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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: JP Hernandez on October 07, 2012, 03:39:41 AM

Title: Should I upgrade from windows xp to windows 7?
Post by: JP Hernandez on October 07, 2012, 03:39:41 AM

Info:

ram at 1.0 GB
Hard drive at 80 GB
intel pentium 4
Current OS: Operating XP


Thanks

Title: Re: Should I upgrade from windows xp to windows 7?
Post by: reddevilggg on October 07, 2012, 04:04:26 AM

If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

So the answer is - 'If you want to' ......but i'd get more RAM first.

Title: Re: Should I upgrade from windows xp to windows 7?
Post by: blindhelpfultech on October 07, 2012, 09:43:15 AM

Run the windows 7 upgrade adviser that can be found at: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/upgrade-advisor
Make sure you backup anything you want too keep as windows xp to 7 is a clean install. Meaning you will have no data if you don't back it up. also the upgrade adviser can tell you if your ptrinter and other devices will work with windows seven. If you have all the devices plugged in at the time of the test, it will provide that information as well. If you do not want to upgrade ram stay with xp as xp works fine with 1gb, but windows seven works a lot better with more ram, even though it says 1GB is fine, I would not upgrade if I was unable to upgrade ram..