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    Acer Aspire 6920 upgrade to Win7? Please read.

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Thompse3, Oct 28, 2009.

  1. Thompse3

    Thompse3 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am very new to Laptops, Drivers ect.

    I am wanting to upgrade to Windows 7 and I was woundering what things do I need to download AFTER I get it installed?

    I know empowering technology will not be there anymore, How can i get it back?

    And for My finger reader? How can I get those back?

    I really don't want to have the games that come with It tho.

    Please help me.
     
    Thompse3, Oct 28, 2009
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    TehSuigi Notebook Virtuoso

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    Thompse3, most Vista drivers will work just fine on 7. Burn the Drivers & Applications disc using Acer eRecovery ( and your recovery DVDs while you're at it) and use them when 7's done installing.

    If I remember correctly, the Realtek sound driver, the Dritek Launch Manager, Synaptics touchpad driver, JMicron Flash driver (for the SD card reader) and the latest Nvidia driver (from www.nvidia.com) were all I needed.
    The fingerprint software and Empowering Tech should also be on the disc.
    I tossed Acer Arcade Deluxe on later to handle Blu-ray playback.
     
    TehSuigi, Oct 28, 2009
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    intel chipset drivers? are w7's up-to-date?
     
    williamt1688, Oct 29, 2009
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    Thompse3 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I would like to upgrade, so do you think if i do "Backup drivers and applications to CD" will do the trick once installation is done? I just put in CD and Drivers are back up?
     
    Thompse3, Oct 29, 2009
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