Changing from Windows XP to Windows 7

John,

It sounds like you need to keep WinXP. Win7 and Win8 are far superior OS to WinXP so you could dual boot the new OS with WinXP. Both OS can be on the same HD.

 

he should man up, and make the swap - if dualbooting eases the transition then well enough, but he must face the inevitable

 

Chrome Sturmen, I suppose what you mean by "man up" means to go ahead and spend a lot of money replacing older programs that continue to work just fine in XP. If so, you apparently have more money in your bank account than I do in mine. Regardless, beside the money issue I have considerable work and effort that I am afraid I am also going to lose. Thanks to everyone for their replies.

John

 

Case of user that knot all know the things needed to migratate to new os.

Same as case of person that do not work on auto not know how to make the transition to disk brake from the drum.

To say, it can maybe be done, but if user not know the how to, then cannot.

Payoff, in both car adn computer, to know is good. Else, oh scratch head and then be unhappy. Computer only another machine, and all machine need know-how to work on.

Also cheap to fix own car and own computer haha. Or as you say, without the money, what to do? That is the dilema.

 

JP:

The transition from XP to 7 will go somewhat smoothly. I mentioned earlier that the architecture between XP and 7 were not only 8 years apart but two vastly different OS's. Some of your software is simply going to have issues when you do the transition. I suspect what Chrome Sturmen meant by the man up comment was simply make the jump taking into account the caveats I just mentioned, and intelligently sort out the issues as you go. If your technician is as good as you say he/she should be able to advise you how specifically to prep for the upgrade. I understand your hesitation. I am an XP holdout myself and am going to linux from XP. Trust me my version of XP is more advanced then yours. I bought an another hard drive and an esata card with an external drive bay so I can easily boot from both. Another alternative is a piece of software from Sysinternals called disk2vhd. Use it to make a VHD out of your existing XP OS and run it as a virtual machine from within Windows 7. My point is you have options.

 

I think it should be over as soon as it stops receiving patches. Not long ago at all I thought like you too, but I've changed my mind. Unless there were a place I know I could find patches from people that were on point, reliable, and I could count on them just as I could MS on the 2'nd Tue. of every month... I'm upgrading to an OS that I can depend on.

The time to play around with setups you plan to use on Win7/8 in a VM is NOW... while you continue to use XP until it's EOL forces the change.