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JaneFancher · 04-01-2010, 07:18 PM

Thanks everybody.

Ack...I was afraid of that.

It is an upgrade from Vista. I was forced into buying a vista machine last summer...just before 7 came available, but only with the assurance that I'd get Win7 when it came out. I did a clean sweep of the disk with a restore install of Vista, then did the upgrade over the top of that.

The Win7 disk I got as part of the purchase is capable (so it says) of a clean install, but since it's an HP laptop with all sorts of proprietary garbage on it, I wasn't sure if a clean install would work. It would mean I'd lose the graphics program that was part of why I bought the machine, but I might have to do it anyway, if it'll work. Grrrr....

Can someone tell me if there is any reason [I]not[I] to do a clean install on a laptop? I do it all the time on the desktops I build, but the laptops are still a bit black box to me....tho come to think of it, I've torn apart a couple of them now and gotten them back together...maybe it's not that different.

If it makes any difference, I tried installing Sigil in Safe Mode. It will come up in Safe, but not run. Since the Safe Drivers are all coming out of the system 32 folder, I probably shouldn't be surprised. I suppose I could start taking things out of the startup menu, see if I can isolate the cause, but....wow, that would take longer than a clean install, even with all the programs I'd have to put on.

Wow...Just what I wanted for Easter...another computer problem.

Thanks again.

04-01-2010, 07:18 PM	#13
JaneFancher Zealot Posts: 123 Karma: 496 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Spokane, Washington Device: Kindle2	Thanks everybody. Ack...I was afraid of that. It is an upgrade from Vista. I was forced into buying a vista machine last summer...just before 7 came available, but only with the assurance that I'd get Win7 when it came out. I did a clean sweep of the disk with a restore install of Vista, then did the upgrade over the top of that. The Win7 disk I got as part of the purchase is capable (so it says) of a clean install, but since it's an HP laptop with all sorts of proprietary garbage on it, I wasn't sure if a clean install would work. It would mean I'd lose the graphics program that was part of why I bought the machine, but I might have to do it anyway, if it'll work. Grrrr.... Can someone tell me if there is any reason [I]not[I] to do a clean install on a laptop? I do it all the time on the desktops I build, but the laptops are still a bit black box to me....tho come to think of it, I've torn apart a couple of them now and gotten them back together...maybe it's not that different. If it makes any difference, I tried installing Sigil in Safe Mode. It will come up in Safe, but not run. Since the Safe Drivers are all coming out of the system 32 folder, I probably shouldn't be surprised. I suppose I could start taking things out of the startup menu, see if I can isolate the cause, but....wow, that would take longer than a clean install, even with all the programs I'd have to put on. Wow...Just what I wanted for Easter...another computer problem. Thanks again.