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If you're upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 it should be a fairly easy install. You can do what's called an in-place upgrade as long you install the same version of Windows 7 as you have of Vista.
For instance, if you have Windows Vista Home premium you can upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium. You can also go from Vista Business to Windows 7 Professional, and from Vista Ultimate to 7 Ultimate. Any other upgrade, like Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional, will require a clean install. That means you can't just turn Vista into 7. You have to export all your data, erase the hard drive, and then reinstall all your applications and data. A lot of computer experts think you should do a clean install anyway, just to make sure your machine runs better.
See our video for upgrading XP to Windows 7 for that process.
But if you're lucky enough to be able to do an in-place upgrade and want to, here's what you do.
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Fabio from Brazil wanted to know a good basic setup for podcasting. I use an Alesis mixer with two Shure microphones and a second laptop all running via USB into a MacBook Pro. Then I upload to Archive.org and use a Wordpress blog combined with Feedburner to publish the RSS feed. Here's a WikiHow on starting a podcast that has some other good ideas and resources. Your calls:
Can you dual boot OS X Leopard on a Vista machine? Yes. Daily Apps has an excellent guide to doing just that. You'll have to provide your own OS X that works on a PC though. For that, head to the OSX86 project.
Can you run Windows Vista on an Acer Aspire One? Sure. Probably only Vista Basic and it's not going to run like blazes, but if you like to try this kinda stuff, we say go for it.
You can boot from a USB thumbdrive in OS X; even boot Linux if you want. Take a look at this wiki.
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Just like I said I would post it in the blog, here is the location that you can find the iTunesPrefs.XML to edit for both Windows Vista and XP.
Windows Vista:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes
Windows XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes or
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes
If you can't see the file, make sure that your hidden files are set to be visible in Windows Explorer.
There ya go!
Want to speed up Windows Vista? Got a flash drive? Good. You can make your computer faster. Watch this video and then refer to the steps below.
One of the cooler things in Windows Vista is something called ReadyBoost. Normally if a system is slow, you have to open it up and add RAM. ReadyBoost lets you use external storage for that. Nothing new there. Windows 3.1 let you do that, but ReadyBoost makes it really simple.
- Plug in your USB flash drive.
- You will be given a menu. Choose "Speed up my System." You can access the same option by right-clicking on the USB drive in the computer section and choosing "properties," then the ReadyBoost tab.
- Next select "use this device." You can adjust how much of the device will be used for memory, leaving the rest of the space for file storage.
- Press OK.
That's it! You now have a slightly faster computer, no screwdrivers needed.
In the last two weeks we've gotten a large number of reports of choppy video on CNET TV. The symptoms were so odd that I had to reproduce them myself before our engineers would believe them. Users have reported that they hear the audio on CNET TV just fine, but to get the video to play smoothly, users reported, "I have to move my mouse in circles."
The good news is we have narrowed this down to a bug that occurs in earlier versions of the Flash Player when running Windows Vista, with IE 7 in Protected Mode, with a site that has two Flash components that need to talk to each other. The not-as-good news is that we can't fix it on our side, but you can easily fix it on your side. Just follow these simple steps:
1. Uninstall the Flash player. You can download a small application from Adobe that will do this for you:
2. Install the latest version of the Flash Player.
Even if you have the latest version and you are having this problem, you'll need to uninstall it and reinstall it to solve the problem.
If this doesn't solve your problem, please let us know--either via the feedback link on CNET TV or in the comments here--and we'll try to help. Let us know:
1) What OS you are running?
2) Did you upgrade to that OS?
3) What browser and version do you use?
4) What version of Flash are you using? (Find your version of Flash here)
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