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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Windows and Windows Software Megathread
 
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Italy's Chicken
Feb 25, 2001

cs is for cheaters
 I just upgraded from Windows XP to 7 Pro and kept all my files! It was so much fun... you have to install Vista Business, then Vista SP1, then 7 Pro. Total time: 8 hours! Wow Microsoft, the business community is going to love doing that, especially since you can't do this unattended.

One of the cool new features is that taskbar popup preview... is there any way to make them keep the small preview window up while I continue working in another window?

* # ¿ Oct 7, 2009 06:03
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Italy's Chicken
Feb 25, 2001

cs is for cheaters

madprocess posted:

The business community doesn't do upgrade installs, they don't buy upgrade licenses. They do clean installs, usually from a single company standard image.

You had no reason to do XP-Vista-7, You'd do much better if you used your 7 upgrade disk to do a clean install that preserved your files.
When I tried booting to the Windows 7 disc or just running the startup from within Windows XP, the "upgrade" option was grayed out until I installed Vista.

Is it the disc I have or am I missing something?

* # ¿ Oct 9, 2009 20:20
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Italy's Chicken
Feb 25, 2001

cs is for cheaters

take_it_slow posted:

Hey there. Could anyone recommend a good alternative to adobe reader for my pdf viewing needs? (Windows 7)
If you use Google Chrome, it has a built it PDF viewer that's turned off by default. To activate it, type this into your search bar: chrome://plugins/ then scroll down until you find "Chrome PDF Viewer" and click enable.

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