Start menu not showing after upgrade

[stuebbie]

Hi all,

I have recently upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate from Vista Ultimate, and everything has gone okay except for when I press the windows key/Ctrl + Esc on my keyboard, or click on the windows start icon on screen, nothing happens. Another problem is that there are no group icons appearing on the taskbar (IE/windows explorer/media player etc)

Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?

Thanks in advance,

Stuart

 

[Zidane24]

Hi all,

I have recently upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate from Vista Ultimate, and everything has gone okay except for when I press the windows key/Ctrl + Esc on my keyboard, or click on the windows start icon on screen, nothing happens. Another problem is that there are no group icons appearing on the taskbar (IE/windows explorer/media player etc)

Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?

Thanks in advance,

Stuart

I am not sure what is happening but I will go ahead and tell you to do a repair install: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html

Hopefully that will fix what went corrupt in the upgrade

 

[stuebbie]

Thanks for your help with this.

I tried doing this and now I am getting this error:

"The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows, click "OK" to restart the computer, and then restart the installation."

If I try to restart the installation then I get more error messages (didn't get a note of them) - any help is appreciated.

 

[stuebbie]

Thanks for your help with this.

I tried doing this and now I am getting this error:

"The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows, click "OK" to restart the computer, and then restart the installation."

If I try to restart the installation then I get more error messages (didn't get a note of them) - any help is appreciated.

Further to this, when I try to run the upgrade OS again, I get the following error:

"The computer started using the Windows installation disc. Remove the installation disc and restart your computer so that Windows starts normally. Then, insert the installation disc and restart the upgrade. (Do not select "Custom (advanced)" to perform an upgrade. "Custom(advanced) installs a new copy of Windows and deletes your programs and settings".

Again, any help is appreciated.

 

[richc46]

One method you may want to use is just do a custom install. Format your hard drive, then install the upgrade disc, do not put in your activation number until, you are completely installed. You may even want to wait a day or two, to be sure everything is ok. I hope it goes well, I know this can be so frustrating.