[VISTA] Re: "Some" KB Articles on Windows Vista .... upgrade nightmare ...
- From: "Angus Macdonald" <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vista@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:06:19 -0000
I think I'll carry on my tradition of waiting for at least one service =
pack before even looking at a new OS
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From: vista-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vista-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com
Sent: 31 January 2007 12:50
To: vista@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [VISTA] "Some" KB Articles on Windows Vista .... upgrade
nightmare ...
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=3D42B5AC83-C24F-=
4863-A389-3FFC194924F8&displaylang=3Den
) 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=3DLCID%3d1033&10=
33comm=3D1&spid=3Dglobal&query=3DVista&pwt=3Dfalse&title=3Dfalse&kt=3DALL=
&mdt=3D0&res=3D20&ast=3D1%2c2%2c3%2c4%2c7&mode=3Da&adv=3D1&range=3D1-200
)
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...
--=20
Jim Kenzig
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services
http://www.thinhelp.com
Citrix Technology Professional
Provision Networks VIP
CEO The Kenzig Group
http://www.kenzig.com
Blog: http://www.techblink.com
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