Laptop upgrade to Win 7

[ANONYMOUS]

Depends on who is doing the defining...

Can you just shut up if you have nothing else to contribute.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Not every program plays nice with Vista. For an example Neverwinter
Nights will lock up or crash at random under Vista which it never did
under XP. Since my computer is a clean install of Vista Home Premium
running on a P5Q Turbo motherboard and a E8400 CPU with 4 GB of memory
this is Not a hardware issue. If you look at the forums you will see
the same problem for everyone. Even running the program in XP
compatibility mode will not fix the program. To get Dungeon Siege
Legends of Arrana to run I had to get a hacked version as the copy
protection will Not work with Vista under any settings.

Not seen such problems here on about 300 systems I manage.

 

[SC Tom]

Can you just shut up if you have nothing else to contribute.

.. . .said the pot, calling the kettle black

 

[David B.]

My advise is to not listen to you as you have no clue what your talking
about

 

[David B.]

I actually would love to visit your class, I bet it's a hoot. If you can
provide so much bad advise in one post I can only imagine what you can
accomplish in a whole day.

 

[Michael Dobony]

By definition, moving from Vista to XP is a downgrade, not an upgrade.

Lets see, XP is stable, Vista does random resets and lockups. XP runs just
about anything written in the last 7 years. Vista can't even run its own
bundled programs. XP is 2x faster than Vista. Since upgrading to XP last
Christmas XP locked up only about 5 or 6 times. From August to Christmas
prior to upgrading to XP, Vista locked up that many times a week. Not very
nice when trying to take notes at school.

 

[SC Tom]

Lets see, XP is stable, Vista does random resets and lockups. XP runs just
about anything written in the last 7 years. Vista can't even run its own
bundled programs. XP is 2x faster than Vista. Since upgrading to XP last
Christmas XP locked up only about 5 or 6 times. From August to Christmas
prior to upgrading to XP, Vista locked up that many times a week. Not very
nice when trying to take notes at school.

Methinks you have more issues than the operating system. I haven't had XP
lock up that many times since I first installed it in 2001. And while I'm no
fan of Vista, I haven't had much trouble with it, just don't like the
slowness and the heavy feel of it. I just upgraded to 7 on my Vista
notebook. It's much faster and more responsive than Vista, but there are a
few things about it I'm not crazy about either.

SC Tom

 

[M.I.5¾]

If you have any machines older than 3 years old, you are strongly advised
not to even try doing anything to them because Windows 7 requires a
minimum of 1 GB for 32 bit but you will need at least 4GB to do any
meaningful work. I recommend 8GB to be really productive.

It would be quite impossible for the 32 bit version of Windows 7 to see any
more memory than around 3.2 Gb (give or take) for reasons that are
frequently discussed in this group.

 

[M.I.5¾]

You clearly have very limited knowledge of OS and how they work on
systems? Have you thought of coming to my class where I can educate you
on the way you should install your OS?

If the sum total of what you have posted in this thread is anything to go
by, your *class* (if indeed it exists) should be sheer entertainment from
beginning to end.

 

[M.I.5¾]

Can you just shut up if you have nothing else to contribute.

Since you have contributed nothing of value to this thread, I suggest that
you take your own advice and shut up also.

 

[Leythos]

I have an HP Compaq Presario C 500 laptop computer that came with
Windows Vista Home Basic installed. This has been upgraded to SP2. It
has a Intel Celeron M CPU 430 @ 1.73 GHz

I am contemplating buying a 3-pack of Windows 7 to install on my
desktop, my wife's desktop and my laptop computers. I'm not sure this
laptop will handle Windows 7, though.

It has 512 MB of RAM and 68.9 GB of hard disk space with 47.4 GB free,
presently. This is set up as a 32 bit O.S. I will probably do a clean
install and delete all files from this hard drive, after backing the
important stuff up onto a flash drive or CD.

Not sure if your laptop will handle x64 version of Windows 7, but I'm
running Windows 7 Ultimate on a laptop with a P4/3.2ghz CPU that is
hyper-threaded and 2GB ram and use MS Office 2007 for RFP's and
Proposals (some graphics in every document, lots of MS Excel sheets,
lots of MS Outlook emails) and I also manage 4 different firewall
products on it, with Symantec End Point Protection 11.5 installed.

The memory rarely goes above 1GB in use, and it's more responsive than
was Vista. I run the X32 version since my laptop won't do x64.

I would suggest that you upgrade your memory to at least 2GB, the drive
size should be fine, Win 7 will eat less than 10GB itself.

 

[Michael Dobony]

Methinks you have more issues than the operating system. I haven't had XP
lock up that many times since I first installed it in 2001. And while I'm no
fan of Vista, I haven't had much trouble with it, just don't like the
slowness and the heavy feel of it. I just upgraded to 7 on my Vista
notebook. It's much faster and more responsive than Vista, but there are a
few things about it I'm not crazy about either.

SC Tom

When the same computer has mega problems on Vista and very few problems on
XP, the problem is Vista.

 

[SC Tom]

When the same computer has mega problems on Vista and very few problems on
XP, the problem is Vista.

Not necessarily.

 

[Bob I]

When the same computer has mega problems on Vista and very few problems on
XP, the problem is Vista.

No, actual the problem would be the person who configured it.

 

[Leythos]

When the same computer has mega problems on Vista and very few problems on
XP, the problem is Vista.

Actually, the problem is not Vista, as not a single person has told you
that Vista is suited for any specific computer that was running XP and
not certified for Vista.

Don't get me wrong, while there could be issues with Vista, the vast
majority of them are bad drivers provided by third party vendors, bad
implementations of hardware interfaces, and people trying to install
Vista on machines that were not specifically designed for Vista - oh,
and people trying to move from x32 to x64 that don't understand the
issues that move brings.