XP software compatibility with Windows 7 OS

[jcage]

I'm looking at a new laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium and am worried
about the software compatibility with XP since I have a lot of XP
software. I really don't want to dole out huge bucks to upgrade my
software so how can I best avoid it (if there really are compatibility
issues)? I heard an 'ultimate' version exists. If so, what's the
upgrade costs to get to a better compatibility platform?

Thanks very much...

John

 

[Raoul Watson]

I'm looking at a new laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium and am worried
about the software compatibility with XP since I have a lot of XP
software. I really don't want to dole out huge bucks to upgrade my
software so how can I best avoid it (if there really are compatibility
issues)? I heard an 'ultimate' version exists. If so, what's the
upgrade costs to get to a better compatibility platform?

Thanks very much...

John

If it aint broke, don't fix it.

 

[relic]

I'm looking at a new laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium and am worried
about the software compatibility with XP since I have a lot of XP
software. I really don't want to dole out huge bucks to upgrade my
software so how can I best avoid it (if there really are compatibility
issues)? I heard an 'ultimate' version exists. If so, what's the
upgrade costs to get to a better compatibility platform?

Most software works fine, if you find one that doesn't there's an XP Mode
available in Windows 7 Professional and up.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/windows-xp-mode

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/compare

 

[smlunatick]

I'm looking at a new laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium and am worried
about the software compatibility with XP since I have a lot of XP
software.  I really don't want to dole out huge bucks to upgrade my
software so how can I best avoid it (if there really are compatibility
issues)?  I heard an 'ultimate' version exists.  If so, what's the
upgrade costs to get to a better compatibility platform?

Thanks very much...

John

While it is true that a lot of older XP software "will" work in
Windows 7, there is always a possibility the your software may not.

The two versions that you would be needing to consider is Windows 7
Professional and Ultimate. Both will offer the "free" Windows XP mode
system, as long as the hardware will do the Visualization system.

Professional and Ultimate are the same with Ultimate offering Multi-
language interfaces, Bit-Locker and addition backup features.

 

[adsllxb9]

I'm looking at a new laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium and am worried
about the software compatibility with XP since I have a lot of XP
software. I really don't want to dole out huge bucks to upgrade my
software so how can I best avoid it (if there really are compatibility
issues)? I heard an 'ultimate' version exists. If so, what's the
upgrade costs to get to a better compatibility platform?

Thanks very much...

John

Windows 7 has a feature that emulates XP. Check it out in the chat
forums for Win 7

 

[Auric__]

Windows 7 has a feature that emulates XP. Check it out in the chat
forums for Win 7

Would that be "Windows XP mode"? *That* is just Virtual PC running XP in
emulation.

 

[Bill Baka]

I'm looking at a new laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium and am worried
about the software compatibility with XP since I have a lot of XP
software. I really don't want to dole out huge bucks to upgrade my
software so how can I best avoid it (if there really are compatibility
issues)? I heard an 'ultimate' version exists. If so, what's the
upgrade costs to get to a better compatibility platform?

Thanks very much...

John

For what it's worth I tried to set up a dual boot (xp and 7) on a drive
I had to put in as the primary master, and then moved it to the
secondary slave. I am running Linux on the primary master and windows
would not install because the file system was not NTFS. My BIOS allows
me to pick the boot drive when I hit an 'F8'. When I select the windows
drive 100GB for XP and 150GB for 7 it goes into a selection screen and
just calls XP some other operating system. 7 works just fine, but XP
hangs with the message that it can't find hal.dll. I even got the CD for
XP and manually inserted hal.dll but it is still dead.
As for compatibility issues, my HP scanner software tells me it is
incompatible with Windows 7, and their web site has no updates.
Just for clarity;
I have an ASUS K8N MOBO with 2.25GB of RAM which works very well with my
Linux. I need XP for certain things and I don't like Windows 7 but it is
the only one that will boot.
Virtual box is out since I tried to run both XP and 7 as guests under
the Linux (Ubuntu) and had no connection to the scanner or printer.
Any Ideas???
Bill Baka

 

[Bill Baka]

I'm looking at a new laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium and am worried
about the software compatibility with XP since I have a lot of XP
software. I really don't want to dole out huge bucks to upgrade my
software so how can I best avoid it (if there really are compatibility
issues)? I heard an 'ultimate' version exists. If so, what's the
upgrade costs to get to a better compatibility platform?

Thanks very much...

John

For what it's worth I have an H.P. scanjet 4890 photo scanner
(negatives) that tells me it is not compatible with "This version" of
windows. It does work fine in XP though, and HP is not updating the
software, as if I would buy anything from them again, no support.
Windows 7 does have a built in driver for the scanner itself but HP
seems to think that by not supporting the scanjet I will run out and buy
another. Never gonna happen.
Bill Baka