My lappy was getting sluggish so I decided to reinstall windows. I used the acer recovery program to reinstall vista (which it came with) and that worked fine, and I was able to use firefox & stuff. Then I upgraded again to windows 7 via the upgrade cds, everything went to plan but now I'm unable to do a lot of things such as using a browser other than IE. MSN & IE work fine but firefox won't load pages, chrome won't install and I have no idea why.

Any suggestions?

You're saying you installed W7 on top of Vista?

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do windows update, get all the optional updates..maybe that will patch up whatever is missing.

Pro tip: try re-installing chrome, firefox and other apps that don't work.

but... even better: never upgrade "in place" - e.g. install one version of Windows on top of another. In my experience, it never works 100%, you eventially end up blowing everything away and setting up from fresh anyway.

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Try to reinstall windows using the acer recovery program. Then upgrade to windows 7 afterwards.

inb4 noobularbills proclaiming that he's using Firefox and Win7.

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Originally posted by mr.bison Try to reinstall windows using the acer recovery program. Then upgrade to windows 7 afterwards.

that's what I did in the first place. Being Acer, I didn't get a windows disc and my only way back to win7 is to use the recovery program and then upgrade using my upgrade discs (which came as part of the deal to buy my laptop). This time, I've done a complete fresh install and it's working so great. Before, I upgraded since my only access to win7 is the upgrade dvds and things which worked on vista didn't thereafter. I tried to install chrome too but that also failed which made me realise something fishy was going on, hence starting again.

I don't know how W7 does it, but you used to be able to do a fresh Windows install from an upgrade disc. At some point in the installation, it would ask you to put in the install disc from the previous version to verify that you actually had it, but other than that would allow a clean install of the new OS.

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What?

you should have put the money towards a new laptop instead upgrading to w7.

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Originally posted by igottaknow you should have put the money towards a new laptop instead upgrading to w7.

it was a free upgrade which was an offer being run when I bought the laptop 18 months ago. I'm saving for a new desktop as it is, but want to save enough to by high enough up the food chain for it to last a while. Right now I'm relying too much on this laptop which is good for portability but not power.

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Originally posted by Ian it was a free upgrade which was an offer being run when I bought the laptop 18 months ago. I'm saving for a new desktop as it is, but want to save enough to by high enough up the food chain for it to last a while. Right now I'm relying too much on this laptop which is good for portability but not power.

My current laptop I did the same free upgrade but I didn't have any problem. Make sure you do a clean install. Are you using w7 drivers but that shouldn't let one browser work and not another. could it be 32/64 bit mixup?

If you're able to use IE, but Firefox and/or Chrome aren't working, it sounds more like a browser issue than one with your actual computer or OS. In Firefox try going to Tools > Options > Advanced, then in the Network tab, click on settings and make sure you're either on Auto-detect, or no proxies(You might be on auto-detect, or a manually configured proxy if you're at work, in which case you'd need to go through the proxy in order to access the network).

Also, do you get any kind of error message when you try to install Chrome?

That's all I can think of as to why only IE is working.

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Last edited by srussell0018 on Mar-15-2011 at 19:44