Vista to 7
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Junior Samples
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Dunno Dave, I dont put much faith into the latest and greatest from Microgarbage.
I made the leap to Linux Ubuntu and couldnt be more pleased with the OS, its simple, quick to boot, dont lock up nor crash and as a permissions based OS, not many bugs can get in and the best thing of all its free and I like free.
I made the leap to Linux Ubuntu and couldnt be more pleased with the OS, its simple, quick to boot, dont lock up nor crash and as a permissions based OS, not many bugs can get in and the best thing of all its free and I like free.
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I upgraded from Vista to 7. Its pretty painless. Takes a while but seems to go through okay.
Our I.T. guy at work was a beta tester for 7 for the last year and he is VERY pleased with it. He offered to wipe my laptop clean of the Vista Home Premium and install 7 for free. I HATE VHP and all the "not responding" errors that show up all the time. Tired of it locking up at random times too. OS and OSX were really great on our old Apple and it NEVER had a problem. I may have him install for me as soon as I get everything off and onto my external drive.
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Will he do mine as well LOL:biggrin:
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Possibly, may only cost you shipping. I could tell him it's for my mom.
I would "make it right with you"
I have done several already with zero problems
If you do go ahead with the upgrade for home premium, get the family pack so each upgrade is only $50. I purchased six licenses (2 family packs) this way. I did notice that out of the box there are very few driver issues. My I7 HP machine had every driver install without even having to hit the net for them. No more "Not Responding" on any of them. Yes, 7 is much faster and has a smaller resource footprint. One of the machines I upgraded did not have support for a Dell printer on 7. It was an older all in one that Dell acknowledged they were not going to develop drivers for.
Just be safe and back up your data! This goes for anything you do anyways.
If you do go ahead with the upgrade for home premium, get the family pack so each upgrade is only $50. I purchased six licenses (2 family packs) this way. I did notice that out of the box there are very few driver issues. My I7 HP machine had every driver install without even having to hit the net for them. No more "Not Responding" on any of them. Yes, 7 is much faster and has a smaller resource footprint. One of the machines I upgraded did not have support for a Dell printer on 7. It was an older all in one that Dell acknowledged they were not going to develop drivers for.Just be safe and back up your data! This goes for anything you do anyways.
I've done several Vista to 7 upgrades, They are fairly painless. It seems so much better especially on laptops. Been working in IT for 17 years and with microsoft since windows 286 by far the best OS they have ever had and the easiest upgrade from Vista. It is a bit time consuming.
The only thing is it won't upgrade from XP.
If anyone in the Ohio area needs help let me know, especially if your willing to trade parts or labor. I lost my job recently so I'm not allowed to spend anything on my buick.
The only thing is it won't upgrade from XP.
If anyone in the Ohio area needs help let me know, especially if your willing to trade parts or labor. I lost my job recently so I'm not allowed to spend anything on my buick.
GNBRETT
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Exactly! Maybe there is hope for Microsoft after all.
Did the upgrade. So far, the only problem I've noted is that there are no Powerlogger drivers available for WIN 7 yet. So my powerlogger data logging is in limbo for now. Fortunately if I need to data log, I still have TunerPro RT running well under Win7
