I have a Pavillion HP desktop with Win XP Pro and I was thinking to upgrade or fresh installation to Windows 7. But by doing so, I am afraid that my apps will not work on the Windows 7 platform. Some of the applications that I’d like them to work on Win 7 are Quicken 2009, Photoshop 6, and DMX.

I have installed windows 7 home premium 64 bit on a acer aspire 7520-5757 laptop and have a problem with the co-processor in the device manager and can’t seem to make the web cam work.

some information on windows 7 as i have to give a presentation next week. Information like difference between Windows 7 & Vista, XP, performance, backup method, recovery from system failure, new inbuilt applications and device drivers, NTFS version, boot process. What all extra points I can add so that I can make the presentation better and prove that Windows 7 is better than vista and others.

I’ve read some previous solutions, but none of them have worked for me. I’m looking for an answer file that’ll prompt for a machine name and then join it to a domain. I’ve tried about 8 or 9 other solutions, but none of them have worked. My answer file does everything I need it to do, but add the computer to the domain. the following is an excerpt from my answer file. I’ve left out the stuff that actually works:

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SCC

Password Username

SCC
CN=Computers,DC=scc,DC=spokane,DC=cc,DC=wa,DC=us

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false

I’m in a bind and looking for help. I’ve having no luck creating a viable unattend.xml answer file for my Windows 7 Enterprise image creation. I have 500+ laptops to image and I just need a file that will do the following…..

create a local admin user account
add the laptop to my domain
set the display to 1024×768
set time zone to eastern time

Does anyone have a simple xml file that I can modify to accomplish this? This was a LOT easier in XP Pro!!

how to analyze a windows 7 dump file ?

had another unexpected windows 7 system crash.
can someone give me a step-by-step explanation
what i should do to analyze this dump file ?

Check these out :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee416349(VS.85).aspx

http://www.sevenforums.com/crash-lockup-debug-how/26584-2-intermediate-configuring-debugging-tools.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/crash-lockup-debug-how/

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/whocrashed-crash-dump-analyzer-windows/

Collect Windows 7 Product ID Script
In Microsoft Windows 7, if you go to properties -> System -> You can See:
Windows Activation

Windows is Active
Product ID: 63847-6252-123478-83025 “Example”

I need to collect all those Product ID’s in my organization

Please advise if any one can help to collect this information using a script.

ANS:

use VAMT 2.0

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ec7156d2-2864-49ee-bfcb-777b898ad582&displaylang=en

i installed Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 bit on my HTPC.

It has runned stable, but in the last 14 days its getting very unstable.
Suddently i will get a BSOD, and the computer restarts.
When the system is starting / booting up again, it sometimes freezes during the ‘start up’ logo. – And i have to hit the reset button. Then it boots up, and works again.

The strange thing is that the system has runned well.

My specs :
Intel Quadcore 6600 – G0
Asus P5K Premium
4 GB Adata ram
1 WD raptor disk (10.000 RPM)
2 WD Greenline disks (1 tb)
Hauppauge TV Tuner card (Dual interface)

I have imported the XML file from the log, into a txt doc – can you use it ? Or should i upload the minidump file? ‘C:\Windows\Minidump\110909-24148-01.dmp’

If I am using Outlook 2007 with it and unlike in XP you can right click on the outlook icon and choose runas and choose a domain account. In windows 7 I have to drill down to the program files and find the outlook exe to do this. Is there a registry edit that I can do or something simple to allow users Oulook to always login in under another account? Seems just entering it off network does not work you have to actually choose runas for all outlook functions to work properly.

Ans:

There are several ways to do this in Windows 7.
1. Put the Outlook shortcut on your Desktop. Right click -> Run As
2. Pin the Outlook shortcut to the Start Button. Start -> Right click -> Run As
3. Pin the Outlook shortcut to the Taskbar (I don’t like this quite as much but it works).

You don’t have to drill down to find Outlook and there is lots of flexibility here. It is just different.

IF I install a new 1.5 TB drive and set it up for windows 7, then can I buy a second drive and raid it afterwards. My old system had two raided drives. Do I have to change the rad settings to use the first drive if I am getting a second drive in a few weeks anyway or can I leave the raid settings as they were?