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alright guys. i can see your wails and complaints about win 7 and how you want your old systems back right?
please forgive me win 7 admins i do not feel as these poor people do about win 7 . and will stick happily with my copy thanks . i'm glad i did upgrade
but for all you win7 users out there who are obviously unhappy with the problems your faced with.... then grab out your old xp or vista disks and start reinstalling again.. but to do that you have no choice but to lose everything you have done so far. sadly.
you need to do a clean install from the disc and so.. in the friendly old win xp format we can format our disc and reinstall win xp wthout a problem
(or vista whichever you went with originally)
the key thing to reinstall is .. MAKE ABSOLUTELY sure your computer reads from your dvd reader drive first.. thats where you'll want to be to get started. after that follow the prompts and enjoy your copy of xp or vista.
But you HAVE to get your system to read the disc in your dvd reader FIRST because you'll need to boot from that.( you'll need to access your bios and make sure dvdreader is the first boot item listed)
.. but personally id use this as a last ditch effort.. because i'm liking win 7 so far and am wondering at others not so nice feelings about it.
i'm a fast learner and am learning as i go on how to fix win7 properly so i can help others like myself with these very issues.
before you go enacting this final death knell on win 7 .. please try to work with it a little more .. the compatibility settings are there to aid you in running what you need as well..
and theres less issues than xp or vista
LOL in fact its comparable to xp and forget vista (yes i'm a vista hater no offence meant)
but as i am a sworn xp user.. i had found win 7 remarkably easy to adapt to.
id had to switch beacause the windows updates were running constantly and i was having my system slow down too much as well. thats why i switched.
after installing win 7 the resource chewing that the wupdates did stopped and things run a lot better.
so before you kill 7 guys try it for a bit longer.. theres not THAT much of a difference
but if you really do want to switch back then the instructions are above. simply force your system to read the disk in the dvdreader first then away you go.
i apologise if ive offended several win7 users with this post.. but however sometimes we need to know such things ... older systems sometimes can't take win 7 . i know ..ive worked on one that crashed win 7 too.. and said friends going back to xp
and we got her started on the installation without a hitch
but conider this an all else fails deal. if you have tried everything else then do this..but id advise trying other solutions first before you downgrade
these guys here at the win 7 site are really handy with the right info if you take the time to look and you may even be spared a downgrade XD (hopefully)
just make sure youve got the hang of the right compatibility settings .. because those will crash out a system if improperly set.
(click on said icon of program > right click> properties> compatibility settings are listed beside the shortcuts tab choose your running os for that program and hit apply.. i usually use the change settings for all users feature thats available)
please forgive me win 7 admins i do not feel as these poor people do about win 7 . and will stick happily with my copy thanks . i'm glad i did upgrade
but for all you win7 users out there who are obviously unhappy with the problems your faced with.... then grab out your old xp or vista disks and start reinstalling again.. but to do that you have no choice but to lose everything you have done so far. sadly.
you need to do a clean install from the disc and so.. in the friendly old win xp format we can format our disc and reinstall win xp wthout a problem
(or vista whichever you went with originally)
the key thing to reinstall is .. MAKE ABSOLUTELY sure your computer reads from your dvd reader drive first.. thats where you'll want to be to get started. after that follow the prompts and enjoy your copy of xp or vista.
But you HAVE to get your system to read the disc in your dvd reader FIRST because you'll need to boot from that.( you'll need to access your bios and make sure dvdreader is the first boot item listed)
.. but personally id use this as a last ditch effort.. because i'm liking win 7 so far and am wondering at others not so nice feelings about it.
i'm a fast learner and am learning as i go on how to fix win7 properly so i can help others like myself with these very issues.
before you go enacting this final death knell on win 7 .. please try to work with it a little more .. the compatibility settings are there to aid you in running what you need as well..
and theres less issues than xp or vista
LOL in fact its comparable to xp and forget vista (yes i'm a vista hater no offence meant)
but as i am a sworn xp user.. i had found win 7 remarkably easy to adapt to.
id had to switch beacause the windows updates were running constantly and i was having my system slow down too much as well. thats why i switched.
after installing win 7 the resource chewing that the wupdates did stopped and things run a lot better.
so before you kill 7 guys try it for a bit longer.. theres not THAT much of a difference
but if you really do want to switch back then the instructions are above. simply force your system to read the disk in the dvdreader first then away you go.
i apologise if ive offended several win7 users with this post.. but however sometimes we need to know such things ... older systems sometimes can't take win 7 . i know ..ive worked on one that crashed win 7 too.. and said friends going back to xp
and we got her started on the installation without a hitch
but conider this an all else fails deal. if you have tried everything else then do this..but id advise trying other solutions first before you downgrade
these guys here at the win 7 site are really handy with the right info if you take the time to look and you may even be spared a downgrade XD (hopefully)
just make sure youve got the hang of the right compatibility settings .. because those will crash out a system if improperly set.
(click on said icon of program > right click> properties> compatibility settings are listed beside the shortcuts tab choose your running os for that program and hit apply.. i usually use the change settings for all users feature thats available)
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