Thank you so very much indeed to everybody who gave their advice and help to my question. I have taken everything you all advised on board and have learned that my Vista laptop is a 32 bit and that it is suitable for an upgrade to Windows 7. However, I will certainly take your advice Kevin to do a clean install and not an upgrade. Thanks again to all you great listers who are so terribly helpful. Kindest regards. Jean. On 24 February 2012 19:19, Kevin Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the biggest decision would be 32 or 64 bit. > > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Les Hardy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The requirement are almost the same. Windows 7 is only a service pack for vista. >> >> Windows 7 requirements are... >>     1 gigahertz (GHz) 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor >>     1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit) >>     16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) >>     DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver >> >>  Vista requirements are... >>     1 gigahertz (GHz) 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor >>     1 gigabyte (GB) of system memory (512 megabytes (MB) for Home Basic) >>     15 GB of available space (20 GB for Home Basic) >>     DirectX 9 graphics with WDDM and 128 MB of graphics memory (32 MB for Home Basic) >> >> >> >> >> >> On 24/02/12 18:40, Jean McCarthy wrote: >> > Hi. >> > >> > Can anyone on the list please advise me whether it is possible to >> > install Windows 7 on a laptop that is currently running Vista? >> > >> > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. >> > >> > Very many thanks in advance. Jean. >> > >> > -- >> > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanmccarthy36/ >> > >> > [email protected] >> > >> > >> > >> > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: >> > >> > Please refrain from posting commercial URLs and from discussing prices on the list. >> > >> > Remember to SNIP when replying. >> > >> > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> >> >> >> :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: >> >> Please refrain from posting commercial URLs and from discussing prices on the list. >> >> Remember to SNIP when replying. >> >> :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > -- > -------- > K. Ross > [email protected] > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Please refrain from posting commercial URLs and from discussing prices on the list. > > Remember to SNIP when replying. > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanmccarthy36/ [email protected]