No Problem Les, I was told that Win 7 was built on a completely different base than anything windows had done before, and since someone else made that same statement on this list I wanted to get to the facts of the matter. I guess I'm just curious by nature. Warmest regards, Jack ( P.S. I Will be 80 this year So I guess I can be considered an old fool also LOL) . -----Original Message----- From: Les Hardy Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 3:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [COMPUTERS] Installing windows 7 on a Vista laptop Jack, Please ignore it. I should not have said it. Put it down to ramblings of an old fool. Les Hardy On 24/02/12 23:44, Jack wrote: > (Windows 7 is only a service pack for vista.) would you please give a > reference for this statement > TIA Jack > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Les Hardy > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [COMPUTERS] Installing windows 7 on a Vista laptop > > 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 > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > 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

Windows 7 is actually Windows NT version 7 as XP was WinNT 5 and Vista was WinNT 6. I started using the NT platform with WinNT 3.51... Back in the mid 90's... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 7:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [COMPUTERS] Installing windows 7 on a Vista laptop No Problem Les, I was told that Win 7 was built on a completely different base than anything windows had done before, and since someone else made that same statement on this list I wanted to get to the facts of the matter. I guess I'm just curious by nature. Warmest regards, Jack ( P.S. I Will be 80 this year So I guess I can be considered an old fool also LOL) . scribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message