On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 03:23:47 +0000, CGIGaTozz wrote:
I just upgrade my computer frome windows vista to windows 7 ultimate...
Although you used an Upgrade version of Windows 7, apparently you did
not do an upgrade with it. You did a clean installation, not an
upgrade--see below.
My desktop no longer has any of the applications it had before I updated, it just has a recycle bin. It created a new folder in C:\\ called windows.old
That proves that you did a clean installation. Otherwise there
wouldn't be a \windows.old folder.
where all of my old applications are located. When I try to run them none of them work.
Right. You can't run them, because they haven't been installed in
Windows 7.
What do I do? All of my pictures/Videos/music was easily accesible in the windows.old but I really need to get my applications back, I really dont want to have to reinstall all of them when I can see them all...
You can't get them back. When you do a clean installation of Windows,
you have to then reinstall all your applications.
So you now have two choices:
1. Reinstall all your applications.
2. Use Windows.old to go back to Windows Vista (see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971760 to learn how) and then redo the
Windows 7 installation. But this time choose the upgrade installation,
not the custom (clean) installation.
Both choices are a lot of work, I know, but sorry to say that you have
no others.
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP
