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Posted: 3/1/2010 11:19:01 AM EDT

Just bought Windows 7 Pro 64bit

Give me courage to make the leap from Vista!

Posted: 3/1/2010 11:28:18 AM EDT

[#1]

Man up Sally.

Posted: 3/1/2010 11:32:59 AM EDT

[#2]

Do it. What's the worst that could happen?

Posted: 3/1/2010 11:52:27 AM EDT

[#3]

Downloading latest Win7 drivers for video, sound and mobo, moving them to my external drive...

Posted: 3/1/2010 12:35:05 PM EDT

[#4]

Win-7 is what Vista wishes it could be.

Microsoft screwed the pooch with Vista, and got a lot right with Win7.

Operating system versions are interesting:
Vista = v6.0....
Win7 = v6.1.... and NOT v7.x

Posted: 3/1/2010 12:53:22 PM EDT

[#5]

Vista was the inoperative beta version of windows 7, I don't even remember that it existed sometimes.

I have changed all of the computers in the house to Win 7, most are 64-bit. It is a great operating system.

Posted: 3/1/2010 1:45:34 PM EDT

[#6]

it will run fine, I don't see the issue

Posted: 3/1/2010 2:16:07 PM EDT

[#7]

Been almost 2 hours. Getting everything installed again.

But Vista wont let me install Firefox or Thunderbird???

Asks me which login to install with. I'm an admin with my current account. I tell it to use my credentials and it fails. Any ideas?

Posted: 3/1/2010 4:23:38 PM EDT

[#8]

Got it figured out...right click, Run as Administrator...

Posted: 3/1/2010 7:55:18 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Been almost 2 hours. Getting everything installed again.

But Vista wont let me install Firefox or Thunderbird???

Asks me which login to install with. I'm an admin with my current account. I tell it to use my credentials and it fails. Any ideas?

I updated this past weekend. I kinda wish that I had seen this thread earlier. This is one windows product where the Update actually works. I was feeling experimental and tried the update, and it went through smoothly and all I needed to reinstall was my sound driver.

Posted: 3/1/2010 8:12:32 PM EDT

[#10]

Yeah Im not a fan of updating. I believe in wiping the slate clean and getting a fresh partition for it...

Before making the jump earlier, I went to the websites of my peripheral manufacturers and downloaded their drivers to an external hard drive

Posted: 3/1/2010 8:17:36 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Win-7 is what Vista wishes it could be.

Microsoft screwed the pooch with Vista, and got a lot right with Win7.

Operating system versions are interesting:

Vista = v6.0....

Win7 = v6.1.... and NOT v7.x

Claimed to be done because going to 7.x broke too many apps.

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