Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade
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Software Reviews of Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade
Customer Review: Worthwhile upgrade
Summary: 5 Stars
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Awesome upgrade, October 29, 2009
I knew from the day that I installed the Windows pre-beta copy of Windows 7 that I received at a Microsoft event almost a year ago that Windows 7 was going tos bea huge improvement over Vista and XP. The first machine that I installed it on was a Lenovo T43 laptop. This machine could not reasonably run Vista (from a clean install)...I could not even surf the web on it. I installed a clean version of 32-bit Win7 on this machine and it turned it into a new machine. I did not have to download a single driver to get it to work and the whole install took less than a half an hour. Now this machine is perfectly functioning and I can use it to surf the web and stream youtube videos, etc. If you want to take full advantage of all the graphical elements in Windows 7 you will need more hardware power, but the point is that Windows 7 tends to upgrade your machine because of all the incremental performance enhancements that were made to the operating system.
I have installed Windows 7 on probably about 20 machines in the last year and I have not had any issues with it not installing drivers. That is good because I suggest you do a clean install. When I decided to upgrade my office machine back in August I used the File and Setting Transfer Wizard to back up all my programs and settings to a external drive and then did a clean install, then restore my programs and settings. This worked better than I expected it would. Almost everything I needed was where it should have been. The few things that were missing still could be found on my hard drive. I ran into one problem where I tried to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. There was a problem late into the install process that force the Windows 7 install to be rolled back. It is due do some driver/service/hardware not acting the way it should that causes this, but it is happening to a few people out there I know. The good thing is that if there is a problem like this your original OS is restored perfectly.
There is not a lot of new features in the operating system. Some of my favorites are the new mobile broadband (cellular) integration into the wireless network user interface. You don't have to install a cumbersome application from the cellular card maker anymore (if you have a card that supports the new driver model) and you cellular driver doesn't install all the extra COM ports. Also, I really like how they handle the taskbar when you have more than one of the same application running. When you click on it you get a small screenshot of the application (if you have the aero theme support, otherwise it is more textual). This also works great with IE, because all the tabs are show no matter how many instances of IE are running at the same time. I hated trying find tabs if you have multiple instances of IE running that multiple tabs open in each of them...this problem is fixed now. Finally, XP mode is a nice feature that you can have with a little setup work. It allow you to run a virtual XP machine inside Windows 7. It takes a little work to setup and doesn't run you application as fast as they would natively. You need a faster CPU and extra memory if you plan on using this a lot. But, hopefully the average user doesn't need to use this.
So far, I have not found any application that ran on Vista that don't run on Windows 7.
Also, if you plan on using more than 3 GB of RAM you need to buy a 64-bit version of Windows 7.
Hope this helps.
Customer Review: XP Pro to Windows 7 Pro a snap
Summary: 5 Stars
I upgraded my new Toshiba tablet from XP Pro 32-bit to Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. I did a wipe since it was a new laptop. It was by far the best Windows upgrade experience I've had. I did have to boot from the DVD but after finding how to change the priority on the laptop it worked great. Even more surprising was how well the on-line updates worked after the upgrade completed. So far I am pretty impressed with Windows 7.Customer Review: my review not posted previously
Summary: 1 Stars
It seems that Amazon only posts the majority of reviews that sell software. My previous review was fair and true. It is not posted. You shouldn't only post the page long reviews that praise Windows 7 and look like they are written by Microsoft employees. Regarding comments that doing a clean install and it is the only way to go is silly. It was sold as an upgrade and it certainly is not that for the majority of users.Customer Review: Not installing
Summary: 1 Stars
I have a Windows Xp System laptop Compaq,
I put my Disc in & it wont install it keep saying (your computer cant run this version of windows. you need an installation disc thats compatible with your computer for more information, check your computer's system, what should I do ??? Im stuck. I have Installed windows XP Professional week ago. I turned my PC off & loaded Windows 7 Disc in a Partition mode & it wont let me, It sais Failed put my Operating disc into the PC 3 steps repair. but I cant install Windows 7 Professional & I payed 200 dollars help elliot2698 at yahoo com
Customer Review: Windows 7 Upgrade obtained from Amazon
Summary: 1 Stars
I gave it one but it should be a zero. First the instructions that are in the package are WRONG!!!!. The instructions state Step 1; Turn on your PC. Step2: When you get to the Windows desktop, insert the Windows 7 installation disc. Setup should launch automatically, if it doesn't just; click the Start button; Click Computer or My Computer; Open the Windows 7 installation disc on your DVD drive and then double click setup.exe Step 3: On Install Windows page click install now and follow the instructions. IF YOU DO THIS THE INSTALL HANGS UP AT 27% OF EXPAND FOLDERS AND DOES NOTHING MORE. What you need is a DVD Drive that is bootable and set your BIOS page accordingly. It will install then, however when I selected the start menu the whole computer froze up and I could nothing as nothing responded. I could not shut down the computer except by doing a hard shutdown. The computer would not restart correctly or from the Windows disc. I reinstalled Windows XP as I need an operational computer. This was a five days of frustration. Hopefully Amazon will issue a RMA. What I can tell this was worse then Vista. I will stay with XP until Microsoft get its act together. By the way, I did use Windows 7 Advisor and should not have had a problem. Dell XPS 600, 3G Dual core processor, 2G Memory, 1T Hard drive, got Laplink PC mover updated drivers for sound, and others were current. ETC.