WinME upgraded to Win7

mcdizzy

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Is this possible, I have a win Me and Win 2000 machine and need to upgrade them to Win7 the Win2000 machine has a Pentium IV 1.5GHZ compute with 1GB of Ram and 60 GB hard Drive, the WinME is Pentimum IV 1600MHz and 1GB of RAM and 60GB hard drive each computer has a NIC, 3 1/2 inch disk drive and a DVD Drive. Is it possible to upgrade to Win7
 

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It is possible to install a fresh version of windows 7 but not "upgrade".
ME to 7 is not a valid upgrade path.

Just thought I would clear that up as it might save alot of frustration and also money :).

Appologies if you already knew this.
 

cadder

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My understanding is that Win7 was supposed to have hardware requirements more like XP, i.e. they started pushing Win7 on netbooks at some point in time. I run Win7 on my 1.6GHz ultraportable laptop and it runs pretty well. My wife runs Vista on her tiny laptop with similar speed.

But with Pentiums at 1.5GHz and 1GB of ram, it will run but won't do much.
 

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Yeah you can probably run it. I have run it on old computers with similar specs. Maybe you could look into getting a faster P4 CPU, I upgraded a Celeron 1.4GHz to a P4 3GHz on a Dimension 3500 CCTV computer it seems.....not as slow. Upgraded CPU was $5.
 

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Nobody has asked the obvious question yet- WHY do you want to upgrade? These computers aren't really worth the time or cost to install a new OS. Win2K is a good OS on its own, if there is a problem with that computer you could just reinstall Win2K. I have no experience with ME but have never heard anything good about it, so I suppose ANY version of Windows since ME would be a good upgrade for that one. If you didn't specifically need Win7 for some reason maybe you could find a cheap copy of WinXP to buy and install on it.