Upgrading from XP to Windows 7 - Before you start

Pt. 3 of 8 | 1:50 |

Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7

Tuesday October 20, 2009

When considering

upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7

, you'll need to do some fact-finding first. What type of processor do you have?

Is your Windows XP machine Windows 7 capable

? Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan runs through the checklist to get you started in this tutorial.

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- Before you start you're going to want to check some things.

- You'll want to download Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to make certain your PC can run Windows 7.

- If you're already running a pre-release version of Windows 7 your PC should be fine for running the release version.

- To check the state of your processor download SecurAble

- This will tell you whether you can run a 64-bit version of Windows 7 or not.

- If you want to transfer settings you'll want to download Windows Easy Transfer for Windows XP

- You'll also want to backup programs and data because these will not be migrated.

- We'll look at backup in the next segment.

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