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I Received the windows 7 disc a few days after the official launch, from the software4students site and after a few minor hiccups or as are IT dept put it "User Error" I have , I HOPE successfully installed this on the new drive, along with Windows 2007. Everything I had attached seems to have been intergrated into the software , Email Package found all my settings etc, even connected it's self to the Internet which I had problems doing on XP
Only gripe is that there is no Email package supplied (something to do with a problem with anti this / that or something) However this can easily be downloaded from MS , or you can install another, in my case it came with the 2007 package so no problems and it has IE8 as inbuilt which is naf.
One thing I think that should have been explained a bit clearer is that Yes you can upgrade from XP BUT it has to be done from a clean Install Loading XP on first and then running W7 as a new (custom)install and not the upgrade which is just for Vista users.
So at the moment I am happy with the results , brings the pc up to date a bit .
Larry