Posts by Adam Nguyen7

What about volume3d?

Alright, boss...

Does this sound like me? Even though I’m more of an olive grower than a vineyard owner...

I’ve got these too:
Myself (feat. Novel)
Forgiveness
You Bring Me Down

I've got this old Seagate Expansion Desktop 3.0 that's hitting temperatures up to 57°C while it's running... Is that actually okay, considering it's the middle of summer?

I spotted this deal on a site, but honestly, my main concern is which online retailer I can actually trust...

Thanks! Any chance I can find this somewhere cheaper?

Can anyone give me some solid recommendations for an external hard drive? Looking for something up to 3 TB. I want to use it for streaming movies over my home network...

Is this one any good:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/hard-drive...l=051.520.283?

I've got this Seagate Expansion Desktop (2TB) that keeps hitting 50°C on me! Is that actually okay? My old Seagate One Touch (250GB) never even gets hotter than 35°C...

casualridge10 said:I can help with that...

Alright, look, I was running Windows Vista Ultimate. It was rock solid, worked like a charm, an OEM build, really smooth stuff. I had everything on there—Photoshop, ConvertXtoDVD, Ashampoo Burning Studio 9, Avira, a-squared free, Microsoft Office 2007, Virtual PC 2007, you name it. I think I just covered basically everything you're worried about...
Grab a Windows 7 Ultimate DVD (you have to match the tier—so if you have Vista Pro, go with Windows 7 Pro; if you have Ultimate, go with Windows 7 Ultimate) and start the installation. The installer will actually warn you which software won't play nice with Windows 7 and suggest you uninstall them first. Once that's done, just select UPGRADE and you're golden. It takes a bit longer than a clean install, sure, but you keep all your documents exactly where they were, plus all your network settings, wired or wireless. Almost every single one of my programs worked immediately, except for Avira and Virtual PC, which I had to fix after the move. Just a heads up: I ended up downloading a new version of Virtual PC, specifically the one with XP mode, though I actually skipped the XP mode part because I was too lazy to reconfigure everything from scratch. My old virtual XP runs perfectly fine with all its old settings (and yes, Virtual PC 2007 works on Windows 7 without issues)...
Bottom line? It was a smooth upgrade. But honestly, my Vista was running beautifully, so if you're happy with Vista, just upgrade. If Vista is already giving you headaches, those problems are just going to follow you over to Windows 7... all I can say is BRAVO, Microsoft...

Thanks! I don't have any issues with Vista. I am curious though—is Windows 7 actually faster than Vista, or is that just talk?

Can anyone tell me how their upgrade from Windows Vista went if they didn't do a totally clean install of Windows 7?