1. Windows 7 To Windows Xp
2. Installing Windows 7 Over Xp Does It Work Ok
3. How To Install Windows 7 On Xp Pc

Jun 15, 2009  telnetee, There's no reason that you should have to forsake an old drive as infected before or after installing Windows 7! If you don't currently having a functional antivirus solution, I'd recommend installing a popular free client, performing a full scan, and then emptying your Quarantine location. Mar 09, 2019  Installing XP over Windows 7 I had XP Pro installed on my pc. With no XP available. When in Windows 7 I saw an icon that said that there was hardware that had not been installed, so I clicked the icon to install it, only that resulted in a blue screen and now the start-up just keeps looping and I can't get the Advanced boot screen.

Are there specific items you truly dislike about Win 8? I have been using it now for 2 months and am very pleased with it. With just a bit of work, it is the same as Win XP or Win 7.

Use local accounts, not a Microsoft account and just go to the desktop instead of using the start screen menu. Creation of desktop shortcuts is quite easy. Seems to utilize memory better, better hard drive utilities, backups, etc. If you choose to switch to Win 7, using the full version, be sure you download and save to CD all the motherboard and CPU drivers and such (network driver NIC) before reformatting. Good luck with whatever decision you go with. I use a 37' HDTV as a monitor for my W7 rig:- Lian-Li PC-A70 Case, Corsair HX850W PSU, Asus Crosshair IV Formula board, AMD Phenom II 1090T 6 core processor clocked to 3857 MHz, 16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM @ 1866 MHz, Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240GB SSD running W7 Ultimate 64 bit ( as C: drive), 2x 2TB Raid 1 arrays ( i.e.

4x 2TB Hitachi HDDs ) plus 4.5TB other HDDs, Logitech LX 710 Wireless Keyboard and Mouse, Epson BX300F printer, and numerous hubs and peripherals. I also have an HDMI cable from the office to a 55' HDTV in the lounge, and just have to carry the keyboard and mouse through to have full control there.I love it, you would too. I wish you luck achieving anything similar with a Mac. There was a time when I figured that Win 8 would have some under the covers improvement and some tweaking to the GUI.

I was right about the first; horribly wrong about the 2nd. We got an awful GUI, designed to be best used by young children, chimps and pets who like to touch pretty icons on screen. The sad part is that underneath it is improved.

My big worry about going to 8; sure, I can tweak it to be usable again, but an exec wrote me last summer to say that MS will eventually block the ability to get around MUTRO. And then I'm stuck with an unusable OS. You are right about under the covers improvement. I have been using a nebook with a 9 inch screen and Intel Atom processor, since 2009. I like this machine for its small footprint and large storage (160 GB)!

On a whim, I upgraded the OS to Win 8Pro, as I had little to lose. Since the resolution of the screen is marginally less than what is required for Win 8, the tiles on the screen do not work. I use it in the desktop mode with most of the programs I had earlier, including MS Office. The positives first: the system boots up fast and the machine runs cooler. Networking is better, with this machine becoming visible to other devices at home. Finally, the OS is more stable than the Win 7 I used on a similar machine at home.

The negatives: I cannot access the App Store, due to the poor screen resolution. I believe there are ways of cheating the system into believing that the resolution is adequate. Would be trying those soon.

Bottomline is, I will keep Win 8! I also was frustrated with windows 8 at first but believe me in some aspects it is superior to windows 7.U have to give it more than a week. In a week I was also criticising it nd to me it took around a month to get familiar with it and enjoy all of it's features.Though as u said Windows 7 is still better in what it does than 8, I AGREE. The thing is this, if u can afford to lose some quality in work over specific tasks and get new features for it then u should try windows 8.Ex:- Windows 8 is slow while copying data on HDD(that's what most people uses today), but it has better booting time and also comes preinstalled with some specific task programs like PDF opener, which if installed separately will affect system performance.It's up to u where u want to go.

In my opinion stick with 7 if u r a power user like me:-0 if not then switch to 8 like most common dwellersEnjoy ur windows.Nd yes one more thing. Here some one said that XP is the best windows ever then I would sayWindows 98 is the best windows considering the quality of work done by it, in such small requirements and is still the most dependable windows OS if u are not using.net framework based programs. Consider it!! I see that several weeks ago you decided to bring out Windows 8.Unfortunately I can already see several drawbacks with this system. It is primarily a 'Touch-Screen facility', in other words, if you already have existing monitors you have several options, one being to upgrade your monitors as well, the other is to upgrade the O/S itself and ignore the on-screen prompts.Touch-Screen technology was developed for the 3G mobile phones; personally I do quyickly scoll through the various applications on that 'phone.

However I see problems arising here,;If you do get new screens then you are going to have a problem with dirt on those screens;If you don't get new screens you'll have the.problem of unwanted shorcuts on the screens. I have Windows 764 bit, and do not intend to change it.If I did change it, I would need to buy new monitors, maybe I'll do that in the future. I wouldn't bother to reinstall Windows 7 in any form, as it functions almost exactly the same as Windows 8, with the addtion of Pokki (downloadable for free at CNET. It even totally avoids having to look at the Windows 8 screen with all the boxes as it automatically brings up the computer on the desktop.

It's integration with Yahoo and Gmail is superb, just download the mini-app from the Pokki store and input your passwords and each is a click away. Caffe windows matlab youtube. Outlook is a bit clunky (you have to hit the button a couple of times). Pokki is really an outstanding little application and we've installed it on all our Windows 8 computers without a hitch. Shame I didn't see a way to enterprize it on our network, it's PC based so each machine required a separate install.

But, still it's a great freeware and saved me from having to do just what you suggested on multiple computers. Hope this helps. When Windows 8 first released, I downloaded a copy onto my 3 year old laptop, wiping out my previous Win 7 install.I gave it a good 3 month plus trial, only to come to the conclusion that the meager benefits it offered were best utilized on a tablet/touchscreen PC.and even then I questioned their value. In short, Win 8 is not a necessity.After that trial period, I dumped Win 8 and went back to Win 7.Win 7 will be supported for many a year to come, and if Microsoft gets its act together and changes Win 8 to better suit my needs, then I might switch back to Win 8.Otherwise, Win 7 rules my home.

If it isn't broke, don't fix it.Buy a retail copy of Win 7, install it, and live life happily ever after. The simple answer to 'How' is simply that Win 7 (or Vista or XP, etc.) is the windows that everybody has learned, grown up with and knows how to use. And it works, very well! Could there be something better? Sure, but Win 8 definitely isn't it.All the platitudes fit very well here, #1 being 'If it ain't broke don't fix it'.

Why on earth would anyone want to learn a new system from scratch after 15 years or so of using something that always worked fairly well and has gotten much, much better? There is nothing in Win 8 that jumps out at people as being any great improvement, and the negatives are apparent as soon as you turn on the computer. As to faster boot times, Win 7 is plenty fast enough, and if you need speed an SSD C drive will give a lot more improvement than Win 8.And I'm frankly, quite sick of all the gibberish from people saying install this, that or the other program and it will make Win 8 'almost' as good as Win 7. That's both absurd and insane. Just as it's nuts to tout all the advantages of Win 8 when there is not one feature that could not have been built into an upgrade of Win 7. I've yet to see the first person say they just can't live without a touch screen on their desktop or office computer. If MS needs a different OS for the touch screen feature, then fine, use Win 8.

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Just dont foist it off on the rest of us.If enough people abort the Win 8 monstrosity, maybe, just maybe, MS will come to it's senses and make Win 9 a version that people can recognize again. If not I'll be an Apple guy, much as the words catch in my throat.

Installing Windows 7 Over Xp Does It Work Ok

I remember people bemoaning the loss of DOS to Windows - I actually jumped in at windows 95 and was a die hard DOS fan until the world started to change and I suddenly realised one day that I hadn't used any dos windows for months, and didn't miss it - then to Windows 98 then to Windows 7 - now I am on Windows 8 which is hardly any different to Windows 7 except that it has an interface of the future bolted on as a front end. I have always regretted every change for the first month or so and then afterwards wondered how I could ever go back- There is only one sensible direction to go with technology and that isn't backwards. You have bought a system that has been built for Wiindows 8 the likelihood is that by reversing you will see some loss of performance - Window 8 even used almost wholly in '7 mode' is a lot faster than its predecessor. Once I did a couple of hours research to find the sort of programmes being discussed here my desktop looked as it did before BUT performed better. The add in tool also gave me a greater ability to customise the win 7 style desktop.

How To Install Windows 7 On Xp Pc

The only time I see Metro is when I make the choice to go into it - though I have to say still being able to access the charms bar when I want to is great.The two things holding me back from immersing in the metro experience is the lack of very good free apps for it and the lack of touch screens (I use dual monitors and can actually have metro on one screen and the old desktop on the other if I want to. I know that I shall be tempted into touch screens eventually so why not run with the system that is ready for it when I do - the early upgrade was a steal and I couldn't see the point of waiting until I 'needed' it if it could do all I wanted. I was still unsure at first and even kept a full iso image of my old win 7 installation thinking I would want to go back - did I - nah underneath the quirky new top interface is a solid system.I think I can almost guarantee that downgrading will be much harder work than a little bit of Win 8 touching up. That is assuming that you have the skills to make sure you have all the right win 7 drivers and so on, can afford a full copy of Windows 7 and don't mind chucking away what is a perfectly good operating system that you probably wont be able to re-install (as it is OEM)True I have only ever used pro versions of windows software as the home editions usually have important stuff left out and are less flexible to mess with so I cant say what windows 8 starter edition is like. I have found Windows 7 great, however I decided to take the low cost option to upgrade to Windows 8, that opportunity has now gone.Upgrading was not simple in that I needed to find out how to double boot to retain XP and some very old but expensive programmes.

The actual upgrade from Windows 7 was good this created a Metro icon for the Desktop that would take me back to my familiar Windows 7 Desktop. I found the other changes of use easy to adjust to.Before I upgraded I took an image of my Windows 7 plus XP system. I am glad I did because I am now back to Windows 7, not because I could not adjust but because my 2010 version accounting software would not run under Windows 8. A new version of the accounting app is just not cost justified.So I am back to Windows 7 with a low cost Windows 8 iso burnt to DVD for a future upgrade when my issue is resolved.I can see that a brand new system of Windows 8 would be the best way to go, as long as some incompatible software did not need to be installed.