Acer upgrade to windows vista

Quote from: soybean on January 01, , AM. SYS - network card driver srv. My Home Page. Quote from: kevwillo on March 31, , PM. I have an Acer Aspire and I am also having the same problem. One week ago, my dog was trying to get by my feet when the power cord came unplugged. I had taken the battery out of the laptop because it never leaves the house , so when the cord got pulled out the computer completely shut off.

Normally, if the cord came out, the laptop satyed on due to the battery. I plugged the laptop back in and booted - everything came on - though I thought it was weird that I didn't get the "Disk Check" screen at start up like you would on a PC Once the laptop booted the keyboard and the touch pad wouldn't work. But I am also receiving a Code 37 on these same four items when I try to "check for solutions".

Vista sux! External mouse works and I don't have an external keyboard - using the onscreen keyboard. This freaking blows and there are little to no forums or links that supply helpful solutions to this annoying problem. Your Dell could well be 10 years old. Jade has an Acer Aspire laptop with a 1. My current Dell desktop, purchased in , scores 6, However, as you use your PC for social media, YouTube and such like, you could probably replace it with a cheap Windows 10 laptop preferably with 4GB of memory or a similar Chromebook.

If not, you could also consider replacing your PC with an iPad. Although the free upgrade offer ended almost a year ago, you can still get Windows 10 without paying for it.

This will remove Vista and all your programs and data, so you must make backups before continuing. The first: join the Windows Insider program. This provides Windows 10 free in exchange for acting as a guinea pig, for bug testing purposes.

The second is to install Windows 10 without activating it. Microsoft can change the rules at any time. It may close the loopholes and make non-activated copies more painful to use. However, it wants everyone on Windows 10, so it may not clamp down for a while.

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