Ralph said:
Well, fool that I am sometimes, I bought an upgrade to Windows 7
Professional at Costco to put on my Dell laptop which is running
Vista Home Premium. Turns out I can't do the upgrade but can do
an install. So I did, turns out that I now have both operating
systems running and hardly any room left on partition D.
Next step, I think, is to uninstall 7 and rethink the whole thing.
I haven't been happy with Vista, makes the laptop run terribly
slow, wish I'd gotten XP instead.
Dell's answer to me was to buy another computer, running 7.
How does one go about uninstalling 7?
Sounds like a lack of preparation... A few questions that may help you
cleanup, clear up and get the laptop running as well as possible.
- What model is the laptop? (Dell Latitude/Inspiron/Precision
Workstation/etc ____)
- How much system memory (RAM) does the laptop have?
- How much total disk space does the laptop have (More than 60GB?)
- How much current *free* disk space does it have?
- What processor (CPU) does the laptop have?
If you have trouble getting any of that information, you can do so by using
the free Belarc Advisor on the system or looking at your Service Tag (Serial
Number) and going to this web page (with appropriate substitutions):
http://support.dell.com/support/top...en/details?c=us&l=en&s=hied&ServiceTag=______
(fill in the blank after the equal sign with your service tag)
You can look under the original configuration.
If it have more than 2GB memory and a total of 60GB or more of disk space
you could use, depending on the model/CPU really - Windows 7 and it should
run better than Windows Vista if installed properly. This depends also on
having drivers for the OS you choose.
Windows XP is also a choice - if you purchase some OEM copy off NEWEGG or
BUY.COM or AMAZON - a trusted source. That is again *if* the model number
of your laptop has drivers available for the OS you choose.
As for this comment, "Turns out I can't do the upgrade but can do an
install", why could you not do the upgrade? Did you not get a version of
Windows 7 that would allow you to upgrade your current version of Vista?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...A1-5BAB-401F-BBF5-00F0EE7FE0FB&displaylang=en
Or had you just not kept it updated enough in order to properly do so?
If you give some of this information - perhaps we can get your computer
cleaned up and running well. You *will* need a way to backup your current
stuff - external hard disk drive/network share, etc.
