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  1. shinkansen1966
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    Got a Dell XPS 420, bought Nov 2007, and running on Windows Vista. This is in my bedroom.

    For the living room, recently bought a Dell Zino HD which connects to the television. This uses Windows 7 and I'm very happy with it.

    So now, I want to upgrade my Dell XPS 420 to run on Windows 7. I want to do this as Windows 7 appears to offers better home networking than previous OS. Currently, I use Windows Live Sync. Also, I rather prefer Windows 7 over Vista.

    On my Dell XPS vista machine, would much rather do a clean install than upgrade. Can the XPS machine cope with Windows 7 (Dell thinks not ) ? With a clean install, what about installing the drivers: network card, video card etc ?

    Thanks for any help...
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  3. zigzag3143
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    shinkansen1966 said:
    Got a Dell XPS 420, bought Nov 2007, and running on Windows Vista. This is in my bedroom.

    For the living room, recently bought a Dell Zino HD which connects to the television. This uses Windows 7 and I'm very happy with it.

    So now, I want to upgrade my Dell XPS 420 to run on Windows 7. I want to do this as Windows 7 appears to offers better home networking than previous OS. Currently, I use Windows Live Sync. Also, I rather prefer Windows 7 over Vista.

    On my Dell XPS vista machine, would much rather do a clean install than upgrade. Can the XPS machine cope with Windows 7 (Dell thinks not ) ? With a clean install, what about installing the drivers: network card, video card etc ?

    Thanks for any help...

    The only way to be sure your rig will run win 7 is to run the upgrade wizard, though I suspect it can.

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  4. shinkansen1966
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    Thanks for the advice. Apologies, again for the duplication. Not often I do that.
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