DELL M90 XP-PRO FRESH OS INSTALL to WIN 7 PRO
Looking for someone that has done a FRESH OS INSTALL to their DELL PRECISION M90 XP PRO LAPTOP to the WIN 7 PROFESSIONAL operating system. There was someone on here a few months back that did this ...
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You're not going to find many posts on this topic because most people did the upgrade from XP to Win 7 many years ago. I suggest you use Google to search the web rather than expecting to find answers on this forum.
What I do recall about the upgrade is that Microsoft did not provide a direct upgrade path since they expected users to have gone to Vista before going to Win 7. As a result, they did not provide a way to keep your applications installed; you would have had to re-install them. I got around that problem by buying a 3rd party program that handled the installation and eliminated the need to re-install applications. I have no idea whether or not such programs still exist.
I have to question why you would bother to install Win 7 on an old computer at this point anyway. Like it or not Win 7 is being replaced by Win 8.1/9 and it seems pointless to go through all that effort again. Furthermore, whatever computer you have XP installed on is "antiquated" by computer standards and I question why you would want to spend any money at all upgrading it JMO.
What I do recall about the upgrade is that Microsoft did not provide a direct upgrade path since they expected users to have gone to Vista before going to Win 7. As a result, they did not provide a way to keep your applications installed; you would have had to re-install them. I got around that problem by buying a 3rd party program that handled the installation and eliminated the need to re-install applications. I have no idea whether or not such programs still exist.
I have to question why you would bother to install Win 7 on an old computer at this point anyway. Like it or not Win 7 is being replaced by Win 8.1/9 and it seems pointless to go through all that effort again. Furthermore, whatever computer you have XP installed on is "antiquated" by computer standards and I question why you would want to spend any money at all upgrading it JMO.
