4540 proBook s: Win8 only DVD - new installation language

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• 4540 proBook s: help to the New Installation of hard drive recovery

  I had a bad hard drive crash. I installed a new and got the bios to boot from the cd drive, with windows 7

  orginal cd of installation in the drive.  He acknowledged drive 0, I clicked again in the options. He created a system partition.

  Installed windows 7 apparently very well. Inserted the recovery driver and application and installed disk. Everything seemed fine. This morning I turned it on and it the hard drive error (3F0) Please install an operating system. I shut it down and restarted, it seemed normal.  I installed a few programs, stop it again. Returned by, it starts again and it took me to screen diagnosis saying SMART Check - not installed and short DST - not installed...  Can someone tell me how to remove that partition and I can format the drive in a usb sata enclosure and try again.

  Please tell me the correct procedure to return this laptop running to a factory State. I have the original Windows7 and Windows8, Driver and Application for the two OS disks ' are...  I want to stay with the installation Windows7.

  Thanks for any help on this problem. I have no idea where I was wrong!

  It is not impossible that the new disk is bad, have seen before. It is also possible that the controller sata on the motherboard is bad, but I'd watch this last possibility. You can get an Exchange on the new hard drive?

• Creating a backup of the WIN7 OS only for new installation; is this possible? If yes tell me how please.

  Well, then I want to get a new drive hard but with a greater capacity. Mine is 320GB and I want to upgrade to 500 GB. I have two laptops and one I would like to back up the operating system for a new installation (for the other computer hp g56-130sa laptop) for the new drive HARD must be installed.
   
  Can it be done?

  Not for another laptop.  If they were the exact same books perhaps, but even in this case this is only a possibility.

  If you need to reinstall the operating system on your laptop, you have two choices.  The first and the best choice is to contact HP directly and try to get the recovery disc specific for this laptop.  The second choice is to buy a genuine Windows 7 installation disc.

  I suggest that you contact HP because it will be the best solution (and much cheaper).  If you are in the United States / Canada, give them a call at 1-800-474-6836 and talk to a representative for the recovery disc for this laptop.  If you are outside this area, you will need to go to www.hp.com/support to find contact information.

• 4540 proBook s win8 64-bit driver missing

  Hello

  I got 4540 probook s who has windows 8 Pro 64 bit and I have the following problem - I see 4 components that are not recodnized and does not have the proper drivers. I downloaded all the drivers available on hp.com but the problem still remains.

  The model is: C4Z10EA #AKS

  Here ate they:

  PCI\VEN_197B & DEV_2393 & SUBSYS_17F6103C & REV_30
  PCI\VEN_197B & DEV_2393 & SUBSYS_17F6103C
  PCI\VEN_197B & DEV_2393 & CC_088000
  PCI\VEN_197B & DEV_2393 & CC_0880

  PCI\VEN_197B & DEV_2392 & SUBSYS_17F6103C & REV_30
  PCI\VEN_197B & DEV_2392 & SUBSYS_17F6103C
  PCI\VEN_197B & DEV_2392 & CC_088000
  PCI\VEN_197B & DEV_2392 & CC_0880

  ACPI\VEN_HPQ & DEV_6001
  ACPI\HPQ6001
  * HPQ6001

  ACPI\VEN_HPQ & DEV_6000
  ACPI\HPQ6000
  * HPQ6000

  Please, advice if you can help me with the problem.

  Thank you in advance.

  ARO

  ASCO

  Hi, Asco:

  Here are links to the drivers you need...

  http://h20000.www2.HP.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en & cc = us & prodTypeId = 321957 & prodSeriesId = 5229455 & prodNameId = 5229457 & swEnvOID = 4132 & swLang = 13 & mode = 2 & taskId = 135 & swItem = ob-115197-1

  http://h20000.www2.HP.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en & cc = us & prodTypeId = 321957 & prodSeriesId = 5229455 & prodNameId = 5229457 & swEnvOID = 4132 & swLang = 13 & mode = 2 & taskId = 135 & swItem = ob-110946-1

  http://h20000.www2.HP.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en & cc = us & prodTypeId = 321957 & prodSeriesId = 5229455 & prodNameId = 5229457 & swEnvOID = 4132 & swLang = 13 & mode = 2 & taskId = 135 & swItem = ob-110813-1

  Best regards

  Paul

• After disk hard crash, loaded Windows 7 and get "Software Licensing Service determined that specified only usable product key for the upgrade, not for new installations.

  Original title: Windows Vista product key used for any new installation.

  I bought the upgrade from Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows Vista CD, then had a hard drive crash, then installed a new hard drive. Load the purchased Windows 7 on new hard drive, now I get the message '... Software Licensing Service determined that specified only usable product key for the upgrade, not for new installations. That means that I have to load Vista on the new hard drive, and then update? Both for the end user (paying customer) hostile.

  However, the requirements for the media upgrade is that you have an operating system already eligible such as Windows XP or Vista installed to use it. Since the Windows 7 end user license agreement.

  15 UPDATES. To use upgrade software, you must first be licensed for the software that is eligible for the upgrade. After the upgrade, this agreement takes the place of the agreement for the software that you upgraded. After upgrade, you can no longer use the software that you upgraded.

  So, if you are always denied, you will just have to reinstall Windows XP or Vista and let it do the verification of eligibility.

  OR

  Have you tried to restart by phone?

  How to activate Windows 7 manually (activate by phone)
   
  1) click Start and in the search for box type: slui.exe 4
   
  (2) press the ENTER"" key.
   
  (3) select your "country" in the list.
   
  (4) choose the option "activate phone".
   
  (5) stay on the phone (do not select/press all options) and wait for a person to help you with the activation.
   
  (6) explain your problem clearly to the support person.
   
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950929/en-us

  If you do not have your Windows Vista installation media, you can download a fresh copy:

  Windows Vista (in English) with Service Pack 1

  Windows Vista (x 86)		Windows Vista (x 64)
  X 14 - 63452.exe	X 14 - 63453.exe
  Boot.wim	Boot.wim
  install.wim	install.wim

  Installation instructions (creation of bootable DVD/USB)

  You must download the .exe, the boot.wim and install.wim file in the same place. Run the .exe file and it will extract all the files in a folder called Vista. Start Windows install will be now (cancel Setup).

  

  To create a .iso bootable extracted the files in the folder of Vista and download Imgburn. Run imgburn and select 'Create Image file from files/folders'

  

  Select the record button browse and select the folder of Vista. Then select Advanced.

  

  Left will be your folder of Vista, to the right, make sure that you have verified make Bootable Image, changed the developer ID: Microsoft Corporation, load segment: 07C 0 and loading areas: 4.

  

  Select the folder browse button then navigate to your folder of Vista, then select the startup folder and select the file called etfsboot.

  

  Select the generate button.

  

  Save your .iso

  

  Select Yes when the prompt for the Volume name, and select ok. Finally, wait for it to make the .iso file.

  Once you have the .iso file, they may want to use the Microsoft .iso to USB/DVD tool to create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive (USB FlashDrive recommendations, see here).

  

  FF

• CDROM and DVD report D:/not accessible win2k sp4 on new installation and trays open at startup

  Just installed Win2K an old pc with w2k being what came with it originally.

  Found problem when multiple upgrade files have been placed on a CD - R and then put in the CD on a new installation, and immediately it says D: / is not accessible and I think it says "service not taken in charge.

  Sought, and it was suggested to simply eject the disc and try later.  This does not solve it. And not 3rd party software, at all.    Installed nero 6, CD works fine with a disc recorded in trade, such as the Windows 2000 installation disc;  But apparently a disc recorded from another pc, with Vista using the option to make a data disc in the Explorer of

  After searching and trying several fixes, and read how others have tried but not corrected, Im trying to find the solution?

  And what happens at the start, both players, CD and DVD just open doors / ejection by themselves.

  During shutdown, the INCD app crashes and wont let close, but with or without nero or 3rd applications, the CD/DVD does not read a disc that I did.

  A suggestion said to check that the registry HKLM... but the specified folder was not there yet.  Now I know how explore feels.

  Ive searched but I'm still trying to find an exact solution for this, it's a pc to give to someone for Christmas

  
  

  Don't forget about power of Attorney

  Hi Brad,

  Windows 2000 issue you posted is better suited for the IT Pro TechNet public. Please ask your question in the Site Web of TechCenter Windows Client for assistance.

  Hope the helps of information.

  Concerning
  Joel S
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• Install ONLY Vision Demo Database and NOT the new installation?

  During the process of installing Oracle Applications R12 on Oracle Enterprise Linux.
  for the database layer, the installer provides an OPTION that allows you to
  ONLY install the (demonstration of Vision database) and NOT the (new installation)?
  
  If so, can you point me to some documentation on how this is achieved and that a
  estimate on how much disk space it would require?
  
  Thank you!

  Hello

  According to the manual 'quick install', page 2-9, it says:
  DIRECT QUOTE - "you can install a new database or a database of demonstration of Vision."
  From this quote, I guess that we can install the demo database, without having to install a database of fresh PROD.
  Don't you think that my assumption is correct?

  Your assumption is correct, but you should consider that quick install will also install the application part also in addition to the database.

  You can either install a fresh database (including the part of the application), but this database is clean (no data), and usually it is used for production after you make the necessary functional configuration OR a vision of the demo database (including the part of the application), and this instance is ready for use as functional configuration is already out in the database (used for demonstration purposes).

  If you are doing a new installation--> you'll need about 90 GB (55 for the database that is clean and 35 GB of application).
  If you do a vision--> you install will need approximately 260 GB (225 for the database which includes configuration data and 35 GB of application).

  Kind regards
  Hussein

• Can I install a new full version of Windows 7 teacher that is marked ' English we only DVDS ' on my PC in Australia?

  I bought a copy of wind 7 teacher online.  It arrived today - sealed box etc. version with DVD.  I have not opened yet because I'm afraid that he cannot work in Australia.

  The package was sent from China and license on the box label shows "Made in Puerto Rico, for distribution in the United States only" and "Win Pro 7 English we only DVD.

  This will make a clean install for me?

  Thank you

  John

  Yes, it iwill do a clean install. There is no geographic restrictions on the US from Windows 7 English distributions. It will install and enable very well in Australia.

• New installation OS on Equium A100

  Hello world

  I'm new to this forum, so I'll appreciate all the help I can get.

  I have a Toshiba Satellite A100 - 02L, model PSAAQE-00P00KAV, with operating system Vista Home Premium 32 bit since July 2007. In October 2007, I performed an upgrade to Adobe Reader and things started to go wrong.
  I did a reinstall of my recovery DVDs, and things are almost back to normal. The pc stopped recognizing my web cam and I had to buy a new, but above all it worked well. The mistake I made when you reinstall - I changed 2 partitions-2 physical hard drives into one. However, over time that my laptop has started to hurt behave again, especially after what he installed vista pack 2, including not having the audio drivers or see a multimedia disk of a sony-ericsson phone, I bought a few weeks ago.

  So, I decided to reinstall once again, hoping to fix all the wrongs. I've done this procedure a couple of times, although I'm not a very technical person. I started the pc with the drive, I pressed F12 and select reboot from cd/dvd, but he didn't perform the clean installation, I expected, just something a repair, I think. The screen where you choose the partitions came not upward, and one where you put your Vista key and it took about 45 minutes to do all that.

  So I tried again, hoping that this time it will work. Cannot do and after the third time he went into ms - back like screen, telling me that windows has not to load, a step which gave unfortunately I did not write down and said there is a corrupted core. I was very upset, as you can imagine, so I left it alone for a few hours, then I tried to restart the computer again. Fortunately, this time he started windows, but there are always pieces that does not meet the standards. So, I was hoping that maybe someone can give me some advice on how to do a clean install and repartition my HARD drive.

  I tried to look on the Web site for support, but I can't find my model, there is only an A100-027, even when I tried the model No, it was not me with the auto detect software.

  I know this is a very long story, but I hope that the details will help. Really looking forward for your help.
  Micky.

  > So, I decided to reinstall once again, hoping to fix all the wrongs. I've done this procedure a couple of times, although I'm not a very technical person. I started the pc with the drive, I pressed F12 and select reboot from cd/dvd, but he didn't perform the clean installation, I expected, just something a repair, I think. The screen where you choose the partitions came not upward, and one where you put your Vista key and it took about 45 minutes to do all that.

  You mean on the Toshiba Recovery DVD or disk Microsoft Vista and the new installation?

  Using the Toshiba recovery disc will not ask you to choose the partition, nor to put keys series! The image of Toshiba which is placed on the Toshiba Recovery disk is already enabled and the serial number; key is not required!

  Generally, the use of the recovery disk should format the HARD drive and you could reinstall the whole OS again maybe there is something wrong with the HARD drive may be
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• 1 TB HARD drive to Win8.1 m2 new SSD (591 G-VN7-73Y5)

  I have an SSD M.2 expedition shortly and move Win8.1 from the HARD disk of 1 TB for the new disc.  I'll use the two drives, 1 TB of storage and SSD for the OS and programs.  I read a few threads on this but have a question.

  It would be preferable to use a migration program to move BONES or can I do a fresh install on the SSD at a USB flash (Acer recovery facility)?

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• Get a folder of should not be interpreted only error during installation.

  I downloaded and installed 32 bit Win7.  Realized I had a 64-bit computer and downloaded that too.  I will install the 64-bit version and I get this error when the Setup program is almost finished unpacking setup2.box.

  We are unable to create or save new files in the folder in which this application was downloaded.
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  This is not a bug with Windows 7, as mentioned above. There is a bug with the application of Digital River. For the troubleshooting steps on the way to approach this, contact Digital River.

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  I hope this helps! Shawn - Support Engineer - MCP, MCDST
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• Upgrade Windows 7 to 8 leaves too many problems - is a new installation required?

  I spent literally the last 3 weeks by train to improve our 9 PCs from Windows 7 to Windows 8 and I have an incredible number of problems.

  For example:

  1 updates fail and return to Windows 7, unless all 3rd party drivers are uninstalled (Windows Update drivers are OK) and most of the software that contains services that interact with the material are uninstalled (such as CPU - Z, PC-Wizard, etc.).  Note that the Windows Upgrade Wizard indicates that these programs and drivers are OK (latest versions at least) it becomes an effort of trial and error to figure out what needs to be uninstalled to start successfully in Windows 8.

  2. I moved (using the folder properties supported ' location' tab) download for all users folder in the shared c:\users\public\downloads folder in Windows 7.  During the update the permissions folder become corrupted with the latest user created on the PC Windows 7, ending up as the only user with the permissions to read/write to this public folder.  The structure of NTFS in Windows 8 is damaged at this point and it '' believes '' the public downloads folder inherits permissions from user created c:\users\{last} instead of c:\users\public and is unable to change them.  I had to use icalcs substitute all c:\users\public file permissions manually down to allow other users to access the public download folder.  Check the hard drive (even to force a full audit) does not correct the inconsistent file permissions.

  3. the c:\users\public folder is shared even if a public share is off, but it is shared corrupt (read-only, but no remote users can actually access it and cannot be modified or deleted).  Change the 'sharing public folders' option has no effect.  Same "net share" may not change or see even the share of existing corruption.  I'm not able to create a sharing of this folder (results in an error message), or delete the existing share.  This problem is present on every PC, I've updated so far.

  4 family Safety is damaged and unusable.  Windows Live Family Safety has been one of the applications that caused the upgrade fails, then it has been uninstalled directly before the upgrade to Windows 8.  Unfortunately, this seems to leave Windows 8 in a State of dysfunction in security for the family.  I've been using an online id to log on to my children and this seems to have enabled temporarily family safety but not totally.  Unfortunately, the only way to make changes is the local PC as the fss.live.com site is no longer synchronizes with any of my Windows 8 PC (if I pass local ID and online, it syncs once).  Also delays no longer work and my children can stay on their PC, as long as they like.  I spent hours scouring the Web for a solution and other that "refresh the PC" or http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/essentials-2012-release-notes?T1=winlivefamilysafety I have not found a solution (I've not updated the PCs).

  5 Windows 8 apps don't work for one of my children on all accounts the PC but works very well for adult administrator accounts.  I tried everything from wsreset.exe, creation of new user accounts, temporarily making kids accounts administrator, uninstall, and reinstall, all apps, switching back and forth between accounts ID base and online local, etc manually.  Sometimes, that I managed to get re-installed applications to work temporarily, but after an opening session and closing session or possibly another user by connecting on the apps again fail (in failure, I mean it seems they start and then just close without an error message).  Even the app store is messed up for some users, in what he repeats to me it can not load the store, then, after pressing 'try again', it loads only a small subset of the store.  Also when I look at the apps installed (in the store) it shows nothing is installed and nothing is bought (not same mobiles which was installed by the same user on another PC of Windows 8; well on the other PC of Windows 8, they arise).

  6 folder and registry permissions are changed in many places and this causes some games to stop working.  Manually uninstall and reinstall the game solves the problem by opening of also manually security on folders and registry entries.  I assumed that the process of upgrading resets all the folder permissions and registry, but some older software requires write access to the folder 'program files' specific in order to update the configuration files, etc., and the upgrade process breaks it.

  7. any user that office has been moved (using the tab "location" supported in the method properties) has no read access to their workstation after authentication and Windows Explorer will not start (when you click on "desktop").  I had to delete and recreate the users, or manually change the folder permissions.

  8. users where their documents, photos and videos have been moved to a second hard drive (again using methods officially supported in Windows 7) end up with all sorts of issues such as incorrect file permissions, Windows 8 apps do not work until the user is deleted and recreated, etc..

  8. the problems seem to continue to go on and on.  Each day we discover a new broken feature that must be manually fixed one way or another and I lose all of my time to research on the web and try to resolve these problems.

  Unfortunately I still failed to operate Family Safety, nor have I managed to get Windows 8 job applications (more there are many other minor things that are broken, such as some items in Control Panel do not work, etc.) and officials "tips from Microsoft" seem to be "cool PC".  Unfortunately this is essentially a new installation of the operating system, as far as I'm concerned, because previously all installed software must be reinstalled manually.  I tried this on a PC (after saving) and I've always found that I had delete and recreate my children's accounts to get Windows 8 applications work.

  At this point I don't know what to do and how to proceed.  As a 'Christmas gift' we 'bought' Windows 8 for the world and I had planned to take advantage of the $39.99 special and free Media Center/Bitlocker/etc. addition which is available only until January 31.  Unfortunately, the upgrade process has been nothing less than a nightmare total and at this stage, I believe the following will produce:

  1. I need to break down and perform a new installation of Windows 8 on every single PC followed by reinstall all software and reconfigure all the user accounts, family safety, etc.  Otherwise realistically me uninterrupted work on all of this for the rest of the month (something that I don't really have time for).

  2 Microsoft needs to release updates of Windows 8, which allows to improve the level of experience and greatly improves the installation of Windows 8 resulting.

  3. I have abandon on the installation of Windows 8 at the moment, but I can't justify paying $269 - $469 in the future for Windows 8, so we'll probably with Windows 7, until we buy new computers.  I guess another partial option is to buy Windows 8 for $39.99 for each PC and then to later pay another $70 for the upgrade of Media Center/Bitlocker/etc. (currently we use Media Center on every single PC with 3 of our PCs being devoted to Media Center full-time and the rest operating as 'customers').

  Is there any hope that #2 is going to happen or Microsoft 'done' with the upgrade and will continue to recommend a "refresh" after an upgrade to solve problems?

  I've tried a fresh install of Windows 8 on a different partition with 5 of the 9 PC and it went flawless and very quickly (in less than an hour, I had all 5 upwards and running Windows 8 - although without additional software installed, no user accounts configured, etc.) so I know that it will work.  With one of these installs I have experimented with Windows 8 for a few days (and that my children and wife home to test) to confirm that everything seems to work properly, including applications of Windows 8, the installation of some of our software, etc..  Based on this, I think that all the questions that we are experiencing are caused by a routine upgrade of Windows 8 very fragile, not by the base Windows 8 operating system.

  I should also mention, I have backups of the installed Windows 7 original and I tried to restore and re-upgrade several times and even if I can improve things (returning to download default folder locations, additional software uninstall, etc.). I can't get Windows 8 apps working on my children's accounts, nor good difficulty number other issues (such as security for the family, permissions of file corrupted for some software, etc.).  Whenever I try it takes at least 4 hours, so I gave up trying to figure a way to upgrade "functional" at this stage.

  Thank you

  Steve

  I realize that Microsoft recommends customers perform a 'Refresh' on their upgrades of Windows 8 to solve many problems, but it is not a path I am willing to travel. I experiment in the updating of a PC, and as you say this has resolved most of the issues (even if once again, Windows 8 apps stopped working a few days later).

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  This resulted in the continuation of the process of upgrading for our family PCs (steps 9 to 33 are the steps in upgrade of base):

  1. Restore our latest backup of Windows 7 (before the upgrade to Windows 8). If still running Windows 7, perform a full backup.
  2. Make sure that the latest virus signatures are installed for the installed Antivirus (Microsoft Security Essentials in our case currently) software and run a full scan of the system.
  3. Download Windows 8 drivers for the hardware.
  4. Possibly find enough disk space to create a partition to restore the existing installation of Windows 7 (which just saved) to. This can be on a second drive or disk manager can be used to reduce an existing partition to create a new partition large enough to restore Windows 7. Restore Windows 7 for the new partition, and then name the new volume with a unique name (for example, TempWin7). EasyBCD to add partition newly restored to the Windows boot loader. Starting system test and make sure that the drive root (usually C:\) uses the new volume (check the drive c. name (this way if Windows 8 does not work you can return to Windows 7 easily.)) Finally, when you do know that Windows 8 is not working properly you can delete this volume). Note on my ~ 8th update attempt on the 2nd PC I was upgrade the upgrade has failed and left the system with a MBR corrupted with no way to start it. The MBR has been so badly damaged that the process of repair of Windows 7 and Windows 8 could not solve the problem. Same bootrec /fixmbr /fixboot, bcdboot c:\windows, bootsec all/force/MBR bootrec, etc. were not able to get a bootable system. I ended up performing a new installation of Windows 8 on another hard drive and then I added step 5 below to my list of upgrade tasks to ensure that I didn't not get stuck like this again).
  5. If the PC contains more than 1 hard drive and they are not all used in a hardware RAID, use EasyBCD to install the bootloader of Windows on the second/third hard disk and configure the boot loader to boot from the hard drive with all the bootable partitions configured (this provides a work around to get the operating system if the Windows 8 upgrade process fails and translates by a unbootable system).
  6. Download and run the tool TDSSKiller Rootkit, GMER Rootkit detection tool, Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit and Anti-Malware Malwarebytes to make sure there are no hidden rootkits or malware installed. Uninstall all the installed utilities.
  7. Uninstall all software known to cause trouble (both reported using the upgrade wizard, search on the web and attempts to upgrade Windows-based 8 prior who does not).
  8. Once complete scanning, starting test the computer while forcing the BIOS to boot from the disk hard other to make you that there is an available alternative starting method.
  9. Uninstall Live Essentials 2011.
  10. Installing Live Essentials 2012 (this is because they have seen many cases where Windows 8 fails to migrate settings of Live Essentials 2011 properly and leaves you with a dysfunctional state that requires an update of the system for safety of work; Live Essentials 2012 is apparently able to migrate settings from 2011 and 8 Windows upgrade can apparently works with Live Essentials 2012 settings).
  11. Start Live parental controls and run through the configuration steps (without necessarily making changes) to ensure that the settings are migrated from the Live Essentials 2011.
  12. Sign in using each account monitored by parental control and after that the drive stop loading of applications, log off.
  13. Log on with an administrator account and uninstall Live Essentials 2012.
  14. Uninstall all anti-malware and anti-virus software and unplug the network cable
  . If security software Norton has been used, download Norton Removal Tool before uninstalling it and after using the program manager to uninstall, run the removal tool (note that Norton fails to remove certain services when you use the program to uninstall Manager that caused the Windows upgrade process 8 fail on one of our PCs other AV software may have similar problems).
• Activate Microsoft Defender and Windows Firewall.
• Uninstall everything about software and software which includes services that interact with the hardware or virtual hardware.
• Uninstall all 3rd third-party drivers that are specifically designed to interact with the user and if possible only to install the drivers for "Windows Update". If not available, install just the naked driver for the device or leave the unit without a driver during the upgrade process, if it is not critical manually.
• Uninstall the video driver ATI, including the Catalyst Control Center software (even if the driver is listed as support Windows 7 and Windows 8, CCC upgrade breaks and leaves the system with the dysfunctional video settings in Windows 8)
. Allow Windows Update to install the basic video driver only or install manually only the video base by using the device manager driver.
• If all user folders have been moved in Windows 7, move them back to the default locations. For example we moved the documents, photos, videos and office on a secondary hard drive on some PC and these user accounts is damaged because of this sequel to the upgrade of Windows 8. We also move all folders download user to c:\user\public\downloads and this too must be moved to the location of the individual user (c:\user\{user}\downloads) before the upgrade because it causes corruption of NTFS security after the upgrade to Windows 8.
• Perform an upgrade on-site (repair) of Windows 7 SP1 to Windows 7 SP1 to upgrade the operating system in a known and stable state. Note that this must be done with a DVD of Windows 7 SP1 RTM and slipstream not updated media, nor can it be done with a DVD of Windows 7 without SP1.
• If necessary, connect the network cable and install all updates using Windows Update critical update (note, officially, it is recommended that the system is fully updated before you attempt to upgrade to Windows 8, but technical support suggests why a clean Windows 7 SP1 install with a few critical updates which should install automatically if updates to the installer of Windows 8 are enabled during the process) at level).
• Optionally, install the latest Microsoft System (KB947821) tool. If an upgrade on the spot did not it is a critical step, but with the upgrade on the spot, it should be redundant and not required (this tool checks the status of the update of the operating system and makes sure that every file that is supposed to be updated through any installed update is updated. He then sets up Windows Update to install or reinstall incompatible updates may not be correct).
• Installing Live Essentials 2012 (it is not clear if this step is necessary, but apparently the upgrade in-place to Windows 7 can potentially cause of parental control settings enter an inconsistent state).
• Connect the network cable and using an administrator account set up parental controls.
• Log in using accounts controlled by parental control
. Once the disk activity subsides, sign out.
• By using an administrator account uninstall Live Essentials 2012.
• Run a chkdsk /f on the drive system and start-up and restart.
• Connect the network cable (if it is disconnected) and perform an upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 on-site, ensuring that the post-installation updates are enabled during the process and that there is an Internet connection.
• Activate and install the Media Center add-on by using the same key used in the previous attempt to upgrade to Windows 8.
• "Turn Windows Features on / off" enables the Hyper-V instead of Virtual PC and XP Mode (even if Virtual PC and XP Mode have been installed and being used in Windows 7, the upgrade process uninstalls them and does not allow for Hyper-V, which is the replacement of Windows 8).
• Updates by using Windows Update, select all the recommended and the optional updates (deselect everything, you don't want such as Bing Office; right click and hide updates you don't want), click 'Install' to start the download. Allow the download and install updates before proceeding to the next step.
• Install Windows 8 3rd part drivers If Windows 8 specific drivers are available and desired. This includes installing the latest video driver for Windows 8.
• Connect with each user and pass to a Microsoft Account to activate parental control. Open a session out and back in.
• The Bank of Windows startup, click on in the upper right corner and update all installed applications which have updates available.
• Restart the Windows store, right click and select the installed applications. Install all of the applications associated with the Microsoft Account, you already have installed (and want to install). Do this for each user.
• Configure Hyper-V to replace Virtual PC to virtual operating systems.
• Install a previously uninstalled like cell phone software, CPU - Z, EasyBCD software, etc. (as long as it supports Windows 8).
• EasyBCD allows to set up the dual boot or triple (most of our PC have MCE2005 (XP), Vista and Windows 7 on separate partitions or units).

I stressed step 20 above, because the technical support said they find that this step can make a significant improvement in the final Windows 8 upgrade results. Without the Windows 7 upgrade (repair) inplace before the upgrade to Windows 8, he said that they have poor results that require an update of the system to get things to work. By adding this step, step Live Essentials 2012 associated, by ensuring more 3rd third-party drivers are uninstalled, uninstalled all the 3rd party software that interacts with the hardware and all records are found in their locations by default, the upgrade process is apparently much more likely to result in a closing fully functional install Windows 8. Unfortunately, told me that they always have problems with some PCs, even after all the above, and that is why a new installation is always the best approach. They also said that until that antivirus makers improve their compatibility Windows 8 it is better to stick with the software antivirus from Microsoft that is built into Windows 8 and not install any AV 3rd party software.

Anyone have any additional suggestions or disagree with the installation steps above? Although it is a lot of work, if it is, it will be much easier than a new installation and I already spent 100's of hours trying to get Windows 8 to upgrade properly and 100's of hours trying to clean upgrades corrupt I end up with (with only partial success).

I have a total of 11 PC, I tried to upgrade to Windows 8 and so far I have 2 semi-functional updated of (with control parental does not not work and Windows 8 Apps doesn't work is not for non-administrator accounts). For the moment, I restored Windows 7 (reconfigured the Boot Manager to start Windows 7 instead of Windows 8) with the 4 other PCs ended up broke after trying to upgrade to Windows 8.

IT WORKED!

Finally, I updated 2 PCs from Windows 7 to Windows 8 with parental control and applications of Windows 8 works for all users and I didn't have to mess with security of folder or the registry, difficulty missing junctions or mess around with anything to get this working.  In addition, for the first time, I didn't need to perform a refresh and reinstall all software (programs and features shows 187 programs installed to a PC and the other has more than 200).  So far, looks absolutely everything works (even if I did have enough time to ensure that the reports of parental control and all safety features are 100% still works but it doesn't look like it will).

The bad news is that it took 8 hours to upgrade each PC because of the number of steps (compared to the hundreds of hours lost trying to get the previous corrupt Windows 8 updates work properly, it was easy).  In the future, I'll work on several computers at the same time to speed things up.  Upgrading Windows 7 on Windows 7 on-site took several hours alone, but I think that this step is crucial to get an upgrade of Windows 8 fully functional (Technical Support of Microsoft agent I talked to strongly recommended this step and said that it was necessary to upgrade his personal computer Windows 7 to Windows 8 also).

Now I have 9 PCs to go.  For PCs with a minimum software installed and with a rootkit, I will perform a new installation but the rest I'm going to use this procedure.

The next challenge is to get enough key to install Media Center on each of them.

• My PC crashed. Restored on a new record and a new installation of FireFox. I can still access all the files. How do I take the old bookmarks if there is no backup?

  My PC crashed. Restored on a new record and a new installation of FireFox. I can still access all the files on the old drive. How do I take the old bookmarks if no backup exists, or has been completed? Does not save bookmarks of FireFox auto? If, then what is the file name and where is normally stored by FireFox?

  In fact, it can be easier...

  If you have the old drive connected as, say, drive E, go to:

  E:\Users\username
  

  Then click in the address bar and paste it after this and press ENTER to open it:

  \AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
  

  Normally, you have only one file, which has a random string followed by "default." In this case, click on this file and find the subfolder bookmarkbackups.

  If you find multiple profile folders, look inside to find the most recently updated backups.

  To restore the backup files, see: restore bookmarks from a backup or move them to another computer

• Any way to change Firefox 4 UI upgrade to resemble a new installation of the user of Firefox 4 interface?

  I upgraded from 3.6.x to 4.0.x and the UI has not moved and 4.0.x. This has happened on Windows XP and Windows 7 computers. I would like to have the interface 4.0.x. I got a new installation of 4.0.x and the user interface is much better for me.

  The new interface is the default on Windows Vista and Windows 7 only. You also get the old user interface if you have customized the menu bar. To get the new user interface, you must hide the menu bar. Do, in the view menu, select Toolbars, then click on the entrance to the "Menu bar".

  If you need to access the menus, you can press Alt or F10 to display temporarily.

• With the help of files from a Linux saved / home folder hierarchy, how can I get these bookmarks in new installation?

  Prior to this announcement, I read the information available on import-export-backup but unfortunately, I became very confused.

  Location:

  On my PC at home, I backed up my Ubuntu + Mint/home folder [dual-booting to installation] trees on a flash drive. In the two Ubuntu + Mint, I used Firefox 3.6.3

  Now, I installed Mint with Firefox 3.6.3 on a new hard drive.

  In my new installation of mint + Firefox, how to use the files in my backup folder trees / home to give my new Firefox these same bookmarks?

  I have never "exported" or "supported" My Favorites; I just copied my trees set/home folder on a flash drive, assuming that the files would be there when I need them. I see a bookmarks.html file in my new installation, but it seems only toolbar links and not a few bookmarks, I created in the past days. And I don't know what to do with the file "places.sqlite".

  Should I find "places.sqlite" files in the backup folder tree / home and copy / paste them somewhere on the new hard drive?

  I didn't want to risk experimenting this - could hurt!

  Thank you very much.

  Firefox 3 and later no longer use bookmarks.html to store bookmarks.
  
  You can restore latest JSON bookmarks in the folder bookmarkbackups or copy places.sqlite on current Firefox profile. Both methods will replace the current bookmarks with the new bookmarks, so I you must preserve existing bookmarks and then export them to a HTML file and import this file later.

  See:

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox