How long did your windows 7 update take?

[ebfd11]

I redid my whole comp fresh reboot and am using 64 bit windows 7 and I love it. Took aproxomatly 2 hours with the disc.

[Halo]

About 30 minutes with no problems. Bought a netbook computer with Windows 7 Basic. Sorry, couldn't resist. I'm not about to mess with actually switching to Windows 7 Starter from a notebook Vista or a desktop XP.

[guncrasher]

I switched from windows xp to win7 64 bit.  took about 1/2 hr.  Have reinstalled win7 several times and it only takes  30 to 40 min.  u cannnot upgrade from xp to win 7 must be a fresh installation.  I also installed  win7 in a laptop took less than 1 hr including downloading all the updates. 

semp

[Ghosth]

Thanks for the tip.

For now I just have shortcuts to my drives sitting on desktop.
Yes you can "pin" them but it pretty much is a waste as you noted.

The other thing that 7 does is rearrange drive letters.
So if I have 3 partitions on my drive, C, D, E, and 7 happens to be installed on E, when it boots into 7, it turns drive E into C. Shuffling the deck so to speak. Its just nastiness  and confusion that doesn't need to be.

You still can, but they become pinned "under" Explorer, making them just about as many clicks away as just using the start menu. So I see what you're saying.

As for the missing My Computer, if you mean the missing link on the desktop, just right click it on the start menu and select "Show on Desktop."

[OOZ662]

The other thing that 7 does is rearrange drive letters.
So if I have 3 partitions on my drive, C, D, E, and 7 happens to be installed on E, when it boots into 7, it turns drive E into C.

I had that happen in Windows XP as well. Maybe it has to do with boot.ini or some such file.