Ikabob wrote: > Well, I have now been informed that I cannot upgrade from Windows XPpro > to Win7 and still keep all of my existing programs. I'm not sure I > understood the process but it seemed very complicated. The problem seems > to be that I did not go to Win VISTA. > Can anyone give me a different explanation for why you can't go from > XPpro to 7? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. As garym says, you often need to uninstall your various programs and then re-install them after you upgrade the OS. Most programs should be compatible with Win7, but maybe you have some oddballs in there that aren't. Did the person who informed you that you couldn't upgrade say anything about _specific_ programs you have that will not run in Win7?
I'll take a slightly opposing view from garym on issue of the necessity of upgrading. Yes, WinXP will work as well two months from now as it does today. But Microsoft dropping its support is not entirely innocuous. Over its history WinXP has had tons of system vulnerabilities, and tons of MS updates to patch those vulnerabilities. When MS support disappears there will no longer be any patches to deal with new vulnerabilities. So I would be wary of connecting a WinXP computer to the internet after MS drops support. That's not to say I wouldn't do it at all -- I would just make sure I had other protective measures in place and pay closer attention to them than usual. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101240 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
