Windows 7 compatability guide.

[lpbk2713]

Here's download from MicroSoft that will check to see if your machine is ready as is for Win 7.


{Click}

[pokerfan]

1. If you aren't sure your machine can run Win 7...

it probably can't. :P

[hobbit709]

2. The last thing I want to download from M$

is something that ostensibly checks my system and does who knows what else it doesn't tell me about. Just like Windows Genuine Advantage.
I just look at what they say are the minimum system requirements and double them if you want it to run smoothly.

Hell, I once saw a laptop with a 233MHz Pentium II and 64Mb RAM that had XP on it. It actually worked-took it about 7 minutes to boot to the desktop and the hard drive was working overtime swap filing.

[pokerfan]

3. Linux minimum requirements

Puppy Linux
CPU: 166MHz
RAM: 64 MB
Hard Drive: None

Ubuntu
CPU: 300MHz
RAM: 64 MB
Hard Drive: 4 GB

[hobbit709]

4. But I deal with people who have Windoze

That's how I make a quasi-living. My personal computers are more than capable of handling 7 but I'll probably only put it on one of them-the slowest is the laptop with a 2GHz X2 Athlon, my fastest is a 2.4 GHZ Phenom OC'd to 3.1 GHz. I'm running XP, XP X64 on two, Ubuntu 9.04, Linux Mint 7 and Mandriva 2009 on my systems.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

5. What a joke! My laptop's HP Quick Launch Buttons are NOT compatible

This laptop came out end of last year and made for Windows Vista!

HP Quick Launch Buttons Hewlett-Packard_Not compatible
The driver installed for this device is not compatible with Windows 7.





It didn't take me long to put Windows XP on it :evilgrin:

[Statistical]

6. One thing worth checking is HP website.

The Compatibility Wizard is based on info provided by OEM (HP in this case).
Sometimes the info they provide Microsoft is wrong and/or out of date.

Checking HP website might yield the elusive Win7 drivers for the quick launch button.
Then again HP may never make drivers available.