How to tell if drivers are for windows 7?

I recently bought a gateway m-1631u with vista on it. I missed the free windows 7 update by about a month but got it cheap enough it might be worth keeping.
So I contact gateway about getting xp and windows 7 drivers for it (so I can run xp for now and upgrade to 7 later). What a run around. I gave up on getting xp drivers but pushed the issue for windows 7 drivers as this laptop was advertised as being upgradeable to windows 7. I only have a few days left to return it if I cannot get drivers (I don't really want to run vista).

So after a lot of back and forth, I finally get someone that says they will send me windows 7 drivers. They sent me 11 links, but the links go to drivers that claim to be for vista. It further says that this version is not for the version of windows on my computer (but I'm running vista so it shouldn't say that). I'm kind of wondering if they are 7 drivers, mislabeled as vista drivers.

Is there anyway to verify if the drivers are infact for windows 7?

On a side note, at one point they told me to call amd as they made the motherboard. Of course amd tells me they do not make motherboards. The amd rep was nice enough to try and help me find drivers. He could not find any windows 7 drivers for any laptop on their site. That further makes me wonder if their windows 7 drivers are mislabeled. Since at least some people got this model upgraded to window 7 for free, there must be drivers, right?

here is a link to the ati video driver by the way that is supposed to be for 7 but is listed as for vista.
http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/getFile.asp?ref=DX&id=22494&uid=268244478

 

I think I may have found out a bit more myself. I googled the name and version of the video driver and it came up as being for vista 64bit (which would explain why its not for my 32 bit system). The same page on a drivers site had the same driver for xp and 7 though (different version numbers).

If anyone knows more or even upgraded this laptop themselves (with the free 7 upgrade from gateway), I could really use some help with the drivers. I'll keep digging myself too (after work tonight).

 

A Vista driver pretty much is a Windows 7 driver. So that's why the Windows 7 driver says Vista on it. Pretty much any driver that will work with Vista will work with Windows 7. Because, essentially, Windows 7 has Windows Vista at its core still and is basically a trimmed up, more compatible and user friendly version of Vista, and in my experience a little more stable. I think there may be a select few Vista drivers that don't work with Windows 7 but I've yet to run into any myself.

 

Thanks for the info. It would have been nice if someone at gateway would have known this the first several times I contacted them. Personally, I'm an xp holdout (all my systems are running xp, I never went with vista) so vista and 7 are both a bit new to me.