You have to watch out - occasionally, certain web-site download pages will
'detect' which OS you are running and not give you a choice over the
OS-specific version you receive when you click on the 'download' link on a
page (Microsoft does this allot).

At other times you will be given a choice of different OS versions
(platforms) that a program has been designed to work on. - So be attentive
to exactly what you are downloading, and, if necessary, look for a link
titled "System Requirements" - just to be sure....

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Jackson" wrote in message
...
I want to buy a portable with win7. I would like to keep it
off the net until I install a few programs: ZoneAlarm
firewall, Panda Cloud security, Spyware Blaster and perhaps
a few more.

Will this scheme work? On my XP (MCE), I will download the
programs, and instead of having them run and install, I'll
save them to a finger drive and execute then on the new
portable win7.

Will this work? Or is there a problem with downloading
under XP and installing under Win 7.
Jack from Taxacola (formerly Pensacola), FL
dele XXX