Very straightforward. After doing the upgrade install I only had to install one driver for a synaptics touchpad plus reinstall my antivirus software. It's a good idea to deactivate or, even better uninstall any anti-virus apps before doing the upgrade and reinstall after. Also had to play around with Comodo Firewall pro to get it operating properly following the upgrade. All in all, pretty straightforward and working flawlessly after fixing the above mentioned things.
Thanks Peter. It's late here and I got to work tomorrow. I'll try an upgrade tomorrow night.
This will mean I'll have to do the rearming business I believe.
Can you automate that?
Cheers, John
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I have TV including DVB-T working under 7264 with a hauppauge card. When I first installed, the driver that w7 installed for the tv capture card was not good and I had some problems with TV. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't, could not find the device after resuming from sleep, etc.
I resolved them by installing the vista drivers for my device from hauppauge.
Everything works well now.
Mark
Automating the rearm, that I don't know, but I would think possibly with the windows task scheduler. However, I suspect you will be reinstalling or upgrading to the "gold" RTM release very shortly, way before the first 30 days are up and then, for those who have TechNet subscriptions, legal keys should be available also before the first 30 days have passed. Otherwise you can simply rearm until general availability.
If you are doing an upgrade install (as opposed to clean install) from an RC, you probably will need to do the MS W7 Engineering approved modification to the cversions file to be able to upgrade. The procedure is explained by MS here: Engineering Windows 7 : Delivering a quality upgrade experience
Occasionally, some programs need to be uninstalled and reinstalled after an upgrade install. Before abandoning the new version, it's a good idea to at least check and see if that plus a reboot or two solves the problems. It usually does for me.
Have you tried Preferred DirectShow Filters Tool for Windows 7 ??
Yes and the MCDU tool. None work for me.
I have actually sorted the codecs out manually now, with registry hacks, renaming some system32 files and meriting them using radlight filter manager and have all codecs working the way I want, so I now know that it's to do with the TV Card, so will have to wait for Technisat to actually pull their fingers out and release some W7 BDA drivers, they are not the most helpful lot.
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