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I’m running the 11-05-2009 realteck NIC driver and I have had Windows 7 since before that. I didn’t manually install it, nor did I do it with the device manager. I guess it must have come in with Windows updates. It works fine but it’s still older than the one from December.

Thanks, Ken.

Have you got your location sensor in Control Panel set?

…I also received 2 disks. One for Win7 without all the junkware, and a second with the manufacturers software… Perhaps the emachines is similar.

Hopefully so. That would allow me to get a clean install and still have my manufacturer’s software. Next time I have a day with 5 hours free (I work slowly), I’ll spin off a fresh backup and try the custom install with the kit. I’ve always advised people against upgrade installs and here I am screwing around with one.

The upgrade kit ran the compatibility check and advised me to uninstall iTunes and two eMachines games, which I did before proceeding with the upgrade. Today I downloaded the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and ran it, and it came up clean.

What do you think about the question in my previous post:
The upgrade kit came with 2 disks. One was an “emachines upgrade DVD” and the other was a “Windows 7 Upgrade Media,” the latter being the OS. If I run the upgrade kit, then choose custom install from the OS disk, will I have a clean OS but still retain all of the bloatware that came when the system was new when it had Vista? That is what I would like, since I do need some, not all, of the bloatware.

I’m just wondering if that first disk had all of that eMachine-specific software on it, which would be Cyberlink Power to go, Cyberlink Label Flash and a few others. I would prefer not to have to buy software that came with the computer.

Thanks for your replies,
Rusty

That’s exactly the tutorial I followed. When I finished and booted I had a message that I may have bootleg software plus a notice that my Windows was not genuine. I tried to activate it, but all it said was my time had expired. I also had some “setup.ini is being used by another file” errors. This was a problem when I first upgraded back in October. I unclicked sidebar in Autoruns to fix that, but the gadgets would not work at all, repeatedly giving that same error. The IE8 history would not display (its folder needed taking ownership of), and all the other stuff I had already fixed after the original upgrade.

I rolled back to last week’s backup, so I’m where I was when I started this thread. My only hope is probably a clean install.

Here is a question: The upgrade kit came with 2 disks. One was an “emachines upgrade DVD” and the other was a “Windows 7 Upgrade Media,” the latter being the OS. If I run the upgrade kit, then choose custom install from the OS disk, will I have a clean OS but still retain all of the bloatware that came when the system was new when it had Vista? That is what I would like, since I do need some, not all, of the bloatware.

That’s exactly the tutorial I followed. When I finished and booted I had a message that I may have bootleg software plus a notice that my Windows was not genuine. I tried to activate it, but all it said was my time had expired. I also had some “setup.ini is being used by another file” errors. This was a problem when I first upgraded back in October. I unclicked sidebar in Autoruns to fix that, but the gadgets would not work at all, repeatedly giving that same error. The IE8 history would not display (its folder needed taking ownership of), and all the other stuff I had already fixed after the original upgrade.

I rolled back to last week’s backup, so I’m where I was when I started this thread. My only hope is probably a clean install.

Here is a question: The upgrade kit came with 2 disks. One was an “emachines upgrade DVD” and the other was a “Windows 7 Upgrade Media,” the latter being the OS. If I run the upgrade kit, then choose custom install from the OS disk, will I have a clean OS but still retain all of the bloatware that came when the system was new when it had Vista? That is what I would like, since I do need some, not all, of the bloatware.

That’s exactly the tutorial I followed. When I finished and booted I had a message that I may have bootleg software plus a notice that my Windows was not genuine. I tried to activate it, but all it said was my time had expired. I also had some “setup.ini is being used by another file” errors. This was a problem when I first upgraded back in October. I unclicked sidebar in Autoruns to fix that, but the gadgets would not work at all, repeatedly giving that same error. The IE8 history would not display (its folder needed taking ownership of), and all the other stuff I had already fixed after the original upgrade.

I rolled back to last week’s backup, so I’m where I was when I started this thread. My only hope is probably a clean install.

Here is a question: The upgrade kit came with 2 disks. One was an “emachines upgrade DVD” and the other was a “Windows 7 Upgrade Media,” the latter being the OS. If I run the upgrade kit, then choose custom install from the OS disk, will I have a clean OS but still retain all of the bloatware that came when the system was new when it had Vista? That is what I would like, since I do need some, not all, of the bloatware.

That’s exactly the tutorial I followed. When I finished and booted I had a message that I may have bootleg software plus a notice that my Windows was not genuine. I tried to activate it, but all it said was my time had expired. I also had some “setup.ini is being used by another file” errors. This was a problem when I first upgraded back in October. I unclicked sidebar in Autoruns to fix that, but the gadgets would not work at all, repeatedly giving that same error. The IE8 history would not display (its folder needed taking ownership of), and all the other stuff I had already fixed after the original upgrade.

I rolled back to last week’s backup, so I’m where I was when I started this thread. My only hope is probably a clean install.

Here is a question: The upgrade kit came with 2 disks. One was an “emachines upgrade DVD” and the other was a “Windows 7 Upgrade Media,” the latter being the OS. If I run the upgrade kit, then choose custom install from the OS disk, will I have a clean OS but still retain all of the bloatware that came when the system was new when it had Vista? That is what I would like, since I do need some, not all, of the bloatware.

That’s exactly the tutorial I followed. When I finished and booted I had a message that I may have bootleg software plus a notice that my Windows was not genuine. I tried to activate it, but all it said was my time had expired. I also had some “setup.ini is being used by another file” errors. This was a problem when I first upgraded back in October. I unclicked sidebar in Autoruns to fix that, but the gadgets would not work at all, repeatedly giving that same error. The IE8 history would not display (its folder needed taking ownership of), and all the other stuff I had already fixed after the original upgrade.

I rolled back to last week’s backup, so I’m where I was when I started this thread. My only hope is probably a clean install.

Here is a question: The upgrade kit came with 2 disks. One was an “emachines upgrade DVD” and the other was a “Windows 7 Upgrade Media,” the latter being the OS. If I run the upgrade kit, then choose custom install from the OS disk, will I have a clean OS but still retain all of the bloatware that came when the system was new when it had Vista? That is what I would like, since I do need some, not all, of the bloatware.

That’s exactly the tutorial I followed. When I finished and booted I had a message that I may have bootleg software plus a notice that my Windows was not genuine. I tried to activate it, but all it said was my time had expired. I also had some “setup.ini is being used by another file” errors. This was a problem when I first upgraded back in October. I unclicked sidebar in Autoruns to fix that, but the gadgets would not work at all, repeatedly giving that same error. The IE8 history would not display (its folder needed taking ownership of), and all the other stuff I had already fixed after the original upgrade.

I rolled back to last week’s backup, so I’m where I was when I started this thread. My only hope is probably a clean install.

Here is a question: The upgrade kit came with 2 disks. One was an “emachines upgrade DVD” and the other was a “Windows 7 Upgrade Media,” the latter being the OS. If I run the upgrade kit, then choose custom install from the OS disk, will I have a clean OS but still retain all of the bloatware that came when the system was new when it had Vista? That is what I would like, since I do need some, not all, of the bloatware.

That’s exactly the tutorial I followed. When I finished and booted I had a message that I may have bootleg software plus a notice that my Windows was not genuine. I tried to activate it, but all it said was my time had expired. I also had some “setup.ini is being used by another file” errors. This was a problem when I first upgraded back in October. I unclicked sidebar in Autoruns to fix that, but the gadgets would not work at all, repeatedly giving that same error. The IE8 history would not display (its folder needed taking ownership of), and all the other stuff I had already fixed after the original upgrade.

I rolled back to last week’s backup, so I’m where I was when I started this thread. My only hope is probably a clean install.

Here is a question: The upgrade kit came with 2 disks. One was an “emachines upgrade DVD” and the other was a “Windows 7 Upgrade Media,” the latter being the OS. If I run the upgrade kit, then choose custom install from the OS disk, will I have a clean OS but still retain all of the bloatware that came when the system was new when it had Vista? That is what I would like, since I do need some, not all, of the bloatware.

That’s exactly the tutorial I followed. When I finished and booted I had a message that I may have bootleg software plus a notice that my Windows was not genuine. I tried to activate it, but all it said was my time had expired. I also had some “setup.ini is being used by another file” errors. This was a problem when I first upgraded back in October. I unclicked sidebar in Autoruns to fix that, but the gadgets would not work at all, repeatedly giving that same error. The IE8 history would not display (its folder needed taking ownership of), and all the other stuff I had already fixed after the original upgrade.

I rolled back to last week’s backup, so I’m where I was when I started this thread. My only hope is probably a clean install.

Here is a question: The upgrade kit came with 2 disks. One was an “emachines upgrade DVD” and the other was a “Windows 7 Upgrade Media,” the latter being the OS. If I run the upgrade kit, then choose custom install from the OS disk, will I have a clean OS but still retain all of the bloatware that came when the system was new when it had Vista? That is what I would like, since I do need some, not all, of the bloatware.

Rusty,
Let me try one more time to persuade you to do a install / repair. The procedure will not remove your existing profile and will only repair any bad files. Gadgets are one of those fun things that make Win 7 “rich”. Until I read your original comment I never explored the Gadget application. It’s really wild. Besides the repair will most likely fix that Explorer problem. I suspect as time goes on you’ll experience more glitches and will eventually force you to re-install.

Norm

Okay, I’m game. For some reason I had “clean install” in my mind, and that’s what I was rejecting. I will read up on how to do a repair install and let you know how it goes.

Rusty,
Let me try one more time to persuade you to do a install / repair. The procedure will not remove your existing profile and will only repair any bad files. Gadgets are one of those fun things that make Win 7 “rich”. Until I read your original comment I never explored the Gadget application. It’s really wild. Besides the repair will most likely fix that Explorer problem. I suspect as time goes on you’ll experience more glitches and will eventually force you to re-install.

Norm

Okay, I’m game. For some reason I had “clean install” in my mind, and that’s what I was rejecting. I will read up on how to do a repair install and let you know how it goes.