Professor Messer

Well, that didn’t work.

You’re performing a fresh installation of Windows 7 on an older Windows XP Professional desktop PC, but the Windows 7 installation media won’t boot from the DVD-ROM drive and always boots Windows XP normally. The Windows 7 DVD-ROM boots properly on other computers in the office. What is the most likely cause of this issue?

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One of your customers has an internally written application that manages inbound file transfers from remote locations. After upgrading their computer to Windows 7, the application stops working and remote clients are complaining that their file transfers are rejected before they even start. Which of these is the most likely cause of this issue?

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