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| From | "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.laptops |
| Subject | Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? |
| Date | 2011-07-10 00:43 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ivbe6f$4ls$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <X5idnekgKtTxZYXTnZ2dnUVZ5rGdnZ2d@giganews.com> |
On 7/9/2011 7:55 PM, ghelf wrote: > The original machine came with XP professional installed. The hard drive > crashed and I have no recovery disks. I've got the new HD installed and > I'm thinking, instead of buying and installing XP professional, maybe I > should just go with Window 7. Is this a bad idea? The laptop is a > HP/Compaq 6501b. Lou is correct... HP doesn't support Win7 on that model, but then, you're out of warranty anyway, so they won't support anything for you. However, I installed Win7 on my DV6000 series laptop (HP also does not support Win7 on that machine), and it actually sped my system up compared to the original Vista installation. I've only got 1.5MB in my system. The Vista drivers will work for any hardware than Windows 7 doesn't recognize automatically. When I did my DV6000, I downloaded all the drivers I might need onto a flash drive and installed anything that Windows 7 didn't.
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Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-07-09 17:55 -0700
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? Pen <nospam@spam.none> - 2011-07-09 22:28 -0400
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-07-09 21:27 -0700
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-07-10 12:14 -0500
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-07-10 04:44 +0000
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? lmarco@panix.com (Lou Marco) - 2011-07-10 04:46 +0000
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-07-10 00:43 -0500
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 00:22 -0700
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 05:09 -0700
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? "Ryan P." <rdeletepaque@wi.rr.comm> - 2011-07-10 17:39 -0500
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 23:15 -0700
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? "Ryan P." <rdeleteyannewguy@gremovemail.com> - 2011-07-11 12:45 -0500
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-07-11 21:01 -0700
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 23:57 -0300
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-07-10 22:18 -0700
Re: Installing Window 7 on a 4 year old laptop question? mike <spamme9@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 23:49 -0700
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