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Did my XP to Windows 7 upgrade yesterday = couple surprises - anemone

Posted: Aug 20, 2014

First, I had assumed that a Microsoft Word/Office Starter would be included -- it's not.

I'd never done an upgrade before (late adopter/new machines) so that was an unwelcome surprise. I found Notepad and Wordpad under asscessories (and StickyNotes) but initially thought I had no word procesising at all.

The Windows 7 OEM Home Edition came with IE8 (with Bing and other trash annoyances) but did not come with Hotmail/Outlook which had to be downloaded.

Along with Opera which I use on my desktop as a second browser since the IE version I have to use for work does not support lots of things and is hopeless with videos.

It went smoothly -- except I had to find and download drivers for my quite old notebook and I ended up just deleting a bunch of videos (I needed disk space and couldn't figure out how to store them on a memory stick -- these are likely on my external hard drive) -- I suddenly didn't have enough memory to import my saved files (Easy Save utility was easy) -- so, all in all, not difficult but took about 3-4 intense hours -- only a couple hours actually downloading/uploading Windows7 -- with some confusion about partitions and need for more memory and endless downloading -- you have to be connected to the internet during the entire installation ... so far it's rejected my entry of the Key Code ...

And that's all I know. The extra money to replace Office is an argument in favor of just buying a new machine -- unless, of course, if you actually need an OLD version of Office/Windows /Word. Happy trails.

New machings do not come with Office anymore, do they? - compuDunce here.

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I bought a refurbished computer, tower only, loaded with Win 7. I already had MS Office 2007 for a year but never used it until XP went kaput. I found Outlook for my email in that pack of software. Takes getting used to.

Mine didn't (a couple years ago)sm - Anemone

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It came with "Office Starter" which has a stripped down less-features Word and Excel (maybe more)
It would not surpise me either way

I downloaded Office 2013 on my desktop and hate it -- it's slow and keeps needing extra clicks before it will, for instance, open a document ... I will spend time trying to find how to speed it up -- but as an old WordPerfect user, I'm stunned to say it's even worse -- oh Windows 7 does have Media Center, but not WinVideo which I preferred ...

XP upgrade - km

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After spending a month of transitioning my XP files/software to a Windows 7 computer, with problem after problem encountered, my last quest was to have the EHR system installed by the account's IT dept. During the process, I'm on the phone with the tech and telling him about my XP transition woes, and he says, "Oh, you could have continued to use your XP, our system will still allow it, you just needed to have a good virus protector"). Sigh

It was inability to upgrade my internet explorer ... - anemone

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to something more compatible with what I use my laptop for ... watching netflix and other videos, and listening to the radio .. and constantly wondering if problems encountered were due to XP ...

Today, day #2, my Microsoft updates were over 100 and took over an hour -- loading and then installing after reboot --

It's done and that's fine... I'd turned off the automatic updates after install (during which it allegedly "checked for updates") ... I just wanted to prepare others who might be similarly dismayed.

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