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update things I wished I knew
After working on issues for a week, I'm wishing I had heeded the clean install advice. I went from Vista Home Premium 64 to Windows 7 64 on a hp laptop. Followed the directions precisely. Didn't know that the Norton beta UAC I had set up would hose things up. On the reboot after 7 said it was done, the hp setup manager DVD was supposed to be put back in. Couldn't read it. Couldn't read the win 7 disk either. Finally found where someone else had that problem. Removing Norton UAC solved the problem without having to reinstall.
The OSD for the volume control disappeared, but came back after I installed another one!
Then my wireless connection started dropping. Just mine, not my wife's. It would stay sort of working, and then when going to load another browser window, nothing doing. Tried all kinds of stuff. Finally removed hp's "wireless assistant" which does nothing but put the radio tower in the notification area! This after trying a bunch of different broadcom drivers with no luck. Well, it seems hp wireless assistant was the bad guy, because I've stayed on for quite a while now.
Boot time is slow, and I've followed some of the advice, but it's still taking a 90 seconds or more. I read the event logs, but they don't really tell me anything except it is taking too long! Cleaned up prefetch once.
IE8 started opening second pages minimized and slammed up at the top of the display. Had to 'reset' IE 8 a couple times as advised, and that worked.
Haven't removed any of the "old" directory stuff, figured it's just taking up space.
Any new advice on reading logs or speeding up the boot would be appreciated.
Thanks for the Forum! It's been a sanity preserver for sure.:)