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Tazz Dan 06-24-2012 07:05 PM

I'm still running XP
 
And I'm a tight arse and want to upgrade to Windows 7. Where would be the best place for me to find a good torrent or something?

TNARICK,,, 06-24-2012 07:26 PM

Ya , ,, ive been wanting to do the same thing

VSG 06-24-2012 08:34 PM

Stop advertising, dick.

TNARICK,,, 06-24-2012 09:53 PM

What are you talking about?,,,,

Triple A 06-26-2012 10:12 AM

I don't know

Damn 06-26-2012 12:40 PM

www.amazon.com

Matchbox 06-29-2012 12:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tazz Dan (Post 3903799)
And I'm a tight arse and want to upgrade to Windows 7. Where would be the best place for me to find a good torrent or something?

You can't upgrade XP to Win7. It's only upgradable from Vista.
You'd have to back up all your data, find all the disks for your programs, reformat your HDD to 7 and then reinstall everything.

Or you could buy a new HDD and install 7 and use the XP drive as a secondary.

Another consideration is whether or not Win7 will even run on your XP computer as some hardware is incompatible.

Big Vic 06-29-2012 01:02 PM

XP 4 lyfe

#BROKEN Hasney 06-30-2012 02:18 PM

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Tazz Dan 07-01-2012 08:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matchbox (Post 3909026)
You can't upgrade XP to Win7. It's only upgradable from Vista.
You'd have to back up all your data, find all the disks for your programs, reformat your HDD to 7 and then reinstall everything.

Or you could buy a new HDD and install 7 and use the XP drive as a secondary.

Another consideration is whether or not Win7 will even run on your XP computer as some hardware is incompatible.

I had a chat with our Tech Bay guy at work and he doesn't seem to think it'll be an issue. He's upgrading my computer from 1GB ram to 4, and I have backed everything up ready for it. I figured talking to the guys who sell computers for a living at work was probably a better option than me fucking around with things that I have no knowledge on.

#BROKEN Hasney 07-02-2012 02:20 AM

What Matchbox meant was that there is no "upgrade" button. Semantics.

Tazz Dan 07-03-2012 12:12 AM

Yeah that means nothing to me.

#BROKEN Hasney 07-03-2012 06:35 AM

Just read that when Windows 8 launches this year, it will only be a $39.99 upgrade from XP/Vista/7 to it before Jan 1st. That might even make me go legitimate if I can get rid of fucking Metro.

Kapoutman 07-04-2012 02:44 PM

At that price, I think I'll go legit. Heard good things about Windows 8.

#BROKEN Hasney 07-04-2012 02:53 PM

The actual OS is great. The interface is the worst thing I have ever had the misfortune of using, mouse wise. Would be great with touch interface only.

Kapoutman 07-04-2012 03:55 PM

Isn't there a way to go back to the old desktop, though? I thought I saw that in a video demo.

#BROKEN Hasney 07-05-2012 01:34 PM

Kinda. Using a third party tool called ViStart makes it look like W7. Just gotta hope that Metro apps don't take off.


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