George, That not correct. Vista and Win7 are both NT6. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are NT6.0 Win7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are NT6.1 Win2000 is NT5.0 XP 32bit is NT5.1 XP 64bit is NT6.2 Les Hardy On 26/02/12 00:35, George Elting wrote: > 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 > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > 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 >

Ok... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Les Hardy Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [COMPUTERS] Installing windows 7 on a Vista laptop George, That not correct. Vista and Win7 are both NT6. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are NT6.0 Win7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are NT6.1 Win2000 is NT5.0 XP 32bit is NT5.1 XP 64bit is NT6.2 Les Hardy On 26/02/12 00:35, George Elting wrote: > 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 >

Sorry for the typo. XP 64bit is NT5.2 (not 6.2) Les Hardy On 26/02/12 06:52, Les Hardy wrote: > XP 64bit is NT6.2