I'm So Teed Off With My Windows 7 RC "Upgrade"

Personally, I'd disagree there - Seven has had fewer problems that Vista Ultimate for me, even runs games faster, and remember that officially, Seven is pre-release / beta software and is not guaranteed to work flawlessly when compared to official released software.

Ex_Brit said:

Did everything I should have done to enable a smooth upgrade from 7000 to 7100 but assume it's because I install from my C: XP partition (to preserve the disc lettering throughout my various boots) that it wouldn't upgrade and ended up giving me a "Windows.old" which I am not sure what to do with.

To piss me off even further I've forgotten the password to my Easy File Transfer so can't make that work.

So now I have to setup Win 7 from scratch all over #@%^&*!! again.

At setup I got the option to Upgrade or Custom. If I chose Upgrade it told me it couldn't upgrade XP, I know that already, I wasnh't trying to do that.

So I chose custom thinking it would give me an option to upgrade the existing N:Win 7 partition. Instead it threw everything into a windows.old and installed a fresh Win 7.

I'm so teed off I could throw my machine out of the window. But, as it's the only machine I have, I wont.

I'll just pour a really stiff drink and grit my teeth.

And to think, if you had taken the clean install route you could have saved yourself a lot of time and frustration. What's the upside of "upgrading" again?

Upgrade = rarely ever a good idea.

You can still do that with a clean install.

Simply copy your appdata and programdata folders to another partition/drive.

In your particular case yes, but not for a clean install which is what I was referring to.

Ex_Brit said:

Yes, Vista is an up note. It's the only system that works without any hitches....so far.

Thanks guys for all the help.

I guess I'm on another planet?

LOL!

rofl. me too!