Windows 7 Upgrades
I’ve got Windows 7 Pro on my older desktop PC. It installed with only one hitch. The Linksys WMP54G PCI wireless network adaptor doesn’t work on 64bit Windows 7, at least not using the drivers on the Linksys website. I hooked up my Verizon MiFi card, waited for the drivers to auto-install, and got online. Windows immediately installed drivers for the card and I was go. The desktop is an older AMD Athlon 64 4200 with 2 gigs of RAM and a nVidia 6800gt. It runs fine. Interestingly enough, I installed the upgrade version over Windows 7 RC1 with no activation problems. It was the student copy digital download which I burned after converting to ISO.
I’ve ordered a 160 gig, 2.5” 5400 rpm drive for Christina’s laptop. It’s 20% faster, has 4x the cache, and 2x the space. I’ll put her old 80 gig XP drive in my external enclosure and use a hack to do a clean install. This way, I don’t have to worry about losing her data, and if she’s not happy with the Windows 7 experience, I can just pop her old HD back in.