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Pretty much spot on. What lots of people don't realise is from a O/S POV they aren't that different. The problem with Vista is it was shipped with a load of stuff that added to its overall resource footprint which meant its performance suffered as a consequence. I've worked for Microsoft for 8...
Ah ok, agree, but thats not going to stop 3rd party drivers that end up corrupting memory pools, stack overflows etc. Things are getting better but with many new devices appearing for PCs that means new drivers and new vendors making the same coding mistakes.
Have you connected the users Outlook to the online mailbox? If not details below:
http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/ms.exch.ecp.useoutlookanywhere.aspx
Once you have them connected you can import the PSTs into their mailboxes.
Most of what you need will be here...
I wouldn't call it an epic mistake. If 3rd party drivers were separated from the kernel they would still need to run somewhere. If you moved the file system outside the kernel and loaded up a number of dodgy filter drivers (Antivirus etc) any issue in these drivers would still take out the file...
I don't use them because of this limitation. God know why Renault decided it was a good idea. I have auto headlights in the Nissan and flash works the same on or off.
Does the HP_RECOVERY volume have a drive letter?
EDIT: Going to head off home soon, its possible that te upgrade needs to do something with that volume (It may be drive D:\) and can't take a recovery point. If you can enable system recovery on that then try again it may work.
You should have a log file called update.log under here:
C:\Users\<your logon>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Anytime Upgrade\
Starts like this:
Info WAU WindowsAnytimeUpgradeUI.exe started
Info WAU An internet connection is available.
Info...