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    Watch out for this when upgrading to W-7

    Discussion in 'Fujitsu' started by jberns, Oct 26, 2009.

  1. jberns

    jberns Newbie

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    Upgraded my 6520 from Vista Business 32 to Windows 7 Professional 32 so inplace upgrade was available.

    Almost immediately upon starting the upgrade there was a large onscreen message stating that the function of the trackpad was disabled and it was certainly true. The big problem was that this notice obscured 98% of the Windows 7 upgrade messages as it was always on top and in the center of the screen with the Windows messages underneath and I could not use the mousepad to remove it. It was very scary to make upgrade choices using the keyboard (N for Next) without seeing most of the message box. Fortunately I did correctly choose the inplace upgrade rather that a clean install!

    I am not sure how to avoid this problem. Perhaps having a USB mouse plugged in while doing the upgrade.

    You have been warned.
     
    jberns, Oct 26, 2009
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    chris-m Notebook Evangelist

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    Interesting. I didn't notice that when I upgraded yesterday, but maybe it was b/c I did a clean install (W7 64).
     
    chris-m, Oct 27, 2009
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