<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;">Can I upgrade from Windows XP straight to Windows 7? Yes. and no, you don&#8217;t have make Vista a middleman.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;">So your business may be facing a major problem. With no easy way to transfer your existing programs from Windows XP to Windows 7, your company’s administrators need to do what Microsoft calls a “custom” install. “Custom” is what most administrators call a clean install; you end up deleting everything on the PC.That can be a real headache.Microsoft offer following tools to migrate systems. </span><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;">I step</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;">Run the &#8220;Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor,&#8221; which as of July, was in beta. Start here, download and install the advisor, then run it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"><strong>II step</strong>Make a disk image of your XP machine as it exists now so that, if you later decide Windows 7 isn&#8217;t worth the disc it&#8217;s written to and you want to revert to the ancient XP, you can do so without a lot of hassle.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"><strong>III. Choose Migration Tool</strong>Microsoft does provide a tool, </span><a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/windows-easy-transfer" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;">Windows Easy Transfer</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;">, suitable for small offices and home offices (SOHO) and small-to-medium businesses (SMBs). It can help migrate files, e-mail, pictures, and settings from Windows XP to Windows 7. If your users store a lot of files on your PC instead of file servers, this can be very handy.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;">Larger businesses with multiple identically-configured PCs will want to use Microsoft’s </span><a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560801%28WS.10%29.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;">User State Migration Tool 4.0</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"> (USMT) to automate the transfer of such files. Unlike Windows Easy Transfer, USMT supports “hard-link migration.” With this utility program, user accounts, files, and settings are saved on the hard drive of the PC being upgraded.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;">However, both USMT and Windows Easy Transfer still leave you with the far more cumbersome nuisance of transferring programs. One program that can help you with that is </span><a href="http://www.laplink.com/index.php/individuals/pcmover-for-windows-8/feature-overview" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;">LapLink’s PCmover</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;">.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;">IV. Final Check</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;">After migrating to Windows 7, install and try out the software you&#8217;ve been running on XP. It might work fine. (Most likely to have fewest problems: Products from Microsoft and other major vendors.)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;">If the program won&#8217;t run, you can try to run it in &#8220;<span style="color: red;">compatibility mode.&#8221; Right-click on the program&#8217;s shortcut, select &#8220;Properties,&#8221; then click the &#8220;Compatibility&#8221; tab. Next, check the &#8220;Run this program in compatibility mode&#8221; box, and in the drop-down list, choose the version of Windows, in this case Windows XP.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;">Or you can run free virtualization software on Windows 7, such as Sun&#8217;s</span><a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"> VirtualBox,</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"> with a copy of Windows XP as the &#8220;guest&#8221; OS within the virtual environment. You&#8217;ll need an XP license to install inside the virtual machine</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, ";Times New Roman";, serif;"></span></div>

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