[VISTA] "Some" KB Articles on Windows Vista .... upgrade nightmare ...
- From: "Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com" <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: vista@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:50:11 -0500
Man oh man... I tried to do an upgrade on my computer last night to my new
shiny version of Vista I got for free for watching some MSN videos. It gets
all the way through the installation upgrade (which took a couple of hours..
a clean install takes about 15 minutes) and then when it gets to the final
step of finalizing settings the computer freezes with a blue line down the
middle of the screen and just sits there.
Now I went through the upgrade Advisor Wizard (
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=42B5AC83-C24F-4863-A389-3FFC194924F8&displaylang=en
) originally
and removed everything it said to remove and even got rid of everything in
my Run key in the registry. Something I highly reccomend doing! It said I
was fine. Luckily you can roll back easily enough to your previous version
of Windows which I had to do...see this KB on how to do that
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927522/en-us but that is not the point.
Windows Vista did it for me though when I decided had to shut the machine
off after it sat idle for 2 hours with the blue line down the middle of the
screen. When the machine came back up I was notified that "Vista
installation did not succeed" and that it was "Restoring my previous version
of Windows" A scary message I know but persistent me went through the
installation a second time after removing a few more things just for good
measure and ended up with the same blue line results, the rollback the
second time around worked the same way and just as well as the first time
around.
This should not be that difficult..alas but it is.
There are already over 200+ KB articles on Vista woes (
http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?catalog=LCID%3d1033&1033comm=1&spid=global&query=Vista&pwt=false&title=false&kt=ALL&mdt=0&res=20&ast=1%2c2%2c3%2c4%2c7&mode=a&adv=1&range=1-200
)
And even a KB article that lists the error messages that you might have..
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930733/en-us (which is not that long believe
it or not.)
And yes even the validation system seems like it had issues and needed an
update... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929391/en-us
So this evening I get to go through the log files (
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928901/en-us ) and try and figure out just
what went wrong. But in light of the seemingly huge surge of KB articles
over the last few days on second thought maybe I should wait awhile before I
make the plunge...such is life when you are living on the edge and want to
be at the forefront of technology I guess. At least my Office 2007 is
workingl though...
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Jim Kenzig
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services
http://www.thinhelp.com
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