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Vista to Win 7
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Sun May 08, 2011 12:19 pmby buzz456
Anybody have any issues with existing RW if I decide to get rid of Vista and go to Win 7? I don't want to screw this up. It is about the only thing on this computer that means anything.
Buzz
Re: Vista to Win 7
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Sun May 08, 2011 2:01 pmby arizonachris
Going to Win 7 from Vista *should* work fine. From XP to 7 is a complete reinstall.
BUT, I would advise to do a backup of your "steamapps" folder and your Documents folder, just in case. Presuming you made a copy of all the add on's to your Documents folder.
Re: Vista to Win 7
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Mon May 09, 2011 4:49 pmby chrisreb
Did the same thing a year or so ago from Vista 32bit to Win 7 64bit with =no issues. Only difference was that RW ran a bit better.
I just installed Steam, re downloaded a new base, renamed it and copied in my old install. I needed to log into steam to get it all running first
Re: Vista to Win 7
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Tue May 10, 2011 11:51 amby buzz456
I wish someone would have warned me about the disabling of Windows Defender. That was a booger. Of course I made the mistake of trying to find out something intelligent from Microsoft.
I should know by now. Finally figured it out with some help from reading blogs online. Installing now.
Buzz
Re: Vista to Win 7
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Tue May 10, 2011 6:46 pmby buzz456
I HATE MICROSOFT I HATE MICROSOFT!!!!!!!! After hours and hours of this dern thing running the upgrade it gets stuck at 62%. Looking this up on the good old internet I see a fix from Microsoft if this happens. If they know this happens why don't they build a FIX INTO THE UPGRADE SO THIS DOESN'T"T HAPPEN? The only good thing about this is it has driven me to drink.
Buzz
Re: Vista to Win 7
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Tue May 10, 2011 7:08 pmby Hawk
OS upgrades can sometimes be problematic. Sometimes it's best to just reformat the hard drive and start from scratch with a new OS install.
Of course it should go without saying that it is necessary to back up anything that you don't want to lose.
Microsoft is not known for intelligent design.
Re: Vista to Win 7
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Wed May 11, 2011 4:43 amby Kali
You can do a ( fairly ) clean install without reformatting, just by installing it into \Win7 ( for instance ) instead of \Windows.
Re: Vista to Win 7
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Wed May 11, 2011 9:26 amby buzz456
Re: Vista to Win 7
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Wed May 11, 2011 9:31 amby Hawk
Glad you
'Got 'er Done!'.
Re: Vista to Win 7
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Wed May 11, 2011 9:54 amby kin3
I think you will like it. I sure do.
Re: Vista to Win 7
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Wed May 11, 2011 11:50 amby arizonachris
kin3 wrote:I think you will like it. I sure do.
Yep, same here. XP was getting long in the tooth, and Vista was carp. I love Win 7.
Re: Vista to Win 7
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Wed May 11, 2011 12:42 pmby Hawk
arizonachris wrote:...and Vista was carp.
You sure it wasn't catfish?
