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Weirder Al Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:18 pm Post subject: Windows 7 upgrade process? |
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I recently purchased Windows 7 Professional 64-bit for my laptop. It hasn't arrived yet, but I'm wondering...how does the upgrading process work for this?
I'm running Vista Home Premium 64-bit.
I looked up the help on Microsoft.com, but I'm still not sure if I'll be able to keep my programs and files or if I'll have to use an external hard drive. Help?
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:21 pm Post subject: Re: Windows 7 upgrade process? |
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Weirder Al wrote: | I recently purchased Windows 7 Professional 64-bit for my laptop. It hasn't arrived yet, but I'm wondering...how does the upgrading process work for this?
I'm running Vista Home Premium 64-bit.
I looked up the help on Microsoft.com, but I'm still not sure if I'll be able to keep my programs and files or if I'll have to use an external hard drive. Help? | You run the setup you say upgrade, it quickly upgrades.
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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I think after you finish installing Windows 7, there will be a "Windows.Old" inside of your local drive.
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Weirder Al Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you...
BTW, 7 IS faster than Vista, right?
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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Weirder Al wrote: | Thank you...
BTW, 7 IS faster than Vista, right? |
It's said to be faster. I've never used Vista on my computer, so I don't know.
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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Weirder Al wrote: | Thank you...
BTW, 7 IS faster than Vista, right? | lol yes, I used to lag a bit in TF2 now I never lag, no freezes, crashes, nothing bad so far I have had no problems with it.
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Weirder Al Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you. I'll +rep you both some point(Don't hold your breath).
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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My friend just bought a laptop yesterday and got Windows 7 Home Premium and I know it's got a dual core CPU with 4GB of ram by quickly glancing at the specs sticker on the laptop.
Guess what, that thing ran like glue due to all the crap they threw in.
After removing all the junk, the machine ran like a charm.
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Weirder Al Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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kls85 wrote: | My friend just bought a laptop yesterday and got Windows 7 Home Premium and I know it's got a dual core CPU with 4GB of ram by quickly glancing at the specs sticker on the laptop.
Guess what, that thing ran like glue due to all the crap they threw in.
After removing all the junk, the machine ran like a charm. |
Er...define "junk?"
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Weirder Al wrote: | kls85 wrote: | My friend just bought a laptop yesterday and got Windows 7 Home Premium and I know it's got a dual core CPU with 4GB of ram by quickly glancing at the specs sticker on the laptop.
Guess what, that thing ran like glue due to all the crap they threw in.
After removing all the junk, the machine ran like a charm. |
Er...define "junk?" |
When you buy a pre-built desktop/laptop from companies such as HP, Dell etc, they give you all this useless junk software. Like HP Games, and all this useless stuff. I like having a retail version of an OS so then all you get is the perfect OS without any useless unwanted software that your going to uninstall anyway.
If you actually bought the retail os/upgrade disc then you will have a clean Windows 7 OS.
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Weirder Al Grandmaster Cheater Supreme
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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When you buy a pre-built desktop/laptop from companies such as HP, Dell etc, they give you all this useless junk software. Like HP Games, and all this useless stuff. I like having a retail version of an OS so then all you get is the perfect OS without any useless unwanted software that your going to uninstall anyway.
If you actually bought the retail os/upgrade disc then you will have a clean Windows 7 OS.[/quote]
Thanks!
Another thing though...
Looking at the programs that were preinstalled on my computer...
Among them are these:
Cisco EAP-FAST Module
Cisco LEAP Module
Cisco PEAP Module
What are they?
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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They even throw in some shit trial software. Like photo editing shit and all that.
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:42 am Post subject: |
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I n my case I have enterprise, and i have no 3rd party software that came with it. But I got mine from a different place.
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