Windows 7 reinstallation made it worse

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by Xaample, Apr 1, 2019.

  1. Xaample

    Xaample MDL Novice

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    So my computer has been quite slow for the past few months and today I decided to reinstall windows. I went from Windows 7 Professional N to Windows 7 Ultimate. Both were not bought by me and I just activated Ultimate with the phone system. The problems start here, when half the drivers that I had backed up, after restored, didn't work properly anymore and then 4 of my back USB 3.0ports don't even work anymore. My normal keyboard that I used to use just fine doesn't even get recognized when i plug it in,so I had to dig up some old logitech keyboard that fortunately worked. But now when I started to install programs back one by one, every single one of them ran into at least one issue. Currently I can't even log on my nvidia geforce exoirience, because the login popup window is simply black. nothing on it.

    I want to know if there's any point in trying to fix this broken of a Windows machine or should I try installing Windows 10? If I do install Windows 10,how do I get drivers straight away and how do I find a network adapter?

    I would have made a nicer intro but I feel so drained and in such a bad mood so I'm sorry about that. I spent around 6hours today trying to make everything work.

    I also still have my Windows.old folder, so is there anyway to rollback to win7 professional and with all my settings?

    Thank you everyone in advance who decides to help and I certainly hope you guys never mess up like this.
     
  2. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    Did you use official MSDN iso's or p2p homebrew iso?

    Please run the QT from here, and post the saved report here in code tags.
     
  3. Xaample

    Xaample MDL Novice

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    I'll do it when I'm home again, I'm not at the computer anymore. Also does that tool just check if the activation was successful? If so, I'm pretty sure it was since I did it with a key provided from n**** forums members and I did it by calling the activation system from phone.

    Thanks for the reply
     
  4. Krager

    Krager MDL Senior Member

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    That's what I would do. In all my years of using Windows I've never tried to salvage a broken install, always reload clean, that's the Windows way.
     
  5. atgpud2003

    atgpud2003 MDL Addicted

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    make sure you have enough ram, CPU cores, and faster hard drive. This make windows 7 run smooth..

    ATGPUD2003