 from time to time. The CPU is inserted in the ASRock N68-VS3 UCC motherboard. Does it reverting back means that the overclocking procedure is somewhat unstable or is it just a graphic glitch? Also, how better is a AMD Phenom II X3 720 to an AMD Phenom II X4 20 both @ 2.8 GHz?
View 2 Replies View RelatedFew days back my os stopped to start in any mode and shows a black screen.so decided to re install windows and installed windows 7 ultimate 64 bit os.After a few days i came to know this is a pirated copy .so now i have to revert back to pre-installed of laptop.i have a recovery cd from samsung and have a partirion named SAMSUNG_REC(E).
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am in a problem here. A day before yesterday, I was messing up with folder permissions and unfortunately I messed up pretty badly.
The problem is I changed the folder permissions of C:Program Files and C:Program Files (x86) to Deny for all users. These included
Authenticated Users
System
Administrators
Users
I was logged in with an Administrator Account. Now the problem is I cannot access the above folders with any user. All my applications installed in those folders do not work.
I tried several solutions available on the net like changing ownership, using THE Administrator account, etc but to no avail and these folders are still locked.
Is there anyway I can access these files or shall I resort to the ultimate step i.e. re-install windows.
I've accidently set another .cnf filetype to be known, as well. It's just so aggravating to see them have an icon as if they're good to open..how can I make them to open with nothing once again..?
View 9 Replies View Relatedwell scenario is I got my new dell 15r laptop with windows 7 basic loaded yesterday.. so backed it up and wanted to put my old PC's windows 7 ultimate version on it. I installed it, while installation it allowed to have only 4 partitions.it already had 2 partitions1) Recovery - 15gb2) something i forgot ... some 40MBso i made a partition of 125GB for OSand rest of unallocated space ie some 660gb could not be allocated in more than one partition so i let it be unallocatedso after installtion got completed and OS started i went in disk management and tried to make that unallocated space of 660GB in 2-3 partitions.but it converted all my previous partitions also to dynamic. even recovery partitions.ow do i go back to basic partitions?? particularly about that recovery partition and my C: (OS partition) ??
View 7 Replies View RelatedSo i returned to my work computer after lunch and the resolution had been changed to 800x600, very odd.Now i have spent 2 hours trying to get back my resolution to the 1680x1050 that is was before but i still can not choose anything higher then 1600x1200 under Screen Resolution settings. The one with the correct ratio i can choose is 1280x960 and i'd like to bigger one back.I have updated the driver for my graphics card (ATI Radeon 3000 Graphics accoridng to Device Manager). I have updated the driver for the Monitor (HP LE2201w), but the monitor still shows up as Generic Non-PnP Monitor under Device Manager and now i am out of ideas... I really have no idea what the hell happened when i was gone.(And yes, the computer was locked so it wasn't someone else changing something)Uninstalling the driver for the Generic device does nothing, it pops back up again after installing the correct display driver, or after a restart. It's like the display driver i downloaded from HP is not being installed, no idea why.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a friend who just installed Windows 8 Release Preview onto his computer, but what he was trying to do was install it as a dual-boot with Windows 7, but that didn't work. What ACTUALLY happened was Windows 8 installed as a primary OS, but it apparently didn't delete any of his data; it just replaced the Windows 7 OS with Windows 8, with its Metro UI and such.Is there any way to uninstall Windows 8 Release Review and revert back to Windows 7 without deleting any of the data on any of the hard drives?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedHow you can get back to vista from windows 7. I have tried formatting and re-installing but whilst formatting an error comes up to say the partition is not allowed to be cleared.I have tried rebotting with the vista operating system disc but it won't run properly.
View 2 Replies View RelatedUsers who have used Windows Vista for a long time will surely miss the Windows Calendar program in Windows 7. As you may know, Microsoft has excluded Windows Calendar feature from the latest iteration of Windows.
If you have been missing the Windows Calendar in Windows 7, here is smart way to get back this feature in Windows 7. And if you are new to Windows Calendar program, read how to get most out of Windows Calendar program guide.
Follow the simple instructions given below to get back Windows Calendar in Windows 7:
1. First of all, navigate Windir/Program Files (C:Program Files, where C is your Windows 7 drive) and create a new folder named Windows Calendar.
2. Now, download this ZIP file and extract the contents to C:Program FilesWindows Calendar.
3. Navigate to C:Program FilesWindows CalendarWindows Calendar (where C is your Windows 7 drive), right-click on the WinCal.exe program and select Pin to taskbar option.
4. Click on the Windows Calendar shortcut on the taskbar to start running Windows Calendar program in Windows 7.
5. Enjoy Windows Calendar in Windows 7.
So I would like to go ahead and update a desktop PC from Vista to Win7, the only setback is, I lost some of the install cd's that I had for programs like Adobe photoshop which was $1500 (CS4) Is there some way that I can basically save the programs and their contents to an external and then put them back onto the PC after it has been given new life?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedHow do I delete this rubbish copy of 7 and install my genuine copy of xp back onto my computer?
View 5 Replies View Relatedi have an asus laptop when i got it it had windows 7 32 bit it ran great bet computer ive ever owned but it took a fall and the harddrive broke i got a new one and had to rebuy windows everyone told me to get 64 bit so i did but now my usbs are not working and my speakers dont work same with videos to oh and during start up it lags real bad and can take almost 20 min to start but some times it takes only seconds ive looked at the main drivers they are all in 32 bit and ive done all the updates in the world for it but it still dont work i want to go back to 32 to see if i can get it running
View 5 Replies View RelatedIt has been a year or so since I got my computer with a full running copy of Windows 7 Ultimate...All of a sudden after about 6 months of owning the computer i get a message when i turn my computer back on saying Windows 7Build 7601This copy of windows is not Genuine.I bought this computer from a guy my friend knew and now i feel like i got ripped off because of this...Is there any way to fix it... tried to contact Microsoft...unresponsiv
View 8 Replies View RelatedI loaded WIN7 Home Premium onto a HP Notebook with 2 gig RAM, 60 gig HDD, and 1.67 Intel CPU. Not running well and want to revert back to XP which is fine for our use. In trying to make room on HDD, I deleted windows.old file. So my question is how do I reformat HDD and get back to clean machine without anything loaded and then load XP. Tried to install with XP disc but it would not let me. have Win7 on desktop and love it but it has the horsepower to run it like it should be run.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI had a pre release of Windows 7 and was adding the Windows 7 Ultimate but when I added it all of my settings as far as the desktop and programs did not transfer over. I did save everything, is there a way I can revert to my old Windows 7 pre-release? Or an easy way to have my desktop, documents, etc on my new version?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedMy computer originally came with Vista. I began to have issues with navigating in "My Computer", as it would often freeze and make it nearly impossible to use at times. I received a free upgrade to Windows 7, which I had hoped would solve my issues. It did not, unfortunately. Is there any way that I could remove all the Vista files from my computer
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View 6 Replies View RelatedBasically what happens is there's a sudden slowdown in computer performance. For example if I'm listening to a live stream, watching a video, or playing a game it will suddenly all go into slow motion for a few seconds and then return to normal speed. I know it's more of a global problem because I can see it happening with other programs, too. When a web page is loading the load speed may suddenly go very slowly for a few seconds, or even if I'm typing in Microsoft Word I'll keep hitting keys, and the keystrokes will be logged, but no words will appear for a few seconds and then it will suddenly have to catch up.
What I've tried to do: A friend suggested my CPU was overloaded, but I checked my CPU usage and it's always quite low, as in below 50% as far as I've ever seen. Someone else suggested defragmenting my hard drive, which I did using TuneUp Utilities, but if anything that made the problem worse, because now in addition to slowing down sometimes things will just stop for a few seconds, or web pages will time out but when I reload them they work fine. My machine: I'm using a Lenovo Ideapad, intel Core i7, 4 GB RAM.
I made the naive mistake of trying to upgrade from a Biostar TH67+ MB to a MSI Z77A-GD65 MB using my existing Windows install. After I installed the new MB and the new drivers within Win 7 Pro 64 bit, the machine wouldn't boot. So I reverted to the Biostar MB and it still won't boot. I have tried Safe Mode (which just hangs) and I have run Startup Repair several times. How I can further troubleshoot/repair the boot?
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