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I personnally think Windows 7 64 bit is the most user unfriendly version of Windows yet. All the tools I use to keep my computer running have different names and take time to find. Familiar icons have been changed. Permission are a terrible bugbear. All this of course to improve the security of a system that has more virus entry holes than ever.
However we are stuck with it and will need to adapt as software is now being written exclusive for this system. (the monopoly power of Microsoft)
If you intend to upgrade the first thing to do is to repartition the HDD to shrink your existing XP boot drive and make a new partition for the Win 7 system. Then install Win 7 as a dual boot system on the second partition. Then you can learn to operate it in bits like I am. I have been using Win 7 for 2 years now and still pefer XP. Particularly as much of my own utilities written for 16bit don't work. These include my accounting and address book programs.
Installing XP to computer that already has Win 7 on is possible but not a job for beginners. In this case virtualisation is the way to go.
The computer I am using at the moment Acer laptop AMD dual core with ATI graphics came with Win 7 64 bit installed. I managed to remove this and install XP before I reinstalled the original Win 7. However there are no XP drivers for the graphics so my XP is only good for running programs that don't work on Win 7.
I will say this for it. I have a two video editing programs that I did use in XP but they took upto three minutes to load and ran slowly. On the new laptop under Win 7 they load in 5 secs. and run at greatly increased speed.
Barry
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