I should add, Kathy, that Vista will have security updates into at least mid-2016. Windows 7 is until early 2020 as I recall, and with the market penetration of Windows 7, it wouldn't surprise me at all if it got extended as XP's life cycle got extended.
Next year, we'll see Windows 10 get released. I assume the next release of Jaws will have the ability to work with the new features in Windows 10. It should be nicer, from what I've read, than Windows 8. So, you can always save money and use your current laptop and get something newer in a year or so that will support all the features of the newer Windows including touchscreen gestures; which would not be available at all on your older machine. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: Kathy Pingstock To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] vista laptop and wind7 home thank you. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 12:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] vista laptop and wind7 home I do some tech work, unless you have a copy of Windows 7 32-bit already and just want to do it, sure. But, it isn't worth it, otherwise. If you need to buy a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit, you can find them for $90 on Amazon. I don't think you can do an in-place upgrade with an OEM copy. So, you'll need to backup your laptop, then re-format and install Windows 7. If you are going to pay a tech to do this, you're probably looking at a couple hours. You'd be better off buying a refurbished Windows 7 Home Premium laptop. I've seen some for $150 or so and possibly higher if you want better specs. You can see if your laptop will run Windows 7 by running the Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor which you can dowload at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20 It will show you hardware specs, what if any software drivers may not work in Windows 7. Take my advice, I don't use it anyway. Steve Lansing, MI ----- Original Message ----- From: Kathy Pingstock To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 5:23 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] vista laptop and wind7 home good afternoon, I have a hp laptop running vista home and it is a 32 bit, I wanted to find out if I could upgrade this to win7 home, the laptop is 6 years old was not sure if the unit was too old to do this and if I can how can I find out if it would run on it? thank you Kathy For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
