My Windows 7 Upgrade Nightmare

My experience at upgrading my HP Pavilion 9500 from Vista Ultimate x64 to Windows 7 Ultimate x64 was the worst I have read about so far. To help anyone who had my issues I documented all my fixes and posted some comments on the net for those who had same issues.

I set each to Automatic startup and started (enabled) the service unless otherwise noted.

• Biocrypt (fingerprint software for HP) didn't allow me to login. Had to boot to save mode, rename its folder, restart to regular boot, rename folder, uninstall it.
• Event Viewer didn't work. Had to enable Windows Event Log and Windows Event Collector services. Reboot required.
• I enabled Superfetch service.
• I enabled Windows Audio service and dependencies Windows Audio Endpoint Mapper, RPC, and Multimedia Class Scheduler.
• I enabled Windows Installer service.
• I enabled Remote Procedure Call service.
• I enabled Diagnostic Policy Service and Service Host services.
• DHCP Client service was disabled and I could not enable due to a dependency issue. The dependency tab also gave me an error, so to find dependency you just run SC QC ServiceName At command line like so:

SC QC DHCP 
It will show dependencies of NSI, Tdx, Afd. Start the Network Store Interface Service (NSI).

• If DHCP client still not working, check Afd service: (I still don't know what Tdx is.)
  • Click Start, Run and type DEVMGMT.MSC (Device Manager) 
  • In the View menu, click Show hidden devices
  • Double-click Non-Plug and Play drivers section
  • Double-click the entry AFD (Ancillary Function Driver for Winsock), and click the Driver tab, Set the Startup type to System. Start the service. Note down the error message if any.
  • Close Device Manager and restart Windows.
• I set Windows Modules Installer service to manual. Otherwise you can't install much.
• I enabled Windows Error Reporting service.
• I set ActiveX Installer service to manual.
• I enabled Network Connections service.
• I set Office Source Engine service to manual.
• I enabled Power service. Enabling turned screen brightness way up and allowed laptop hibernation.
• I enabled Virtual Disk service, so I could manage disks in computer management.
• I set Disk Defragmenter service to manual.
• Wireless didn't work. Found with troubleshooter that Windows Wireless service is called WLAN AutoConfig. Looking at service properties the servicename is wlansvc.

SC QC wlansvc
nativewifip, rpcss, ndisuio, eaphost - Extensible Authentication Protocol with its own dependencies of RPCss KeyIso (CNG Key Isolation) The eaphost was only one missing. Restart was required.

• I set Background Intelligent Transfer Service and dependency Com+ Event service to manual for both.
• I enabled Themes and Desktop Window Manager Session Manager to make everything look nice.
• I enabled all of these services as they are useful or at least seem to be: WindowsDefender, Windows Management Instrumentation, Credential Manager, Windows Time, DNS Client (dnscache), Shell Hardware Detection (AutoPlay), Volume Shadow Copy (recovery points require this).
• I also enabled Windows Firewall (Base Filtering Engine is a dependency) and turned off for Private network and on for Public network.

What a mess. I probably will find more and will update this page.

I did find that trying to find other computers on the network to not work, so I had to enable all of these:

If you have other Windows 7/2008 computers: SSDP Discovery (SSDPSRV)
UPnP Device Host (upnphost) depends on SSDPSRV, HTTP
Function Discovery Resource Publication (FDResPub)

Security Accounts Manager
Server
Workstation
Computer Browser

Then setup advanced sharing settings: Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network and Sharing Center\Advanced sharing settings

Homegroup only works with Windows 7 computers, so I didn't enable it.

Network Map won't work without the Network Location Awareness service and Network List service, but I haven't found a use for network map yet as typically it is way to simple to need a fancy graphic.