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You can’t delete System Volume Information.

Reduce the size reserved for Shadow Copies and Restore points.

Clean up both Shadow Copies and old Restore points using Disk Cleanup > More Options > System Restore and Shadow Copies.

Thanks for your good intentions, but this is exactly my problem: there are no RESTORE points !!!!! etc. I have used cleanmgr already, no result (of course)
I have seen this answer everywhere and it does not apply to my D-partition without restorepoints .
Please is there anybody who understands what is happening in this 152 GIGA. ??

Thanks “dangerous to lean over” I found the check-box you indicate and : it was already unchecked !!!! Out of frustration I checked it on first and than off again and clicked oké : a miracle: now mouse hovering does no longer evoke a background window !! I don’t understand this ? But the problem is solved this way.
(and at the same page I found another solution too: I checked NOT to change windows when I move them to the edge .

The result: it worked till phase 2: the files were prepared, after that the computer restarts and something goes wrong before Win 10 is configured. The old win 7 is restored.
0xC1900101 – 0x40017, during SECOND_BOOT, error in BOOT-operation.
This error message leads to proposed solution in the wiki part of the Microsoft community. I go trying them (it are many possible sources of the problem and some complicated solutions) we will see.

Thanks Joe,
Good to know there is a way. of course I’ll make an image of drive C before trying.

Thanks Joe, I didn’t no that an install medium could be used for the initial upgrade, I thought it is only for a clean install after the update (that is necessary to get win10 for free). I give it a try.

Thanks all
I disable the 4 updates for win 7 related to win 10.
But as suggested I will give win 10 a “try-out” with a image of my “C” (I separated programs on C from data on D. ) at hand. Thanks Mngerhold, I never imagined to gain speed by a higher OS from Microsoft. For me this thread can be considred as answered (more than expected even

May I ask a simple question about this kind of virus: I have my OS and programs in a partition and my data in another. will the D partition infected and blocked also, as my programs get infected? I make images of the C more or less regulary, but backing-up the data-partition is more troublesome.

thanks DB1245 – in the netherlands the exact wordings are: “I’m not ……” where … is the name of the old local inlog. Maybe I did not expllain cleaerly enough that I had found a “work-around” what I did : In state of logging in, during installment , I clicked the denial to be that person, then the installment was finished without any inlog. Restart and log in locally as before. No microsoft-account is asked anymore.

Dear Woody
you refer to “Sign in without a Microsoft account (not recommended) link at the bottom of page.” but this option isn’t there (anymore?) !!
After logging in as local user I had to sign in on a microsoft account. without any alternative.
Finnaly I found a way out: I denied to be the person of the local account (there was a link : “I’m not ……” ) then the instalment was finished without any more questions and after I could log in normally with the local account.

I agree that using different passwords for different sites is a way to go. Unfortunately Fred did not attempt to address the issue of reinstalling or moving the saved username/password pair between 1 computer and another one. How could I get my IE/FF/RoboForm data across is the reason why I don’t password manager.

Exactly the same file containing all encrypted passwords has to be available and updated on all my computers and smartphones, 1 – how easily does every of the recommended programs do this? 2- Is it safe to use Google Drive for that aim. ?
3 paying in dollars for software from Europe can only be done by credit-card, I don’t like that. Here in Holland we have a much safer system : I-deal. But that system suppose that banks are willing to work together, unthinkable in US, I fear. It means that only free or european software is possible for me.
Good article, I hope to hear more about it. Ferdinand

I have just a final question out of curiosity: I had minimized the hardware and connected them after the successful installment one by one (see advice # 70 ). Every time I made restore points. Than finally I connected the hdd (sata) which I use for storing the back-up images. Suddenly all previous restore-points had gone. For a moment it looked like the same old problem again. Luckily not, I could make a new restore-point (and the back-up functions still also). I wonder what happened. Did windows delete the restore points? and if so why? (It is not for lack of space, there was 5 GB reserved for RP, that is enough for 25 of them). I could have needed them just then, if I had to remove the hdd and wanted to return to the previous situation.
And another question, I have put an image of the new C on that second hdd, do I have to image also that little new partition of 100MB? is that of any use?

:rolleyes: Thanks everybody for the support and patience. All solved. Win 7 makes restore points and back-ups after a clean install including deleting and remaking the C-partition. 2 remarks:
1 When Setup remade the C-partition, it made a 3th partition of 100 MB too: “reserved for the system”. Is this because I kept the D-partition intact?
2 I used My original upgrade DVD (without SP1). It picked up that there was a genuine windows, stored that during repartitioning, and validated at first demand. I used the old upgrade DVD in state of the new Win7-SP1 installation DVD (see post 58 and 57 if you need this), because I was not sure that Setup of the full-version would store also the genuine windows information and validate my update key. Maybe it is and a enormous lot of updates where unnecessary.

Dear Medico,

it was a “clean install” of XP, than validated without updates, and than an upgrade to win7. I go for the clean install of win 7 directly now.

Dear Joe, I have this problem from the first moment when I installed Win7 , before all 3th party software, I have tried running windows with all 3th party services and startup off. Also I can’t imagine how any virus can be there already during first installments. The vendor of the hardware did not provide my Windows, so he has no service on this and the hardware is recognized by BIOS, Windows, Clonezilla, so seems oké.
So, what is left is the possibility that I should reinstall from scratch (low-format)? I hope my 3-times used “family-pack” upgrade-key is still accepted in that case.
What can a clean install do that a repair-instal does not ?

Please, read post # 64. I have tried everything and All problems are still there !!! I have no idea what to do yet!!!