New Disc for Windows 7 made all the difference

[Lamb Chop]

OK realized my problem with using an upgrade disc for a brand new computer, should have paid for the full disc to be loaded and anyway have now paid for it and installed it.

Everything is looking a whole lot better and working fine so maybe at long last have a computer that is happy with a correctly working OS. Bloke that supplied it should really have told me to not be a crouch and pay for the disc first off but maybe he didn't know or didn't want to lose a sale, my bad. I still think on looking back firstly as putting a 32 bit on old Dell and then 64 bit on this Gigabyte both were a bit dodgy. Genuine but maybe got a bit of damage as Wizards like finding devices and populating didn't work on either.

Good thing Moon Child from Pale Moon put me onto it when he said problem is Pale Moon was never created for XP and the upgrade 64 bit wouldn't run it and said it had to be run on XP settings to resolve always shutting down. I will download Pale Moon soon just got Firefox from my old program downloads as IE just wants to load you up. And as off of E Drive cant hurt, can it?

Using Firefox currently which is running a lot better too. :clapping:Updated already as soon as installed.

Bit different installing it as Frank the bloke I bought it off said to install it and then run motherboard drivers but it wasnt installing so went to the recovery advanced and did it that way and then ran the drivers but did take also Norton Security as wanted anti virus etc and seems I got the lot as it is a firewall as well as anti virus but cant find its product name as no usual about anywhere but I have also SAS Pro and so have not checked real time protection as I think the Norton doing that too. Only 90 trial as usual then pay so thought evaluated anyway. So far it is friendly :D apart from not telling me its product identity.

Funny thing was when I went to activate it - already done so think doing it recovery way it picked up the key off of the upgrade disc. That shouldn't be a problem I hope.

Just glad to have it working and now appreciating how it is an improvement in a lot of ways on XP as intuitive etc. One thing doing this sure helps one to know the OS as you navigate around it setting up and install. :D

Thanks guys for your help and I will thank Moon child too as he gave me the clue that I wasnt wrong on disc being corrupted.

:lol:

[Alan2273]

If it was a genuine disk it could not be corrupted.

There is a way to install W7 with an upgrade disk as a fresh install as I have done it several times.

Glad to hear you are up and running now and your problem has been solved.

If you are interested in how to perform a fresh install from an upgrade disk go to this link.

http://www.wikihow.com/Clean-Install-Windows7-With-Upgrade-Media

[Lamb Chop]

Thanks Alan - may need it in future for a different computer.

But today I can say I am using a what feels like a fully functional computer to the one 3 days back.

I did email screen prints of what I was seeing to the bloke here whom sold me the computer, and he said himself not right.

Neither here nor there now. It is working 100% better so the other OS had to be defunct in some way and easy when I did know how to do or read the old Mos-dos days to get a single digit wrong and bugger the whole thing up. Closed source with M$.