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Ericuse165 asked the Windows forum if it's wise to upgrade his netbook's OS from Windows 7 Starter to a more powerful version. Link Removed

Hi Folks, I'm posting this to illustrate how I replaced\removed XP from my system in favor of Win 7. First some background. I've been using Win 7 since the beta as part of a multiboot setup on my Acer laptop. The other MS OS was my old XP install. My old XP was located at the...

Here is my case on this particular problem. This is quite long so apologies ahead of time. This computer had windows xp on it for quite some time and I decided it was time to upgrade to windows 7 ultimate. When I did the upgrade it asked me if I wanted to override xp altogether, or create...

A year faster than Vista Windows 7 reached the 10 per cent usage milestone, according to beancounters at Web analytics company Net Applications, as the OS has crossed the 10 per cent figure more than a year earlier than Vista. However the gleam of Window's 7 appears to be the only brightness...

Hi. I have an evaluation version of W7Pro on my server, which has expired. The system comprises of a single 100GB HD, which has the OS installed, and 2 x 500GB SPANNED IDE HD's holding data. I need to revert back to XP Pro while keeping the SPANNED disks intact - is this possible? I...

Proof of concept demonstration: Some have stated it is not possible to upgrade from XP to Windows 7. Here is the one way to do it. Hello again, and welcome to another tutorial from Windows7Forums.com. This tutorial is a little special; it's a little different from most. What we plan on doing is...

OK I'm running a vista ultra 64 OS on a Raid 0 set up. Ive been Playing with a new install of win 7 32 bit On a different setup and have become liking it to get me to think of upgrading my vista 64 bit to win 7 32 bit can that be done ? I don't wont to go back to a 64 bit system. because of...

Successfully installed Win7 (evaluation copy) to the second partition of my harddrive, hoping to be able to dual boot XP pro and Win7. Installed from the disk, not within XP, clean install. Other than my wireless card and sound not detected :(, I do not have an option to dual boot and cannot...

hello to everyone, First of all i want to say thanks in advanced to any person who helps me with the problem I am about to present to your guys. I have two hard disk drive(not 1 with 2 partition), first HDD 55GB with Windows Vista Ultimate, and the second HDD 460GB it used to be empty. I...

hi ho ! I'm new here and my english aint the best since its not my mother tongue. so pls forgive my bad english, hope you'll understand my questions anyway i am a student and like to take advantage of this cool offer of M for students regarding Windows 7 currently i run : Vista...

To start, I'd love to post more detailed system specs, but I cant even get into the OS. I had a Dell Workstation 380 with 7, sporting an extra (NOT the one with the OS) 750GB HD that failed. I deemed the case unworthy and built what is essentially a new rig. Mobo: Gigabyte EP43 UD3L with the...

Hello to everyone and congratulations for this great site. I've recently installed Windows 7 RC1 x64 on my machine and I can say that I'm really enthousiastic with the new windows. They are so stable and light that I love working on them. However my job requires to run Adobe After Effects CS4...

So, thinking about installing windows 7 on the laptop (ASUS m50vm), from what I understand the drivers are detected fine, and little to no issue to be had with the install. Now i'm curious, as the only time I ever dual-booted, was with linux, which hated ntfs at the time, so if Iwere to...

Hi guys This only works for W7 X-32. A weird irritant is that you can't upgrade to Vista (and hence W7) directly from XP PRO (although you can from XP HOME --strange isn't it. Who can ever understand minds that think of this stuff and come out with BS DRM / regional codes AACS etc etc). OK get...