Upgrading to Windows 7

isplumm

Hi,

I have Vista 64 bit on my PC (Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.20 GHZ, 2 GIG RAM)

I have been thinking abouting buying a new PC, but wandered whether it might be better to upgrade to Windows 7.

Sometimes I find that the PC can be quite slow - I only use it for Office / Internet browsing / occassional games like Football Manager - not really into other games. Also use it for photo editing - use Paintshop pro a lot.

Do you think it is worth me upgrading to Windows 7.

Thanks Mark

23n1th

An upgrade to 7 will be better I think. Just not the starter edition which is rubbish with a capital "piece of crap". Having said that if you're sure you've not got an infection its probably cheaper to upgrade the ram.

Evilm

Its a much better OS and I found it worth doing. I did upgrade the RAM from 2GB to 3GB at the same time to make it faster which only costed me around £40.

Donnie

It doesn't cost anything but time to try it. You get thirty days(extendible if needed) to evaluate the OS before you need to purchase a licence, to see if it suits. Just clone or reverse clone your current drive and then install Windows 7.

usignuolo

Don't know who your ISP is, but if it is tiscali and you have one of their usb ADSL modems, be warned it won't work with Win 7, you will have to upgrade to a network router.

Lincoln_Imp

Another 2 gig of Ram is worth the upgrade and i would certainly go to Windows 7 ..IMO Vista is a pile of crap ,slow as hell to start up and shut down etc and not very good inbetween

Recently put windows 7 on mine and its now one hell of a lot faster

John_Gray

If you bought a new PC you would find it very difficult to get anything other than Windows 7 on it!

Upgrading from Vista to XP could cost you £82-£123 (from Amazon), depending on which version of Win7 you go for...

JasX

usignuolo wrote: »

Don't know who your ISP is, but if it is tiscali and you have one of their usb ADSL modems, be warned it won't work with Win 7, you will have to upgrade to a network router.

what utter garbage, please can the (self confessed) technically inept stick to asking advice rather than trying to give it on subjects they have already told us they know nothing about.....

Back on topic, if you make sure you get a RETAIL version of windows 7 rather than OEM the license allows you to sell it on so if you do later upgrade to a machine that comes with windows7 pre-installed you can sell on the old copy for about 60% what you paid for it on ebay (once you've uninstallled it of course)

another alternative is restoring your existing PC to its factory state by reinstalling vista to give it a good clean out and speed it up

bat999

JasX wrote: »

another alternative is restoring your existing PC to its factory state by reinstalling vista to give it a good clean out and speed it up

That's my advice too - in this case.
:cool:

kwikbreaks

JasX wrote: »

what utter garbage, please can the (self confessed) technically inept stick to asking advice rather than trying to give it on subjects they have already told us they know nothing about.....

In fact it's probably correct albeit even more probably irrelevant. I saw mention recently that Tiscali are not providing Win 7 drivers for their ancient USB broadband modem although as there were presumably Vista drivers for them I would have thought they should still work.

That said the sooner USB modems are confined to museums the better.

fwor

JasX wrote: »

what utter garbage, please can the (self confessed) technically inept stick to asking advice rather than trying to give it on subjects they have already told us they know nothing about.....

Steady on, old chap! That's a teeny bit harsh isn't it?

The other thread may have been a bit muddled (e.g. calling a USB based modem an "internal modem") but the message is essentially correct. Anyone who has a USB-based broadband modem (and that applies to many ISPs, not just Tiscali/TalkTalk) is likely to find that it won't work under Win7, because the original manufacturer is unlikely to retrospectively write Win7 drivers for it.