So I upgraded Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate

[Nlandas]

Thanks for the tips folks.
Yep I have the latest video drivers.  Things is on the HP site the driver is slightly older, but double the size of what's available on nvidia's site.  Not sure if that mattered.  I'll check out those games sites, thanks.

Don't take this too harshly but next time skip HPAQ.  ;^) You'll thank me. Sometimes the cards that OEMs use don't work with the drivers from the manufacturers. NVidias usually good about this but you never know.

The TV tuner is a Pinnacle 73e usb tuner.  It works with its own software, under xp and vista, plus with HP's version of mediacentre "Quickplay".  But Win 7 Mediacentre crashes. I'm starting to think that whatever stopped Vista Mediacentre working is still there lurking somewhere and crashing Win 7 Mediacentre.  I fear a full clean install is coming.

I see that Pinnacle being purchased by Avid then Avid sold the tuner division to Hauppauge. So, if you haven't already get the Win7 driver for the 73e from here...

http://www.pctvsystems.com/tabid/62/default.aspx/Downloads/Driver/tabid/123/language/en-US/Default.aspx

 my PCtools is not Win 7 compatible, so more money there...

Common on all platforms when core OS stuff changes.


I hope it goes better for you. I'm not a big MS fan but Windows 7 is finally a worthy successor to XP.

[Argo]

I'm not a big MS fan but Windows 7 is finally a worthy successor to XP.

Thank God. It's the first MS OS I actually enjoy. Though XP was pretty good after SP2.  I just hope they never make another monstrosity as was Windows ME!

[Hell Labs]

I moved from windows 7 back to xp. Got about half of the space used up on my hard disk, and it doesn't look so tasteless as 7 either. Best upgrade ever.

[Darrin]

Enjoying Windows 7 64bit on my new HP quad core dv8 laptop.  I've had to use the XP virtual machine for a cope of really old programs that didn't like the 64bit OS.

Connecting to the various network printers and plotters scattered around the office has been a breeze.