Windows 7

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:03:16 Post Subject:

I have only done fresh installs... About two weeks ago I tried doing some upgrades from XP (Home) and Vista (Home Premium), but I had 7 Pro which apparently isn't on the approved path... Laughing

I did 'downgrade' two machines from Ultimate RC to Pro RTM. Regardless of version, things have been working out just fine for me.

(TSC)Bender · Rated NC-17 Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 162

I'm doing a 'downgrade' Vista Ultimate to Win7 Pro so it's reassuring to hear that you have had no problems with that. Also been seeing around that DigitalRiver's student discount package can actually do a clean install although it was labelled as an "upgrade" version, will probably just do that if thats the case.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:55:30 Post Subject:

Well... It was a fresh install there, too... All fresh installs for me. It did not want to downgrade!

(TSC)Bender · Rated NC-17 Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 162

Hmm, seems like I have to do a fresh install now D: Guess it'll work better in the long run.

eden999 · Rated PG-13 Joined: 31 Oct 2009 Posts: 44

i love 7, it's great... much MUCH better than vista, and for me better than xp as well. MS did a pretty good job with this one.

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

I installed win7 in 20 minutes on a VMWare esxi box. Grin

crowTrobot · Rated R Joined: 17 Mar 2010 Posts: 57

I love Windows 7 except for the network sharing.

I can't seem to get it to work outside of the Public folders. It was so easy in Vista. Homegroup password is corret and everything but I keep on getting "this computer cannot be homegrouped" or something like that.

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

RTFM: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/help/home-sweet-homegroup-networking-the-easy-way

crowTrobot · Rated R Joined: 17 Mar 2010 Posts: 57

I'd like to show you what I get when i do that (looks like I can't post image or links yet, just replace the ** with "tt"):

h**p://img.techpowerup.org/100328/win7network.jpg

Optix · Posted: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:27:42 Post Subject:

Crow, what are you using? Home Premium? If so we have had a hellish time getting it to work properly outside of anything other than My Documents or whatever the Windows 7 version of that is.