Vista or win7

Spam Fighter. Joined Nov 16, Messages 17, First question are you willing to upgarde all of the hardware including printers, scanners and etc? You will need at a minum of 2 gigs of ram on each machine. There is a lot of older hardware that is NOT suported by Vista. I have NOT upgrade to any Vista machine in a business world. These comments are based on the machines that I have delt with running Vista. I have now had my hands on at least 10 different machines.

The bottom line, still is, if it was built for XP or before forget it, buy new hardware. Joined Oct 1, Messages 5, No business migration here but, you've managed to make it 2. If there is no compelling reason to make that move now Also, what might be pertinent to business migration; reports are that XP can be run in virtual emulation in Win 7 RC.

If that works as well as it should then legacy software and hardware will still be usable even if its not currently compatible with Win 7. This feature should greatly ease the transitions from XP to Win7, though it does come with a couple of undesirable effects some bloat and increased resource requirement and of course has yet to be proven effective. Thanks for your reply.

We''re trying decide if we should install Vista first and then upgrade them to Win7 as I've heard the upgrade from Vista to Win7 is supposed to be a smooth transition. The idea is with all of the security issues that XP now seems to have, that it may be prudent to upgrade to Vista for security reasons.

The other question seems to be. Are the hardware requirements the same for Win7 the same as they are for Vista? It seems there's a specific chip set that is required to run XP mode. Thanks again. We are willing to upgrade the ALL hardware and software as needed but first checking to see if drivers will be available. Is it true that if Vista runs everything fine that Win7 would run everything fine as well? This new Control Panel applet also replaces the "Printers" window in Windows Vista; common printer operations such as setting the default printer, installing or removing printers, and configuring properties such as paper size are done through this control panel.

Device Stage provides a centralized location for an externally-connected multi-function device to present its functionality to the user. When a device such as a portable music player is connected to the system, the device appears as an icon on the task bar, as well as in Windows Explorer. Opening the icon presents a window that displays actions relevant to that device. Device status information such as free memory and battery life can also be shown. An overview of the multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7, including a virtual piano program, a mapping and directions program and a touch-aware version of Paint, was demonstrated at the All Things Digital Conference on May 27, A video demonstrating the multi-touch capabilities was later made available on the web.

In order to take advantage of the capabilities and unique performance characteristics of solid-state drives, Windows 7 will turn off Windows Disk Defragmenter, and will make use of the new SSD TRIM command to physically erase logically deleted data more aggressively. Furthermore, an installed version of Windows 7 can be booted and run from a VHD drive, even on non-virtual hardware, thereby providing a new way to multi boot Windows. The default disk partitioning structure in Windows 7 is to create two partitions: the first for booting, Bitlocker and running the Windows Recovery Environment and second to install the operating system.

Windows 7 has also seen improvements to the Safely Remove Hardware menu, including the ability to eject just one camera card at the same time from a single hub and retain the ports for future use without reboot; and removable media is now also listed under its label, rather than just its drive letter like it was in Windows Vista.

BitLocker brings encryption support to removable disks such as USB drives. Such devices can be protected by a passphrase, a recovery key, or be automatically unlocked on a computer.

You will now have a choice of Upgrade and Custom. Click Upgrade. You might see a compatibility report. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. By using this service, some information may be shared with YouTube.

Your character product key can be found on the disk holder inside the Windows package. Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0. If you use a fingerprint reader or another biometric device to access your computer, write down your password before upgrading, for you will need to log on using your password when you first log on after the upgrade. If you have a bit version of Vista, you can only upgrade to a bit version of Win7. You need to be connected to the Internet during Windows 7 installation to install the updates; however, you can still install Windows 7 without them.

Ensure your Vista computer is running Service Pack 1 or 2. Go here for more information on service packs. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. Submit a Tip All tip submissions are carefully reviewed before being published. Back up your data before you upgrade. You Might Also Like How to. How to. Nvidia just released new, better Win7 drivers this month, and promises more improvements to come.

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