Upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7?
I have an 8 year old Dell XPS computer with XP on it. Now that I am seeing the end of the road for XP, I have been thinking about my options. This computer, when it was purchased, was a very high end ...
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If you install Windows 7 in 32 bit mode you should have not problems at all. Many of the incompatibility issues between drivers for Win XP and Win 7 come up when Win 7 is installed in 64 bit mode - which your older PC may not support anyway.
If you want to be absolutely sure of compatibility, get a Win 7 in one of the two upper configurations (not the basic install version - not sure what they called them). This will give you XP mode on a virtual machine running along with Win 7 and a full install of Win XP SP3. You will be able to then run anything that Win XP would run - and go back and forth between the two OS while you are working.
We did not have any problems with drivers or software when we moved to Win 7 and can run software that MS wants you to believe is not compatible with Win 7.
If you want to be absolutely sure of compatibility, get a Win 7 in one of the two upper configurations (not the basic install version - not sure what they called them). This will give you XP mode on a virtual machine running along with Win 7 and a full install of Win XP SP3. You will be able to then run anything that Win XP would run - and go back and forth between the two OS while you are working.
We did not have any problems with drivers or software when we moved to Win 7 and can run software that MS wants you to believe is not compatible with Win 7.
