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Gudanov - Oct 25, 2009 4:56:25 pm PDT #11460 of 25501

Coding and Sleeping

I finished revamping my computer. I installed my upgrade to Windows 7. The actual installing Windows 7 stuff is simple, start it up, step away from the computer for 15 minutes, and it's done. The only thing that needed a driver was my laser printer and Windows opened up the page with the driver links in my web browser. I did update the Nvidia drivers myself, though if I didn't care about 3D performance I could have skipped that.

The pain is the anti-piracy for the upgrade. Since I didn't have XP on my machine (I switched to Windows 7 RC). I had to reinstall XP in order to upgrade to Win 7. Fortunately, XP turned out to be easy to install since the only driver I needed was the NIC driver. Even if I had XP installed, I'd have to reinstall it to my new drive since I wanted to put Windows 7 on the new drive. A PITA for someone like me with both a purchased copy of XP and a purchased upgrade of Windows 7. No snags in the process, just a pain as a legit customer to go through hoops, especially since the actual OS install was so smooth.

Having the system drive be an SSD is awesome. MS Word, Firefox, Excel, all open in about a second. I haven't timed the boot up time, but it is very fast. When the desktop appears, it's usable right away.

le nubian - Oct 25, 2009 4:57:18 pm PDT #11461 of 25501

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

ita, I thought you have to have Office 2007 when you run Vista.

Gudanov - Oct 25, 2009 4:59:42 pm PDT #11462 of 25501

Coding and Sleeping

Office XP should be fine on either Vista or 7.

Dana - Oct 25, 2009 4:59:57 pm PDT #11463 of 25501

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

No, I don't have Office 2007. At least, not a full installation. I might still have the files for the trial copy.

le nubian - Oct 25, 2009 5:00:06 pm PDT #11464 of 25501

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

thanks for the clarification, Gud.

Gudanov - Oct 25, 2009 5:04:08 pm PDT #11465 of 25501

Coding and Sleeping

I'm not sure what to do about removing the Office trial. You could delete the "Program Files" directory for office and clear out the start menu items. It's not elegant, but it would clean up the disc space.

Ginger - Oct 25, 2009 5:22:09 pm PDT #11466 of 25501

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Do you have the latest version of Windows Install Cleanup, ita?

DCJensen - Oct 25, 2009 5:25:54 pm PDT #11467 of 25501

All is well that ends in pizza.

One of our clients used this MS page [link] to clean up an office 2007 trial version problem, ita.

§ ita § - Oct 25, 2009 5:59:14 pm PDT #11468 of 25501

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Do you have the latest version of Windows Install Cleanup, ita?

I don't think I have that at all. Is it generally useful? This is the only install messup I think I have.

Thanks for that link, DCJ. I'm running it now.

§ ita § - Oct 25, 2009 6:20:24 pm PDT #11469 of 25501

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Worked like a charm, Daniel! It's out of the Control Panel program listing, and I've gained a bunch of space back.

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