Windows 7 Hits First Snag (Digital River Dropping The Ball)

dipps wrote in post #8880457
got a link to support that?

i've googled a good bit and i see nothing out there supporting the claim that it was a hoax.

lots of articles to the contrary though.

http://news.cnet.com …ver-exploding-ipod-touch/
http://www.pcworld.com …exploding_ipod_​touch.html
http://www.information​week.com …jhtml?articleID​=215900172
http://www.geek.com …turn-for-silence-2009083/
http://www.tgdaily.com​/content/view/41727/11​8/

Ah, there's also a hoax going around with a kid's face burnt really badly. Something about him in bed and his iPod exploding. Googled the tag line and it came up as a mass mail hoax.

In this case, I'll wait and see if its true. People do some pretty stupid things. According to Apple modding a phone's software 'could' cause it to bypass safety shutoff's that may cause the battery to overheat. We'll see how this one goes.

Fut wrote in post #8876213
One reason why I stay clear of upgrades and only install the full version.
Mine works without a problem.

If you choose to do a clean install with an upgrade it's like a full install. In fact, I bought a new drive just for my copy of Win 7, and it didn't even ask for a previous OS when loading onto the HD. That's a first for me.

wow. that'd be a first for me as well.

Looks like I got a good ISO now. It always crashed at 2% and now I'm on the final stage.... The solution, use Windows 7 32 or 64 bit to download, create the ISO's and burn the DVD's. Jeeze, that was a pain, but at least I'm passed it. Lucky I tried it and it worked.

Why are there 32 bit and 64 bit versions? Can't they just make it 64 bit and be done with it?

Tony-S wrote in post #8883213
Why are there 32 bit and 64 bit versions? Can't they just make it 64 bit and be done with it?

Stability. The vast majority of business software is still 32bit programed in archaic languages (you'd be surprised what banks still use). Vista 64bit and even Windows XP 64bit were notorious at crashing, hanging and BSoD these programs regardless of the advertised compatibility modes. Businesses didn't want the hassles of 64bit since they don't need anything more than a gig of memory and a pentium III to run their apps. Windows Vista was a nightmare for us and more so for businesses. I have a friend that works for a major bank chain and he was telling me that they tested Vista at one branch and it totally messed everything up. Programs didn't work right, UAC was intrusive and blocked specialized communications, was not compatible with the method of encryption they were using. It took a year an a half for the encryption company to finally put out a stable back office solution...

Well, you get the idea. Microsoft does not put out 'bad' software - they're just slaves to their own programing model; backward compatability's a b**ch. Apple, IBM, NOVELL, Oracle and Sun learned that you have to drop your backward compatibility at some point or your product will eventually fail. Microsoft is doing it, but once every five years and then only in baby steps. Windows 8, which is already on the drawing board's is said to be dropping the registry (which will be similar to a compatibility mode) and will also be releasing a public beta much sooner than Windows 7 so vendors will have at least 2-3 years to develop for it. Just whispers I hear from friends in the industry - could be totally false, but it rings of some truth.

Well... I ordered Win 7 Professional 64 bit AND a backup DVD. I'm waiting for the DVD to arrive before doing a clean install. I think I'll be setting it up as a dual boot with Ubuntu or some other flavor of Linux.

Just an FYI. If you don't enter the serial number for Windows 7 Upgrade during install when you try to register the OS later it will fail. Here's a work around provided by Digital River. I've tried it and it worked.

Open regedit.exe with Start Menu Search and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Sof​tware/Microsoft/Window​s/CurrentVersion/Setup​/OOBE/

Change MediaBootInstall from "1" to "0".

Close RegEdit.

Start Menu on the Command Line utility. Right-click this shortcut and choose "Run as administrator."
Click Yes to the UAC prompt.

In the command line window, type: slmgr /rearm press enter

wait for the "Command completed successfully" dialog.

Then, close the command line window and reboot.
After Windows 7 reboots, Right Click Computer select Properties select change product Key.
If the Key does not work now please contact Microsoft technical support at:

Web: http://support.microso​ft.com/common/internat​ional.aspx
Phone: 1-800-MICROSOFT (1-800-642-7676)

This also happens to be the way to install W7 upgrade on a brand new computer without the use of a previous cd key