Upgrade Vista to Windows 7 - Comments Page 1

Windows ME is the greatest operating system of all time!!!! Windows millennium edition 4 ever YEAH!!!! Window 7 just isn't in the same league as "Windows ME"

EDITOR'S NOTE: Jack, quit your day job NOW... you have a great career as a comedian in your future. :-)

hey bob; i was thinking of buying windows 7 early at a reduced price but for some reason kept putting it off.after reading your article on it, i decided to do it. somehow when i was going to the windows 7 site, i dicovered that DELL was offering it almost free to those who recently purchased one of their qualifying computers. YEA!! mine qualified, so i signed up and when they become available later on,they will notify me to contact them and so i can get my windows 7. because of that, i am going to buy you a tennis lesson. you see,if you were a just a little more on the ball, you would have mentioned that in your article and i would not have come close to missing it. thanks....ta-ta....leon

Anything is an improvement over Vista ;D I have XP but heard it was just a jazzed up version of 2000/me or both???

EDITOR'S NOTE: With apologies to Bill Clinton, that depends on what was meant by "just" and "jazzed". Both XP and Win7 are huge leaps UP from Windows ME.

For me the big question is whether I'll need to repurchase programs like Microsoft Office or Paint Shop Pro.

We just purchased a new laptop; are we still able to get 7 free do you suppose? I'm a big Windows fan. Thank you for any advice, or suggestions.
Your fan,Erica

I went from XP 32 bit to XP 64 bit when I got a motherboard with a dual core processor. I had to leave behind a certain amount of hardware, and some programs still on my hard disk would run, but can't be reinstalled.
When I wanted to upgrade to Vista, it turned out I couldn't "upgrade" because there was no "path" for a 64 bit to 64 bit upgrade. Right now I'm running both Vista 64 and Win 7 RC 64. Win 7 is smoother, but Office 2007 applications keep crashing. Apparently, Win 7 doesn't like some of my Outlook add-ins.
I also had a problem upgrading to Win 7 in that it didn't have a driver for my SIIG sound card. I reinstalled the Vista driver, and that worked.
I don't have a problem with UAC under Vista because I run it as an administrator. I know, that's a no-no. But I think it beats turning UAC off entirely.
I think people are going to be very surprised if they want to upgrade to a 64 bit version of Win 7, since a lot of hardware won't work, but if they stick with the 32 bit version, the process should be easier.

I just bought a new Dell laptop with 64 bit Vista Home Premium. Will I have a problem converting to Windows 7?

OOOhhhh get a Mac. I switched a year ago, can't believe how much easier computer life is now compared to Windows. I knew most of the work arounds with windows xp, but I don't need any now, just figuring out which features I want to use. Nothing like having quality around. And no more fear of upgrades, no more "lets wait till next year so they can get their act together".

If you have an older HP PC running Vista you can pre-order an upgrade to Windows 7 fro $50.00 from Amazon, Newegg, HP and a few others. I pre-ordered from Amazon and 7 will ship a few days after it is released. I opted for free shipping to keep the cost at $50.

I've had it with Windows. Buy buy buy buy buy and make MS even richer, but still don't get any problems resolved.
Windows 95 SE was cracking, stable, fast reliable, then thy changed it to the crud that was 97. Then Windows 2000 built on the NT core was even faster and more reliable yet with more features, but they forced the crud that was ME on people. Then eventually XP gets to SP 3 and is fast, reliable as you could wish for and has all the features you could want. Then they change it again to the crud that is Vista.
It's a money making cycle and I for one have been looking at iMac's and Linux compatible machines. Really guys, Windows has had it's day and has only a short life left in it. Spend your money wisely on Linux or Mac.
Bob you've a decent mag, think of getting out of Windows while you can.