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New to Win 7 pro 64 - Serious basic questions
Had this new Dell for about a month - delivered with Win 7 Pro x64 SP1 installed.
1st thing - made a system image disk set - using Dell utility.
2nd - Tried to make a rescue disk - Dell Utility looks for a USB drive greater than 100mg < 3 TB. instered 16 Gig thumb drive - NOPE - wants an eternal HDD! Win 7 utility - error message. ( don't remember it off hand, but I didn't get very far into kicking off the utility. )
3 - Win 7 updates - spent 24 hours downloading and "installing" umpteen updates - Important! Currently I have at least 220 failed update installs sitting in the 'update' window of the whatever utility wants me to download and install more important updates ( which also fail to install).
Current program installs on that machine ( not using it to type this ) are AVG and Firefox. nothing else so far. By the way - Firefox does run without problems ( although I should evidently be using an alternative browser in the near future.. )
I had one instruction to erase the update folder - well can't find an "Update" folder - where the hell does Win 7 store this stuff.? ->Then, do I have to download each one - one at a time, with a reboot each time, only to find out they didn't install?
My account is admin level, and neither I, nor the Administrator, are allowed to see what's in various folders, even though I believe I have system folders as " visible".
If this thing can't accomplish basic stuff, I'm really tempted to install Win XP, get it fully updated to SP3, and run the thing the way I want to.
Need serious advice about Win 7 and definitive help sessions with this Basic Stuff!!
Yes working through tutorials, but a lot revolve around a system that seems to accept updates and allows one to create a freaking Rescue disk.
AND - Yeah I know, XP support ends in April - ( which is a good reason to get the job done NOW) but I don't believe the OS will just roll over and die - unless they coded in a drop dead date in the software ( which means I would have to disable the "clock :) whatever..... ).