Reinstalling Windows 7

[Kevryl]

I have win 7 running ... well, crawling... on a new quad core computer (it
really started its slow-down after installing Office 2007). Its so sluggish
that I've decided to do a fresh reinstall.

Drive C is partitioned and the second partition (F) carries all my data. Its
backed up, but I'd like, if possible to format C without interfering with F,
reinstalling Win 7 on C. Is that possible?

I have the original install disk, and I particularly want to start off from
scrathj with a formatted C.

How sluggish is my pc? Well, even with just 3 or 4 worksheets opened and no
other programs running (except AVG), it takes 5 seconds to switch between
worksheets. Saving a 1.7 meg spreadsheet can take over a minute, and just
going fil/properties is taking about 15 seconds for the window and data to
come up. I'm sick of seeing "not esponding" and the white window while a file
is saving or when Ctrl/F6'ing between worksheets. And between you me and the
gatepost I'm also tired of being told some features will be lost when saving
as an Excel 97-2003 file when those features all CAME from Excel 2000.

The only reason I upgraded from Office 2000 was because it just didn't seem
comfortable with Win 7 (blurred type and other issues) (and I guess I was
tempted to "get with it"). As you may be able to tell, this is also a cry
for clues from someone who may have had the same issues and discovered the
cause(s).

My son has had Win 7 on a laptop for over a year with Office 2003 running
and he loves it. Never a moments problem!

 

[DL]

So why are you posting this to a Office group and not a Win7 group?
Registry cleaners are snake oil and could lead to PC becoming inoperable

Obviously your system has some problems.
Office 2000 is not fully compatible with either Vista or Win7 and is out of
support, having said that you had / have other win7 issues if you have a
blurred display

Post to a win7 group
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7performance/threads

 

[Animenia]

Drive C is partitioned and the second partition (F) carries all my data
Its
backed up, but I'd like, if possible to format C without interferin
with F,
reinstalling Win 7 on C. Is that possible?

Without any problems at all.
During the installation when you are asked to select the partition yo
wish to install the operating system on you should have the forma
option.

The format will be performed on the selected partition, NOT th
selected drive.

/ An

 

[Kevryl]

Dear DL,

Did you notice that the majority of my post concerned Office 2007? Although
my question concerned reinstallation, I specifically wanted to float the
whole situation. There are a number of MVP's in here and there;'s quite a lot
of Win 7 material.

Just tried your link: "The page you are attempting to view is temporarily
unavailable due to system maintenance. Please try again later. "
This has been the state of the Microsoft "forums" on the majority of times
that I've been there. When successful, I've found there to be very little on
Win 7 and issues difficult to search for, HOWEVER, having said that I just
Googled for the forum aqnd found the front end with its section links - much
more satisfsactory. It seems that Win 7 has been a nightmare for a huge
number of people.

Registry cleaners are snake oil and could lead to PC becoming inoperable

Suspected that, and as I said that was my experience on my XP machine.

Obviously your system has some problems.

Thanks for telling me!

other win7 issues if you have a blurred display

Yeah, but hoping someone can shed light. What other "issues" (are you a MS
employee? LOL) can a pristine Win 7 installation have? Office 2000 was the
first program installed after installing Win 7. Oh, beg pardon, my computer
supplier had installed Nero Essentials before I got the machine.

I've done a fresh Win 7 install and installed Office 2007 now. So far so
good, but still the "Not responding" reminds me that its very sensitive. No
delays flicking between workbooks though. Oh, I did have to deactivate
autorecover. Even on a pristine installation of 7 and 2007, it started to
autorecover and there seemed to be no progress after 15 minutes.

I haven't installed an AV programe yet. I have AVG and am wondering if that
was a big part of the problem. I'll see.

 

[Kevryl]

Thank you Animenia for your straight and uncritical reply! I have now done
this and things so far are sweet! I didn't want to take it for granted
because unless you are told you don't know what is about to happen when you
click "setup" *smile*

 

[Kevryl]

Hi again Animenia,
Have just made the frustrating discovery that after reinstalling W7 and
paying for and installing Office 2007 on what I thought was now a pristine
partition, it didn't format it at all! All the existing programe downloads
and program files are still in their respective directories (not even moved
to an "old files" directory). So I'm guessing the registry has been wiped
with a pristine version, while all those old programs are half-installed,
waiting like a time-bomb to disrupt my system again?

Looks like I've go through then process again but this time formatting the
whole drive and repartitioning it before I begin the install, and I haven't
a clue how to do either.