Downloaded it and it said my installation did not have the problem. Once again I managed to avoid a bad VPS file. I've never been bitten by one yet . 
@Dch48,
Same here.
But I have another way other than the way quoted later in the post:
Have your DSL modem go kaput for a couple of days, and you will miss everything. Nice that I got a better modem than the one I had, and for free, too!
Sometimes it is just luck.
Unbelievable! I am talking about all of the stuff in the thread above.
I think with the change to cloud hybrid vps computing, there were (and are) going to be some mistakes, some of which is possibly due to some major code re-writing in version 7.0.1407, resulted in increased complexity, and member's reporting and experiences certainly reflect this. New features are not without risks. Elsewhere in the forum some were reporting FSS hyperactivity to the point of where their systems were slowed to a crawl.
I've got an idea.
Maybe perhaps some program running on a user's system interferes with proper installation (and everyone's system is different, certainly not running the programs I run) of version 7? For example, I make it a point to turn off all
non-Microsoft programs via msconfig, reboot, and
then install the antivirus program. (For some reason I did not this time, as I upgraded directly to v 7, but normally this is a step I do.) This way I have got a system that is doing a clean boot with only minimal and essential services running, and no extra startup items running in the background. Something to maybe keep in mind?
An antivirus program, no matter who the vendor of choice is, is one of the most critical programs an user can run.
EDIT: I remember why I did not follow my own advice above. It was because I was online and downloading the upgrade files for version 7 at the time. Oops.
