be aware that the chances are high that your periphials will not have windows 7 drivers for them. in my case my hp all in one printer had vista drivers from hp that still worked with windows 7. the drivers supplied with windows vista or 7 do not work. you may have to buy a new printer,scanner, video card etc. you need as a minum 128mb or is it gb of video memory and 2gb of ram or more and at least 20gb of free disk space. some of your xp programs may not work. especially disk utilities like disk doctor norton etc. unless you are useing a version that supports a 64bit system. you can not do a in place upgrade. you have to use the custom install and use fresh or dual boot. fresh will move all your old documents folder to a windows.old folder and install a fresh new copy of windows 7. you need 20 gb of free disk space to do this. and you would still have to reinstall your programs.
From: Dane Trethowan Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 1:16 AM To: gw info Subject: Upgrading a Windows XP machine to Windows 7 Hi! Just bought a copy of Windows 7 Professional, plan to upgrade desktop machine so is there anything in particular I should know before I start? If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
