Windows 7 Upgrade

[bomberboysk]

No upgrade for me. Using XP Home SP3. There are no 7 drivers for my sound card, video card, chipset, printer, etc.

What sorta printer? Im running an old HP laserjet and there are drivers for it

 

[OvenMaster]

Epson C88+. I know that drivers for Vista are on the OS disc, but no clue if they're included with 7.
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/...=63059194&infoType=Downloads&platform=Windows

 

[mep916]

Technically, you won't be able to upgrade from "inside" the RC, but you can definitely upgrade from it.

With my upgrade disk, I just installed 7 x64 within (inside) my RC without any issues. Booted into the RC, inserted the disk, and upgraded that partition, despite the fact that I got a message to reactivate the RC and my install was not genuine. Got the black desktop and all. lol. No problems.

 

[Bodaggit23]

Nice. And they said you weren't going to be able to do that.

Well, they also said you needed an activated copy of Windows
to install from the Upgrade media too.

 

[Gareth]

Upgraded from Vista Home Premium to 7 Professional x64. Could not be any happier, absolutely FANTASTIC operating system =)

 

[Feuerfrei.x]

Im going to wait. Ive had mixxed reviews. I asked the iT techincians at my school if it was good or not - one said it was rubbish one said it was good so im confused now

 

[Gareth]

Its excellent, do not trust the one who said its rubbish =P

 

[mep916]

Nice. And they said you weren't going to be able to do that.

Well, they also said you needed an activated copy of Windows
to install from the Upgrade media too.

Yeah, I wasn't sure it would work out, but I had it up and running within 15 minutes.

 

[Enjoi]

I am dual booting Vista and Windows 7 RC at the moment. I have played with 7, and like it, but don't want to make the full switch until it has been out for awhile. I am one of those people that has never had a single complaint about Vista, so I am in no hurry to leave it.

 

[Bodaggit23]

I am dual booting Vista and Windows 7 RC at the moment. I have played with 7, and like it, but don't want to make the full switch until it has been out for awhile. I am one of those people that has never had a single complaint about Vista, so I am in no hurry to leave it.

+1 :good:

 

[typhoonblue]

win 7 just a optimize version of VISTA for user, if you used to XP that no need to upgrade your OS, maybe win 8 is a great changed, but if your machine is great and you want to reach good performace then upgrade win 7 64bit is better, I donot recommend use 32bit if upgrade win 7

 

[1up5dn]

Here is a very helpful link for those of you (like me) that are running the RC and want to upgrade to premium, etc.

Link

Hope this helps.