Upgrading to Windows 7 – Part 3
Another advantage with Windows 7 is its ability to run smoothly on net books. Vista was a bit too bulky to run on such laptops and Microsoft was losing ground rapidly to Linux. They seem to have corrected that with the launch of Windows 7 and you will find that despite a slow processor, it is able to run much faster than some of the high powered Vista desktops.
If you have the XP on your notebook and want to do an upgrade, then it is better to do a clean install along with the Easy Transfer process. The process will take just a bit more than an hour and there would be no compatibility problems. You can make use of an external DVD drive to load the Windows 7 DVD if you wish rather than the USB flash drive as it can be time consuming and would require a lot of involvement from you.
You will find that the installation is not only smooth but all applications and software along with set profiles, Mozilla passwords, Open office templates, extensions and user accounts are all in place and this is confirmed through the “Easy Transfer Report” of Windows 7.
Any other utilities such as the Samsung ones that have not yet been released along with Windows 7 can also be addressed through helpful hints on the internet. You will find that they work very smoothly and are much faster than XP. The only compromise would be on one hour of battery life. You can also replace the 1GB RAM of the net book with a 2GB one to enjoy a significant improvement.
It is now well known that the more you use Vista, the PC slows down over time. So if you want to upgrade to the Windows 7 on your desktop, you only need to use the Easy Transfer route along with the guidelines suggested by Microsoft as mentioned earlier in this article and you can have even your old PC springing back to new life with the Windows 7. You will notice that the start up is much faster and all old applications also start up and run better.
Broadly to summarise, Windows 7 has the following advantages:
1) It is easy for usage and much faster than Vista.
2) The “peek” along with the “taskbar preview” functions makes life much easier to locate things on very crowded desktops.
3) The search box option is pretty fast as compared to the Vista Google Desktop route in order to locate programs and documents.
4) It is much easier to transfer files between computers in the same location.
Do ensure though that you use the clean install route as it can benefit your old computer and lead to an improvement in your net book functioning. Windows 7 is compatible with many of the old hardware as well as software and that definitely gives it the edge at the moment.
