Win 7 updgrade from Win XP on X61

I have been thrilled with my 2 1/2 year old X61s running WinXP Pro but need to upgrade it to Win7. Will I run into any problems (X61 drivers not available for Win7, etc) when or after I perform the upgrade?

No, it will be a smooth transition. Just make sure that you have 2GB RAM at the very least, and enjoy!
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Slow applications start from win 2012 file server using win 7 workstations

I hope someone can help me with why applications are slow to load i have replaced a 8 year old server running win 2003 and replaced it with dell t620 running win 2012 r2 it is like 20 times faster but it is slower than the old server. the office has
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Hi,
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Can I set up my Macbook Pro to boot to Win 7 from an external drive?

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I know it's odd, but I have programs that won't run in 64 bit windows 7 but work fine in 32 bit win 7.
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Upgrade from win 8.1 pro to win 8.1 enterprise without loosing all settings & programs

I would like to upgrade from win 8.1 pro to win 8.1 enterprise without loosing all my current settings and programs...
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I think this design by default, you can refer to the link below for the statements:
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Can't install Win 7 from USB with Boot Camp - please help

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I'm going crazy trying to install Win 7 from a USB using Boot Camp.
I've got a 13" MacBook (Aluminum) with 6GB RAM (trying to get to 8GB, but that's a different issue), 500GB HDD, running 10.7.4.
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Lion has been out and most threads here deal with 10.7. and BCA 4.0.x
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Satellite C850 - downgrade from Win 8 to Win 7

Epilogue:
Ok, so I've tried my best. I realise there are a few nice things about Win8 but like a ginger stepchild I just can't accept it as part of my life. I've had the laptop for 6 months now and regardless of changes I make I just keep on coming back to the fact I am trying to force Win 8 into the way Win 7 works which is daft when Win 7 is available. The only real reason I have held back is that Win 8 was the pre-installed OS (Toshiba should really review that decision, it's a horrible OS for anything other than casual tablet use and effectively cripples their hardware). However the time has come, I simply can't continue. Win7 must return to the throne.
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Anyway, preamble aside, I have a couple of questions regarding the "downgrade". First off I have used the Toshiba 'Recovery Media Creator' to create the backup disks (which I presume return the laptop to the "out of the box" state) and backed up any important data. I have Windows 7 on a bootable USB stick (A legal copy too - oh, how decadent!).
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YOU! I NEED YOU! In a Kitchener fashion (if you don't know what I mean, google Kitchener), I need you to tell me if I am being an idiot. Not about the "downgrade" as that is possibly the most intelligent thing I will do with this laptop - Win 8 is so frustratingly awkward that I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't the first Operating System diagnosed with a personality disorder - the thing I need people to tell me is whether I have missed anything out on my "return of zen" checklist. Is it really just BIOS, USB boot (with SATA drivers?), delete partition(s), create new unified partition then finally install the new OS? Does that all sound about right or am I going to be stuck half way through only to find I've forgotten to change someting leaving my laptop fubar'ed?
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Win 7 over Win 8, need assistance.
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I've given Win8 all the chances in the world, but as MS seem determined to annoy developers by hiding the simplest of stuff behind 3 layers of s**t while at the same time lifting their skirt to tablets and mobile devices then I honestly don't see the point in continuing to fight what is a badly misjudged and poorly implemented mish mash of 7 and 8 when 7 is considerably better for developers.
People might like 8, I'm not knocking them, but I've been using operating systems since the early 80's (yes, sadly, I am that old) and very few have been as frustrating as 8 - it's not that it can't do the stuff I want, it's that it's hidden away making the whole experience disappointing and time consuming.
So, that aside, I can confirm that I am now on Win 7, although it was not without it's temporary problems. Let me explain...
I made a backup, switched UEFI off and put a USB key containing windows install into the machine. All is as normal, booting up hitting the setup, selecting the install location until I am greeted with a drive that has maybe 4 partitions on it, one of them being the Toshiba backup the rest being Win 8 and the UEFI/secure boot malarkey.
I deleted all the partitions except the backup one with the assumption I could then create a new partition and format it. Windows install was happy about removing partitions but it really didn't like creating new ones and formatting them. This left me in a state where I could boot from USB but I had no partitions on the machine (except the non-bootable backup).
So next step was to try and figure out what was going on. Sadly it's a 2 1/2" HD in the laptop so I couldn't just take it out and piggy back onto my desktop PC (3 1/2") instead I downloaded a copy of ubuntu, stuck it onto my stick, booted up from the USB and used gpart to view the partitions and to format them.
Bit annoying having to download a full OS just to get a HD partition tool and I am sure more Linux savvy people could knock up a bootable stick with just gpart on it, but still my sledgehammer/nut solution was exactly that, a solution.
So, Win 7 installer onto the stick again and away we go.. Now I can't remember if I formatted the drive as NTFS or FAT32 from ubuntu however now that the drive was partitioned and active then the Windows installer had no problems about reformatting (an empty) partition to match the format it needs. From there it was just a standard Win install.
Finally I downloaded the relevant drivers from this site and applied them. No SATA drivers were needed while installing Win7 but perhaps if they were present I wouldn't have needed to do the round about step of using Ubuntu to format/partition the drive. Either way, it's working now.
As for Win 8? A failed experiment in the same way Vista was and, like Vista to Win 7, I expect Win 9 to be to an improved Win 8.
Generally MS creates good OS's every second iteration. Win ME (bad), Win XP (good), Vista (bad), 7 (good), 8 (bad), 9 (? - we will see).

Creating Recovery Discs for Win 7 - When Win7 Pro 64 is Preloaded from Win 8.1 Dowgrade Rights ?

Novice questions:
1. What is the proper procedure for:
Creating Recovery Discs for Win 7 Pro 64 - When Win 7 Pro 64 is "Preloaded by Lenovo from Win 8.1 Dowgrade Rights" ???
2. Will I then be able to use these Win 7 pro 64 - Recovery discs in the future should I need to "clean install Win7 Por 64 on the computer again ?
3. Also, If I use an Imaging Pgn like - Paragon Backup and recovery will I be able to reload win7 image and have win7 activated automatically just be restoring the Paragon backup image ?
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JosephB wrote:
... BTW, when you perform the - Weekly "Macrium - Image Backups", do you backup to a local USB cable connected External Usb Drive or wireless wifi connected to a NAS Drive ?
I have a Verbatim 2TB external USB 3.0 drive plugged into the PC. It's used for both my weekly image backups as well as my nightly data backups. I have one of these on EACH machine in my environment, for backups local to that machine. I also use them on machines I build for friends and family, as everybody needs a backup system for "priceless data".
Actually, to be a bit more complete, my "data" backups consists of two parts: (1) 1st-of-the-month FULL backups of all my data, and (2) nightly INCREMENTAL backups which handles anything created/changed in the past 24 hours. Thus a "backup set" consists of the beginning FULL backup coupled with the ever-growing throughout-the-month set of nightly INCREMENTAL backups.
NovaBACKUP can handle all of this if you need to recover something, so you yourself don't need to know exactly which backup file your file is located on. You simply identify the folder/file(s) you wish to recover, and the AS-OF date you want for that file (with "as of the latest version available" being the default). If you want to recover an older version than the most current version, you simply slide a GUI time-slider backwards until you arrive at the as-of date you desire. NovaBACKUP then figures out where the most current version is AS OF THE DESIRED DATE, and accesses that one-or-more backup files in order to complete your task.
I retain multiple "backup sets" (going back 4 complete months), so I can recover any folder/file(s) I had available on any specific night during the past 4 months. Most commonly of course it's typically "get me the most current version available as of last night", but just in case that version is corrupt or I truly want an earlier version, I can get it easily.

How can I return to Win 8.1 from Win 10

I've updated to Windows 10 TP from win 8.1 few weeks ago, but I didn't backup anything. I find win 10 slow at startup. I want to return to windows 8.1, I've tried using Win 8.1 ISO file but Windows says "Windows
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Hi,
As david suggested, if you want to go back to Windows 8.1, you need to reinstall it.
This is documented in this article:
Before you install Windows Technical Preview
If you want to go back to your previous operating system
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For Windows 7 or Windows Vista: Before you update, you might be able to create recovery media from a recovery partition on your PC using software provided by your PC manufacturer. Check the support section of your PC manufacturer's
website for more info.
For Windows 8.1 or Windows 8: You might be able to create a USB recovery drive. For more info, see
Create a USB recovery drive. If you didn’t create a USB recovery drive before you installed the preview, you can
create installation media for Windows 8.1.
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From win 8.1 to win 7

hi,
i'm Antonio from Italy, iam sorry for my english.
I bought a LENOVO G50-70 59421783, but i would like to replace windows 8.1 that i found on the notebook, with win 7.
Anyway i want to keep the chance to install the factory condiction, i made the backup with Onekey Recovery and i put the files on an external harddisk. However when i start the Onekey Recovery from the turned off laptop, it doesn't find my externad disk...How can i solve this problem?
Once i will have solved this problem i would lile to ask some other explanations:
1. in order to install win 7 i read that i would be supposed to:
a. put disabled instead secure boot here:
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b. put legacy support instead UEFI here:
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is it correct ?
2.then is there a way to istall win 7 from the external drive?
In the previous versions of bios i could decide the startup from USB, how can i do the same here?
3.Even if i will replace win 8.1, its key will stay stored inside te ROM?
Would it work with any copy of win8?
4. In the case that i shoud send my laptop in assistence, i would be required to return to initial conditions?
5. If i decided to add a RAM sim, could it affect the validity o the warranty?
thank you very much,
Antonio.

Since OKR cannot find your external drive, just copy your backup image to D:. OKR should now be able to find the image.

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