[steveh552]

I took advantage of the student discount and got my upgrade to win7for $30 bucks. I did the upgrade which said it would retain my files and settings. Well, the upgrade is complete and my computer is like new, runs faster which is better, but all of my software, movies, videos and files are gone. I cannot use my wireless adapter (The one built in my computer does not work, I use a Dell Truemobile 1300 USB). Not to happy at this point.

This post has been edited by steveh552: 05 November 2009 - 01:28 AM

[Whitewolf1218]

Check your C: drive for a windows.old folder. Your files should be there.

Check Dell's site for drivers, and try the Vista drivers if you don't see any 7 drivers.

And I don't know what to say about the right-click issue. If you have all of your files backed up, why not just go back and do a clean installation? Perhaps it'll help.

Just a side note, how did you go about doing the installation? Did you select on 'upgrade' or did you do a custom install?

[steveh552]

I thought I did upgrade which is what I clicked. This was a download, not a disk. The right click issue ended up being a firefox issue, not a Win 7, the wireless thing, 7 would not run the setup, I finally got it running after a couple hours, and it works. So once I work the bugs out, things maybe ok. I have a back up of most of my movies and music and photos, just going to be annoying having to reinstall them, find an email client I like and hope I have Photoshop backed up.

[steveh552]

Whitewolf1218, on 04 November 2009 - 08:28 PM, said:

Check your C: drive for a windows.old folder. Your files should be there.

Check Dell's site for drivers, and try the Vista drivers if you don't see any 7 drivers.

And I don't know what to say about the right-click issue. If you have all of your files backed up, why not just go back and do a clean installation? Perhaps it'll help.

Just a side note, how did you go about doing the installation? Did you select on 'upgrade' or did you do a custom install?

Let me say that I did not realize that I could go back to my windows.old file and get my movies, music and photos, all of which I had on another drive, or most anyways. I thank you for giving me that info. I have my files back and now think I maybe happy with 7. The only thing I lost were my favorites from firefox, which I could not get back, or could not figure out anyways.

[pcuserwinvista]

Your Firefox profile (including bookmarks) was in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default under Vista. Look for C:\Windows.old\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default (or wherever).

This post has been edited by pcuserwinvista: 05 November 2009 - 03:10 AM