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  #61  
Old October 26th 09, 12:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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I have an HP Compaq Presario C 500 laptop computer that came with
Windows Vista Home Basic installed. This has been upgraded to SP2. It
has a Intel Celeron M CPU 430 @ 1.73 GHz

I am contemplating buying a 3-pack of Windows 7 to install on my
desktop, my wife's desktop and my laptop computers. I'm not sure this
laptop will handle Windows 7, though.

It has 512 MB of RAM and 68.9 GB of hard disk space with 47.4 GB free,
presently. This is set up as a 32 bit O.S. I will probably do a clean
install and delete all files from this hard drive, after backing the
important stuff up onto a flash drive or CD.


Not sure if your laptop will handle x64 version of Windows 7, but I'm
running Windows 7 Ultimate on a laptop with a P4/3.2ghz CPU that is
hyper-threaded and 2GB ram and use MS Office 2007 for RFP's and
Proposals (some graphics in every document, lots of MS Excel sheets,
lots of MS Outlook emails) and I also manage 4 different firewall
products on it, with Symantec End Point Protection 11.5 installed.

The memory rarely goes above 1GB in use, and it's more responsive than
was Vista. I run the X32 version since my laptop won't do x64.

I would suggest that you upgrade your memory to at least 2GB, the drive
size should be fine, Win 7 will eat less than 10GB itself.

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  #62  
Old October 27th 09, 02:39 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Michael Dobony
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On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:08:23 -0400, SC Tom wrote:

"Michael Dobony" wrote in message
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On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:08:17 -0400, David B. wrote:

By definition, moving from Vista to XP is a downgrade, not an upgrade.


Lets see, XP is stable, Vista does random resets and lockups. XP runs just
about anything written in the last 7 years. Vista can't even run its own
bundled programs. XP is 2x faster than Vista. Since upgrading to XP last
Christmas XP locked up only about 5 or 6 times. From August to Christmas
prior to upgrading to XP, Vista locked up that many times a week. Not very
nice when trying to take notes at school.


Methinks you have more issues than the operating system. I haven't had XP
lock up that many times since I first installed it in 2001. And while I'm no
fan of Vista, I haven't had much trouble with it, just don't like the
slowness and the heavy feel of it. I just upgraded to 7 on my Vista
notebook. It's much faster and more responsive than Vista, but there are a
few things about it I'm not crazy about either.

SC Tom


When the same computer has mega problems on Vista and very few problems on
XP, the problem is Vista.
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Old October 27th 09, 02:39 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Michael Dobony
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On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:08:23 -0400, SC Tom wrote:

"Michael Dobony" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:08:17 -0400, David B. wrote:

By definition, moving from Vista to XP is a downgrade, not an upgrade.


Lets see, XP is stable, Vista does random resets and lockups. XP runs just
about anything written in the last 7 years. Vista can't even run its own
bundled programs. XP is 2x faster than Vista. Since upgrading to XP last
Christmas XP locked up only about 5 or 6 times. From August to Christmas
prior to upgrading to XP, Vista locked up that many times a week. Not very
nice when trying to take notes at school.


Methinks you have more issues than the operating system. I haven't had XP
lock up that many times since I first installed it in 2001. And while I'm no
fan of Vista, I haven't had much trouble with it, just don't like the
slowness and the heavy feel of it. I just upgraded to 7 on my Vista
notebook. It's much faster and more responsive than Vista, but there are a
few things about it I'm not crazy about either.

SC Tom


When the same computer has mega problems on Vista and very few problems on
XP, the problem is Vista.
  #64  
Old October 27th 09, 12:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
SC Tom[_3_]
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"Michael Dobony" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:08:23 -0400, SC Tom wrote:

"Michael Dobony" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:08:17 -0400, David B. wrote:

By definition, moving from Vista to XP is a downgrade, not an upgrade.

Lets see, XP is stable, Vista does random resets and lockups. XP runs
just
about anything written in the last 7 years. Vista can't even run its own
bundled programs. XP is 2x faster than Vista. Since upgrading to XP last
Christmas XP locked up only about 5 or 6 times. From August to Christmas
prior to upgrading to XP, Vista locked up that many times a week. Not
very
nice when trying to take notes at school.


Methinks you have more issues than the operating system. I haven't had XP
lock up that many times since I first installed it in 2001. And while I'm
no
fan of Vista, I haven't had much trouble with it, just don't like the
slowness and the heavy feel of it. I just upgraded to 7 on my Vista
notebook. It's much faster and more responsive than Vista, but there are
a
few things about it I'm not crazy about either.

SC Tom


When the same computer has mega problems on Vista and very few problems on
XP, the problem is Vista.


Not necessarily.

  #65  
Old October 27th 09, 12:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
SC Tom[_3_]
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"Michael Dobony" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:08:23 -0400, SC Tom wrote:

"Michael Dobony" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:08:17 -0400, David B. wrote:

By definition, moving from Vista to XP is a downgrade, not an upgrade.

Lets see, XP is stable, Vista does random resets and lockups. XP runs
just
about anything written in the last 7 years. Vista can't even run its own
bundled programs. XP is 2x faster than Vista. Since upgrading to XP last
Christmas XP locked up only about 5 or 6 times. From August to Christmas
prior to upgrading to XP, Vista locked up that many times a week. Not
very
nice when trying to take notes at school.


Methinks you have more issues than the operating system. I haven't had XP
lock up that many times since I first installed it in 2001. And while I'm
no
fan of Vista, I haven't had much trouble with it, just don't like the
slowness and the heavy feel of it. I just upgraded to 7 on my Vista
notebook. It's much faster and more responsive than Vista, but there are
a
few things about it I'm not crazy about either.

SC Tom


When the same computer has mega problems on Vista and very few problems on
XP, the problem is Vista.


Not necessarily.

  #66  
Old October 27th 09, 01:27 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Bob I
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Default Laptop upgrade to Win 7



Michael Dobony wrote:

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:08:23 -0400, SC Tom wrote:


"Michael Dobony" wrote in message
.. .

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:08:17 -0400, David B. wrote:


By definition, moving from Vista to XP is a downgrade, not an upgrade.

Lets see, XP is stable, Vista does random resets and lockups. XP runs just
about anything written in the last 7 years. Vista can't even run its own
bundled programs. XP is 2x faster than Vista. Since upgrading to XP last
Christmas XP locked up only about 5 or 6 times. From August to Christmas
prior to upgrading to XP, Vista locked up that many times a week. Not very
nice when trying to take notes at school.


Methinks you have more issues than the operating system. I haven't had XP
lock up that many times since I first installed it in 2001. And while I'm no
fan of Vista, I haven't had much trouble with it, just don't like the
slowness and the heavy feel of it. I just upgraded to 7 on my Vista
notebook. It's much faster and more responsive than Vista, but there are a
few things about it I'm not crazy about either.

SC Tom



When the same computer has mega problems on Vista and very few problems on
XP, the problem is Vista.


No, actual the problem would be the person who configured it.

  #67  
Old October 27th 09, 01:27 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Bob I
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Default Laptop upgrade to Win 7



Michael Dobony wrote:

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:08:23 -0400, SC Tom wrote:


"Michael Dobony" wrote in message
.. .

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:08:17 -0400, David B. wrote:


By definition, moving from Vista to XP is a downgrade, not an upgrade.

Lets see, XP is stable, Vista does random resets and lockups. XP runs just
about anything written in the last 7 years. Vista can't even run its own
bundled programs. XP is 2x faster than Vista. Since upgrading to XP last
Christmas XP locked up only about 5 or 6 times. From August to Christmas
prior to upgrading to XP, Vista locked up that many times a week. Not very
nice when trying to take notes at school.


Methinks you have more issues than the operating system. I haven't had XP
lock up that many times since I first installed it in 2001. And while I'm no
fan of Vista, I haven't had much trouble with it, just don't like the
slowness and the heavy feel of it. I just upgraded to 7 on my Vista
notebook. It's much faster and more responsive than Vista, but there are a
few things about it I'm not crazy about either.

SC Tom



When the same computer has mega problems on Vista and very few problems on
XP, the problem is Vista.


No, actual the problem would be the person who configured it.

 




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