So at work I decided to take the plunge and use Win7 on my work, after backing up all my files (and forgetting a very important one, more on that later) I formatted and installed. I then went around my usual business of re-installing all the needed apps and this is where my problem started and as yet has not been sorted.
On my Vista machine I had XAMPP installed and was using the localhost address to do my joomla creating and editing. However with the upgrade to Win 7 and the same install of XAMPP when I try to browse to the localhost url I keep getting the error message "HTTP 404 Not found" yet everything, besides the new OS, is the same. So after doing some Googling it appears I needed the SQL part
of Joomla backed up? However even if I try to do a new install I cannot access localhost url. Any ideas?I apologize if I am not making any sense but I have no idea what I need to do to get working. I have even tried this on a virtual WinXP and I still am not getting anywhere
. I am now trying WAMP to see if that can help but I dont have high hopes .*edit*
Seems WAMP worked now for my next question. Before the move I used the joomla extension JoomlaPack to make a backup of the site. I still have the backup but have no idea how to go about restoring it if I cannot access my previous install since it cant find the database.
Now I must also move this to the proxy since it is "complete".
I got it working on Win7 seems XAMPP really does not like Win7, WAMP just needed the services to be restarted. Of course this could just be my machine but I am just super happy that I have my working site back! 
I could not just leave it hanging