Thinking to do myself a favor, I backed everything up, then did a complete Vista restore before running the Win7 upGrade. Not sure how much I gained except for what will ultimately be a cleaner Windows Explorer. In Vista, when setting up, I did a couple of restores, each of which gave me a whole new bunch of “Documents” folders, complete with an array of subfolders. It was a mess.
Tried to do my upgrade, and the compatibility check came up with four problems.
Remove the ATI Catalyst Install Manager and Control Center…ATI is my video card. Oh, joy. And the Manager showed in add/remove progs, but when I ran it, it didn’t give me the option of deleting the CC. Reinstalling everything got that settled.
Uninstall WindowBlinds6. Huh? it doesn’t show up anywhere. Even a search of the disk didn’t find it.
Update the drivers for Keyboard filter. Go to Device manager it said, and update the driver. Keyboard filter doesn’t show in device mngr and all my keyboard related drivers claimed they were Up To Date.
Oh, joy. On the line with one of HP’s non-English speaking tech people. She was a disaster. Had me load a million different drivers. I kept asking, “but what about this WindowBlinds thing. No answer. How are these drivers, which have nothing to do with anything the update said was a problem going to help? Lots of babbling about what WindowBlinds was and how win7 doesn’t need it. I finally “screamed” to get me someone who could understand what I was typing. That there was this program which had come installed on the computer (I’d done enough research trying to find it to know it was part of the goofy Stardock stuff for fancy (systems-hungry) widgets) and didn’t show in the “add/remove” programs. Her response? Win7 doesn’t use add/remove programs.
But I’m trying to upgrade to Win7 and it won’t let me until I ditch this stupid program!
She never did get it. She kept insisting that I needed to shut down the computer and let all these drivers (which were the same drivers I already had installed) install, and all would be magically working.
I said “bye bye” and “thankyou” and “sorry I “yelled”" Rebooted and, surprise surprise…still had the same problem. I got online with HP again and said basically, aim me toward another driver and I will send this machine through the aether to bash you in the head. :D He reassured me I was in good hands. I said “get this verdamnt program off me machine.” He did a little research and just had me delete the Windowblinds folder (which finally showed up when I did a complete search of the c drive rather than the program files). I said “but what about the registry?” And he said, “try it.” I figured, what the heck, I could always just start all over, so I deleted it and came back up … and the compatibility check still gritched about the stupid keyboard filter driver, but it installed anyway, so I’m now the proud owner of a Win7 machine! YAYAYAYAYAYAY
So…tomorrow, I’m loading programs.
don’t ask about trying to set up our email accounts on Carolyn’s new machine and my “new” win7 machine. ARGH!
Finally got Carolyn’s up, but mine’s still giving fits. I think I changed my password and didn’t write it down. Ahhhh, well. Lynn will help me tomorrow. Nice to know the person with the keys to the vault….
I’m sure they also work for MSN. I briefly tried to move to MSN instead of
whatever(maybe Google),but after 3 months of help from your friends……..
The new email program w/ your reply at the bottom is very, very strange. Wnen the first one from you came thru, I actually thought you had hit “reply” before commenting. Glad I scrolled down to the bottom!
Yes,it is strange. It’s what we get for mentioning those “behind the scenes”
confusers!! Bad Luck they are!
Yep. Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail software has the message last. I don’t know if you can change this. PITA. But at least it works, unlike MS mail software, which had been downloading an infinite (if not stopped) number of copies of the same e-mails from the server, and clogging my mailbox. THERE’s an annoying glitch for you.
So far Mozilla Firefox browser is behaving itself, and I have a nice Bleach skin on it, which makes me smile. T-bird is a little iffier a relationship, but so far so good.
I loved my Thunderbird(ok,it did have glitches here and there)and wish I could still use it. I can’t write a straight line and typing was a no go so I have been
writing on the 3hole blue ruled school paper for most of my life. I have always
loved beautiful stationery and T-bird let me use what ever I wanted as my
stationery. I have acquired many files of lovely ones. I don’t understand why
Yahoo doesn’t let us import our own.
My Firefox rarely freezes any more and that’s it’s biggest problem for me.
I used to have trouble getting around here. Either I’ve gotten smarter(not
likely) or things are simpler now!
Yep, one can change it. In the individual account options. The one about creating and addressing an email (haven’t found the English name for the option), there’s a drop down menu with the choice of starting the email before the cited one or after. But you can also change it while writing an email, just click where you want to write, it’s just an option for your convenience.
I upgraded to Win7 about a month ago. The jury is STILL out on that stunt. I did everything in the order that the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor told me to do. So what did I get for my troubles? Stuff that Windows 7 doesn’t recognize, programs that did NOT transfer over from Vista to 7, compatibility issues, “lost” drivers, and be-dam-all where the hell is that file I had in such-and-such a folder. It still tells me I’m not allowed to access certain folders, even though I’m an Administrator (dammit!), it’s my computer, and I think I know what I’m doing, despite Microsoft’s assumption to the contrary.
I have an ATI Catalyst Vid Card, too. I had no trouble with the removal and reinstallation after I got Win7 runner. But, I also had to start working on compatibility issues. I don’t know if Windows 7 can treat Thunderbird as if it were in a Vista or XP OS environment, since I don’t use Thunderbird.
I have a very nice, fully functional Canon 1240U flatbed scanner. It worked quite well with Windows 2000, with Windows XP Professional, and with Vista Home. Guess what, it doesn’t work with Windows 7 and will NEVER work with Windows 7. There are no drivers available to make this scanner compatible with Windows 7, and an email to Canon reveals that there are no plans to EVER make this scanner compatible. However, since I’m a “loyal” Canon customer, I can purchase another scanner at a significantly reduced price, and it will work with Windows 7. I not so politely told them that they were thinking with their heads stuck in a not so comfortable place if they thought I was going to spend more money on another scanner to replace the one I already have, and that if this was their way of getting new sales, they showed very little loyalty to their customers, as well as poor planning. I’ve got another flatbed scanner/fax/copier/phone/whatever it is made by Brother. We’ll see if that works with Windows 7.
People kept telling me that Windows 7 was Windows the way people wanted it to be, and if you look at the commercials they ran on TV, you’d be led to believe that, too. Sorry, I was much more comfortable with Windows XP Pro than either Vista or 7.
“Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I’m old-fashioned, say I’m over the hill.”
I still prefer XP myself, but this computer came with Vista with an upgrade proviso when Win7 came available, so here I am. Fortunately, I haven’t had to worry about compatibility (ye)t since my desktop, to which all scanners and printers are attached, is still on XP. All my programs are adapting nicely. I just had this one goofy never used thing that wouldn’t go away until I simply deleted the folder…which means who knows what is residing in my registry, becoming a fossil.
I don’t know what’s up with those weird duplicate folders. They’ve got shortcut markers on them, which makes me wonder if they’re the connections to that stupid “library” thing explorer opens with, which means they’re in there for good since that seems to be part and parcel of the new explorer. Wonder if there’s a way to just make them not visible?
Gawd, I wish they’d quit messing with my interface with my files!!!! Let me organize them how I want!!!!