About windows 7

[ipotpal]

I need to migrate to windows 7
In this moment i use windows xp
Do you need to migrate ?

7 or Xp ?
Please help me

[Apostropartheid]

If you are moving from any version of Windows XP to Windows 7, you may purchase an upgrade license but you cannot move directly across; your hard disk will be wiped clean and Windows 7 installed fresh.

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

This url will tell you everything you need to know about upgrading.

http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/clean_install_upgrade_media.asp

In your case yes you'll need to migrate meaning you can't simply do an upgrade.

[JessicaD]

Ipotpal,

Please note that when migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 you will not have an "in place upgrade" option. You will however have the option to select "custom" install when prompted. The Windows 7 install process will then copy all of your data in "My Documents" over to a Windows.old folder within Windows 7 itself. All applications and documents stored in other locations will have to be reinstalled / transferred manually.
For more information on the Windows 7 Upgrade, please go here: http://bit.ly/3DvynK
For additional assistance with the migration of Windows XP to Windows 7, please go here: http://tinyurl.com/mhbep4

Jessica
Microsoft Windows Client Team

[cher]

I would say if your PC is old stick with XP or else upgrade it to the new Windows 7 version.

[drhowarddrfine]

My wife uses XP on a 4-year old computer just for QuickBooks. Last night I used it to look something up and was surprised at how well it ran. She has no interest in upgrading to Win7 at all and feels she has nothing to gain by doing so.

[Apostropartheid]

drdr, of course she doesn't. It's a 4 year old machine and nothing really in Windows 7 that will significantly improve (does QuickBooks even work under 7?) If she's comfortable with XP, that's brilliant: it saves you time, money and hassle.

[drhowarddrfine]

I know. I was ditto'ing what Cher was saying. Actually, my main comment was how surprised I was that XP, with all the updates applied over the years, ran surprisingly good. I thought it was smoother than my son's Vista laptop which I was using over the weekend while out of town.

[Apostropartheid]

It depends. Vista can run like a bloated insert-expletive-of-choice-here when it's not properly catered for, but like a dream if it is. The same applies to XP, too. Vista on my family desktop, which I don't use at all, is clogged up and slow (to the point where I've just installed Ubuntu on a separate drive and stick it in when I have to), but on my laptop, which has half the amount of processors and slower RAM, it's pretty sharp.

[oracleguy]

It depends. Vista can run like a bloated insert-expletive-of-choice-here when it's not properly catered for, but like a dream if it is. The same applies to XP, too.

Quite true, people often forget that when XP came out in 2001 most computers were around 1GHz with the Pentium 4 having just come out earlier in the year. Hell, the recommended system requirements for XP are a 300MHz processor and a 128MB of RAM.

On modern hardware, Windows 7 runs the same, if not faster, than XP, at least in my experience.

[primefalcon]

Quite true, people often forget that when XP came out in 2001 most computers were around 1GHz with the Pentium 4 having just come out earlier in the year. Hell, the recommended system requirements for XP are a 300MHz processor and a 128MB of RAM.

On modern hardware, Windows 7 runs the same, if not faster, than XP, at least in my experience.
The thing is though what are you realy paying the extra to upgrade for though, what is there in 7 you can really do that you cannot do in XP, what are they really offering that is good enough for you to sped yet another few hundred dollars?

Also ask yourself if the same cannot be done with Ubuntu or another free OS, it's al about research,. if you find you really do need a feature tat only windows 7 provides fine then upgrade, but upgrading jut because it's the newest thing out is only lining a corporations pocket and isn't necessarily the best thing for you.

Research what you need, an what systems provide that

[oracleguy]

The thing is though what are you realy paying the extra to upgrade for though, what is there in 7 you can really do that you cannot do in XP, what are they really offering that is good enough for you to sped yet another few hundred dollars?

I wasn't arguing that, I was talking about the argument where Vista can feel bloated and slow on some computers compared to XP. My point was that since XP is so old now, of course any modern computer is going run it incredibly fast.

[kasu]

first check whether your machine supports win 7..but migrating to win xp can cause driver problems!!