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HP Pavilion dv1000 SE Laptop Upgrade to Win 7 from XP w/SP3 ??
HP Pavilion dv1000 Special Edition Laptop
XP Home v.2002 w/SP3
Pentium M Processor 1.73 GHz.
795 Mhz. 0.99GB RAM
I'd like to get this system back to the excellent condition it was in when I purchased it almost 2 years ago. Having briefly returned it to its original owner, it came back loaded with bloatware and, I suspect, malware/viruses.
I can also practice on my own equipment worry-free and experience all of the tutorials and steps that were included to assist with my previous post, which I uncomfortably marked Solved just a moment ago.
I tried unsuccessfully to get a screenshot of the results of the Win 7 Upgrade Advisor for this laptop, but PrtScrn did not put anything onto the Clipboard for pasting into Paint, so I'll summarize the 4 results of the Advisor:
Win 7 custom install required
current graphics adapter won't support Win 7 (or be supported by Win 7)
Outlook Express no longer included
HP may be able to provide more info
If it's feasible to perform a clean install, I'd like to try, though first I'd like to run Avira from my thumbdrive and include online ESET and Panda Cloud before anything else. Also SFC?
I was not able to reorder the Boot Order so I could boot from my Avira thumbdrive.
I'm willing to boost the current RAM to its max if it will help installing/running Win 7...I think the max may be 4GB, where now I only have 1GB.
But first and foremost, can I realistically expect this system to be able to run Win 7? If not, I'll go to the next step.
Thank you!
sbuxman