Windows 7 Borked

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I turned on my computer this morning and it was totally messed up. The windows seven gets to the boot screen and then sticks on that for about 5 minutes, then when it finally get in it is soooo soooo slow and I cannot click on anything..... At the bottom right the watermark said "this copy of windows is not genuine", but it is only meant to expire in 2010.... But then when I restarted and tried again that message was gone but it's still hanging...

Can anyone help me please...?
 
Yes I have had Windows 7 running for a long time now with no problems and then randomly it starts to do this.
 
My BIOS dates are fine I checked those. I will see if I can find the ISO disk..

I did try a startup repair but it didn't work.
 
Yeah I think from this month onwards beta's start borking.

Also why are you still running beta :confused: RC is so much more stable and faster.
 
Stickfigure said:
Yip just saw that now as well.

But yeah the upgrade through a switch in a config files works np.
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It's not recommended for a reason, the upgrade function is in beta as well. MS specifically said that users should not do an upgrade moving from the Beta to RC. Might work anyway.
 
Depends how lucky you are.

Did some googling and you get people who upgraded with no hassles and you get people who had problems.
 
To upgrade from beta you need to:

- Extract the .iso contents to a storage location you wish to run the upgrade from (a bootable flash drive
or a directory on any partition on the machine running the old build).
- Browse to the sources directory.
- Open the file cversion.ini in a text editor like Notepad.
- Modify the MinClient build number to a value lower than the down-level build. For example, change 7100 to 7000.
- Save the file in place with the same name.
- Run setup.exe like you would normally and the version check will be bypassed.

If you're not upgrading:
Burn and mount, boot from it.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
It's not recommended for a reason, the upgrade function is in beta as well. MS specifically said that users should not do an upgrade moving from the Beta to RC. Might work anyway.
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So I guess build 7077 isn't beta lol? Well I took the risk and I hoping for the best.

Stickfigure said:
Depends how lucky you are.

Did some googling and you get people who upgraded with no hassles and you get people who had problems.
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I've updated today and I've not had a single prob.
 
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teraside said:
To upgrade from beta you need to:

- Extract the .iso contents to a storage location you wish to run the upgrade from (a bootable flash drive
or a directory on any partition on the machine running the old build).
- Browse to the sources directory.
- Open the file cversion.ini in a text editor like Notepad.
- Modify the MinClient build number to a value lower than the down-level build. For example, change 7100 to 7000.
- Save the file in place with the same name.
- Run setup.exe like you would normally and the version check will be bypassed.

If you're not upgrading:
Burn and mount, boot from it.
Click to expand...

So if I install 7068 from a dvd and then use this method and upgrade it to 7100 it will work fine?
 
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