Upgrade Windows 7 to 8 leaves too many problems - is a new installation required?

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• upgrade Windows 7 tells me to uninstall ZoneAlarm, problem it installs is not and has never been. What can I do?

  My current operating system is Vista. I want to upgrade to 7 w. upgrade Windows 7 tells me to uninstall ZoneAlarm, problem it is not installed and has never been. I removed the zonealarm from the registry keys, P 7 upgrade keeps telling me to uninstall it. What can I do?

  Try to run the removal tool from Zone Alarm present on this site - http://experts.windows.com/w/experts_wiki/156.aspx

  Jim

• Too many problems with the latest version of Lightroom

  Hi all

  I have too many problems with the latest version of Lightroom (CC 2015.2.1 1046594)

  In fact, the latest version of 3 or 4 were bad: instead of doing better, I always had more problems.

  So I would like to go back to a previous version of lightroom

  Adobe customar care, in Italy, is unnecessary:

  they can just to:

  -looking for answer on this forum

  -saying "you solve your problems just with the de-insall and re-install it.

  stop, no more...

  in this way they create me a lot fo iusses...

  I use the English version of the PS and LR, but they made me reinstall the Italian version of CC because it has been blocked

  the result was that CC does not recognize software, due to a different language version

  so, I contacted again Adobe Customer Care... they said "no problem, uninstall LR, delete these files and install this...

  I did and I let go 2 years to develop the parameters on the correction of the colors for my clients because they told me to remove a folder, I need!

  so, I ask you now if there is a way to return to a previous version of lightroom, any previous version...

  I never found better performance in more recent versions...

  I've always found, performance slower, more problems...

  personal idea: I do not understand why adobe are boicotting itself, but I think he do!

  Thanks to you all

  Hi ramontillo,

  6.3/CC 2015.3 Lightroom is now available - try to update to this version which includes the previous import feature, bug fixes and new support for photo/target device profile: Lightroom CC 2015.3 / 6.3 now available

  Concerning

  Pete

• I have a comp with windows Vista Home Basic 2007 Office. Can I upgrade to vista home premium? too many things are not compatible with windows 7.

  This upgrade to vista family premium is still available? is this useful? How much would it cost?

  where do I go to windows 7 and just deal with incompatible programs?

  or just forget it and leave it as it is until I can afford a new?

  * I just did a full factory restore, which helped.

  but when I reinstalled the operating system, it wouldn't let me put in the same primary place on drive C?

  I had to put it in a secondary partition and it saved a lot of old stuff and labeled "old windows"?

  I do not understand why it does this. is there something in the old system files I need?

  cause the entire purpose of the restoration was to get rid of all that. now, I have essentially 2 copies taking up room.

  because he saved much of the old system files, there's no enough space in the main square.

  Do you think I can manually remove the "old windows" copy C drive without doing any harm to the computer?

  I did enter and delete all of the photos and docs & downloads which he recorded, that I didn't, with no negative consequences.

  but it still has a lot of program/file system I fear not remove.i shouldn't need them... right?

  everything I need should be there since the operating system reinstalled, I just did?

  Help?

  Marc Zanyk

  By all means delete the windows.old folder.  Use disk cleanup.  You will find a box to check the detached, although it will not be called "windows.old" specifically.

  It seems that your computer has a recovery partition.  You would not be able to install.

  As for Home Premium, Yes, you can switch to HP.  If you can still find a copy.  Vista Express upgrade is no longer available since Vista is no longer available at a retailer.  However, you can find a copy on eBay.  Make sure you buy a retail copy and not an OEM copy.  You will not be able to update an OEM copy.  No matter if the copy of detail you find is a copy of full or upgrade license.  You'd still be able to do an upgrade in place with one or the other.

• How can I find out how much network filter drivers I'm using Windows 7 and uninstall if too many

  Told to look for the registry subkey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/network next, I can't.  I clicked on start, click Run, type regedit, OK, but still can't find it

  Apparently, there's a key:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\MaxNumFilters

  which indicates the maximum number allowed. In addition, if you look at:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\ {4d36e974-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}.

  Each entry corresponds to a possible filter.

  In my case, I had 13 filters, but the MaxNumFilters was only fixed at 8! Some installs (as Virtual PC) will not end if you have 13 or more.

• Paradigm of photo storage? (too many Go to the new computer)

  Summary:

  I'm at the point of having to upgrade and get a new iMac for me.  Most of them have not nearly enough storage space for my photos/videos stored in the pictures.  I'm looking for advice in planning to implement a new "main" computer for the home/host Photos that will work for me. I know I maybe need to update my paradigm of Setup to get the best solution (had to do to get photos for devices of the family and now that I thought about it, it works very well!).

  Details:

  My current main computer is a big iMac 2009. With a 1 TB drive - who doesn't have 2 - 3 years. Replaced by a 2 TB drive (Seagate) which lasted a whole year and failed.  Replaced by a 3 TB drive (I think it's a Western?) which works very well... so far.  I have Time Machine backups on a dedicated (3 TB) external drive, so it took a lot of getting up and running when it happened, fortunately.  I did the physical replacement of the disks myself without incident.

  My current photo library says it's 708GB in size. Library.photolibrary of iPhoto is 558 GB (I can do without it?).  In my storage of 'about this Mac' tab he said films take 609GB, and take some Photos 379 GB. "Free of 2.79 to 1.18 TB."

  I've considered using iCloud, but I can't currently feel like I can afford $ 120 / year for storage...  Amazon has unlimited storage for $60 / year, but I'm not wanting something that do not integrate well (even if I am slightly consider it for a backup option).

  These are all our personal digital photos/videos for the past 14 years and no, I'm really not to split the library and not have everything at my fingertips... In addition, I want that they all in an accessible digital format for now.

  My ideas:

  I could buy a new iMac or slightly used and replace the hard drive with a bigger drive (not sure how friendly models current are for that!) and as I have.

  I could get the new iMac and keep an external drive running with the storage of Photos on it. But then I have questions on it being backed up with Time Machine.

  What else is there to implement I think not?  Are there other aspects that I think not?

  My current photo library says it's 708GB in size. Library.photolibrary of iPhoto is 558 GB (I can do without it?)

  If you don't use iPhoto, you can delete the iPhoto library but you don't get the whole GB 558.  The two libraries share the same data on the HDD through hard links initially so that they only take twice the amount of space on the hard disk.

  New photos added to each library are independent of the other library.

  Here is more information about hard links:

  Photos saves disk space to share images with your iPhoto or Aperture - Apple Support libraries

  The (hard) link between Photos and iPhoto

  I've considered using iCloud, but I can't currently feel like I can afford $ 120 / year for storage...  Amazon has unlimited storage for $60 / year

  The iCloud is not a storage system off Mac where you can put your library of PHotos and the operator there from there.  It's a synchronization system that allows you to synchronize your photos between all devices that are connected to the same Apple ID and the active library iCloud.  You may have the option for the version store only optimized on your Mac to save space.  However, the full versions will have to be downloaded any time, that the pictures are needed for printing, in a project or for a slide show.

  All iCloud options are features of synchronization and require files to be obscured on Mac.

  iCloud Photo library FAQ - Apple Support

  iCloud Drive FAQ - Apple Support

  Also there is no option of storage online library of Photos that can be stored on and used or recovered in a guaranteed condition.  Their servers are not correctly formatted and are incompatible with the libraries of Photos.

  I could get the new iMac and keep an external drive running with the storage of Photos on it. But then I have questions on it being backed up with Time Machine.

  This is the solution that I would recommend.  Time Machine backs up any external hard drive connected to your iMac. I have 2 EHD connected to my iMac that is backed up to my 3rd DHM with Time Machine.

  For best performance, I'd get an iMac with an internal SSD and at least 8 GB of memory.  If you get the iMac to get Apple just RAM standard because you can update yourself much less expensive by getting the modules from Crucial.com or otherworldcomputing.com.  Be aware, however, that several iMac 21 "cannot have their RAM added after purchase. They are not updated in the user level.   All the iMac 27 "have expandable RAM user.

  If you buy an iMac opportunity do not forget the former owner has prepared according to this document from Apple: what to do before you sell or give away your Mac - Apple Support. Otherwise, you could get the problems of implementation for your use.

  

• Instructions for adding playlists to Clip +? Too many problems.

  Hi, I had problems adding playlists to my Clip +. I FOLLOWED THE GUIDE STEP BY STEP and I have a playlist that has only 1 song on 13. I have somewhat the same songs in different playlists, but this shouldn't be a problem.

  Then, I tried to make a new playlist. I've tried all the ways, USB modes and formats to transfer a playlist, and it NEVER shows in my Clip +.

  If Sandisk, since you make it impossible to transfer playlists in the Clip +, what are the step by step instructions?
  -What is the best program to use to transfer songs and playlists? MediaMonkey? Windows Media Player? Rhapsody?

  -Format playlists should be in?

  -What USB mode I'm in?

  -How to add playlists step by step?

  * You should make a new firmware to fix this shitty transfer of playlist.

  You may find this method using useful Winamp. Runs like a champ for me.

• I totally uninstalled Firefox - too many problems. Now, I want to install an earlier version, 9.0. The only versions I can find are 10, 0 - NO, NO, NO: and 3.6. WHERE CAN I FIND WORMS. 9.0?

  Just give me an address for the version 9.0 - Please!

  Old Apps

  BTW, I had to do the same.

• I need to re install CC 2014 again because 2015 has too many problems

  Where can I download Premiere Pro 2014? All the computers in my company are showing a different problem with 2015. We must return by 2014 to deal with the problems that we already knew.

  Where can I download Premiere Pro 2014? Including Media Encoder.

  Thank you.

  This is how to download 2014.

  

• Upgrading HP HPE H8-1070uk to SSD using the mirror or new installation?

  I bought my H8-1070uk this time last year (Oct 2011) and decided to upgrade with an SSD.

  SSD of choice is Samsung 803, 2.5 inches Sata III 6 GB/s, 128 Gb. including the kit of accessories and Norton Ghost.

  Can we see problems with this choice for my office?

  Important information to take into account for the following questions, it's that I did a restore of complete system only 1 months ago. Recovery system was conducted using disks system recovery DVD created via HP Support Assistant at the time of purchase. I also upgraded from 8 GB to 16 GB of RAM only 1 week ago.

  I want the SSD as a boot drive for my Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS, as well to run my applications of 3D animation; Autodesk Softimage, Autodesk Mudbox and master of Adobe Creative Suite 6 thus than some other apps from day to day. Then use my HARD drive existing as a second car for the media and personal files, etc.

  Copy all my personal files (videos, photos, documents, etc.) on a drive external hard, my HARD C: drive partition is currently at 92 GB used space (I imagine that I might be able to find that a bit smaller) and Partition D: 10 GB 11 GB used.

  My basic question is what would be the best for my system and for the future, to create a mirror using the Norton Ghost software or do a clean install?

  Own Samsung promo videos of the 830 Norton Ghost seems very honest and will create a complete copy of my HDD to the SSD, fair enough.

  However do a few minor readings, there seems to be a fair few who suggest that in order to get the best of the SSD is to do a clean install. I don't really know how I would go to this topic but, would it not as simple as the insertion of the SSD, remove the HARD drive temporarily and then start using the system recovery DVD discs to create the clean install?

  What would be the recommendation of HP?

  Tips, tricks or general recommendations on this process would be greatly appreciated.

  Oh, also is there a slot specific SATA, that I should connect the SSD or are they the same?

  Thanks for your time,

  Steve

  Many before you have tried mirror/clone the OS for the SSD and ran into problems. A search on this forum or the internet should indicate what has been tried and failed. There seems to be no direct way to do what you want. The method below doesn't require activation and reactivation if you change most of your hardware as would be normally will not happen if you are using Windows with a standard COA key.

  It is a completely clean install and will require the installation of the drivers and software HP, if you chose for her, she.

  (1) download and unzip ABR beta for Windows 7. This is the homepage of ABR for Windows Vista. Please follow the section "How to use" for information and instructions on how to use it. These steps also apply to Windows 7. The 'activation' on your original with factory HP OEM Windows installation hard disk backup, backup the backup files in several locations (USB stick, SD card, external hard drive, etc.).

  (2) download your version (the version that has been preinstalled on your HP computer) Windows 7 from Official Windows 7 SP1 ISO from Digital River. Using the built-in Windows 7 CD/DVD burning software, burn the ISO image of Windows 7 downloaded onto a DVD.

  (3) install Windows 7 from your new "Windows 7 disk" to your SSD, following all prompts as needed. Do not enter a product key Windows and do not allow Windows try to scoped. After the windows installation is complete, run ABR 'restoration of activation' to 'install' the previously saved until the product key and the certificate. Verify that Windows is activated, if not activated... repeat "restoration of activation" until Windows 7 is activated.

  Good luck.

• I have so many problems with this new update

  A factory reset will fix everything?

  Looks like you fall into the Group of many that must be factory.

  Here's a hint to get your applications after.

  factory reset. Don't forget that you can reinstall your applications after the reset. When you enter the market, you can install all your free and paid applications for first time that you use the market after the reset. As soon as you leave the market only your paid apps see the place to settle on the next time you use the market. I also run an app called App Dragonwho made a list of all my apps, just so I have a list if something goes wrong.

• Minor problem with the New Installation of Windows 7 on my Inspiron E1705/9400 - two entries for "Base system device" under "Other devices" with yellow exclamation point

  Hello

  First of all, let me tell you about my system.   It is of a laptop Inspiron E1705/9400 with the Core 2 Duo T7400 processor clocked at 2.16 GHZ.   It has 2 GB of RAM and a hard drive on the Hitachi Travelstar nine 500 GB (7200 RPM).   It also has the GeForce Go 7900 GS video card.    Previously, it had Windows XP Professional (32 bit) and worked well.   But, I have three computers in my home and Home Office and would they work better together on my wired home network, so I'm upgrading all three to Windows 7.   My two desktops (a Dimension XPS 420 and the other Dimension XPS 430) seem like they will be no problem to upgrade to Windows 7.   But, this laptop was not on the list of Dell Windows 7 compatibility.   However, the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor that I have downloaded and run seemed to say that it was OK to do a clean install of Windows 7 32-bit and he had only a few minor issues, where it says search the drivers updated from the manufacturer.   Initially, the laptop came with a 100 GB hard drive.   For my use, which becomes very small, so I decided to get the exact same 7200 RPM drive 500 GB size.   This will allow me to do a clean install of the 32 bit Windows 7 OS on the new hard drive and not have to wipe the old disk to do so.   I can just keep the old HD and paste it back whenever I need to get something out of it.

  So, here's my minor problem.   After the transfer of some elements off the coast of the old hard drive, I installed the new 500 GB drive and installed a cleaning of the 32-bit version of Windows 7.    I'm happy to announce that I have not had virtually no problems with installation and everything seems to work fine.   He seems a little more zippy than before and I have not met so far that doesn't seem to work.   I went through most of features and almost everything is superb.   But there is a minor problem, showing in Device Manager.   At least, I think it's a minor problem, but maybe someone can give me feedback to know if she is or not.

  In the Device Manager list, there is a category called "other devices" now and the icon shows a little white circle with an exclamation mark.    When you expand this category, you see two identical entries that say "Base system device" and the icon has a yellow circle with an exclamation mark inside.     I know from experience that it is not a good thing to see items in the device manager that have a yellow circle with an exclamation point.   I clicked on both of them and neither one really tells you what the device is, or who did what is site you would go to a driver.    On the general tab, it has the following information:

  -Device type Other devices

  Reference of the manufacturer- Unknown

                       Location     -         Bus PCI 3, device 1, function 3

  
  

  Under device status, it says the following:

                         The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)

  There is no driver selected for the item or a set of device information

  To find a driver for this device, click Update driver.

  Each of the entries seem to be almost the same thing... but not exactly.   The other has the location

  list PCI Bus 3, device 1, function 2... instead of function 1.   This seems to be the only difference.

  I tried the button to update the driver, but that doesn't seem to work.   No matter if you say it looks like your

  computer or to look for a new driver from the internet, it does not find anything.     As I said at the beginning,

  the system seems to work very well... but, given that I don't know what this device is or does, I might be missing something.

  He drives me crazy just have these yellow circles with exclamation point hanging out in my device manager.

  I could really use some help here.    Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  Bryan Ray (Richmond, WILL)

  BTW, I just downloaded and installed the driver pack from this ftp location and it worked, even for Windows 8.1 - 64 bit.

  Thanks Steve!

  Roger

• Problems with the new installation of Windows 7 Enterprise 64 on T400

  I'm trying to do a clean install on win7 64 on my t400 (2764-CTO) ent

  I burned my drive to a .iso directly from my microsoft partner portal.  When I boot the disk, it starts and starts to copy the files.  After that, I get a small windows with a black background splash screen.  After that, all I get is a mouse with a black background.  I can move the mouse, but my Setup seems to stop there.  I do not see the occasional hard disk activity, but I can get out my drive and have no complaints, so it seems to stop the disc at this point.

  I tried to create a new cd and I have the same problem.  If I run the disk then that in my current configuration of windows, he opens the settings and will begin the upgrade to win7.  I quit because I want a clean install.

  has anyone experience this problem?

  I have re-uploaded the file image .iso last night and will try to burn a new disc from tonight and see where I get with it.  If this does not work, I will try to boot from usb, but I really prefer to do just from a dvd.  also, I tried - r and + r media with the same results.

  Thanks for any help,

  Josh

  vedman wrote:

  I burned my drive to a .iso directly from my microsoft partner portal.

  You validate the checksum on the download of the image?  I seem to have a problem any image on your DVD.

  See you soon,.

  Bill

• Problem with the new installation of Windows XP on the Satellite A100-259

  Hi all!

  I have a problem with the fresh install WIN XP on Satellite A100-259 (PSAA2E).
  I already deleted the partition, formatted (NTFS) and tried to reinstall from recovery disk that initially provided with the laptop. But whenever I try to install a problem is detected (for the most part it's 'page in the nonpaged area failure').

  I also tried to install the OS directly from MS Windows XP Home Edition SP2 CD - the same problem.
  I checked the partition using PQ Magic and discovered that there are ' partition table error #110 ".» So, what I did:

  (1) delete partition-> create new partition-> format (NTFS)-> reinstall from recovery disk-> has not yet;
  (2) partition delete-> install WinXP CD original by create and format partition option-> has not yet;
  (3) delete the partition (using the magic of pq)-> create partition (using the magic of pq)-> format NTFS partition for win xp option-> check partition-OK no problems don't-> installation of original win XP CD-installation without changes-> option failed even once
  (4) delete the partition (pq magic)-> create partition (pq magic)-> format NTFS partition for win xp option-> check partition-OK, no problem-> installation of the recovery disc-> has not yet

  Whenever a different error is detected, so I can't identify the problem. I don't know what to do. Does anyone have any ideas?

  Hello

  Seems that there are some problems with the standards of the partitions.
  A friend of mine has tried to install the OS on the recovery CD on the laptop that has been formatted with Partitions Magic 8 and the installation failed.
  It was very strange

  Finally, we have formatted the whole HARD drive using the CD original Windows XP Pro.
  We did not remove the partition but simply kicked this CD and after the configuration process spent, we formatted the whole HARD disk and install XP without creating all the partitions.

• I have the latest version of Java and the addin card is not there. I have a mac. I'm not running on 32-bit. I had so many problems with this new java updat

  I have updated java 7 up to 45 (by mistake, this version of java does not work with vpn and according to apple, I can't revert to the previous version). The applet plugin does not appear in my Add ons. I'm not running 32-bit. I have read and tried every article I can find. I uninstalled and reinstalled still no luck. I have an iMac, just put update to maverick.

  See if anything here is useful:

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Java#If_the_Java_plugin_does_not_appear_in_the_Add-ons_Manager_even_though_Java_is_installed