Well, we moved into our new house this weekend….so I am pretty tired. I cannot believe how much stuff we have managed to accumulate over a relatively short period of time! So, now we are living in our very own building site. The front room is currently made up of some scaffolding, two garden …
Category Archive: Windows 7
Aug
11
Windows 7 Upgrade Corrupts / Removes .Net 4.0 and VS 2010 Betas
The other day I performed an upgrade of Windows 7 RC to Windows 7 RTM using the workaround mentioned here, as this is not an option straight out of the box. I think I may have just stumbled across one of the reasons why. I have just noticed that my HTC Touch Pro hadn’t picked …
Aug
07
Windows 7 RTM – Expanding Windows Files Hangs at 21% – WAIT!
A while back I posted a message about the Windows 7 Release Candidate install appearing to hang whilst expanding windows files. Well, I just wanted to let you know that this also appear to be happening on Windows 7 RTM / Final. When the installation reaches the Expanding Windows Files stage at 21% (some people …
Aug
07
Upgrading Windows 7 RC to RTM / Final
For those of you who have been using Windows 7 RC and are now wanting to upgrade to Windows 7 RTM / Final, you will no doubt be faced with the message that you cannot upgrade from the RC to RTM. However, the workaround available to upgrade from the Beta to the Release Candidate is …
Jul
28
Microsoft bouncing back? …. Windows 7, Bing, Windows Mobile 7
Microsoft have gone through the ringer in recent times. They have had the relative failure of Windows Vista (which I have to say I thought was ok), the rise of the IPhone and other Windows Mobile competitors, the dominance of Google on the search arena and their own Internet Explorer being hit in the browser …
May
01
Windows 7 RC Install – Expanding Windows Files Stuck at 21% – WAIT!
UPDATE: This also occurs with the RTM / Final version of Windows 7 Just thought I would post a quick note about the Windows 7 RC install that I have just carried out. It appears that several people are noticing an issue where the install appears to hang for a long time at 21% during …
Jan
25
Windows 7 First Impressions…
First, HAPPY NEW YEAR! I know its late and I want to apologise to anybody that reads this blog regularly. It has been a while since my last post because I have been very busy with my day job, but I am hoping to write more in 2009. I downloaded the public Windows 7 CTP …